Fresh Fly with your Big Mac?

[JBNimble]

I've been eating at Mickey's three or four times a year.

Two months ago I ordered a burger there.

Inside was a house fly, newly sacrificed for my low-fat health.

Don't know if I'll go to ANY Mickey's again.

[Deer Slayer]

Would you like flies with that?!?!?!

[k0NG0]

Was it a french fly?

[polonyc2]

maybe that's a delicacy in Maryland ...I hear in different countries Mickey D's adjusts the menu based on the general population's taste...for example in the Northeast Domino's Pizza doesn't offer jalepeno peppers as a topping...maybe flies are the latest burger topping craze in MD

[shaihulud]

If you really knew what is in food, or the contamination levels that are consider to be O.K. for human consumption. It may never make you want to eat a Snickers bar ever again, really any food. You do know that there are worms in everything we eat, or bacteria. Parasites and other creatures that wish to use our bodies as hosts are very common. This is why we cook at particular temperatures and for a particular amount of time. Besides the fact that cooked food helps with digestion some. Over cooked is seriously carcinogenic so don't go over board. Rare and medium rare is perfect for a juicy steak!

A fly, bah! 0 Trans Fat at least! It is people's body fluids that I do not want. That is what I worry about, if I worry about it.

[k0NG0]

I've heard that our bodies at all times contains between 2 and 4 lbs of foreign (as in not sharing our personal DNA) living material. Bacteria in the intestines, etc. Pretty cool.

We have this thing called the "immune system" which is well designed and tested. Kids eat dirt all the time and if they get sick it's usually from e-coli off some neatly packaged "fresh" lettuce, not the dirt itself.

The contamination levels are still usually far below what the human race has subsided on for thousands of years, though. It's the use of antibacterial soaps and such that will end up biting us, because it performs duties that are utterly unnecessary and undermines the immune system.

[shaihulud]

There is also probiotics, an introduction of beneficial bacteria into a host, which has even been seen to cause beneficial mutations in the human DNA. An example is yogurt which people should eat more, a lot more. I prefer Kefir based products due to the fact that these promote growth colonies and yogurt does not.

Immunizations are also an introduction, in weak form, to the host. We need stimuli and one of the worse things is how the anti-bacteria / microbial belief is beneficial when it is not entirely. It is good to be hygienic and know how to prevent communicable infections. But this anti-everything needs to go. For example we do not need Triclosan in toothpaste (and in soap) and I highly advise not to use any. To note this is coming from someone who works in the medical profession (Dental).

[Rick_EE]

The stories my friends who took food science classes in college were interesting. Don't look at breakfast cereal under a microscope.

Most ground grains contain a lot of insect proteins.

[JBNimble]

I guess Ronald McD was doing me a favor. Flies are healthy and make birds fly.

[SpeedDMN]

Extra protein at no extra charge..What's to complain about?

[k0NG0]

Originally Posted by JBNimble

I guess Ronald McD was doing me a favor. Flies are healthy and make birds fly.

Do not attempt to fly yourself. Human flight is not a side-effect of eating flies.

[JBNimble]

Originally Posted by k0NG0

Do not attempt to fly yourself. Human flight is not a side-effect of eating flies.

What valid large-scale scientific study can you offer supporting your assertion?

Personally I wonder whether eating flies allows one to fly, but I know of no adequate long-term human testing of the idea. I'd volunteer, but I've just developed acrophobia.

The nearest data we currently have is birds and bats -- AND IT WORKS for them. Aren't bats mammals, just as humans are?

Ronald McD is trying to save the planet. If we can fly, we won't need to drive.

[k0NG0]

Pfff, if you were here I'd show you 5 kONGO-shaped holes in the ground...

[Aggemam]

Don't know if this is true, but I recall reading somewhere, that the average person swallows 12 insects, in his/her lifetime, just by having an open mouth, during sleep...

[TQ]

Originally Posted by shaihulud

There is also probiotics, an introduction of beneficial bacteria into a host, which has even been seen to cause beneficial mutations in the human DNA.

I'm actually working on a national radio campaign for a ProBiotics product. And I just ate some yogurt.