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Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by s5300 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:33PM (#29103443)
I hate to say this, but McDonalds offerings appear to have gotten somewhat decent as of late, with regards to McDonald's/Fast Food in general. It's still trash... but I think it's closer to real ingredients than it has been for quite some time.

If we don't see a decade of economic downturn, in 1-2 decades McDonald's may turn into something decently healthy/acceptable, once again in the sense of still being fast food.

We could however see the dystopia of McDonald's only accepting fixed amount of meme doge tokens that go on to hyperinflate, and we'll all be able to shake our fists about how we were promised flying cars but got DogeDonalds

Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by jonplackett on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:32AM (#29105022)
Maybe we’ll have the Demolition Man future where Taco Bell is the only surviving restaurant.
Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by dylan604 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:48AM (#29107138)
As long as we don't use the 3 seashells.
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Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by unixhero on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:43AM (#29103732)
It is out here, outside of the US
Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by dylan604 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:32AM (#29104089)
The food that fast food places use outside of the US is not the same food served in the US
Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by kwhitefoot on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:31AM (#29105748)
Here in Norway McDonalds advertises that it only uses Norwegian beef in their burgers: https://www.mcdonalds.com/no/nb-no/maten-vaar/raavarer-og-le...

"Mesteparten av råvarene våre stammer fra norske bønder.

Vi bruker for eksempel kun 100% norsk storfekjøtt, kun norske økologiske egg og norske poteter – og når sesongen tillater det, bruker vi norsk salat, tomat og løk. Vi vet at kundene våre ønsker norske råvarer, og derfor er vi helt og holdent avhengige av norske bønder. Ingen bonde – ingen burger. Kanskje er det din nabobonde som har levert råvarene til akkurat ditt McDonald's-måltid?"

Translated by Google because I am too lazy to type my own translation:

"Most of our raw materials come from Norwegian farmers.

For example, we use only 100% Norwegian beef, only Norwegian organic eggs and Norwegian potatoes - and when the season allows, we use Norwegian salad, tomato and onion. We know that our customers want Norwegian raw materials, and therefore we are completely dependent on Norwegian farmers. No farmer - no burger. Maybe it's your neighbor's farmer who delivered the ingredients for your McDonald's meal?"

Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by thinkingemote on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:35AM (#29105770)
As an aside, and because we are talking about yeast, McDonald's burger buns are not really dough based risen bread. It's baked foam. Like they squirt it out all foamy and then bake it. (It's possible that no yeast is used, but I'm not sure)
Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by phonypc on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:47PM (#29109457)
Yeast is used, and the process isn't any different than supermarket white buns.

Industrial white bread processes do tend to involve very high speed/power mixing that incorporates more air and leads to a smaller crumb structure than traditional bread, but it's certainly not squirted out as a foam.

Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by unixhero on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:23AM (#29104312)
At 3am, the only trash food which is open is McDonalds and 711 throughout South East Asia, Australia, Europe. Been there, I've seen things.
Re:Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyp... by ojilles on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:49AM (#29104761)
I think you should expect a little more diversity at 3am. For example, the FEBO in the Netherlands.