Monday April 12

So yesterday I was sick. And in between going to the Doctor and getting my medicine from Target, I had a craving for McDonald's. I got my favorite fast food dessert item: 2 baked apple pies for 1 dollar.

Baked Hot Apple Pie:
Apples (citric acid, ascorbic acid, salt), enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, shortening [palm oil, soy lecithin, artificial flavor, beta carotene (color)], food starch-modified, contains 2% or less of the following: sorbitol, sugar, palm oil, palm kernel oil, dextrose, brown sugar, apple powder (dehydrated apples, citric acid), sodium alginate, dicalcium phosphate, sodium citrate, salt, spices, yeast, L-cysteine, natural (plant source) and artificial flavors, annatto and turmeric (color), caramel color.

CONTAINS: WHEAT AND SOY LECITHIN.

So the person I talked to had no idea where the apples were from. I tried to look it up online but I cannot find it. I did find lots of rumors online that state that McDonald's does not even use apples in their apple pies; they use potatoes or pears and apple flavoring. That is a lie. The first ingredient in the Baked Hot Apple Pie is apples, so I think they are actually in there.

In 1992, the apple pie went from being fried to being baked in an effort for McDonald's to become a bit healthier. I read that this decision was met with distaste; the baked apple pie is nowhere near as good as the fried according to many die-hard McDonalder's.

The nutrition facts say that 1 pie has 260 calories and 20% of my daily intake of fat. So let's say that you buy 2 for 1 dollar (which everyone does, it's essentially how they are sold!). I, for one, eat both of them. An apple pie is no good eaten from a cardboard container 5 hours later. So I eat both of them in one sitting. That is now 520 calories and 40% of my daily intake of fat! I can't even imagine what the fried apple pie was like.