Reader: The McRib contains the same ingredient used in yoga mats

Patricia Calhoun December 19, 2012 6:59AM

The McRib has been resurrected for the holiday season, and Jenn Wohletz celebrated its reappearance yesterday in her Merry McRibness ode.

But not everyone is celebrating its return (or another fast-food post on Cafe Society). See also: - Merry McRibness! A holiday poem -The McRib is back, and Denver's got it -An ode to the McRib sandwich, which disappears again December 5

Says Peace Will Win:

As it appears out of the box, the McRib sandwich consists of just five basic components: a pork patty, barbecue sauce, pickle slices, onions, and a sesame bun. But, as recently reported by Time magazine, a closer inspection of McDonald's own ingredient list reveals that the pork sandwich contains a total of 70 ingredients. This includes azodicarbonamide, a flour-bleaching agent often used in the production of foamed plastics, including yoga mats.The entire sandwich packs a whopping 500 calories, 26 grams of fat, 44 grams of carbs, and 980 milligrams of sodium.

Yum! Have you had a McRib since McDonald's brought the sandwich back on Monday?

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Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she’s been the editor ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing.

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