Burger King, Newcastle

..., so this is why Burger King get this one) pack many of their products especially their shakes with lots of chemicals and colourings and E numbers. Not the best things for growing kids , or grown ones for that matter , but at least there's the option of a free toy to along with it. It would probably be more healthy to eat the toy and ditch whatever food you have purchased.

~ Two

Urban Legend or not? I've heard lots ...
...given the queues in the Burger Kings in Newcastle is not a problem for most of the purchasers or Burger Kings products.

In Newcastle we are lucky that we have lots of alternatives to this sort of place, so try and avoid them if you can.

Yes you can take stuff out, yes you can get food "quickly", yes you can sit in on their plastic chairs, and eat out of your Styrofoam boxes and drink from your Styrofoam cups ... more

***** DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH ****

I have an aversion to these fast food types of places as you may have gathered from the ops that I've written. Many of my friends frequent them on a daily basis because they are fast, convenient and cheap. A couple of things in the last few months have just emphasised my resolve to avoid these types of places unless the only alternative is starvation.

~One

A couple of months ago the Sunday Times ran a two page spread on the fact that these companies (McDonalds included , and I've already done an op on them , so this is why Burger King get this one) pack many of their products especially their shakes with lots of chemicals and colourings and E numbers. Not the best things for growing kids , or grown ones for that matter , but at least there's the option of a free toy to along with it. It would probably be more healthy to eat the toy and ditch whatever food you have purchased.

~ Two

Urban Legend or not? I've heard lots of stories about the horrors of people buying food at these sort of places which contain "unwanted" extras. The worst I heard of was someone who had purchased and Chicken type burger. They bit into it and returned it because they had requested "no mayonnaise". You know what's coming don't you? The "mayonnaise" was in fact secretions of pus caused by cancerous growths in the chicken. Scary or what.

~ Three

A recent survey of one hundred burgers from all suppliers discovered traces of animal faeces in every burger. This should not be surprising as basically these companies define beef as any part of the animal (brains, eyes, tongue and anything that the animal contains at the time of its processing). The other thing to remember is that we use lots of horse poo to make our rhubarb grow, so no doubt , maybe some organic produce may contain similar traces.

This sort of thing is only "allegedly" true , to "allegedly" quote Ian Hislop, and given the queues in the Burger Kings in Newcastle is not a problem for most of the purchasers or Burger Kings products.

In Newcastle we are lucky that we have lots of alternatives to this sort of place, so try and avoid them if you can.

Yes you can take stuff out, yes you can get food "quickly", yes you can sit in on their plastic chairs, and eat out of your Styrofoam boxes and drink from your Styrofoam cups , but can you seriously claim to enjoy it?

Lunch alternative in Newcastle

Burger King Burger Meal with Fries and Soft Drink around 4 GBP

Gershwins 2 course gourmet meal (See previous op for details) with large glass of wine 4.95 GBP

Is there any competition really

Sorry if I made you sick, but if we don't support the alternatives Burger King will run and run
 

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