Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whoa!! Wait, wait wait just a minute here! None of this applies to my Wendy's 3/4 lb quadruple stacked "Baconator" (with cheese) right? (silence)..RIGHT?...(more silence). UH OH :) Montie >>HAH!! I doubt that. Chicken McNuggets from McDonald's contain 38 ingredients. According to the Omnivore's Dilemma: "The most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse." Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill." I doubt they would be concerned at all about what is in their hamburgers. Tina