*Warning: Ends at 2:20 when it turns into a plug for Alex Jones.
Taco Bell “beef” pseudo-Mexican delicacies are really made of a gross mixture called “Taco Meat Filling” as shown on their big container’s labels, like the one pictured here. The list of ingredients is gruesome. Updated.
*Beef, water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate.
It looks bad but passable… until you learn that—according to the Alabama law firm suing Taco Bell—only 36% of that is beef. Thirty-six percent. The other 64% is mostly tasteless fibers, various industrial additives and some flavoring and coloring. Everything is processed into a mass that actually looks like beef, and packed into big containers labeled as “taco meat filling.” These containers get shipped to Taco Bell’s outlets and cooked into something that looks like beef, is called beef and is advertised as beef by the fast food chain.
Apparently this poor kid failed high school economics.
#39 & 40 ECA
How thick is your skull? Did you bother to read the links I posted? OR THE ONES YOU POSTED!!!
Defining a coin as “collector” and not “circulating” does not change it’s legal tender status. Look at my first link under the heading “American Eagle Gold Bullion Coins” the second setence says “Produced from gold mined in the United States, American Eagles are imprinted with their gold content and LEGAL TENDER “face” value. ” How can you fucking deny that? Also if you looked at post #36 Paul in his link you can see the pictures of the coins. You can see they offer them in $50, $25, $10, $5. NOT $20
ECA
Also read the fucking PDF from the US Mint under the heading “Easy to Buy and Sell” Maybe then you might understand.
http://www.usmint.gov/downloads/mint_programs/am_eagles/AmerEagleGold.pdf
If he said “here’s a 50 dollar coin” then she would have taken it, i would have. but since he offered an oz gold coin it would have thrown most people. So i think it’s a big set-up in way since he knew not mentioning that it value was 50 as it’s cash value then she would have taken it.
ECA – Just look at it this way. Say you were lucky enough to be given a silver quarter minted before say 1964. The intrinsic value of the silver is worth much more than 25 cents. But you could still spend the quarter anywhere and it’s worth 25 cents face value. No one will turn it down. It’s really the same with this gold coin. The point of the lesson is, we now make “money” (quarters out of whatever crappy metal, pennies are not even copper anymore, dollars with pretty ink, etc) that is worthless.
Are you old enough to remember Silver Certificates? They were backed by real silver and if you read the note, it was exchangeable for the appropriate amount of silver, at the time, until I believe 1968. I was handed one a few years back and I still have it.
So this demonstrates how the govt. has devalued the dollar.
@41: I think ECA is referring to the non-US Mint minted $20 coins. Interestingly enough, NEITHER those nor the REAL Double Eagles are “legal tender.”
Let me explain. First, the “fake” commemorative coins are not legal tender. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Double_Eagle
In 2004, National Collectors Mint released gold-plated replicas of the 1933 Double Eagle, ostensibly under the authority of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. Commonwealth. NCM advertised and certified the coins as “legal tender of the CNMI,” a bogus designation.
Second, not even the REAL gold coins (the ones from late 1800s through 1933) are legal tender. Again, from Wikipedia:
U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102 in 1933 and the Gold Reserve Act in 1934, which outlawed the circulation and private possession of United States gold coins for general circulation, with an exemption for collector coins.
Now, in the 1970s, Nixon took the US off the gold standard, and Ford signed into law a bill that allowed the public to own gold bullions once again. Except for those 1933 Double Eagles. Not legally, at least.
The modern platinum, gold and silver bullions, whether they’re in proof or uncirculated conditions, can definitely be used for legal tender purposes. They’ll become “circulated” instead of “hoarded” or “invested” (i.e., locked away in a vault somewhere) if everyone started using platinum/gold/silver coins again to pay for pizza, for instance.
If the public wants to circulate them, it’s totally legit. If the government circulated a $1 silver coin (valued at perhaps $8+ dollars?), they’d be crazy because, much like it costs them more than 1-cent to make the penny and 5-cents to make a nickel, it’ll cost the US Mint more than $1 to get the silver to make a $1, 1-oz. silver bullion.
Stores like 7-Eleven are definitely allowed to accept them, but they don’t have to count it as any more than one dollar, the “face value” of that coin, regardless of the intrinsic value of the metal. This is also why the upside down stamp is worth millions, but if you were to use it on an envelope, it’d be only be worth 1-cent to the post office.
Moreover, there’s a new gold legal tender “coin” made by the US Mint with the same design as the 1933 Double Eagle. The face value on THIS coin is again twenty-dollars, as it’s meant to be a tribute to the original coin. I’m NOT certain whether THIS coin is legal tender or not, but if I had to guess, I’d still say yes.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Eagle
On January 22, 2009 the U.S. Mint released ultra high relief double eagles using the deep design that Saint-Gaudens envisioned. It is one ounce of .9999 fine gold. Because of their higher gold content, and greater striking pressure, the coins were 27 mm wide and 4 mm deep (the same diameter as a gold eagle), rather than the 34 by 2 usual for double eagles and bullion coins. The initial selling price was $1239. With the rising price of gold by June it had climbed to $1339, and by December to $1489. There was no limit on the coinage of these one time uncirculated issues, which bear the date “MMIX”.[2] In September the one coin per person ordering restriction was removed. The final mintage was 115,178.
From the US Mint website:
http://usmint.gov/mint_programs/ultrahigh/index.cfm
http://usmint.gov/mint_programs/ultrahigh/?action=UHRCHome
Back the the video, from the start of the video until he paid with two, $1 bills, he only said that he had a 1 ounce coin. He said it’s worth about $1,400. He DIDN’T say that it’s $20 nor that it’s legal tender. In fact, he told the cashier that here’s a 1-ounce gold coin. He didn’t say this is worth $20, $50 nor $100; he said here’s a 1-oz. coin.
Hope that clears a few things up. About the gold coin anyway. Luckily, I don’t have to worry about paying in gold since I’ve stopped eating at Taco Bell years ago. A few months AFTER they said that the green onions had e.coli or something (even though it was in the lettuce or spinach and the green onions just got blamed for it). Not picking on them, just that I wanted to cut down on fast food.
Heck, forget that 36% or 88% beef + special seasoning thing. I’ve always heard the urban legend that it was rat meat–yet I still ate it because I didn’t believe the FDA would allow it–at least knowingly. That would be stupid and arrogant, not to mention disgusting, illegal and unethical.
(Yeah, yeah, I know that there was that one finger in that lady’s chili from Wendy’s, but we all know it turned out to be fake… Nah, it WAS a REAL finger, but it came from her husband’s friend’s hand, not the kitchen inside Wendy’s.)
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Most comments on here prove the ignorance that the public has regarding our financial and banking system. Most believe and are brainwashed that the Federal Reserve Debt Notes are real money. They are debt notes, meaning they are debt not asset. The $50 American Eagle Gold Coin is legal tender in the United States. The problem is that it’s value is worth far more than the $50 Coin Denomination, due to the devaluing of our currency since 1913. Only stupid people would turn down such an opportunity. Then again, stupid is as stupid does. NO brains, NO gain.
#45 Paul
Great post. Couple of things. Yes the 2009 “Double Eagle” is legal tender. BUT most important…..In the video he absolutely says he has an “American Eagle” and that it is a $50 one. ECA may have ignored this or confused it with a “Double Eagle” but the fact remains. They are ALL legal tender and the “American Eagle” comes in many different amounts as you pointed out in an earlier post.
Ok guys i like your video i have lost faith in paper money, its not backed by gold anymore.
dollar is plumeting
yuan [china] is going up
gold is beating them both over time.
BUT I HAVE AN IMPORTANT INSIGHT YOU HAVE OVERLOOKED
ITS NOT THAT GIRL WAS STUPID OR DIDNT KNOW ABOUT GOLD.
SHE PROLLY MAKES 9-18 thousand dollars a year.
working.
if she had accepted your coin, pocketed it or donated to her coorperation.
SHE COULD HAVE BEEN FIRED. LOSS OF INCOME
ok. a lot of companys/coorperations do not except tips of any kind, etc.
they prolly arnt even allowed to keep if you were to throw 300$ at them and run out of the store lol.
im just saying these places have policys in place and the employees are not gonna risk their annual income on a 1 month pay or more/less
do you get it. nice video but you may have misunderstood why she rejected your 1400$ coin
It would have been great had she given you 49,01 in change indeed. However, why would she take the risk of accepting possible counterfeit money and losing her job for a gain that was not even hers? You proved nothing. Of course you did provide an entertaining video, thanks!