McDonald's Food Quality Is Disturbing Today

I rarely go to McDonald's, but I wanted to reward myself yesterday after my doctor said my health was doing much better...lol. Pastor Jack Hyles' favorite meal at McDonald's was the Quarter Pounder Cheeseburger, so that is what I ordered yesterday. I also ordered just the Fillet-O-Fish sandwich. They charged me $18.04 for that crap!!!

The restaurant number is: 10120 in Pensacola at 7915 N. Davis Highway. I saved my receipt and filed a complaint yesterday at McDonald's website, but still haven't heard back from them. I hope they care. Somebody might die from E.coli food poisoning!

Take a look at the raw hamburger in the Quarter Pounder. I was eating while driving and didn't notice how raw it was until something seemed off to me. I took these photos on July 15, 2024 with my mobile phone of the raw Quarter Pound Cheeseburger I purchased at McDonald's...

McDonald's Food Quality Has Really Deteriorated

McDonald's quality has gone to zero! Sadly, the best part of the meal was the Diet Coke. 

When I felt how hard the bun was for the Fillet-O-Fish, I thought about this song, "Solid As A Rock," by Ashford & Simpson...

McDonald's Fillet-O-Fish Bun is As "Solid As A Rock"

I remember as a kid going to McDonald's with my parents in the 1970's. I loved their milkshakes back then. It was real ice-cream. Sadly, McDonald's changed their shake recipe about 25 years ago, which now taste like Styrofoam. You'll choke without some water to clear your throat. I loathe and hate McDonald's shakes today!!!

As a teenager, I worked at McDonald's for 17 months in 1983-1985. I did all the jobs (dish washer, dining room cleaning, grill cook, cash register). When I started I was paid $3.15 per hour minimum wage. By the time I gave my advance notice to resign, so I could go to Hyles-Anderson College, I was getting paid $3.60 an hour. That was the funnest job I ever had.

Then, and still today, every employee gets a free meal during your work shift. If you work more than 4 hours, you get a bigger free meal. My boss used to ask me to work overtime, and offer me all the food I could eat. He never had to ask me twice! My favorite sandwich back then was the Fillet-O-Fish, because back then they steamed the buns. You could press into the bun and it would cave in it was so soft. Those were awesome times! Today, you can use their buns as a door jam because they are so hard. Sadly, McDonald's got greedy and diminished their food quality.

I also miss the McDLT which they had when I worked there. The McDLT came in a partitioned Styrofoam container. All of McDonald's sandwiches in the 1980's were served in Styrofoam containers back then, which kept your food piping-hot. Today, McDonald's uses cheap recycled cardboard, which makes the food taste like recycled cardboard. Yuk!

The McDLT had the bottom bun on one hot side, with the beef patty and cheese. On the other cold side you had the top bun with lettuce, tomato, mayo and other condiments. They were really tasty and I miss them. I remember that my supervisor said McDonald's spent $3,000,000 just to determine that it is best to have 23 holes in the McDLT sauce dispenser... lol.

McDonald's had something special in the 1960's and into the 1980's, but they went downhill quickly starting in the 1990's. They never should have changed their milkshake formula. Nor should they have stopped steaming their Fillet-O-Fish buns, which was classy when they did. 

And McDonald's for the longest time have had a serious problem with over-cooking and over-salting their fries. I'm at the place where I don't even want to go to McDonald's anymore, because their prices have skyrocketed into the stratosphere, but their food quality is in the toilet, literally. Eating raw hamburger will make customers sick!

I used to have a valid Food manager's License, when I voluntarily helped my father operate his Rescue Mission to feed the poor on Chicago's' drug and gang infested Westside. By law it was required to have a license to handle food, so you wouldn't make people sick or worse. I learned in Food manager's classes that beef must be heated to an internal temperature of 155 degrees Fahrenheit. Chicken must be heated to an internal temperature of 165 degrees. This is to prevent Food Borne Illnesses like E.coli and Staphylococcus (from people not washing their hands after using the restroom).

It is really tragic what I see happening in America today. Across the board—whether it be churches, Bible colleges, restaurants, car rental agencies, corporate America, sports, federal government, courts, city governance, you name it—people just don't care anymore like they used to. Companies today don't even hesitate to take advantage of to cheat people financially. 

Case in point: I recently made some reservations in early July 2024, to travel in mid-August 2024. I rented a car for 4-days from Alamo car rental. I had been given incorrect information about the event I was planning on attending and needed to cancel my reservations just 36 hours after making them. Alamo refused to refund a single penny of my $635, even though the pickup date for the rental for still 5-weeks into the future, and I had cancelled just 36 hours later. Those rotten ungodly thieves are so greedy that they wouldn't refund a dime of my money. Dear reader, only a wicked person (or group of people in a company) mistreat others in such a horrible selfish evil manner! Those greedy sharks at Alamo stole my $635!!!

I could give you hundreds more shameful examples of how bad things have become today in the United States. You cannot drive anywhere in the city of Pensacola, without seeing shameful attorney billboards encouraging Americans to sue each other for money. What have we horribly deteriorated into as a society? What ever happened to The Golden Rule. Matthew 7:12, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.” Would you want someone to sue you? Those ungodly greedy lawyers aren't your friends; they are parasites who take advantage of people at the lowest point in their life for filthy lucre's sake. I detest lawyers! Jesus couldn't stand them either! Luke 11:46, “And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.” Some things never change, even after thousands of years.

My attitude as a born-again Christian is that of the man of God, Joshua. Joshua 24:15, “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” By God's grace, I am going to follow The Golden Rule. I am going to treat others the way I would like to be treated, with kindness, gentleness, respect and fairness.

I don't want blood on my hands like Alamo car rental (Proverbs 6:16-19), who go around screwing people out of their hard-earned money, hiding behind a bunch of ungodly shady fineprint fabricated by ungodly shady attorneys. Corporate America is of the Devil today. If you read the vast majority of legal contracts that you're required to sign to do business (which you need to do to survive in today's American culture), it is always written with extreme bias to benefit the company at the consumer's expense. If you ever have taken the time to read an insurance company policy, they have intentionally disqualified 99% of the reasons for which people would need to file a claim.

For example: If you purchase homeowner's insurance, beware! Most people living in a hurricane zone (or typhoon zone in the east), falsely think they are insured. But if you carefully read your insurance policy, the company WON'T PAY for any damage caused by wind or flying debris from the wind. They are thieves! They want to keep your insurance premiums without honoring your claim when it comes time.

That is why I absolutely refuse to change my Medicare medical insurance away from parts A and B. You've probably seen the thousands of annoying television commercials begging for people to call some stupid phone number to talk to an agent. I checked into it. What it's all about is that PRIVATE insurance companies want your Medicare money from Uncle Sam. If you have parts A and B, Uncle Sam pays directly for your medical bills. But if you leave parts A and B, to go to a private insurance company instead, now THE PRIVATE INSURER HAS TO PAY (but since they don't want to pay, they're going to deny many of your claims).

Last summer I needed to go to the Emergency Room. I was in severe pain in my right flank for some unknown reason. The hospital charged Medicare $16,758. Just the CT Scan (with red die used for contrast) cost $12,000. When all the bills were finalized, it didn't cost me a single penny. Praise God! If I had switched my Medicare to one of those greedy private insurance companies, I likely would have been billed for thousands of dollars! Once the private insurance company gets your Medicare payments from the government, they will receive a certain guaranteed amount of money each month, regardless of how many of your bills (claims) they choose to pay or deny. You know as well as I do, that they are going to try every way possible not to pay. Uncle Sam has never done that to me, they have always honored the claims. My humble non-professional opinion is to stay with parts A and B, and don't change anything.

Anyway, I am on a rant...lol. I am so sick and tired of shady Americans in the business world, who cheat and take advantage of others for their own selfish greed. I would NEVER work for a company that cheats and defrauds people  in any way. I'd rather be homeless than assist an ungodly shady company that hurts innocent people just because they can. Welcome to the rotten United States!!!

Furthermore, unless you are a competent lawyer, you won't be able to understand most of what you read in any legal contract, and the companies know that. Yet, they will hide behind their ungodly shady fineprint to screw you financially. They all do it!

Getting back to McDonald's, I am utterly disgusted with fast food places today. It's not just McDonald's. Arby's fries are always cold. Same thing with KFC. You'd think that in 2024, in these modern and amazing times of technology, that food companies would have figured out a way to make sure you are provided HOT and FRESH food. I mean, if nothing else, for goodness' sake, microwave the French fries before handing them to me cold. Those businesses and their bad managers simply don't care. I haven't been to Arby's in several months. I am tired of cold food, bad service and high prices. I foresee many U.S. fast food businesses closing down in the years to come. IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING!!!

Sadly, I don't think I'll be going to McDonald's for a very long time!!!

U.S. Teenage Sadness And Depression At Record Highs

Isaiah 26:3, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”

It was reported in the new this week in February of 2023, that teenage girls across the United States are suffering a drastic increase in sadness, depression and suicidal thoughts. ...

Social media companies face legal scrutiny
over deteriorating mental health among teens

It shouldn't come as a surprise to God-fearing Christians, that the main culprit for today's mental illness among teens and society, is the woeful lack of the inspired Holy Bible is their lives. Since 1962 that Holy Bible, prayer and effectively God, have been removed and banned from the entire public school system.

What irony that a child is deprived of the inspired Word of God from kindergarten to twelfth grade in high school, but then are later handed a Holy Bible when they end up in prison. We've got it all backwards in America!!! Today's dysfunctional ungodly adult (drunkards, drug attics, fornicators, adulterers, complainers, homosexuals, haters, liars, cheaters, evil doers, abortionists, et cetera), who grew up in the American public school system, have no moral compass. What was so wrong about teaching children faith in God and prayer?

Dear reader, our founding fathers never intended for separation of government and state, to mean separation of God and state. When you remove God from the government, all you have left is tyranny and idolatry, as men become their own gods. Those who will not by governed by God, will be ruled over by tyrants. Our foolish nation is now ruing the day, that we allowed our rotten U.S. courts to remove the inspired Holy Bible from children's daily lives at school. Yet, the ungodly U.S. government indoctrinates impressionable children with the blatant fraudulent lies of evolution. Evolution is not legitimate science, it is bizarre fiction and wild unverifiable speculation. Only a darn fool lends credence to such a fallacy as the theories of evolution.

Certainly social media has contributed to teen depression, but much more to blame (I humbly think) is the Devil's confusing LGBTQ agenda, and the Devil's confusing gender-bending agenda being pushed off on teens in public schools. Teaching girls that they might really be boys confuses them. The same is true for teen boys. Such confusion would depressed many teenagers, and adults too. I get depressed and sad over these ungodly agendas. Teens are not emotionally mature enough to handle such craziness in life. In the history of human civilization, our society has never experienced anything like this.

I wrote this blog to raise awareness to the REAL PROBLEM today. Social media is partly to blame for teen sadness and depression, but the content on social media is indicative of the moral degeneration of our American society. We continually hear sympathy in the media toward LGBTQ youth, while no such sympathy is shown toward Christian youth.

The heart of the issue concerning the LGBTQ movement is what God's Word says is a sin, versus what liberals and ungodly society says is wrong. Leviticus 20:13 and Romans 1:22-32 plainly teach that homosexuality in all its forms is a terrible sin in God's sight. So also is adultery, murder and witchcraft. Just because mankind in recent times has adopted ungodly sins as being acceptable, doesn't mean that God has. God never changes (Malachi 3:6). Jesus never changes (Hebrews 13:8). Humanity's tolerance and perspective of sin does.

Teens need Jesus Christ! They need to be told THE TRUTH that homosexuality is a sin, and is not God's best choice for them. Teens need to be taught the horrible and potentially deadly diseases that the homosexual lifestyle causes. It is really a deathstyle. The moment that I heard in the news this week about teen girls across the country increasingly becoming sad, depressed and suicidal—I immediately thought about all the insanity in today's schools and culture, which confuses young people about their gender, sexual preference and morality. 

The solution is to put the GOOD BOOK back into teenager's daily lives. The Word of God was dubbed 'The Good Book' centuries ago for a very real reason, because it produces goodness in God's children as they willingly yield to the fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25). Obviously, not all saints walk in the Spirit, which does not affect God's free gift of eternal life (Romans 6:1). This is why every child of God needs to attend a local soulwinning, King James Bible only, free grace Gospel-preaching, people-loving, church. We all need fellowship with other saints to be encouraged, edified and comforted (as we do also others). Evangelist Lester Roloff (1914-1982) said it well in his classic sermon titled, “Titanic.” Brother Roloff said: “America was great when she was good, and she was good when she had great churches.”

Only 5% Of Americans Eat Enough Fiber

Daniel 1:11-16, “Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.”

I am so glad that God put this helpful information in the Holy Bible. Daniel had been taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon in 586 BC. This was God's judgment upon the southern kingdom of Israel for their failure to keep the Sabbath Day for 490 years. God punished them with Babylonian captivity, one year for every seven years that they didn't observe the Sabbath Day.

While in Captivity, Daniel was fed junk food, and he detested it. So Daniel asked the eunuch Melzar to please try something new. Daniel suggested feeding the men under his supervision and care pulse (Daniel 1:12). What is pulse? Pulse is seeds, beans and lentils. Pulse is edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants. But Daniel also suggested a 10-day trial for the pulse diet. That is so encouraging to me, because it shows how quickly we can turn our health around by simply changing our diet. Yes, dear reader, you can feel 100% better by simply eating healthier foods and drinking more water.

This morning when I woke up, I started my day by thanking God for another day, and I told the Lord that I loved Him. I then made a smoothie. I highly recommend that you buy a Nutri-Ninja if you don't have one. I bought my first one from Amazon.com, but then it burned out when one of two legs of power went out to the house (a broken tree branch feel on it and knocked the line down), and then back-fed through the circuitry and blew my mixer out. So I bought my second Nutri-Ninja from Walmart.

Today I put about 4 Tablespoons of ground flax seeds, half of a small tray of blackberries, about a dozen strawberries, some granola, ice and water. Then I ate a bowl of Great Grains cereal with some whole milk. That was my breakfast. By eating that way each day, I get my daily fiber. For lunch I ate some mixed vegetables that I bought in a bag at Walmart. They have several different varieties of vegetables in seasoned sauce. Yummy!

It is important for your long term health that you eat enough fiber every day. All kinds of beans are awesome to get enough fiber. Just one can of any type of beans provides 100% of the recommended daily amount (RDA) of fiber.

According to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, here are the health benefits of fiber...

Benefits of a high-fiber diet

A high-fiber diet:

1. Normalizes bowel movements. Dietary fiber increases the weight and size of your stool and softens it. A bulky stool is easier to pass, decreasing your chance of constipation. If you have loose, watery stools, fiber may help to solidify the stool because it absorbs water and adds bulk to stool.
2. Helps maintain bowel health. A high-fiber diet may lower your risk of developing hemorrhoids and small pouches in your colon (diverticular disease). Studies have also found that a high-fiber diet likely lowers the risk of colorectal cancer. Some fiber is fermented in the colon. Researchers are looking at how this may play a role in preventing diseases of the colon.
3. Lowers cholesterol levels. Soluble fiber found in beans, oats, flaxseed and oat bran may help lower total blood cholesterol levels by lowering low-density lipoprotein, or "bad," cholesterol levels. Studies also have shown that high-fiber foods may have other heart-health benefits, such as reducing blood pressure and inflammation.
4. Helps control blood sugar levels. In people with diabetes, fiber — particularly soluble fiber — can slow the absorption of sugar and help improve blood sugar levels. A healthy diet that includes insoluble fiber may also reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
5. Aids in achieving healthy weight. High-fiber foods tend to be more filling than low-fiber foods, so you're likely to eat less and stay satisfied longer. And high-fiber foods tend to take longer to eat and to be less "energy dense," which means they have fewer calories for the same volume of food.
6. Helps you live longer. Studies suggest that increasing your dietary fiber intake — especially cereal fiber — is associated with a reduced risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and all cancers. ~SOURCE

Wowza! That is great stuff! Sadly, according to Nutrition.org, only 5% of men and 9% of women are getting enough fiber in their daily diet. That is disturbing...

Just 7% of adults meet fiber recommendations, raising risk of chronic diseases

Rockville, Maryland (June 7, 2021) — Only 5% of men and 9% of women are getting the recommended daily amount of dietary fiber, according to a study being presented at NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE. Insufficient fiber intake is associated with a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes, two of the most common diseases in the U.S. ~SOURCE

I just wrote this blog to encourage you dear reader to eat more fiber in your daily diet. Without enough fiber, you can unfortunately look forward to cancer, bowel problems, weight gain, feeling lethargic and all kinds of potential diseases. All those boxed pizzas, boxed foods, junk food, ice cream, sugary sodas, greasy burgers and packaged snacks aren't good for your health. In the short term they won't hurt you enough to feel the results, but over the years you will see and feel the damage.

The encouraging thing, as the Bible proves in the book of Daniel, is that it just took 10 DAYS to see  a noticeable difference in Daniel and his peers. Daniel 1:14-16, “So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.” I challenge you to start eating a high fiber diet, just the daily recommend amount. You will look and feel better in a short amount of time.

Millions of people are now excited about a new diabetic drug that has been proven to cause weight loss. The drug is called: Ozempic. But Medicare and other insurance companies refuse to pay for it. I don't blame them. I heard in the news this week that 100,000,000 obese Americans can benefit from this new drug. That's a lot of insurance claims and an aircraft carrier full of money!!! I also heard this week that 40% of Americans are obese. Dear reader, we don't need Ozempic, all we need to do is eat the recommended daily amount of fiber. Fiber makes the body feel full, which will curb our appetite. You'll never lose weight eating junk foods that are totally devoid of fiber.

I hope this information is helpful to you. Remember, by the inch it's a cinch, but by the yard it is hard. Don't pull the rug out from under yourself by forcing yourself to eat a bunch of foods that you dread eating. Rather, start including high fiber foods into your daily diet, and eat a balance of healthy foods and a lesser amount of your favorite foods (like ice cream). Keep it fun. Just focus on buying more foods higher in fiber at the grocery store. Also, drink more water. Thank you for reading. May we all be more health conscious like Daniel.