![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We don’t know what the going rate for cow eyeballs is, but we suspect that - just like worms - they’re too expensive to be practical as an alternative to real beef for a restaurant chain looking to save on their food costs. Similar expressions of this anxiety have resulted in widespread tales about McDonald’s making hamburgers from worm meat, using chicken feathers in their shakes, and even purchasing food supplies from a company named “100% Beef” so that they can put any old dreck in their burgers while still legitimately advertising that they use “100% Beef products.” And the fact that Mcdonald’s doesn’t have an email address to contact them nor a toll free number doesn’t give me much reassurance on the matter. Now I’ve hear about Burger King using camel meat and stuff, but this one was new to me. In this particular case, the sentiment is of the “huge fast food corporations only care about profits, so they’ll put anything they can (legally) get away with in their food to save money” variety. Snopes came across the below-displayed message online in 1999:Ī few weeks ago I was watching “Politically Incorrect” with Bill Maher on TV and one of the guests made a remark in a quite serious voice that the Billion dollar fast food chain McDonald’s, is the largest purchaser of cow eyeballs. The claim that McDonald’s is the world’s largest purchaser of cow eyeballs shares roots with many other “beware of fast food” legends. ![]()
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