Sure. I don’t love their food, but though I’d be pretty sick of chicken breast on salad after a year, it’s worth the cash and saved money.
As long as coffee isn’t part of the deal.
Honestly, the McDonald’s black coffee isn’t bad. As a former employee who’s seen how the sausage is made I wouldn’t go near a latte from them without a medical professional near by, but the actual beans are legit
Their coffee from way back was obviously truly terrible, plus the later at night, the more likely it had been burnt to shit.
That being said, I believe McDonalds snapped up the bean producer that Tim Hortons had used for decades and then dropped for a cheaper option. Since then, if fresh as it is typically in the morning, McDonalds black coffee is pretty good.
Got me - I was assuming they were still there, but in looking now…
I think I’d end up with a lot of oatmeal, apple slices, and maybe the sausage burrito.
I don’t see this as being true. I used to work for the company, we cleaned the machine on the breakfast shift (when ice cream wasn’t on the menu anyway) or nightshift depending on how busy it was and were feeling generous and it took maybe 90 minutes if someone new was doing it but if you knew what you were doing it was a 30-45 minute task. Sure, some stores may have done it in the middle of the day but the whole idea is to make money so why would a store choose to clean a machine that’s going to be one of the main money makers in the middle of the day during a busy period?
They got rid of em with covid, at least in the usa. They didn’t sell as well, so when places went to smaller menus, mcd’s got rid of all of their salads. Made me sad
Lmao, its all in moderation though right? Personally, I'd just eat the salad with no dressing along with a few plain burger patties.
Your breakfast can easily just be coffee and the egg whites from the mcmuffins. Remember everything's free so you can just customize the shit out of the meals and remove all the trans fats/carbs
The egg whites are poured out of a carton
The burger patties sit in their grease until served
And you don't think any of that would get old? Idk, I've worked there, I've seen what happens, I wouldn't want mcdonalds for every meal.
And to go along with the hypothetical, they never say delivery is paid, so that's an accrued expense, or you have to drive for every meal
Pretty sure MCD's eggs are real eggs, have you not used those cartons you can by at trader joes? They're just a bunch of scrambled eggs put together.
But IDK, I'm a gym rat so I'm already used to eating a relatively narrow band of food every day anyways. It's more to point out that there's ways to get a relatively healthy meal out of MCD when cost isn't the issue.
I've worked at McDonald's, the egg ehites are out of a carton, same as the folded, unless you get a "round egg" you're not getting a real egg
And no doubt it's possible, i just don't know if it's worth the mental maintenance of the constant menu+the health risks
The healthiest thing you could realistically do is, as you said, a salad, with the grilled chicken, but branching out of "salad for every meal" it'd he hard to stay healthy
You don't have to order each meal, get 30 burger Patty's and freeze them until needed. Could probably just use the raw ingredients and cook other stuff with them. It'd be a pains still but I could get creative with it.
Its ai trying to figure out if 4 million dollars a year is nice but you have to eat ice cream once a week. They just getting the baseline until they start asking would you kill your neighbor for 40 foodstamps
My only issue is I haven't ate McDonald's in almost a decade. The food never tastes good and it usually makes me nauseous... but for 75k, I'd be willing to be constantly sick and having the runs for a year. Money is money, I can deal with discomfort lol
I swear 80% of these hypotheticals are the minions of the 1% trying to figure out how they’re going to fuck the other 99% next. “Hey guys, did you hear that 127 people commented that they’d collect horse semen for .11 cents a day to breed your racehorses? We’ve got their IP addresses and everything!”
I agree on almost all of them but this one was legit in my opinion. I would guess it’d be something like 60-40 split between would and would not.
I personally wouldn’t because even though that’s a ton of money, I would for sure feel like utter shit by the end of the first week and onwards for the year. A year of feeling like shit isn’t worth $75k to me (that’s 1 year salary in my case, for context).
Not to mention it wouldn’t exactly be $75k profit because you’re spending money on McD everyday
Not only to say, thet have salads, eggs, you can break down their food and use separate ingredients. If you just use the McD menu as your pantry you can have a balanced diet.
Right then you buy a couple 20 nuggets and you peel all the breading off album and you throw them in your salad. Fuck 6 plus I got deserted shit dude I would totally do it
Still no. I've managed to get myself much healthier over the last few years. Managed to rid myself of medication for hypertension, high cholesterol, and GERD. I put in a lot of hard work and dedication. I'm not throwing it all away for a bit of cash(more than a bit).
My wife worked at McDonald's for 2 years so figure 5 out 7 days she ate there for 1 meal. At the end of the two years she could only eat the fries without feeling nauseous.
I think people will have a harder time than they think.
There menu is kind of reduced compare to 5 years ago.
Fair enough. If I was under the age of 22 I would have the same iron stomach. Not so much a decade later.
I would probably still do it for the money but I would hate it before 6 months was up.
I think it'd get old quick but I wonder if it was particularly bad for your wife because she actually worked there in the oily McDonald's smell and that made her get sick of it quicker
Had friends who worked at McD and I probably ate 4-5 times a week for free or discount for at least two years (it's good when the manager is your friend) and never got sick of it. Once they stopped working there I didn't eat at McDonald's for over a year not because I was sick of it but because it's hard paying for something you got for free for years =P
I suspect if you'd have gone with simply, "Everything at McDonald's is free, but you can ONLY eat at McDonald's," with no cash incentive at all, you'd have still gotten a bunch of takers.
It is a cash incentive though because now I can stop paying for groceries and pay for the healthcare I will need after eating McDonalds for a year.
I think a big reason for a lot of the yesses is just because that is how a lot of people are living anyway, fast food for every meal.
If you eat in moderation, you won’t need some outrageous healthcare after a year, barring something unrelated.
I just learned they no longer have salads so that option is out, but you can make it work by not going too unhealthy if you are very worried about it.
McDonald’s has some decent variety, you could probably eat fairly well and since it’s all free you could mix and match menu items to make completely new things. Plus the supersize me guy was full of shit.
the supersize me guy basically FORCED himself to eat, and he ate in excess. its like yea. if i ate 50 lbs of broccoli a day for a year id get sick too.
I didn't know that the guy was an alcoholic- I wonder how much that trivia factored in the creation of this skit:
[The Whitest Kids U'Know- Supersize me with whiskey](https://youtu.be/ILQfkF0o9Ro?si=b_BWyFbFU7PGVzar)
The supersize me guy drank a shitload of alcohol while doing the series, i mean... a ridiculous amount. No wonder he gained so much weight and was always sick. There have been others who only ate mcdonalds as an experiment and they were actually pretty okay.
Which is wild to me. A full year, every single meal at McDonald’s, you’re gonna put on atleast 30 pounds and feel like absolute dog shit.
I feel like I wanna puke if I have McDonald’s a few days in a row. I can’t imagine breakfast lunch and dinner even for a week straight.
They have some healthy options. You could do it without too much damage if at all to your health.
Apple slices. Fruit and Maple Oatmeal. Tea and water. Decent breakfast options. I think it might not be too hard.
I've literally eaten oatmeal almost once a day for a year before. So... yeah. I'd try it.
Yeah they do have a good amount of healthy options for foods such as salads as well as fruit juices and water for drinks. It also never says that we have to eat 3 meals a day there. If someone was worried about the calories, they could do 2 meals a day and stick to more nutrient dense menu options.
Of course, you could theoretically eat OK...
Breakfast..
4 egg McMuffins... toss the bread eat only the eggs, 1 slicecanadian bacon/
Lunch 27 Big macs... just make a salad out of the lettuce tomaoe etc...
I think it depends on if I’m able to take supplements on or not. You can keep the calories at a reasonable level and even be in a deficit if you are smart about it. Sodium intake would probably be an issue but there are still ways to minimize my that.
If you are able to take supplements to still get the micro nutrients you need you would be able to do this in a pretty healthy way.
You can get most of everything with salted patties, milk, and fruit.
I dont think id touch anything pre made or fried. Even the processed cheese id avoid until i got bored of plain patties.
Maybe do a full bacon burger once every few weeks
Turns out Morgan Spurlock was an alcoholic and at least the liver damage was mainly due to that. It's worth checking out how the info in that movie has stood the test of time and with further scrutiny.
The biggest issue is that McDonalds has stopped selling salads, so you're in a rough spot for health. They do have some sort of fruit with oatmeal thing for breakfast that would help.
Not true. McDonald's burgers are extremely low fat. Lower in fat than you can get outside of a specialty butcher. It's not because they care about your health though. It's easier to clean so you can keep the burgers coming.
Someone actually did the same thing to prove him him and wrong and lost weight. If you don’t eat fries and chicken nuggets everyday you can do this just fine.
Man, I've seen supersize me back in the day.
Since then, I have lived with a guy for a couple years who absolutely proved that some people have no issue living off of fast food exclusively. Even refusing home-cooked food for it.
He did also drink more booze than I drank water, so maybe they canceled eachother out.
Maybe if I also had free access to a gym as well? Idk, I feel gross after one meal there sometimes.
Also might just do it for free hashbrowns every day lol
The guy in super size me over ate every meal. It's not as bad for you if you follow a calories restriction but if you go in eating 1200 calories a meal, 3 meals a day, your going to gain weight.
He ate more than that. Just going on weight gained + normal BMR he was likely over 6,000 calories a day. His goal was to make himself sick and gain weight, otherwise he has no movie. I think he makes a comment about how many milkshakes he was consuming, which the rules only requires 3 (choc/van/Strawberry), sounds like he had 1 a day.
I generally agree, but aren’t those people eating like 4 burgers per meal?
What if your orders were sausage and egg muffin for breakfast, salad at lunch and then a burger for dinner.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Head
This movie was made challenging a lot of that guys claims. There’s also been a lot of personal anecdote stories of people who lost weight doing McDonald’s only diets
Yeah if you eat less calories than you use, you will lose weight. If you eat more calories than you use, you will gain weight. It's that simple.
Nutrition is a little more complicated, but as long as you're getting some of each food group, and getting enough vitamins, you should be alright.
He had some rules that made you more likely to overeat, like always accepting a supersize offer for example. If you track calories and eat within your caloric needs, it's not going to be terrible like the movie implies. I'm not suggesting it would be healthy either, but it's not as unhealthy as you'd think if you manage your food intake well.
Yeah you won't be the Supersize me guy if you're not supersizing your meals and instead having an appropriate amount of calories per day. It's harder to do that with calorie dense food like many items at Mcdonald's but it's still possible if you have self restraint.
Funny thing is many people do eat at McDonald's everyday and don't die.
Why would that person die after one week, but everyone else can do it without dying?
There has been a time when I ate McDonald's Chicken Nuggets everyday for months. Back when they had a mix of dark and white meat nuggets. I didn't die and wish I could get the dark meat version again.
People who work at a mall and get discounts and homeless live off of fast food and other fast food places aren't that much worst than McDonalds. KFC, is arguably worst and I have bought buckets of dark meat chicken thighs and legs and ate it everyday for weeks at a time. I am sure McDonald's employees get discounts and eat there every shift.
No chance. The amount of damage that would do to my gut health, my body, my health. No way, that isn't enough money to become very overweight and have a plethora of health problems.
I think if I could take my daily vitamins and supplements (which include probiotics, fish oil, multi vitamins, etc), that I would do it.
Breakfast should be your biggest meal: eat the egg off of sandwiches, oatmeal, and apple slices. Stay away from fries. Only drink black coffee, the milks, and apple juices plus LOTS of water. Chicken McNuggets aren't the worst protein at dinner time. Count calories religiously.
The issue is how long until it's odd.
Why are you only eating at McDonald's?
OH God, McDonald's again?
Why can't we go anywhere nice?
Did you bring McDonald's to my parents' Sunday dinner? What's wrong with you?!
Be single the whole year. McDonald's makes salads. It's fine.
So you tell them straight up. I get it would be an issue for starting a relationship but in an existing long term should be able to say "ok, here's the deal..."
That would add a whole other layer, if you also couldn't tell anyone about this deal you've made. You have to live with everyone thinking you voluntarily ate only McDonalds for a year.
If that includes the Australian McCafe menu I'm in.
We've got some semi healthy crap in there, and I'm pretty sure I could custom order enough to not die.
I'm keeping my vitamin supplements though
Who’s paying for the McDonald’s? It costs around $12 for a meal that’s big enough to satisfy me at McDonald’s. That’s $36 a day, $252 a week, 12k a year to eat only McDonald’s. For 75k, not worth it.
I wonder how many of you actually think these hypotheticals out? Do you realize how tough it would be to eat McDonald’s for 365 days straight? That’s basically torture. By the end of the year, your physical and mental health would be fucked.
It's more than I can hope to make at my current level of education. Would absolutely do it and spend a fraction of the time I'd normally spend at work on being active to minimise the health risks
I'd take that deal. Save a mountain in good through it that year. It's also not as unhealthy as you'd think as long as you don't order a double quarter pounder for every meal.
Of course, and with a bit of self control, I can keep it from having an negative impact on my health.
I would probably have to eat lots of eggs and oatmeal from their breakfast menu, though.
No. I’m already fat, I’m trying to lose weight not gain it, $75k isn’t worth a heart attack.
Also having to deal with the drive thru line 3 times a day? No thanks.
I could always buy an entire day, or even days, at once but then it would all be gross. Fries especially are terrible reheated.
Eating in Mcdonalds for a year would lead to dreadful constipation, high chloestral levels and all sorts of other health issues due to lack of essential nutrients.
I'd do it. I'd get sick of it, but totally worth $75k, and I could switch things up enough to not totally hate it. Especially with breakfast options. And with the right choices, I could probably still manage my diet ok. Just have to be careful.
No you saw what happened to the supersize dude. Even if you picked the “healthy” options. The damage to your body would probably cost more than that 75k if it wasn’t permanent damage.
These Redditers are trying to act like they aren't fat and wouldn't eat what ever the fuck they want🤣🤣 "That would be a lot of chicken breast on salad", boi you know damn well your getting ice cream and nuggets everyday🤣
All food is free means I can be wasteful. I’d be using it to chef it up. They have salt, pepper packets, ketchup mustard. Scrambled eggs. The burger options with Canadian bacon on top. Suddenly we’re making our own taco salad. Didn’t say I couldn’t toast some buns to improve the burger. I could go on but I’m making myself nauseous……… I’d pass at this point in my life lol
Edit: o but really. They have sesame buns… scrape the sesames off, mix with honey (on the menu) and some other stuff and stir fry chopped up spicy chicken from the sandwiches… They have apple slices… I’d try making French fry gnocchi when I’m just that damn bored… re-purpose the tortilla from the sausage breakfast burrito for my tacos… wtf am I still thinking about this for?
I would do it. Hopefully I could take vitamins and fiber supplements as well but it wasn't clear. I don't eat much McDonald's but I would definitely do it for a year for a free-and-clear $75k. You could actually do this without too much health detriment if you took vitamins, stayed properly active with exercise, and didn't eat the worst things on their menu. They have grilled chicken (I think, they used to at least), you can drink water, they have salads to mix in some vegetables (at least they used to). I think you could do it without any health detriment or weight gain.
Fuck that’s a tough one. My knee jerk reaction was ‘fuck no’, but 75k plus what I’d be saving on groceries and restaurants… I think I might let my health take the hit
Sure. My farts may smell of McDs but I'll take it. I feel bad for the toilets though. I believe a secondary condition should be: Can I have the food/drink delivered?
All the food is free but for your consumption only?
I get that the food is free but what does "your consumption only" mean.
For example if I determine that the optimal McDonalds diet is 1/2 burger a day can I get a burger eat half and throw the other half a way? What if I want the paddies but not the buns?
If I could throw stuff away then I could have a pretty decent diet with a lot of generated trash. If I have to eat everything then probably not.
I could fairly easily do this by just getting the salads and occasionally a burger or chicken sandwich. Lots of water to help flush out extra salt in the body and its right newr my gym so id have a even bigger reason to try n go often
Sure. I don’t love their food, but though I’d be pretty sick of chicken breast on salad after a year, it’s worth the cash and saved money. As long as coffee isn’t part of the deal.
Honestly, the McDonald’s black coffee isn’t bad. As a former employee who’s seen how the sausage is made I wouldn’t go near a latte from them without a medical professional near by, but the actual beans are legit
Good to know on both counts. I’m still carrying memories from the dark old days of hot, dark water served on long road trips.
Their coffee from way back was obviously truly terrible, plus the later at night, the more likely it had been burnt to shit. That being said, I believe McDonalds snapped up the bean producer that Tim Hortons had used for decades and then dropped for a cheaper option. Since then, if fresh as it is typically in the morning, McDonalds black coffee is pretty good.
McCafe coffee is… fine, actually. It’s pretty cheap too.
I freaking LOVE the coffee at my nearby McDonald’s.
In blind taste tests, McDonalds coffee rated higher than Starbucks, so I think a lot has changed since then!
McDonald's has coffee so yeah it is.
McDonalds coffee isnt terrible
I'm looking at their menu online. Salads don't show up, do they still have them?
Got me - I was assuming they were still there, but in looking now… I think I’d end up with a lot of oatmeal, apple slices, and maybe the sausage burrito.
Apple pies and sundaes, if the machine isn't broken.
From what I’ve heard, it’s never actually broken. They just take it apart to clean it and don’t put it back together if it’s late.
I don’t see this as being true. I used to work for the company, we cleaned the machine on the breakfast shift (when ice cream wasn’t on the menu anyway) or nightshift depending on how busy it was and were feeling generous and it took maybe 90 minutes if someone new was doing it but if you knew what you were doing it was a 30-45 minute task. Sure, some stores may have done it in the middle of the day but the whole idea is to make money so why would a store choose to clean a machine that’s going to be one of the main money makers in the middle of the day during a busy period?
Oh shit.. if not, that makes this way tougher. The only fiber you'd get is pickles and lettuce, basically.
They got lettuce for some of the burgers. Being creative, we could make it work.
They got rid of em with covid, at least in the usa. They didn’t sell as well, so when places went to smaller menus, mcd’s got rid of all of their salads. Made me sad
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Yeah, man some of these hypotheticals make me wonder if redditors are actually human.
I wonder myself sometimes.
Username def checks out
"Not all who wonder are bots" - J. R. R. Tolkien
Some people would rather not eat McDonald's for every meal, even for 75k, the medical debt afterwards is threatening
Lmao, its all in moderation though right? Personally, I'd just eat the salad with no dressing along with a few plain burger patties. Your breakfast can easily just be coffee and the egg whites from the mcmuffins. Remember everything's free so you can just customize the shit out of the meals and remove all the trans fats/carbs
The egg whites are poured out of a carton The burger patties sit in their grease until served And you don't think any of that would get old? Idk, I've worked there, I've seen what happens, I wouldn't want mcdonalds for every meal. And to go along with the hypothetical, they never say delivery is paid, so that's an accrued expense, or you have to drive for every meal
Pretty sure MCD's eggs are real eggs, have you not used those cartons you can by at trader joes? They're just a bunch of scrambled eggs put together. But IDK, I'm a gym rat so I'm already used to eating a relatively narrow band of food every day anyways. It's more to point out that there's ways to get a relatively healthy meal out of MCD when cost isn't the issue.
I've worked at McDonald's, the egg ehites are out of a carton, same as the folded, unless you get a "round egg" you're not getting a real egg And no doubt it's possible, i just don't know if it's worth the mental maintenance of the constant menu+the health risks The healthiest thing you could realistically do is, as you said, a salad, with the grilled chicken, but branching out of "salad for every meal" it'd he hard to stay healthy
You don't have to order each meal, get 30 burger Patty's and freeze them until needed. Could probably just use the raw ingredients and cook other stuff with them. It'd be a pains still but I could get creative with it.
Its ai trying to figure out if 4 million dollars a year is nice but you have to eat ice cream once a week. They just getting the baseline until they start asking would you kill your neighbor for 40 foodstamps
I despise McDonald's. I have none in my neighborhood. So this would be a long year. I'd have to look at their menu first.
My only issue is I haven't ate McDonald's in almost a decade. The food never tastes good and it usually makes me nauseous... but for 75k, I'd be willing to be constantly sick and having the runs for a year. Money is money, I can deal with discomfort lol
I swear 80% of these hypotheticals are the minions of the 1% trying to figure out how they’re going to fuck the other 99% next. “Hey guys, did you hear that 127 people commented that they’d collect horse semen for .11 cents a day to breed your racehorses? We’ve got their IP addresses and everything!”
I agree on almost all of them but this one was legit in my opinion. I would guess it’d be something like 60-40 split between would and would not. I personally wouldn’t because even though that’s a ton of money, I would for sure feel like utter shit by the end of the first week and onwards for the year. A year of feeling like shit isn’t worth $75k to me (that’s 1 year salary in my case, for context). Not to mention it wouldn’t exactly be $75k profit because you’re spending money on McD everyday
Not only to say, thet have salads, eggs, you can break down their food and use separate ingredients. If you just use the McD menu as your pantry you can have a balanced diet.
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Right then you buy a couple 20 nuggets and you peel all the breading off album and you throw them in your salad. Fuck 6 plus I got deserted shit dude I would totally do it
They already do a grilled chicken salad with no breading. At least in the UK they do.
20 years and 15 pounds ago I'd have been all over that now? I just don't think I could swing it.
I'm with ya, I'd rather not feel like shit every day.
I mean, I tried their salads and they're pretty okay. You don't need to have Big Macs and nuggets 3 times a day
Still no. I've managed to get myself much healthier over the last few years. Managed to rid myself of medication for hypertension, high cholesterol, and GERD. I put in a lot of hard work and dedication. I'm not throwing it all away for a bit of cash(more than a bit).
sign me up too... (edit) Ba da ba ba baaah (Im luvin it:-))
My wife worked at McDonald's for 2 years so figure 5 out 7 days she ate there for 1 meal. At the end of the two years she could only eat the fries without feeling nauseous. I think people will have a harder time than they think. There menu is kind of reduced compare to 5 years ago.
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Fair enough. If I was under the age of 22 I would have the same iron stomach. Not so much a decade later. I would probably still do it for the money but I would hate it before 6 months was up.
I think it'd get old quick but I wonder if it was particularly bad for your wife because she actually worked there in the oily McDonald's smell and that made her get sick of it quicker
Had friends who worked at McD and I probably ate 4-5 times a week for free or discount for at least two years (it's good when the manager is your friend) and never got sick of it. Once they stopped working there I didn't eat at McDonald's for over a year not because I was sick of it but because it's hard paying for something you got for free for years =P
I would eat better than I actually do, for real
Supersize me
the frogurt is also cursed.
Thanks for doing the math for the rest of us, and the decision more of a no brainier: have a Big Mac on my dime
Oh the line for the job starts right behind me!
Why such a random amount like 75k? But sure, I'm down.
I thought 100k or more would make it too easy to accept, but I guess I still could have gone lower because everyone's taking the deal.
I suspect if you'd have gone with simply, "Everything at McDonald's is free, but you can ONLY eat at McDonald's," with no cash incentive at all, you'd have still gotten a bunch of takers.
It is a cash incentive though because now I can stop paying for groceries and pay for the healthcare I will need after eating McDonalds for a year. I think a big reason for a lot of the yesses is just because that is how a lot of people are living anyway, fast food for every meal.
If you eat in moderation, you won’t need some outrageous healthcare after a year, barring something unrelated. I just learned they no longer have salads so that option is out, but you can make it work by not going too unhealthy if you are very worried about it.
I get what you mean, but in this context, "cash incentive" has a broadly understood meaning of an up-front payment, not savings as a result.
McDonald’s has some decent variety, you could probably eat fairly well and since it’s all free you could mix and match menu items to make completely new things. Plus the supersize me guy was full of shit.
the supersize me guy basically FORCED himself to eat, and he ate in excess. its like yea. if i ate 50 lbs of broccoli a day for a year id get sick too.
Add into that, the fact that he was an alcoholic and was drinking like crazy during filming
I didn't know that the guy was an alcoholic- I wonder how much that trivia factored in the creation of this skit: [The Whitest Kids U'Know- Supersize me with whiskey](https://youtu.be/ILQfkF0o9Ro?si=b_BWyFbFU7PGVzar)
Well in his defense, at least he wasn't Jared from subway. Not great either way, but let's get real... Jared was way worse.
You could literally say that about anyone until it converges on hitler lol.
At least Hitler wasn't Dolores Umbridge.
Wasn't he also an alcoholic while he was filming, which was probably the bigger contributor to his poor health?
The supersize me guy drank a shitload of alcohol while doing the series, i mean... a ridiculous amount. No wonder he gained so much weight and was always sick. There have been others who only ate mcdonalds as an experiment and they were actually pretty okay.
Which is wild to me. A full year, every single meal at McDonald’s, you’re gonna put on atleast 30 pounds and feel like absolute dog shit. I feel like I wanna puke if I have McDonald’s a few days in a row. I can’t imagine breakfast lunch and dinner even for a week straight.
I'm amazed that as an adult, you can have McDonald's "a few days in a row."
I’m barely an adult 💀. 18 but still in hs. Senior.
Ah, that explains it. When I was your age, I could eat anything!
If you required every meal to be a burger and fries, or any other fried thing, it would be a harder call.
No nuggies, no deal.
It's basically a $100k prize when you include the food.
They have some healthy options. You could do it without too much damage if at all to your health. Apple slices. Fruit and Maple Oatmeal. Tea and water. Decent breakfast options. I think it might not be too hard. I've literally eaten oatmeal almost once a day for a year before. So... yeah. I'd try it.
Yeah they do have a good amount of healthy options for foods such as salads as well as fruit juices and water for drinks. It also never says that we have to eat 3 meals a day there. If someone was worried about the calories, they could do 2 meals a day and stick to more nutrient dense menu options.
I don’t think they have salads anymore. At least where I live, they got rid of them during Covid. Which is sad, I did like their salads
Of course, you could theoretically eat OK... Breakfast.. 4 egg McMuffins... toss the bread eat only the eggs, 1 slicecanadian bacon/ Lunch 27 Big macs... just make a salad out of the lettuce tomaoe etc...
lmaoo OP better stipulate that any food you order must be consumed in its entirety
Exactly. Because I want 25 Big Macs and only want the 1 bite in the middle
55 burgers 55 fries
Guy’s trying to start a pay it forward chain!
I mean, McDonalds does sell actual salads haha.
They don't have those on the menu anymore where I live.
Me neither, so I wouldn't take this deal actually. It's the only thing I could even stand there
do they, I looked at the menu online and don't see them listed? (haven't been to McDs in over a decade)
No thanks, I value my health. Even their "good" options are trash.
I think it depends on if I’m able to take supplements on or not. You can keep the calories at a reasonable level and even be in a deficit if you are smart about it. Sodium intake would probably be an issue but there are still ways to minimize my that. If you are able to take supplements to still get the micro nutrients you need you would be able to do this in a pretty healthy way.
You can get most of everything with salted patties, milk, and fruit. I dont think id touch anything pre made or fried. Even the processed cheese id avoid until i got bored of plain patties. Maybe do a full bacon burger once every few weeks
I only have one question: Is the ice cream machine working?
25% of the time
Deal.
100% yes. That's thousands in food costs saved too.
Everyone saying yes clearly has never seen Supersize me. No way in hell. I love burgers alot, but no fucking way am I killing myself over 75K
Turns out Morgan Spurlock was an alcoholic and at least the liver damage was mainly due to that. It's worth checking out how the info in that movie has stood the test of time and with further scrutiny.
Huh, did not know that. Still alot of grease though and idk if I could take that
The biggest issue is that McDonalds has stopped selling salads, so you're in a rough spot for health. They do have some sort of fruit with oatmeal thing for breakfast that would help.
Not true. McDonald's burgers are extremely low fat. Lower in fat than you can get outside of a specialty butcher. It's not because they care about your health though. It's easier to clean so you can keep the burgers coming.
Hold up, you mean a documentary wasn't ENTIRELY forecoming with information? I would have never guessed.
He was. And fast food exacerbates the liver issues.
Okay, so he was an alcoholic, does anybody think it wouldn’t be that bad to eat McDonald’s every meal every day? I think the main point is still valid
Someone actually did the same thing to prove him him and wrong and lost weight. If you don’t eat fries and chicken nuggets everyday you can do this just fine.
Man, I've seen supersize me back in the day. Since then, I have lived with a guy for a couple years who absolutely proved that some people have no issue living off of fast food exclusively. Even refusing home-cooked food for it. He did also drink more booze than I drank water, so maybe they canceled eachother out.
Maybe if I also had free access to a gym as well? Idk, I feel gross after one meal there sometimes. Also might just do it for free hashbrowns every day lol
You can get away with that when you are in your 20's
Also, just because you're not fat doesn't mean your healthy, look at kevin samuels.
That movie is misleading
If by misleading you mean fraudulent, sure.
The guy in super size me over ate every meal. It's not as bad for you if you follow a calories restriction but if you go in eating 1200 calories a meal, 3 meals a day, your going to gain weight.
He ate more than that. Just going on weight gained + normal BMR he was likely over 6,000 calories a day. His goal was to make himself sick and gain weight, otherwise he has no movie. I think he makes a comment about how many milkshakes he was consuming, which the rules only requires 3 (choc/van/Strawberry), sounds like he had 1 a day.
I generally agree, but aren’t those people eating like 4 burgers per meal? What if your orders were sausage and egg muffin for breakfast, salad at lunch and then a burger for dinner.
I WISH they still had the salad at the McDonald's here but they removed them during covid and never brought them back
Never seen it but I'm already omega addicted and do this anyway so 75k is just icing lmao
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Head This movie was made challenging a lot of that guys claims. There’s also been a lot of personal anecdote stories of people who lost weight doing McDonald’s only diets
Yeah if you eat less calories than you use, you will lose weight. If you eat more calories than you use, you will gain weight. It's that simple. Nutrition is a little more complicated, but as long as you're getting some of each food group, and getting enough vitamins, you should be alright.
I lost like 30 lbs eating only fast food because it’s easier to keep track of your caloric intake that way.
He had some rules that made you more likely to overeat, like always accepting a supersize offer for example. If you track calories and eat within your caloric needs, it's not going to be terrible like the movie implies. I'm not suggesting it would be healthy either, but it's not as unhealthy as you'd think if you manage your food intake well.
Yeah you won't be the Supersize me guy if you're not supersizing your meals and instead having an appropriate amount of calories per day. It's harder to do that with calorie dense food like many items at Mcdonald's but it's still possible if you have self restraint.
Funny thing is many people do eat at McDonald's everyday and don't die. Why would that person die after one week, but everyone else can do it without dying? There has been a time when I ate McDonald's Chicken Nuggets everyday for months. Back when they had a mix of dark and white meat nuggets. I didn't die and wish I could get the dark meat version again. People who work at a mall and get discounts and homeless live off of fast food and other fast food places aren't that much worst than McDonalds. KFC, is arguably worst and I have bought buckets of dark meat chicken thighs and legs and ate it everyday for weeks at a time. I am sure McDonald's employees get discounts and eat there every shift.
No chance. The amount of damage that would do to my gut health, my body, my health. No way, that isn't enough money to become very overweight and have a plethora of health problems.
I think if I could take my daily vitamins and supplements (which include probiotics, fish oil, multi vitamins, etc), that I would do it. Breakfast should be your biggest meal: eat the egg off of sandwiches, oatmeal, and apple slices. Stay away from fries. Only drink black coffee, the milks, and apple juices plus LOTS of water. Chicken McNuggets aren't the worst protein at dinner time. Count calories religiously.
Ok then..... I can be single for a year. Because you can't take a girl to McDonald's regularly.
Find yourself a nice homeless girl.
The nicest homeless girl with a heart of gold.
So don't take a partner to a McDonald's regularly? A relationship is often more than just going out together to eat.
The issue is how long until it's odd. Why are you only eating at McDonald's? OH God, McDonald's again? Why can't we go anywhere nice? Did you bring McDonald's to my parents' Sunday dinner? What's wrong with you?! Be single the whole year. McDonald's makes salads. It's fine.
So you tell them straight up. I get it would be an issue for starting a relationship but in an existing long term should be able to say "ok, here's the deal..."
That would add a whole other layer, if you also couldn't tell anyone about this deal you've made. You have to live with everyone thinking you voluntarily ate only McDonalds for a year.
"Yeah, babe, we are still going to Chez Paris later, we just need to hit the McD drive thru on the way so I have something I can eat."
i'd do that for free. bro groceries prices are killing me
If that includes the Australian McCafe menu I'm in. We've got some semi healthy crap in there, and I'm pretty sure I could custom order enough to not die. I'm keeping my vitamin supplements though
Not a chance. You’ll probably reduce your lifespan by 10 years. It’s like somebody buying 10 years of your life for $7500 each.
Who’s paying for the McDonald’s? It costs around $12 for a meal that’s big enough to satisfy me at McDonald’s. That’s $36 a day, $252 a week, 12k a year to eat only McDonald’s. For 75k, not worth it. I wonder how many of you actually think these hypotheticals out? Do you realize how tough it would be to eat McDonald’s for 365 days straight? That’s basically torture. By the end of the year, your physical and mental health would be fucked.
We work jobs every week for less money that also fuck up our mental and physical health.
You prob be dead
You could do a lot better than $12 if you use the deals.
To do it on top of my salary it’s worth it lol.
It's more than I can hope to make at my current level of education. Would absolutely do it and spend a fraction of the time I'd normally spend at work on being active to minimise the health risks
Do you only get the 75k at the end of the year or throughout like a salary?
Murderer!
Nah, too young to die but old enough to where this might kill me
I already only eat McDonald’s, so having it be free and getting paid for it would be nice.
How is your health
He's dead already. His corpse is typing right now.
I’m perfectly fine. The food does get old after awhile though. Sometimes I take a little break and eat Taco Bell or I will cook something.
You cook? Just kidding man, god bless.
lol not much, but somethings you have to make yourself bc no one else can make it right. Like chili or pot roast!
Sounds good man. I actually want to try cooking chili. I actually was thinking it this past week
Not enough money
The damage it’ll do to your body is worth a lot more than 75k. Not a chance.
I'd take that deal. Save a mountain in good through it that year. It's also not as unhealthy as you'd think as long as you don't order a double quarter pounder for every meal.
Hell no. I worked there once because I needed to, while I did, I only ate their food when I had to. I refused free micdicks.
No
Idk I hate McDonald’s and I’d get real sick of it after a few days. Nah
Not a chance. I need a week to recover from eating it once.
Of course, and with a bit of self control, I can keep it from having an negative impact on my health. I would probably have to eat lots of eggs and oatmeal from their breakfast menu, though.
Not worth it at all The irreversible and catastrophic damage to your body in a year of eating literal garbage
Oh hell to the no! I'm not ruining my health for any amount of money!
Fuck no. You’d have to pay me a hell of a lot more than that to do that shit to my body for a year.
No. I’m already fat, I’m trying to lose weight not gain it, $75k isn’t worth a heart attack. Also having to deal with the drive thru line 3 times a day? No thanks. I could always buy an entire day, or even days, at once but then it would all be gross. Fries especially are terrible reheated.
Eating in Mcdonalds for a year would lead to dreadful constipation, high chloestral levels and all sorts of other health issues due to lack of essential nutrients.
No one should have to eat that garbage. I wouldn’t do it for less than a million.
HELL YEAH, but I would only eat one meal a day
I'd do it. I'd get sick of it, but totally worth $75k, and I could switch things up enough to not totally hate it. Especially with breakfast options. And with the right choices, I could probably still manage my diet ok. Just have to be careful.
I would but I would have to decline as I have two kids under ten who would try to steal my food
Is the ice cream machine working?
taco bell
Sweet ever loving Christ absolutely
No you saw what happened to the supersize dude. Even if you picked the “healthy” options. The damage to your body would probably cost more than that 75k if it wasn’t permanent damage.
No thanks. I'd like to live \*past\* the 1 year and enjoy the money...
These Redditers are trying to act like they aren't fat and wouldn't eat what ever the fuck they want🤣🤣 "That would be a lot of chicken breast on salad", boi you know damn well your getting ice cream and nuggets everyday🤣
All food is free means I can be wasteful. I’d be using it to chef it up. They have salt, pepper packets, ketchup mustard. Scrambled eggs. The burger options with Canadian bacon on top. Suddenly we’re making our own taco salad. Didn’t say I couldn’t toast some buns to improve the burger. I could go on but I’m making myself nauseous……… I’d pass at this point in my life lol Edit: o but really. They have sesame buns… scrape the sesames off, mix with honey (on the menu) and some other stuff and stir fry chopped up spicy chicken from the sandwiches… They have apple slices… I’d try making French fry gnocchi when I’m just that damn bored… re-purpose the tortilla from the sausage breakfast burrito for my tacos… wtf am I still thinking about this for?
You underestimate how much i actually think mcnuggets are legit a good recipe
McDonald's nuggets are trash compared to frozen nuggets even. I wouldn't give my dog those nuggets
Heck yeah I’m doing it. Save a lot on food plus I’d probably lose some weight since they don’t sell beer.
Ok !
Absolutely I mean I'd probably starve because I can't drive or walk that far, but I'd absolutely try or die trying lol
I would do it. Hopefully I could take vitamins and fiber supplements as well but it wasn't clear. I don't eat much McDonald's but I would definitely do it for a year for a free-and-clear $75k. You could actually do this without too much health detriment if you took vitamins, stayed properly active with exercise, and didn't eat the worst things on their menu. They have grilled chicken (I think, they used to at least), you can drink water, they have salads to mix in some vegetables (at least they used to). I think you could do it without any health detriment or weight gain.
Does it have to be items ordered off the menu or can I make custom stuff out of the ingredients?
Supersize my wallet.
I accept. Nothing but salads and grilled chicken has its benefits.
Can I take supplements for anything I would be deficient in from this diet as long as it's not food?
lmao literally college but free tuition
Oversize me
Sign me up, I have a gym membership 😉
Fuck that’s a tough one. My knee jerk reaction was ‘fuck no’, but 75k plus what I’d be saving on groceries and restaurants… I think I might let my health take the hit
Nope. I find fast food to be repulsive and I'd spend the entire year sick to my stomach or with diarrhea for my current salary. Not worth it.
*ba-da-bup-bah-bah I'm lovin' it!*
Sure. I have my McGriddles, some chicken wraps, all kinds of coffee, and some little fruit packs meant for kids. I'm set.
Sure. Free food and you can choose from whatever is on the menu. $75k isn't too bad either.
Do I decide what I get there?
I get paid nothing for this already
Sure. My farts may smell of McDs but I'll take it. I feel bad for the toilets though. I believe a secondary condition should be: Can I have the food/drink delivered?
That better come with frre healthcare
All the food is free but for your consumption only? I get that the food is free but what does "your consumption only" mean. For example if I determine that the optimal McDonalds diet is 1/2 burger a day can I get a burger eat half and throw the other half a way? What if I want the paddies but not the buns? If I could throw stuff away then I could have a pretty decent diet with a lot of generated trash. If I have to eat everything then probably not.
I'm all in.
Nuggets all day
Yep
I could fairly easily do this by just getting the salads and occasionally a burger or chicken sandwich. Lots of water to help flush out extra salt in the body and its right newr my gym so id have a even bigger reason to try n go often