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Disgusting truths about the corporate world.
I was in my organizational communication class the other day, and we got to talking about some of the disgusting things corporations do with their products and marketing to draw in customers and otherwise make profits.
Here were some of the highlights...
- Coca Cola reportedly uses small amounts of the raw "Coke" syrup to clean grime from the engines on their delivery trucks. Apparently, it is corrosive enough to take off the dirt but doesn't do "much damage" to the engines themselves.
- Dasani bottled water, which is owned by Coca Cola, contains a significant amount of sodium. Sodium is salt. Salt makes you thirsty. Think about that one for a minute.
- The McDonald's Corporation originally chose red and yellow as their company colors because the first colors that babies see as they develop are... you guessed it... red and yellow. Apparently, company executives wanted to groom people from birth to identify red and yellow with the McDonald's name.
(This one is mine... I used to work at McDonald's as a teenager...)
- You know the little chopped up onions that you get on hamburgers and cheeseburgers at McDonald's? Those are rehydrated. Before you add water to them, they basically look like sand in a bag. If you use water that is too warm or too cold, one of the preservatives in the onions reacts to the temperature and the whole batch turns bright pink.
- Employees at McDonald's almost never throw product out once it's cooked. They aren't supposed to keep it in the cabinet for longer than a few minutes. (15 to 20 at most.) Guess what? If you visit the restaurant outside of rush hours, there's a good chance that your hamburger patties and chicken nuggets have been sitting there for upwards of two hours in a low-heat holding container!
- Several common household objects, such as the lightbulb and the microwave, were originally designed to last forever. (Edison's lightbulb, in fact, is still capable of burning. It is held at the Smithsonian.) The process of altering an original design so that the product MUST be renewed is called "planned obsolesence".
- By the year 2030, we will have used up almost all of our copper reserve producing electrical wiring. At that point, some speculate that the government will be forced to circulate pennies minted before the 1970s out of the economy so that they can be melted down and cleaned so that the copper can be reused.
If you have any more facts like these, please post them! Interesting (and scary) stuff.
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