There Was A Mouse In A Case Of Big Mac Buns, But I Will Still Be Eating McDonalds. - OK. Like most of you, I probably won't be having McDonalds for a little while after watching this video. Yes, I said "a little while" and not "ever again." Why? Because I have the ability to think critically.

What you’re about to see may shock you.

OK. Like most of you, I probably won’t be having McDonalds for a little while after watching this video. Yes, I said “a little while” and not “ever again.” Why? Because I have the ability to think critically.

After reading Fast Food Nation, and learning that the majority of all fast food ground beef has some percentage of mouse/cow droppings in it, I didn’t have fast food for a while either. One day, that fact slipped my mind and I found myself waist deep in a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese.

My “after the fact” justification for this was that I had eaten many QPw/C in my life and never ended up in a hospital bed because of one of them. If you’ve worked in any food service job, you know that there is some pest presence at pretty much any establishment. The owners and managers at these establishments work very hard to conceal, and in their defense prevent, these unwanted guests.

If there’s a mouse trap, a fly strip, or any kind of poison set out to eradicate said pests, one can take those measures as a acknowledgement of the problem. I’m not saying that there aren’t standards, there are. So why do we end up with news clips of mice scurrying around Big Mac buns on YouTube?

Basically, what it comes down to is that some people are gross, careless, evil, or a combination all three. With chains like McDonalds, the individual owners and managers are accountable for gross or careless behavior in their restaurant.

It’s not that all McDonalds restaurants are gross, only some of them are. Not all of their distribution plants are gross, but apparently one of them let a mouse get inside their burger packaging assembly line thing. It’s disgusting and sucks, but I’ll guarantee you that I’ll be eating a Big Mac in the future. They taste good. Fuck you, stop judging me.

When you’re eating anywhere other than your own kitchen where you yourself prepared your meal, you just don’t know where the food was before it got to your plate (or clam-shell case.) If you’re not willing to only eat at home, you just need to accept the possibility of eating mouse poop.

PS. Even if you are eating food you prepared yourself, you still didn’t grow it or slaughter it. Think about that. You have no control. Deal with it.

Either way, it’s all just 1s and 0s in The Matrix anyway.