The McDonald's Glass Scandal
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Published 2023-09-28
There was a time when McDonald’s sold millions of toxic glasses to its customers. This is the insane story.
Thanks to Tamara Rubin and Andrew Turner for their valuable insights.
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docs.google.com/document/d/156lYl3ZQlW87bCQTO0weLQ…
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All Comments (21)
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This comment section is officially open for Shrek memes.
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The questions “did McDonalds poison millions of kids” is very sarcastic and I love it.
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Shrek is love, Shrek is life, and now Shrek is also death.
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I majored in art in college and did a lot of oil painting. The professors were VERY clear to us about the risks of cadmium and insisted we never directly touch paints made from cadmium. Putting it in drinking glasses is horrifying!
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Thanks to that one mom who had an XRF scanner and was worried about some shrek-themed glass, who knows how long it would have taken to notice the danger otherwise
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Coming from a painting background, I was not surprised at all when the video mentioned cadmium, and I completely expected the worst offender to be puss in boots. Cadmium yellow is a very pretty shade and nowadays it's made with different chemicals and pigments, but it used to be made with cadmium, and lots of it (see also lead white). Its one of things used to authenticate old paintings.
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It's so surreal having a top tier visual and audio quality of delivering educational information interweaved with an unstoppable onslaught of earnest memes, that doesnt feel overly forced.
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the real controversy is how CRIMINALLY underrated this channel is
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all of a sudden im gonna put our family Shrek glass into the display case, through the years the paint has faded and I thought that was normal. We had no idea it was toxic
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God damit, how can one meme this hard while still delivering high quality and interesting content plus this regularay. Impressive
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Did you know there is almost always Cadmium in chocolate? I worked for a cacao importer in the Amsterdam harbour. There is a maximum amount, but im sure there is almost always cadmium in your chocolatebar maybe some lead also.
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Now i'm questioning every souvenir glasses in my house. No way my country has stricter regulation than US to prevent this to happening
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This also ocurred with Garfield-themed mugs from the same restaurant franchise, albeit with the deadly chemicals only being discovered after 40-ish years.
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Like any respectable parent she is in hand of an X-ray gun
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Insanely good mix of humor, quality and a thrilling story told
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blaming my low IQ on tainted shrek glasses.
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“Her husband died but her name is also Karen” brutally unhinged but amazing journalism and production value none the less
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Fun fact, when the development on prince of egypt, underperfoming animators were moved to shrek's team as they thought the prince of egypt would earn more. The workers called this move "getting shreked" I find it so funny to think that these kids were shreked
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"Her first name.. was also Karen" This had me ROLLING
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I used one of these glasses for years until my mom broke it, and while buying a new one I found out that they were toxic. Anyway, I have one sitting right next to me as I write this as decor.
