McDonald’s Foods: Nutritional Information on Packages
October 26th, 2005 by Y.G.I know, I know, this won’t help anyone to lose weight, but it’s so ironic that I couldn’t resist the “pleasure” of posting it here. As read on the BBC News today (and in another source that I unfortunately can’t remember off the top of my head now), McDonald’s puts fat facts on food:
Fast food giant McDonald’s is to begin printing nutritional facts on the packaging of its burgers and fries. McDonald’s said the labelling would include the fat, salt, calorie and carbohydrate content of its foods. [...] Nutritional information on items such as the Big Mac, which contains 30g of fat, are currently only available in leaflets or on the company’s website. McDonald’s said it hoped to have the new packaging in 20,000 of its 30,000 fast food restaurants worldwide by the end of 2006.
So what’s ironic in this? The fact that you have to buy the food first before knowing what’s inside. I wonder how many people will come back and buy the same thing once they’ve seen what’s in it… or perhaps they just won’t care, and go on eating at McDonald’s as if nothing had been ever printed on these nice greasy cheeseburger wrappers?
In the meantime, there’s still a good year to go before this is done, anyway.
