McDonald's: Return of the Tomato
Let me start off by saying this. You'll never catch me within 50 feet of a McDonalds. Seriously, I get queasy just driving by fast food joints, but for those of you hooked on the Ronald. Good news! Arguably the one healthy thing on the menu is back. Tomatoes have returned.
McDonald's was among several restaurants that stopped serving tomatoes when a salmonella outbreak linked to raw tomatoes sickened 228 people in 23 states, but Saturday a McDonald's spokesperson said the fast food chain will reintroduce sliced tomatoes to U.S. restaurants within the next seven to 10 days. Um, hooray?
According to Wikipedia tomatoes are great sources of vitamin C and lycopene. So, if you've been jonesing to sandwich all that healthy goodness between a nutrition-less bun and a rubbery beef patty. Here's a list of McDonald's menu choices that include sliced tomato:
- Big N' Tasty: Quarter pound 100% beef patty, sesame seed bun, leaf lettuce, tomato slice, mayonnaise dressing, ketchup, slivered onions, pickle slices.
- Big N' Tasty with Cheese: Quarter pound 100% beef patty, sesame seed bun, leaf lettuce, tomato slice, mayonnaise dressing, pasteurized process American cheese, ketchup, slivered onions, pickle slices.
- Premium Grilled Chicken Classic Sandwich: Honey wheat roll, grilled chicken breast filet, mayonnaise dressing, leaf lettuce, tomato slice.
- Premium Crispy Chicken Classic Sandwich: Southern style crispy chicken breast filet, honey wheat roll, tomato slice, mayonnaise dressing, leaf lettuce.
- Premium Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich: Grilled chicken breast filet, honey wheat roll, tomato slice, bacon, natural Swiss cheese, mayonnaise dressing, leaf lettuce.
- Premium Crispy Chicken Club Sandwich: Southern style crispy chicken breast filet, honey wheat roll, tomato slice, bacon, natural Swiss cheese, mayonnaise dressing, leaf lettuce.
- Premium Grill Chicken Ranch BLT Sandwich: Grilled chicken breast filet, honey wheat roll, tomato slice, bacon, premium ranch sauce, leaf lettuce.
- Premium Crispy Chicken Ranch BLT Sandwich: Southern style crispy chicken breast filet, honey wheat roll, tomato slice, bacon, premium ranch sauce, leaf lettuce.
* Note. I'm not counting ketchup as tomato.
Honestly, if all the tomatoes were to totally disappeared off McDonald's menu forever. Would it really matter? Would anyone even notice? I doubt people go to McDonald's for the tomato.
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ok that last sentence made me LAUGH OUT LOUD.
although Im mama to a toddler who thinks McD's is renown for its APPLES (no caramel dipping sauce up in herre) and milk.
:)
ReplyI actually had to read the list to see the sandwiches that come with tomatoes (usually those pinkish-anemic-looking fast-food-restaurant tomatoes). Hmmm, not many of those are on the $1 menu, are they?
ReplyYeah those tomatoes at McDonald's do not look good at all. Anemic looking is a pretty good description.
ReplyHey Rebecca-
"Anemic-looking fast-food tomatoes!" So funny! Awesome.
Peace.
Reply-Gerry
I actually love McDonald's and every once in a while I'll go there and get a happy meal or eat half of a value meal.
I ate McDonald's while I was losing 130 pounds and I still eat it now. Everything is okay as long as it is in moderation.
And you are right, I wouldn't notice it if they took the tomatoes off. Now, the onions are a different story.
ReplyYeah, I'm guessing most of the people that eat those types of sandwiches at McDonald's are the type that think that vegetables are too healthy for them. And yeah, the tomatoes that they do use are those nasty, mealy, hydroponic ones that would survive a nuclear holocaust. So even if I did eat at McDonald's (which I haven't done in about a million years) I think I'd pass on those sandwiches. I'm sure all the mayo and cheese they slather on them counteracts most of any nutritional benefits you get from the tomato anyway.
ReplyI think that fast food is ok once in a while. If i eat at McDonalds i generally eat off the healthy choice menu (Inrtoduced in Australia). The subs they offer are low in fat, however very high in carbs.
Replyyeah the terriaki chicken is a real winner. But putting a tomato into their normal burgers is not going to reduce the calories in them.
ReplyYes, I stay away too! With the exception of traveling on interstates, I will sometimes choose Mickey D's for breakfast, since I can get scrambled eggs. That's about the healthiest thing they offer, period. And the tomatoes there? Um, after being transported and refrigerated and sliced to the thinness of paper, please don't count on any nutritional value from them. Wait, they have salads. Ew. Go to Ruby Tuesday's and make a salad that has potential to taste good, and give you some nutrition. And as for those apples with dipping sauce - what's the point of dipping apples in cooked sugar? (Love you fitz:))
~Marcie
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Scrambled eggs are great unless they're made with frozen egg "product." No idea if McDonald's does that, but that's how the place I work does it.
ReplyI literally can not eat MacDonald’s Burgers. I’ve eaten to much good food not to know bad food when I taste it.
ReplyI used to love McDonald's as a kid. Then I started working there and saw how the food is prepared and stopped eating it. Then came college and I was right back on the stuff. Since I've started my weight loss journey a year and a half ago I've eaten there maybe ten times, which is big for someone like me who used to eat there 1-3 times a week. Anyway the last time I ate there about two months ago I almost threw up. I don't know if now that I am eating much healthier the food has lost its good taste or if the food there is just getting worse and worse, but I just can't stomach that stuff, especially the burgers. Yuck. I think if I was famished I could handle the fries but even those have lost their deliciousness to me. I mean i used to live for McDonald's fries. Glad I'm past that phase in my life once and for all.
ReplyThe only time I ever eat at McDonalds is after a big night or if the kids have been well behaved (which doesn't happen that often). Either way, hold the tomatoes. I worked there for 3 years and you don't want to know where those tomatoes have been ...
ReplyI worked at McDonald's for a brief time in high school and I remember having to chop and slice tomatoes for the salads and burgers. There was nothing really wrong with the tomatoes except that they were shipped in cardboard boxes and were purposefully left underripe so they would hold up well. It's not like they were really terrible; just not the best quality out there. Same with the rest of their produce...most of it was OK, but not something I'd probably pick at the supermarket. Which is why I don't eat at McDonald's...I can get about 3 times more food for the same price if I eat at home and it tastes a helluva lot better.
ReplyOn a related note, this guy actually LOST weight only eating McDonald's.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25281188/
It's like the reverse-Super Size Me. I guess there really are healthy alternatives there, but I know if I'm going to McDonald's, it's not because I'm craving healthy foods.
ReplyYeah, there's a guy that lives here in Wisconsin that has eaten two Big Macs a day for the past 20 or so years. And he's skinny as a rail...the thing is, that's ALL he eats in a day and he doesn't get the fries with it :) Not that that's healthy though.
ReplyI don't know if I'll ever eat at McDonald's again after watching Super Size Me. Ugh.
ReplyThis one guy lost a ton of weight at Micky Ds:
Virginia man sheds 80 pounds eating at McDonald's
1 day ago
QUINTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every meal at McDonald's. Not Big Macs, french fries and chocolate shakes. Mostly salads, wraps and apple dippers without the caramel sauce.
Chris Coleson tipped the scales at 278 pounds in December. The 5-foot-8 Coleson now weighs 199 pounds and his waist size has dropped from 50 to 36.
The 42-year-old businessman from Quinton says he chose McDonald's because it's convenient.
His inspiration came from his two children and from the story of a blind war veteran who rode a tandem bicycle cross-country.
Coleson says his goal is to get back to the 185 pounds he weighed when he married Tricia Summer. Their 10th anniversary is Saturday.
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