In the video LiquidTurbo posted, I thought ground beef was supposed to be cooked all the way through because they have way more surface area as opposed to say a cut of beef steak. In that video, the french guy sliced the burger in half and the middle of the patty was bright red.

As others have mentioned, if you know where the meat for the ground beef is coming from and you grind it yourself with properly cleaned machinery, rare ground beef is perfectly safe.

The concern with undercooked beef nowadays is that ground meat processing facilities are not properly sanitized, and the ground meat is taken from dirty scraps of meat in close proximity to the surface of the skin and digestive tract, where it may come into contact with bacteria.

Have you guys never heard of Beef Tartare?

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that looks good, yet at the same time its semi sketchy, food poison blows donkey balls

They serve that at the cafeteria at the Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris.

mmmm Gyu yuke. (Japanese beef tartar)

In the fries oil displaces the water and then a healthy coating of salt (a preservative) keeps them from molding.
In the burger most moisture is cooked out during cooking and aside from the beef in the burger the number one ingredient is salt again preserving it as a side effect to flavoring it.
Salt is great at preserving food in high enough concentrations and its also great at making up for freshness.
Just read the charts on the back of McDicks packaging and look at the sodium (salt) contents of there fries, burgers and other foods most every one has over %100 of the daily recommended dosage. The fat in this type of food isn't the only killer.

I dare anyone to go buy a happy meal and try this. I guarantee it'll be so rotten you'll have to throw it out in a few days.

So many of these idiots attack McDonalds, because they're the big ones. They're just a large, popular restaurant making food because there is a market for it. They aren't doing anything special to their food, or doing anything evil. If you go to mcdonalds, you know what you're getting. Stop trying to blame them because you're fat.

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eColi only lives on the surface of meat. So if you know how to handle it, it's perfectly safe. ie sear the outside, or fillet out the surfaces, you're good to go.

WRONG THREAD LOL

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Literally now......

but if ur talking about ground beef, what's inside is outside and what's outside is inside

unless ur talking about ground beef you make yourself.

is that a penis I see?

I can't say about the burger but I can about the fries.
15 years of pulling cat seats to instal amps changers etc and I've seen thousands of McDicks fries months maybe years old solid and almost petrified.