[Smurfn]

Does anyone know if ice cream is damaging to the paintwork? I went outside earlier and found that some nice people had thrown their icecream cones on the MINI . I hosed it off as soon as I saw it, and washed properly and waxed a few hours later.

[ScottyB]

Grrrrrr. Stoopid people!

You get a hard time having to park that car outside

I shouldnt imagine it would damage the paint - theres nothing acidic in Ice Cream?

[Smurfn]

Quote: Originally Posted by ScottyB

Grrrrrr. Stoopid people!

You get a hard time having to park that car outside

I shouldnt imagine it would damage the paint - theres nothing acidic in Ice Cream?

It wasn't real ice cream, it was a McDonald's 40c cone ( x2)

[ScottyB]

Quote: Originally Posted by smurfn

It wasn't real ice cream, it was a McDonald's 40c cone ( x2)

Its watered down. I dont think you have anything to worry about. Its not bird $hit anyway

[Barnabas]

Yeah I think it should be fine, but throwing ice cream?? These folks need to get a life.

[SoggyCornFlakes]

Your paintwork should be fine, but fancy hosing it down, you should have licked it off

[Mike Clarke]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoggyCornFlakes

Your paintwork should be fine, but fancy hosing it down, you should have licked it off

normally I'd agree with soggy - never waste icecream - but this is Macdonalds which is probably why they threw it away in the first place

let us know if there is any lasting marks smurfn

[EBMCS03]

Oh mickey Ds ice cream? i think it should be fine also... has nothing toxic or acidic in it... ACTUALLY!!! its mickey Ds cheapo ice cream it might be made out of XOXOXO... and will melt paint! hahah J/K

[poki]

I was under the impression that McDonalds soft serve is made from pig fat. Might be good for your paintwork.

Whatever part of Newcastle you live in Smurfn, it is beginning to sound pretty unsavoury! What with people nicking number plates and throwing desserts at your car. What is wrong with these people, they don't even seem to like MINI's.

Weirdos.

[Smurfn]

Quote: Originally Posted by poki

Weirdos.

That about sums it up

[marrsbar]

Where do people get this rubbish from? McDonald's icecream is nothing more than a bit of frozen extra fat full fat milk. Harmless to your paintwork.

Incidently, its against the law to sell anything as 'Ice Cream' unless it meets the minimum fat requirement.......ie it MUST have a high fat level. For example, the two different mixes that McDonald's put into their ice cream and milk shake machines (both machines do nothing more than freeze the mix whilst churning it) cannot be interchanged, partly because the milkshake mix is unflavoured (it gets its flavour as it is poured from the machine) but mostly because the milkshake mix doesnt have enough fat in it for it to be sold as ice cream. fyi the milk shake mix comes in the blue topped bags and the ice cream mix in the yellow topped bags.

Hence why you normally find low fat icecreams actually labelled as 'low fat deserts' or similar.

Sorry for my rant, I used to be a store manager at McDonald's and I used to hear so many nonsense stories about what we made stuff out off...... like cows udders for the burgers, I mean, please!? And the story about the girl who ate the chicken burger and got a mouthful of pus from a chicken cist? ITS PROCESSED CHICKEN, ALL CHOPPED UP AND REFORMED, IF THERE EVER WAS A CHICKEN CIST IT WOULD BE ALL MIXED IN AND YOU WOULD NEVER NOTICE. Why do people believe everything they hear?!

[dietcokeplease]

Quote: Originally Posted by marrsbar

And the story about the girl who ate the chicken burger and got a mouthful of pus from a chicken cist? ITS PROCESSED CHICKEN, ALL CHOPPED UP AND REFORMED, IF THERE EVER WAS A CHICKEN CIST IT WOULD BE ALL MIXED IN AND YOU WOULD NEVER NOTICE. Why do people believe everything they hear?!

Maybe it was the pus from one of the spotty youths that work there. And a bloke down the pub told me that the fries are actually cardboard. Must be true.

[marrsbar]

Quote: Originally Posted by dietcokeplease

Maybe it was the pus from one of the spotty youths that work there. And a bloke down the pub told me that the fries are actually cardboard. Must be true.

Most (not all) of the spotty youths work bloody hard, you have no idea!
and it couldnt be that the fries are made of, er, potato? why do people make things up? i actually quite like mcds fries. better than bk's.

(incidently, if you want me to go onto proper rant, in the uk the fries for mcdonalds are prepared by mccain, as in mccain oven chips. They use a breed of potato called russet burbank, which was actually developed specially for mcdonalds french fries and you cant buy anywhere else. they are cut, part cooked and frozen. shiped to the restaurants where they are cooked from frozen for a further 3 mins 30 secs, with a good shake after the first 30 seconds to seperate them. they are left to drain for 7-10 seconds upon being lifted (pulled being the technical term) from the vegetable fat then they are put into the salting tray where they are lightly salted with pure salt using the three arch method (to the layman it looks like the staff just chuck the salt on, but trust me, a lot of training goes into that three arch method! so apart from potato, veg fat and salt, theres nothing else in them, no flavours colours or even preservatives, so in essence, for chips, they are rather healthy.)

[Xanthia]

Nice to know someone else did McTime.

Believe it or not, it was actually kinda fun. For a little while. Swing Manager for just over a year while going to Uni. Can't believe I'm admitting it!

[goonermini]

Quote: Originally Posted by marrsbar

(incidently, if you want me to go onto proper rant, in the uk the fries for mcdonalds are prepared by mccain, as in mccain oven chips. They use a breed of potato called russet burbank, which was actually developed specially for mcdonalds french fries and you cant buy anywhere else. they are cut, part cooked and frozen. shiped to the restaurants where they are cooked from frozen for a further 3 mins 30 secs, with a good shake after the first 30 seconds to seperate them. they are left to drain for 7-10 seconds upon being lifted (pulled being the technical term) from the vegetable fat then they are put into the salting tray where they are lightly salted with pure salt using the three arch method (to the layman it looks like the staff just chuck the salt on, but trust me, a lot of training goes into that three arch method! so apart from potato, veg fat and salt, theres nothing else in them, no flavours colours or even preservatives, so in essence, for chips, they are rather healthy.)

I feel this thread is drifting from the original topic Anyway, how do you explain this...!?!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/1348296.stm

gm

[ninethreeeleven]

BACK ON TOPIC....

I was having fun with my friends and (well I was young and stupid) we were driving around (in 2 junker, first teenage cars) I was in lead car rifleing water ballons he was in his car driving, while passanger was with water balloons and paintball gun....

Long story short, I ran out of balloons so threw my McDonalds Milk shake at his car, smacked it right above headlight (i know what your thinking but I was young and stupid)

Anyway, I volunteered to wash it and the shake came right off and there was no damage.

[Dutchy]

You guys are worried about McDonalds soft serve?
Try Bat poo - it stains the paint within an hour of it landing. Even using cut'n'polish doesn't rectify the paint back to original.
This is a major problem here in Darwin (and probably nth Queensland) around the beginning of the wet season.

Dutchy.

[ScottyB]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dutchy

You guys are worried about McDonalds soft serve?
Try Bat poo - it stains the paint within an hour of it landing. Even using cut'n'polish doesn't rectify the paint back to original.
This is a major problem here in Darwin (and probably nth Queensland) around the beginning of the wet season.

Dutchy.

We have bats all the time at our house. The front, where my room is, has a tree that overhangs the roof/awning, so it creates this little alcove. As soon as I turn my light on, you hear all these bats flying away

Glad my cars parked in the garage at night. As will the MINI be when it arrives

[Smurfn]

I didn't mean for this thread to become a bash at McDonald's, I was just curious as to icecream in general. I thought it would be OK and it seems that it will be. I quite like McDonald's Because there are so many Macca's around, they seem to get a bad rap for everything, especially all the wrappers littering the place

[scooterboy]

I like McDonalds too, but is it true that the shakes have zero dairy content?