The prize for championing farming goes to..........MacDonalds !

TheTallGuy

Member
Location
Cambridgeshire
Just buy a stainless steel one like I did and it lasts forever
I have one in the car, but keeping it clean & etc can be an issue. It's also awkward to carry around in my pocket once it's been used if in town. It's also daft picking on straws given the amount of plastics that they use elsewhere - especially the crap in their Happy Meals, plastic cutlery wrapped in cellophane & plastic lids on everything.
 

Dalos

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Shropshire
Those paper straws are useless, feel horrid and can't be much better than the plastic. I mean, they cut trees to make them so doubtful of the net gain to environmental responsibility.
We went in a cafe when skiing which had pasta as straws they were about the same diameter as a normal straw and worked perfectly and the kids ate them after they had finished their drink
 

Scribus

Member
Location
Central Atlantic
The current MaccyD’s advertising campaign is the best bit of support we’ve seen for ages imo......discuss
Whatever you think of the product and the company's modus operandi they do have some of the best advertising out there. Most of its telly ads are beautifully put together with a specific target audience in mind which, I should think, they hit every time. The 'Like getting your money's worth' campaign is well scripted and very professionally acted, avoiding pretentiousness and set in environments that we can all relate to. The farming advert goes straight to the 2+2 suburban family and reinforces the meat is good message which, let's face it, is as essential to a burger company as it is farmers.
 
Last edited by a moderator:

unlacedgecko

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
I have one in the car, but keeping it clean & etc can be an issue. It's also awkward to carry around in my pocket once it's been used if in town. It's also daft picking on straws given the amount of plastics that they use elsewhere - especially the crap in their Happy Meals, plastic cutlery wrapped in cellophane & plastic lids on everything.

Fuk the turtles, my boy wants his free toy ?
 

kill

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South West
Bloody hell kfc is crap
Our local KFC has to be without doubt the dirtiest place I've ever had the displeasure of eating at, as tables that sticky and gluppy that hands that contact them or clothes will almost need the fire service to cut you from there holds and bins are never emptied and toilet floors as sticky as the table tops and staff that don't speak English that couldn't give s flying feck.
I have never seen a McDonald's any where comparable and they even serve organic milk with my cup of tea?? bleady proper?.

The local radio is driving me around the bend currently with either Costa Coffee advertising it's none dairy vegan milks or Fecking Aldi offering their range of Vegan alternative's including Vegan ice cream ????? ( some things are just so wrong). And they food miles on some of this crap just beggers believe ?

Atleast "Funky Farmer" on YouTube is showing his bit for UK agricultural by how vile this crap is and his poor little boys have suffered as well and the biggest laugh is how many times labels have stated that these products may contain DAIRY ??????.
 
Last edited:

Samcowman

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Our local KFC has to be without doubt the dirtiest place I've ever had the displeasure of eating at, as tables that sticky and gluppy that hands that contact them or clothes will almost need the fire service to cut you from there holds and bins are never emptied and toilet floors as sticky as the table tops and staff that don't speak English that couldn't give s flying feck.
I have never seen a McDonald's any where comparable and they even serve organic milk with my cup of tea?? bleady proper?.

The local radio is driving me around the bend currently with either Costa Coffee advertising it's none dairy vegan milks or Fecking Aldi offering their range of Vegan alternative's including Vegan ice cream ????? ( some things are just so wrong). And they food miles on some of this crap just beggers believe ?

Atleast "Funky Farmer" on YouTube is showing his bit for UK agricultural by how vile this crap is and his poor little boys have suffered ad well and the biggest laugh is how many times labels have stated that these products may contain DAIRY ??????.
Vegan ice cream??? Isn’t that just sorbet??
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Our local KFC has to be without doubt the dirtiest place I've ever had the displeasure of eating at, as tables that sticky and gluppy that hands that contact them or clothes will almost need the fire service to cut you from there holds and bins are never emptied and toilet floors as sticky as the table tops and staff that don't speak English that couldn't give s flying feck.
I have never seen a McDonald's any where comparable and they even serve organic milk with my cup of tea?? bleady proper?.

The local radio is driving me around the bend currently with either Costa Coffee advertising it's none dairy vegan milks or Fecking Aldi offering their range of Vegan alternative's including Vegan ice cream ????? ( some things are just so wrong). And they food miles on some of this crap just beggers believe ?

Atleast "Funky Farmer" on YouTube is showing his bit for UK agricultural by how vile this crap is and his poor little boys have suffered as well and the biggest laugh is how many times labels have stated that these products may contain DAIRY ??????.

I’m pretty sure KFC’s are all franchises, so cleanliness, staffing levels, etc is down to whoever is running it. McD’s have far more control from head office, employing managers themselves and all running on the same strict, corporate regimes. Just a shame their burgers have the texture of chopped rubber.?
 

TheTallGuy

Member
Location
Cambridgeshire
I’m pretty sure KFC’s are all franchises, so cleanliness, staffing levels, etc is down to whoever is running it. McD’s have far more control from head office, employing managers themselves and all running on the same strict, corporate regimes. Just a shame their burgers have the texture of chopped rubber.?
Maccys do franchises https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/franchising.html but they have much stricter regulation, inspection & penalties in place because they know the value of their brand. Depending on location you could be looking at up to £500k startup costs (the alleged £100k is for sites already suitable for use) & unless you are lucky in getting the right spot it can take 3+ years to build up enough trade to be sustainable. The application process for obtaining a franchise is very rigorous & designed to weed out unsuitable applications.
 

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
Just heard the McDonalds advert on the radio.
- Top Effort!
Especially when every TV and radio station seems to be tripping over each other to jump on the veganuary bandwagon.
Exactly

I also spotted this in response to a vegan keyboard warrior which I thought was quite good

IMG_1210.jpg
 
Location
Cleveland
I’m pretty sure KFC’s are all franchises, so cleanliness, staffing levels, etc is down to whoever is running it. McD’s have far more control from head office, employing managers themselves and all running on the same strict, corporate regimes. Just a shame their burgers have the texture of chopped rubber.?
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with mcdonakds burgers. You never see a queue in kfc
I’ve only been in once and it was crap
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
Fast food places have destroyed good eatin the whole damn lot if them . Look at the shite in this place ,
Ive noticed if a place starts up selling good wholesome food in Services they are soon pushed out , Like the Carvery in Cobham Services
I would arest the lot of them for damaging peoples heath
20200118_164936.jpg
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

  • 1,294
  • 1
As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
Top