Shellac vs. Helac

[CarolAnn]

Ok. So I'm reading the article online about how McDonalds will DISCONTINUE using pink slime in the production of their burgers. Yum.

The article goes on to list other chemicals used in our foods, such as:

Shellac: Yes, this chemical used to finish wood products also gives some candies their sheen. It comes from the female Lac beetle.

So... if they take a chemical from boy beetles, would it be called HElac?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mcdonald-confirms-no-longer-using-pink-slime-chemicals-171209662.html

Pardon me if this sounds goofy. I had some pink slime for lunch.

[J R Adams]

Ok. So I'm reading the article online about how McDonalds will DISCONTINUE using pink slime in the production of their burgers. Yum.

The article goes on to list other chemicals used in our foods, such as:

Shellac: Yes, this chemical used to finish wood products also gives some candies their sheen. It comes from the female Lac beetle.

So... if they take a chemical from boy beetles, would it be called HElac?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mcdonald-confirms-no-longer-using-pink-slime-chemicals-171209662.html

Pardon me if this sounds goofy. I had some pink slime for lunch.

To be SA, what else did you have with lunch?

Seriously, Polyethylene Glycol, another glycol cousin, is a prescription stool softener sold over the counter as Mirolax.

[macgeoghagen]

I never liked Mcdonalds. The burgers were bland bits of brown stuff on a tasteless bun.

When I was a child Ronald Mc Donald scared me. No, scared is too weak a word. HORRIFIED! Everything about him creeped me out. The paper white face, the red lips and nose of a drunk, the leering, the yellow smock/prison suit, the shoes big enough to hide all manner of contraband in. Cocaine in the left shoe, de-serialed black market glock in the right. And the crew he hung around with! A giant bird mutant. A big purple......thing. a career burglar/glutton. Living pom-poms. Or maybe they were the unholy spawn of the flying spaghetti monster. All surrounded by children. I heard about the pied piper of hamlin, I know why those kids are there. They were suckered in with a McNugget and a cheap imitation of a toy. GWAR in all their drug-fueled strangeness couldn't match the perverse intellect that was the McDonalds marketing team. When I was a school kid, going on a field trip always meant a trip to McDonalds. I always sat with my back to the wall with an eye on the employees only door and an eye on the bathroom. Who knew where that creepy scot would pop out next. Maybe he was in the kitchen with a fro pick fixing his hair and getting dandruff in the deep fryer. Maybe he was in the bathroom playing with himself. Maybe he was hiding in that drain in the bathroom floor watching unsuspecting kids pee. He may have done some drugs in there and will come out going nuts, like the DARE officer said people do when they take drugs. What kind of drugs? I didn't know. I just knew drugs were bad and so was Ronald McCreepy, so he obviously took enough drugs to keep a medium sized suburb stoned for weeks. By that time he had gone schizophrenic. Remember that M he drew in the air? Thats not real. Thats Ronald projecting his schizophrenia. He has creepy telepathic powers like that.

[Pigzzilla]

When I was a Junior in High School, I dated a great guy that worked at McDonalds. He warned me never to eat there. This caused me my lifes most 'embarassing moment'

We went to a fairly nice diner and planned on a movie after dinner. When Floyd went to pay the bill, he just had his McD paycheck and a small amount of cash. I guess he thought he could cash his check at the diner, but they wouldn't. So, there I was, sitting by the cashier desk while he had to go cash his check. Held hostage in the diner while he went and got cash!

I think I got over it, maybe, but maybe not. So Floyd N. wherever you are, I don't like McD or Bobs Burgers.

pigz