Disclaimer: While I am about to tell you some disgusting things that will make you want to quit eating fast food, I am doing this for myself as well.

Also, I didn't write any of this except the titles.  I Googled and stole borrowed.

Top 10 Reasons to Swear Off Fast Food

10.  Would you like Diet or Regular Fecal Matter?
Studies revealed that 50% of fountain drink dispensers were contaminated with fecal bacteria.

9.  "I'll have a 6 Piece Chicken Nugget Paste."


"Most people would be extremely unhappy if they were served heart or tongue on a plate," he observed. "But flaked into a restructured product it loses its identity. Such products as tripe, heart, and scalded stomachs are high in protein, completely edible, wholesome, and nutritious, and most are already used in sausage without objection." Pork patties could be shaped into any form and marketed in restaurants or for airlines, solving a secondary problem of irregular portion size of cuts such as pork chops. In 1981 McDonald's introduced a boneless pork sandwich of chunked and formed meat called the McRib, developed in part through check-off funds [micro-donations from pork producers] from the NPPC [National Pork Producers Council]. It was not as popular as the McNugget, introduced in 1983, would be, even though both products were composed of unmarketable parts of the animal (skin and dark meat in the McNugget). The McNugget, however, benefited from positive consumer associations with chicken, even though it had none of the "healthy" attributes people associated with poultry.

8.  "Let me get you some fries after I finish sweeping the floor."
Cross Contamination is the Norm.  When things got busy, the same person who just swept garbage off the floor may be asked to perform cashier duties without washing their hands in between.  They may rearrange your food on your serving tray, help the food line staff assemble sandwiches, grab cups and utensils, all with their bare hands.  What they touched, you touched and probably put in your mouth. 


7.  Cleanliness is NOT Top Priority
One day the restaurant's drainage system backed up and we sloshed around for two hours with plastic bags over our shoes, still serving food, before someone came from the Health Department to shut us down until repairs could take place. 


6.  Frozen Beaver What?
Deciphering food label ingredients leads to unappetizing results. Take the innocuous-sounding castoreum, which is used to enhance the flavor of puddings, candies, and some frozen dairy desserts. You might be surprised to know that it’s derived from beavers—beaver anal glands, specifically.

5: Get I Get That With a Side of Ground-Up Insect?
Many foods get their red coloring—”carmine”—from ground-up insect shells that can cause severe allergic reactions in some people.


4.  Are you a heavy user?



3.  Vegetarian?
McDonald's fries are flavored with "unspecified animal products."



2.  Who cares if it's clean, right?


1.  It's Gross.  EAT REAL FOOD.
You know where your food came from and who touched it if YOU make it.  Take the time.  Make the real food.  Don't eat beaver anal glands or ground up towels or bugs.  SICK.  EAT REAL FOOD.