Topic: McDouble™ is 'cheapest and most nutritious food in human history'

+Anonymous A — 12.5 years ago #32,656

Describing the McDonald’s double cheeseburger as “the cheapest, most nutritious, and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history” might seem beyond fanciful, but according to the author of Freakonomics, it is not as absurd a suggestion as it appears.

Stephen Dubner, who co-authored the best-selling book, hosted a debate on his blog after a reader suggested the McDouble packed a better nutritional punch for the penny than is often assumed.

The double cheeseburger provides 390 calories, 23 grams of protein ~~half a daily serving~~ seven per cent of daily fibre, 19 grams of fat and 20 per cent of daily calcium, all for between $1 and $2, or 65p and £1.30, The Times reported.

Kyle Smith, a New York Post columnist, threw his support behind the McDouble’s nutritional value for money.
“For the average poor person, it isn’t a great option to take a trip to the farmers market to puzzle over esoteric lefty-foodie codes”, Mr Smith wrote.
“Facts are facts -- where else but McDonald’s can poor people obtain so many calories per dollar?”

Mr Dubner added: “The more I thought about the question, whether the McDouble is the cheapest, most bountiful, and nutritious food ever, the more I realised how you answer that question says a lot about how you see the world, not only our food system and the economics of it, but even social justice.”
A 2007 University of Washington survey found that while junk food costs as little as $1.76 per 1,000 calories, fresh vegetables and healthier foods can cost more than 10 times as much.

In the online debate, some farmers suggested the McDonalds burger deserved more credit for feeding the poor cheaply.
Blake Hurst, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, said: “The biggest unreported story in the past three quarters of a century [is] this increase in availability of food for the common person.”

But Tom Philpott, a campaigning organic farmer from North Carolina, said there were many more nutritious ways of feeding people cheaply.
“You can get a pound of organic brown rice and a pound of red lentils for about £1.30 each”, Mr Philpott said.
“A serving of each of those things would be around 48 pence.

“In order to present to us all that burger, you’re talking about a vast army of working poor people.”

+Anonymous B — 12.5 years ago, 1 minute later[T] [B] #375,840

Nice try, McWalter.

+Anonymous C — 12.5 years ago, 7 minutes later, 8 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #375,843

I agree with you on this, Walter. The trick is to keep to one per day and no fries or soda.

+Ned Flander — 12.5 years ago, 3 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #375,845

@375,840 (B)
@previous (C)

samefag

·Anonymous C — 12.5 years ago, 16 minutes later, 28 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #375,851

@previous (Ned Flander )
tl;dr

+Anonymous E — 12.5 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #375,878

McDoubles rock...I fucking love them..

·Anonymous B — 12.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #375,880

@375,845 (Ned Flander )
Shaddup, Wally.

·Ned Flander — 12.5 years ago, 36 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #375,891

@previous (B)

is that you, robert wayne stiles?

+Anonymous F — 12.5 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 hours after the original post[T] [B] #376,013

@375,845 (Ned Flander )
@previous (Ned Flander )

+Anonymous G — 12.5 years ago, 22 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,506

I would not trust a North Caroline farmer who estimated the price of something in 'pence'..

just saying..

+Anonymous H — 12.5 years ago, 40 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,512

@previous (G)
The singular of pence is penny.

+Anonymous I — 12.5 years ago, 6 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,628

@376,506 (G)
Pathetic.

+Motherfuckin' !xHGARYoak6 — 12.5 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,658

Thanks for the tip OP!

·Anonymous H — 12.5 years ago, 7 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #376,935

@OP
So we can end world hunger with a mcdouble.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.5 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #377,045

@previous (H)
one for everyone

·Anonymous H — 12.5 years ago, 40 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #377,046

@previous (A)
One for half of the population and then separate the mcdoubles into mcsingles.

+Anonymous K — 12.5 years ago, 12 hours later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #377,227

@OP
Why would I order at McScurvies?

+Anonymous L — 12.5 years ago, 11 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[T] [B] #377,228

@OP
Upgrade to onion burgers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W0GaF7I0so

·Anonymous B — 12.5 years ago, 4 days later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #378,530

@375,891 (Ned Flander )
Yes.

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