The McDonald's Glass Scandal

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    There was a time when McDonald’s sold millions of toxic glasses to its customers. This is the insane story.
    Thanks to Tamara Rubin and Andrew Turner for their valuable insights.
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  • @fern-tv
    @fern-tv  Před 8 měsíci +1571

    This comment section is officially open for Shrek memes.

    • @ed8586
      @ed8586 Před 8 měsíci +57

      Get outta my comment section!

    • @realDave1337
      @realDave1337 Před 8 měsíci +36

      Shrek is love, Shrek is life

    • @l2_linksklix
      @l2_linksklix Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@realDave1337👈🗣HE LIKES YOUNG BOYS

    • @guest_4416
      @guest_4416 Před 8 měsíci +13

      This is why you don't intrude Shrek's swamp.

    • @guest_4416
      @guest_4416 Před 8 měsíci +2

      ​@@realDave1337young boys fan zie ik!

  • @masterofdesaster4902
    @masterofdesaster4902 Před 8 měsíci +3819

    The questions “did McDonalds poison millions of kids” is very sarcastic and I love it.

    • @fern-tv
      @fern-tv  Před 8 měsíci +327

      😏

    • @coobk373
      @coobk373 Před 8 měsíci +426

      dont you mean
      "and I'm lovin' it"

    • @masterofdesaster4902
      @masterofdesaster4902 Před 8 měsíci +29

      @@coobk373
      I’m trying to do my best English is not my first language. I genuinely want to know if my sentence is grammatically incorrect or if it is a style issue.

    • @coobk373
      @coobk373 Před 8 měsíci +139

      @@masterofdesaster4902 i did not mean to correct you, your sentence was completely gramatically correct, i was referencing mcdo's famous "I'm lovin' it" slogan, wich you could have inserted for a pun.

    • @reverse_dns2043
      @reverse_dns2043 Před 8 měsíci +9

      ​@@masterofdesaster4902dont you know the slogan "i'm lovin it"?

  • @paulbangert6005
    @paulbangert6005 Před 8 měsíci +1340

    Shrek is love, Shrek is life, and now Shrek is also death.

    • @Kindasus25
      @Kindasus25 Před 4 měsíci +32

      Shrek is eternal

    • @olibo1149
      @olibo1149 Před 4 měsíci +33

      Shrek has become Death, Destroyer of Worlds -Robert Oppenheimer

    • @goobah1389
      @goobah1389 Před 4 měsíci +3

      The snake eats its own tail again

    • @johnbash-on-ger
      @johnbash-on-ger Před 4 měsíci +6

      @@olibo1149 Don't you mean Robert Shrek-kenheimer?

    • @IVI4R1U5
      @IVI4R1U5 Před 4 měsíci +8

      Shrek giveth, and Shrek taketh away.

  • @HumansMakeAIArt
    @HumansMakeAIArt Před 4 měsíci +441

    I majored in art in college and did a lot of oil painting. The professors were VERY clear to us about the risks of cadmium and insisted we never directly touch paints made from cadmium. Putting it in drinking glasses is horrifying!

    • @john-ic5pz
      @john-ic5pz Před 4 měsíci +18

      👍🏻
      meanwhile in the chemistry dept...
      the Merck Manual (a book of commonly used chemicals and their properties) includes the taste of _many_ of the chemicals including many dangerous ones.

    • @Kalvinjj
      @Kalvinjj Před 4 měsíci +12

      @@john-ic5pz I wonder how in heck they determine the smell and taste of some substances that kill you near instantly. Like Diborane that is all sorts of unstable and highly reactive, and still has it's smell described as "sweet and repulsive".

    • @DaTimmeh
      @DaTimmeh Před 4 měsíci +28

      ​@@KalvinjjI have heard of one guy who basically dedicated his scientific career to just tasting metals and recording the findings. Reminds you that the difference between f'ing around and science is just writing it down.

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 Před 3 měsíci +2

      ​@@DaTimmehAnd the guy that measured sting pain?

    • @you-nh8xo
      @you-nh8xo Před 2 měsíci

      You're an art major. Shut up.

  • @Kyrikrliy
    @Kyrikrliy Před 8 měsíci +1192

    Thanks to that one mom who had an XRF scanner and was worried about some shrek-themed glass, who knows how long it would have taken to notice the danger otherwise

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci +1

      After Jennifer discovered the Lead in the Shrek glasses she actually gave me her XRF instrument (one of my first instruments!) I wish they were more accessible. The ones we use cost about $35,000 new and the new model costs about $50,000 new. I have over 4,000 test results of items / consumer goods (including lots of cartoon character glasses) on my website (not behind a paywall) so families everywhere can look up their consumer goods (or ones similar) and evaluate whether or not they are safe for their children.

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Před 6 měsíci +56

      The danger is everything from McDonald's that is edible.

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise Před 6 měsíci +65

      @@bradsanders407This is a pretty crucial point that seems overlooked-their _edible_ products are addictive poison.

    • @zerocalvin
      @zerocalvin Před 4 měsíci +26

      as an artist that deal with cadmium paint, i can tell you that the fear is overblown... there is no real danger unless you are allergic to cadmium which it'll only give you contact allergy... if that glass is like most painted glass, than the design is painted on the outside of the glass, which pose no danger of cadmium leeching into drink...

    • @GreenAppelPie
      @GreenAppelPie Před 4 měsíci +2

      I want one of those now.

  • @ettaz
    @ettaz Před 8 měsíci +821

    Coming from a painting background, I was not surprised at all when the video mentioned cadmium, and I completely expected the worst offender to be puss in boots. Cadmium yellow is a very pretty shade and nowadays it's made with different chemicals and pigments, but it used to be made with cadmium, and lots of it (see also lead white). Its one of things used to authenticate old paintings.

    • @JorenVaes
      @JorenVaes Před 8 měsíci +57

      Many artists still use cadmium and lead paints today. Heck, I have some that I bought less than a year ago that contains both.

    • @BryceLynch838
      @BryceLynch838 Před 5 měsíci +38

      People say Cad Yellow is what gave Bob Ross cancer. He used it in every single painting he did. Today his paints are non-toxic.

    • @sadjunk5861
      @sadjunk5861 Před 4 měsíci +5

      i was wondering what happends if the pain washes away after years of use? can cadmium still be found on the glass?

    • @ZacksRockingLifestyle
      @ZacksRockingLifestyle Před 4 měsíci

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@BryceLynch838cancer is a mitochondrial, metabolic disease, primarily characterized by failures of apoptosis (pre-programmed cellular breakdown) and oxidative phosphorylation (cellular breathing).
      Bob Ross was, by all accounts, a very nice person. He should not be shamed for not knowing how cancer works, nor for not knowing what has been learned about cancer since his passing. Cancer comes from what we eat, and/or are fed in the womb, though.
      Cells need energy to function. Human cells are intended to be primarily fueled by ketones, which are produced from fats. Human cells are also able to metabolize carbohydrates in the form of glucose. Cells can only prioritize metabolizing one type of energy at a time. The ability to switch between ketone synthesis and glucose synthesis is known as “metabolic flexibility.” When a cell loses its flexibility, that’s step one for the formation of cancer.
      Cancer cells, unlike properly functioning human cells, ferment fuels in an anaerobic (oxygen-free) environment. Cancer cells are unable to ferment ketones as fuel, thus meaning it is imperative that ketone synthesis remains functional. However, cancer cells are able to ferment lactic acid, instead, which is the compound that builds up in our muscles as we use them (“feel the burn” …of lactic acid build-up). Cancer cells also ferment glucose. The fermentation of glucose and lactic acid by cancer cells is known as the Warburg Effect. Current studies show that glutamine, which is a protein, is also capable of being fermented by cancer cells, thus helping explain why cancer cells are so hard to nail down & terminate.
      Or, yk, “iT wAs ThE yElLoW pAiNt.”

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios Před 4 měsíci +9

      @@sadjunk5861it would obviously go with the paint. The cadmium is what makes it yellow, so if you take all the yellow paint off, where is the cadmium?
      But if the pain comes off, you'll get much more of the cadmium than just a surface rub.

  • @isohora
    @isohora Před 8 měsíci +929

    It's so surreal having a top tier visual and audio quality of delivering educational information interweaved with an unstoppable onslaught of earnest memes, that doesnt feel overly forced.

    • @hypez1819
      @hypez1819 Před 7 měsíci +4

      Bro wtf

    • @SyntaxErr19287
      @SyntaxErr19287 Před 7 měsíci +18

      @@Joe-sg9llthese type of comments feel so AI generated

    • @dxrk81
      @dxrk81 Před 5 měsíci +5

      your comment feels overly forced

    • @erlendvageskar3356
      @erlendvageskar3356 Před měsícem

      Which is why I love fern. I recently discovered them and subbed.

    • @tomekk.1889
      @tomekk.1889 Před 7 dny +1

      ​@@dxrk81The fact that this even got 5 likes is so sad

  • @iamadrianlol
    @iamadrianlol Před 8 měsíci +740

    the real controversy is how CRIMINALLY underrated this channel is

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci +19

      It really is so good. I was super thankful to be invited to interview and my kids got a kick of seeing me in a video like this on youtube! (especially that little opening sequence "A Mom With An XRF Gun" - my 15 year old [who has significant disabilities from Lead poisoning] really lit up when he saw that!]

    • @GiovanniKody100
      @GiovanniKody100 Před 8 měsíci +5

      overrated*

    • @olafp.3673
      @olafp.3673 Před 8 měsíci +16

      Its made by well known youtuber of gernany, they just started their english channel :)

    • @iamadrianlol
      @iamadrianlol Před 8 měsíci

      @@olafp.3673 ja klar, simpli kennt man doch ;) :p

    • @M2356U
      @M2356U Před 8 měsíci +6

      @@GiovanniKody100 🧢

  • @Carlosmdna
    @Carlosmdna Před 8 měsíci +156

    all of a sudden im gonna put our family Shrek glass into the display case, through the years the paint has faded and I thought that was normal. We had no idea it was toxic

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci +56

      yea - the paint "fading" means the cadmium was washing off into your kitchen environment or wearing off onto your hands as you held the glass.

    • @AgentOffice
      @AgentOffice Před 4 měsíci +17

      Absorbed not faded

    • @nesman1927
      @nesman1927 Před 4 měsíci +21

      One of my moms friends gave her a set of these a few years back, I had vaguely known about poisonous McDonald’s cups from something I had seen years ago but thought it was about lead paint chipping and being eaten so we would just joke about it. Never even considered it leaching into the dishwasher and covering the other dishes, def smashing those things lel

    • @floriduhgeorgia
      @floriduhgeorgia Před 4 měsíci +3

      How ya feelin

    • @monus782
      @monus782 Před 3 měsíci +2

      When the recall happened my mom refused to get rid of the glasses for some reason (I checked and we do indeed have the orange one), however we never use them so the paint is still there and I really hope they haven’t contaminated the surrounding glassware after all these years

  • @floschy_1
    @floschy_1 Před 8 měsíci +1789

    God damit, how can one meme this hard while still delivering high quality and interesting content plus this regularay. Impressive

    • @C_rrptd
      @C_rrptd Před 8 měsíci +21

      "It's Ogre now"

    • @CantTellYou
      @CantTellYou Před 7 měsíci +11

      Life-changing TV specials like “Scared Shrekless” changed my life

    • @clementpoon120
      @clementpoon120 Před 5 měsíci +1

      i think there's going to be a massive increase in sales of XRF just because of this video

    • @Bryanbobber
      @Bryanbobber Před 4 měsíci +2

      Shrek is an insufferable character.

    • @FLPhotoCatcher
      @FLPhotoCatcher Před 4 měsíci +1

      I love Mickey Disease! Or is it SickDonald's?

  • @Gizzmo112
    @Gizzmo112 Před 8 měsíci +295

    Did you know there is almost always Cadmium in chocolate? I worked for a cacao importer in the Amsterdam harbour. There is a maximum amount, but im sure there is almost always cadmium in your chocolatebar maybe some lead also.

    • @fern-tv
      @fern-tv  Před 8 měsíci +77

      thats so interesting!

    • @Steamrick
      @Steamrick Před 8 měsíci +21

      What kind of concentration of Cadmium is normal for chocolate?

    • @Gizzmo112
      @Gizzmo112 Před 8 měsíci

      around 8 microgram of cadmium per 80g of pure chocolate. Also there is often lead found. And the problem will only get worse. We imported a lot of cacoa from Congo and the levels are higher every year. This is because a tree is like a pump, sucking nutrients out of the ground. Farmers have to remove the leafs falling down to make sure there is less reabsorbed. farmers in Congo fail to do this, also in other countries though.
      Remember: Cadmium and lead are NEVER save to ingest
      @@Steamrick

    • @Steamrick
      @Steamrick Před 8 měsíci +57

      @@Gizzmo112 As a chocolate addict, that's scary...

    • @Gizzmo112
      @Gizzmo112 Před 8 měsíci +36

      I wouldnt worry about it too much. Only for pregnant women and small children it is probably not a good idea to eat dark chocolate. Who wants to reach 100 years without chocolate :)? @@Steamrick

  • @JUEKx
    @JUEKx Před 8 měsíci +249

    Insanely good mix of humor, quality and a thrilling story told

  • @ouwyukha
    @ouwyukha Před 8 měsíci +172

    Now i'm questioning every souvenir glasses in my house. No way my country has stricter regulation than US to prevent this to happening

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Před 6 měsíci +34

      The us really doesn't have that strict of regulations. Only in very specific areas does the us give a damn. Drugs that you can snort or eat is a big time hell no. But if you can drink them the us doesnt care so much. Sure someone at some point might have wrote on a piece of paper that you can't do this or that but so long as your product isn't killing people upon contact no one is going around enforcing the "no cadmium in kids drinking glasses" regulation.

    • @estherstreet4582
      @estherstreet4582 Před 6 měsíci +21

      Cadmium is a big risk, but so is lead. Lead didn't stop being used in ceramics until very recently, if you have any old mugs from before like, the 90s, it's worth retiring them.

    • @Aubreykun
      @Aubreykun Před 3 měsíci

      A lot of painted glass has cadmium and lead in the paint, including ones STILL being produced. It's not regulated. The woman mentioned in the video description - Tamara Ruben - has tested so many items.

  • @Aceshigh451
    @Aceshigh451 Před 8 měsíci +391

    Like any respectable parent she is in hand of an X-ray gun

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci +31

      It's fun to be the "cool mom" with the x-ray gun. The kids get to do fun science projects for school too! 🤣

    • @Aceshigh451
      @Aceshigh451 Před 8 měsíci +5

      @@LeadSafeMama not like it’s extremely radioactive ☢️ or anyhting 😂🤣🤣

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci +24

      @@Aceshigh451 I actually use a non-radioactive source tube-based instrument, which is why my instrument costs about $35,000 new (for the old model) and $50,000 new (fully loaded with all software options) for the current model. My mrem (hourly) is 0.078 at 10 cm - which is negligible and registers "non-detect" on dosimetry badges and rings! #ScienceIsFun :-)

    • @Aceshigh451
      @Aceshigh451 Před 8 měsíci +2

      @@LeadSafeMama nice 👍 👌

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Před 6 měsíci +5

      ​@@Aceshigh451I think something more along the lines of "Sorry for running my ignorant mouth" or a backhanded "I stand corrected" would have been a much better apology than "nice".

  • @SoyLuciano
    @SoyLuciano Před 6 měsíci +197

    This also ocurred with Garfield-themed mugs from the same restaurant franchise, albeit with the deadly chemicals only being discovered after 40-ish years.

    • @mandararomness3932
      @mandararomness3932 Před 5 měsíci +10

      Yeah, I still have one thar my mom bought from a thrift store in the 90s to use as a paint water holder lmao

    • @soogymoogi
      @soogymoogi Před 4 měsíci +14

      I drank out of those constantly. Might be why I'm so fucked up, though it's probably the autism

    • @samuelseidel6148
      @samuelseidel6148 Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@soogymoogi yo

    • @darthmaltodextrin1899
      @darthmaltodextrin1899 Před 4 měsíci +7

      This is actually the reason I read the comments. I was curious if my garfield mugs had bad paint too.

    • @maxjones2546
      @maxjones2546 Před 4 měsíci

      the real kicker is that they found the SAME FUCKING CHEMICALS

  • @imcoorey
    @imcoorey Před 4 měsíci +14

    blaming my low IQ on tainted shrek glasses.

  • @TheRealDoctorBonkus
    @TheRealDoctorBonkus Před 8 měsíci +259

    “Her husband died but her name is also Karen” brutally unhinged but amazing journalism and production value none the less

  • @kniivves
    @kniivves Před 8 měsíci +68

    "Her first name.. was also Karen" This had me ROLLING

  • @iluminattipa
    @iluminattipa Před 8 měsíci +71

    Fun fact, when the development on prince of egypt, underperfoming animators were moved to shrek's team as they thought the prince of egypt would earn more. The workers called this move "getting shreked"
    I find it so funny to think that these kids were shreked

  • @pepper4169
    @pepper4169 Před 8 měsíci +47

    I used one of these glasses for years until my mom broke it, and while buying a new one I found out that they were toxic. Anyway, I have one sitting right next to me as I write this as decor.

    • @HooLeePhucingSheet
      @HooLeePhucingSheet Před 4 měsíci

      Do you have those Burger King Batman glasses? My mom collected the whole set and I used to mess around with them.

  • @Airbourne92
    @Airbourne92 Před 8 měsíci +593

    Isn't McDonald's poisoning their customers regardless of Shrek glasses?

    • @akteno2796
      @akteno2796 Před 8 měsíci +44

      Its a Trick question, the awnser is yes regardless of the topic discussed in the video, this question was intentionally like that.

    • @DaRadicalCavy
      @DaRadicalCavy Před 8 měsíci

      Given meat is a proven carcinogen and a bad one at that absolutely the are. Nevermind anything in drinks or other products.

    • @livinginsidegemses
      @livinginsidegemses Před 8 měsíci +10

      @@commygames bro probably has 8 chins and is 400lb from eating a million big macs per day

    • @Lau2856.
      @Lau2856. Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@commygamesthis is bull§hit.

    • @turok4714
      @turok4714 Před 8 měsíci +10

      @@livinginsidegemses, @Lau2856. It depends on where you live, in Europe (especially in the EU) McD has to comply with all strict health laws.
      and the ingredients are regularly controlled by the Ministry of Health. In addition, genetically modified foods are completely banned.
      But even in Europe it is generally considered unhealthy fatty food and therefore you rarely indulge in it unless you want to gain weight quickly.

  • @LeadSafeMama
    @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci +39

    Thank you so much for this! I will share some links here to several Lead Safe Mama articles with more specifics on several of the glasses in question.

  • @danielsantorski5270
    @danielsantorski5270 Před 8 měsíci +54

    4:14 - wait, you couldn't choose the Happy Meal toys in the US? What the heck where the displays with numbered toys in them for? When I was a kid, my parents always asked which one I wanted when they bought me a Happy Meal, and at worst they were out, so I had to pick another one.

    • @asdfgidji879
      @asdfgidji879 Před 6 měsíci +19

      its not like a rule that you can pick your toy but most employees will give the one asked for, as a kid id exchange them like if i got one i already had i just wouldnt ipen it and id ask for a different one. No one seemed to mind but i was like 8 so i mightve just not noticed how annoying i was

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Před 6 měsíci +2

      File this under making a big deal out of nothing at all. About like this whole video.

  • @godi3263
    @godi3263 Před 8 měsíci +108

    Thank you so much for this video,
    Here in France we have mustard pots with often Pokemon,Marvel,Disney painting on them.
    Lots of people (including me) uses these pots as glasses to "recycle" them after the video i did some research about it to see if they would be toxic or not,
    It turns out that they are.
    They also contain lead and cadmium which can fall into small particles after cycles in the dishwasher..
    I had never heard of it before, no warning on the products or elsewhere.
    Great video like always!

    • @mkesenheimer
      @mkesenheimer Před 8 měsíci +8

      Can you point me to the articles or evidences? We too have these glasses at home, and I wonder, if I have to get rid of these now.

    • @yodukenukem
      @yodukenukem Před 8 měsíci +3

      Wait you are from France and speak English?
      I am officially curious if we’ve found a one in a million

    • @kyralindsey5885
      @kyralindsey5885 Před 8 měsíci +18

      ​@@yodukenukempeople can be bilingual

    • @elizabethduplat5998
      @elizabethduplat5998 Před 8 měsíci

      I am also in France and would be interested in your sources ! We have a cabinet full of these glasses...

    • @sanpellegrinolimonata
      @sanpellegrinolimonata Před 8 měsíci

      Oh no, are the small nutella pots (e.g. the small christmas ones) also bad?!????

  • @ImNotGouda
    @ImNotGouda Před 2 měsíci +4

    idk why but the whole bit with the mom and the xray gun killed me

  • @UnluckySadBoi
    @UnluckySadBoi Před 8 měsíci +200

    Bruh. I drank out of this as a kid all the time. it was my favorite cup. In fact, I still have it in my childhood home's cupboard.

    • @theoneandonlysnoopcat
      @theoneandonlysnoopcat Před 8 měsíci +44

      I actually still have the same garfield cup they showed in the video. It was my favorite as a kid. Fuck

    • @KomradeCPU
      @KomradeCPU Před 6 měsíci

      got some cadmium in the brain brah, that's rad @@LeticiaFerreira-zg9gt

    • @DogDogGodFog
      @DogDogGodFog Před 6 měsíci +19

      Did you do an IQ test? (To see whether it damaged you)

    • @bradsanders407
      @bradsanders407 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@DogDogGodFoghe started his comment with a letter grouping in this order, b r u h. What do you think his iq is going to be? Clearly sub 100.

    • @BrianRRenfro
      @BrianRRenfro Před 4 měsíci +39

      @@DogDogGodFog He started his comment with "Bruh." I think we have our answer.

  • @orangy57
    @orangy57 Před 4 měsíci +19

    I learned about these cups in a chemistry class, my buddy was shocked since it turns out he had those exact glasses over a decade later. I didn't believe him at first but nope he was right I went over his place a few weeks later and he had 2 of those exact Shrek glasses in a cabinet with all of his other decorative cups and the Shrek cups had most of their paint worn off from time. Makes me wonder how much of it they ended up ingesting or if it was just from dishwashers and stuff

  • @culturebreath369
    @culturebreath369 Před 6 měsíci +13

    The toxic p*ssy line got me. 😂

  • @StanislavUtikeev
    @StanislavUtikeev Před 8 měsíci +11

    God I wish it was Farquaad, so they'd call them "Farquaadmium Glasses".

  • @lego_minifig
    @lego_minifig Před 8 měsíci +66

    I remember my grandma collected these. She flat out refused to get rid of them when the recall happened but she did retire them from the cabinet in favor of McDonalds limited release Coke glasses.

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci

      Hi - I had commented on this earlier but I don't think they allow links in comments.I have test results for the coke glasses on my website - so you can show them to her (and hopefully convince her to stop using them). Just put the words "Coca-Cola Glass" in the search bar at the top of any page of my website and the article should pop right up.

    • @Zanoab
      @Zanoab Před 6 měsíci +2

      My mom did the same. After getting the full set, she tried to get more as extras and got upset when they refused to sell any. There wasn’t much concern about exposure because they only allowed adults to use glassware.

  • @cup0cakeyz
    @cup0cakeyz Před 8 měsíci +23

    The shrek glass is connected to jonestown?? Did not expect that 😭

  • @Enzo187
    @Enzo187 Před 4 měsíci +4

    when these came out my mom got all 4 and we used them for dinner until the recall, my mom didnt want to throw them away so she put them in boxes with the other like 40 character glasses she has but doesnt use because shed be heartbroken if they broke. essentially a cartoon china collection.

  • @party4lifedude
    @party4lifedude Před 4 měsíci +11

    I'm surprised that Mcdonalds immediately recalled them and offered a refund, and they didn't just deny it and fight it or try to deflect blame or sue the mother for libel or say that what she did was "stealing corporate secrets" and try to charge her for corporate espionage or libel or something ridiculous. A corporation as big as McDoald's could easily afford the lawyers to get away with it.

    • @Aubreykun
      @Aubreykun Před 3 měsíci

      Plenty of companies have done that to Tamara Rubin over the years but usually realize they can't win and either relent or quietly try to let it go to obscurity.

    • @Kass401
      @Kass401 Před 3 měsíci

      I bet if this had happened today that's exactly what would happen, after their smear campaign of the woman with the hot coffee went so successfully they'd be emboldened to do anything

    • @bend8353
      @bend8353 Před měsícem

      This was before republicans made that acceptable.

  • @SkinnyNinny
    @SkinnyNinny Před 8 měsíci +22

    "did McDonald's poison children?" Well, about that...

  • @SouthPeter98
    @SouthPeter98 Před 8 měsíci +59

    Crazy that since that Mcdonnalds email and now this channel grew by 100k. This super high quality format you came up with for this and Hoog is crazy good, the 'youtube essay' market will be short work

    • @Sifosthegreat
      @Sifosthegreat Před 8 měsíci +4

      its the second channel of 2 CZcamsrs. No surprise.

    • @MrLegendra
      @MrLegendra Před 8 měsíci

      @@Sifosthegreatwhat CZcamsrs?

    • @Canleaf08
      @Canleaf08 Před 8 měsíci +12

      @@MrLegendra Simplicissimus or Bored2Guys from Germany.... fern is their 2nd English channel.

    • @zekiz774
      @zekiz774 Před 8 měsíci +10

      ​@@Canleaf08and Hoog

    • @ab7319
      @ab7319 Před 8 měsíci +6

      ​@@MrLegendrasimplicissimus and hoog. Hoog makes Videos in english and simplicissimus in german

  • @andremaines
    @andremaines Před 8 měsíci +25

    The amount of Shrek puns you managed to fit into the script as well as comparing that lady to a political version of 50 cent. Great writing guys! 😂

  • @bluecoke6828
    @bluecoke6828 Před 8 měsíci +17

    Sounds crazy to me that there stil is no good legislation for those types of glasses

  • @fatiryamin3927
    @fatiryamin3927 Před 5 měsíci +6

    As any responsible parent, she's in possession of an X Ray gun 😂

  • @the_criminal_mastermind
    @the_criminal_mastermind Před 4 měsíci +5

    My mother collected all of these and still has them in her collection cabinet

  • @tysondennis1016
    @tysondennis1016 Před 8 měsíci +9

    The Shrekoning

  • @stebansan
    @stebansan Před 8 měsíci +31

    SHREK IS LOVE SHREK IS LIFE

    • @lemonleader8504
      @lemonleader8504 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Shrek is Cadmium

    • @stebansan
      @stebansan Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@lemonleader8504 no, puss in boots is cadmium. SHREK though, shrek is love, shrek is life

  • @RexyRonin
    @RexyRonin Před 8 měsíci +8

    Love the presentation script! Great attention to detail too! Didn't think the rabbithole ran that deep!

  • @Silver0Crow
    @Silver0Crow Před 4 měsíci +9

    Love the quip about Happy Meal being first loot box for kids, u got my chuckle!
    FYI: Kinder Surprises were the first loot boxes, tho, Ferrero introduced them in 1974, whereas McDonald started Happy Meal in 1979

  • @daleshirley8083
    @daleshirley8083 Před 8 měsíci +89

    We have and use the entire set! It's my wife's favorite, so glad I'm subscribed to your channel and seen this video! Getting rid of these IMMIDIETELY! Bought the whole set at a yard sale about 5 years ago!

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci +20

      Good choice! I still haven't gotten my hands on an original set to test to report the exact levels on each glass. I was surprised that the video said only the cat was positive for Cadmium - but I think that must have been that only the cat was positive for cadmium when a dust wipe sample was taken. The Mickey Mouse ones I tested from Y2k are also positive for high levels of Cadmium - higher than the shrek ones.

    • @el4689
      @el4689 Před 8 měsíci +19

      maybe just put them on display instead. i’ve got some similar old painted cups, and although knowing this i will never use them again, they are still very precious to me. your wife might appreciate not tossing them out

    • @bene9354
      @bene9354 Před 8 měsíci

      RIP

    • @Limelaz23
      @Limelaz23 Před 7 měsíci +11

      you may want to hold onto them! Since many got recalled, they are pretty rare to get and might be worth alot in a few years! Just don't use them please ^^"

    • @ztac_dex
      @ztac_dex Před 7 měsíci +4

      put it on display and dont used it instead

  • @ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman
    @ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman Před 8 měsíci +13

    I always suspected that the reason people remember shrek so fondly might be led poisoning. Now shrek 2 on the other hand, that is where it is at

  • @evan
    @evan Před 8 měsíci +20

    The puns in this one 😂

  • @patricks.3822
    @patricks.3822 Před 8 měsíci +15

    Did you know there is almost always Cadmium in food?
    Sometimes more sometimes less (also depending from where):
    Chocolate: ~150 μg/kg
    Grain (wheat): ~35 μg/kg
    vegetables: ~5-30 μg/kg
    WHO: Tolerable weekly intake for cadmium at 7 μg/kg body weight/week (EFSA: 2.5)
    Example: 100kg body weight -> ~ 6x 100g-bars of chocolate per day are ok according to WHO

  • @Fettsaeure
    @Fettsaeure Před 8 měsíci +8

    4:26 shrek should never be taken out of his swamp 😂

  • @Volkowitsch
    @Volkowitsch Před 8 měsíci +19

    "Her first name is also Karen" ~ this made my evening a better one. Thanks!

  • @marshallmade
    @marshallmade Před 7 měsíci +5

    The subtle jokes in your videos r killing me u do it for shrek💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

  • @gyrozeppeli4862
    @gyrozeppeli4862 Před 4 měsíci +4

    I had every single one of these, and when my parents threw them away in front of me, I bawled

  • @GreenAppelPie
    @GreenAppelPie Před 4 měsíci +6

    I remember my parents refusing to purchase themed glasses at McDonald’s because of the lead scare, and admittedly because they were frugal to a fault. We did however always have those printed jelly jars that because juice glasses.

  • @arsinclair
    @arsinclair Před 8 měsíci +13

    1 minute into the video and things finally started making sense. They are not talking about spectacles, but about drinking glasses. I guess I need to take a day off. 🚬🙄

  • @thomasschmidt8544
    @thomasschmidt8544 Před 8 měsíci +18

    My kids like their modern drinking glasses with soft-colored painting on them but they adore my 30 years old glasses with sparkling (although fainting) disney figures painted onto them. I fear the latter ones or even all of them have to miraculously disappear overnight.

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci +1

      The main thing to realize is that it just takes a microscopic amount of Lead or Cadmium to poison a human. I have full test results for lots of these glassware items on my website if you need additional supporting evidence to convince you to stop using them. Lead exposure in kids causes permanent brain damage (which my kiddo has from being lead poisoned and is why I do what I do), learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, headaches, GI issues and more. Lead exposure in adults causes an increased risk of heart disease, early onset dementia, fertility (and "performance") issues - and lots of other impacts that are being more widely studied and reported on. I personally recommend people throw them in the trash so they break so no one might use them in the future.

    • @GamerJonathan-_
      @GamerJonathan-_ Před 4 měsíci

      I’m seeing a comment under yours but it’s not showing it when I click it

    • @thomasschmidt8544
      @thomasschmidt8544 Před 4 měsíci

      @@GamerJonathan-_ same here. It often happens.

  • @shinimegami42
    @shinimegami42 Před 4 měsíci +3

    I remember wanting the puss in boots one, and stopping by mcdonalds on the way home from work one day. On the front door was a sign saying they were no longer for sale and could be returned for free fries or money or something. I was pretty disappointed. Cue the news later that night saying theyre toxic.
    Jokes on them i found one brand new for two bucks at a thrift store still in the box and it lives in a glass cabinet.
    I grew up drinking out of the garfield and peanuts glasses in the 80s and 90s, along with literally everyone i knew and several younger people I know now, and i still see them at thrift stores from time to time.

  • @TracksWithDax
    @TracksWithDax Před 8 měsíci +15

    I would love to hear from the manufacturers of these products

  • @oskar7962
    @oskar7962 Před 8 měsíci +9

    0:39 I almost choked on my food because that was very unexpected.

  • @1daboi100
    @1daboi100 Před 8 měsíci +26

    I truly love your content! Could you please do more of crime related videos like the one of that dark web king? Either way thanks for these videos man!

  • @MarshmallowAlien
    @MarshmallowAlien Před 4 měsíci +2

    Thank you so much for this video! Because of it I found out that the McDonalds 2000s Mickey glasses my dad and grandma own also contain Cadmium. I sent them both the readings from Tamara Rubin's website along with an OSHA article about Cadmium. I really hope they listen to me and at least stop using them.

  • @Fosi94
    @Fosi94 Před 8 měsíci +5

    4:42 Atlantis is extremely underrated and I don't know why.

  • @secondnature87
    @secondnature87 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Wasn't expecting Jonestown to be involved in this video

  • @Hamsteak
    @Hamsteak Před 8 měsíci +6

    I still have these glasses, I didn't know it was poisonous

  • @salsifi836
    @salsifi836 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Average people : Shrek on glasses
    Intellectuals : Shrek in a jar

  • @breakdancingcat
    @breakdancingcat Před 2 měsíci +1

    cool video as always fern, totally enjoy it. id recommend adding subtitles for everything else (not just narrator). thankyou!!

  • @0topon
    @0topon Před 8 měsíci +6

    Glad they cleared the swamp of toxic glasses

  • @t.218
    @t.218 Před 8 měsíci +5

    Me as a employee at McDonalds I can only say it would be such a pleasure to cancel these fucking Happy Meals. For example youre alone with 20 cars at Mc Drive and you have to make 20 Happy meal boxes by yourself while taking orders and other shit. So if anyone ever was wondering about the fact how you can wait for an hour at McDonalds, thats why.

  • @sjayne27
    @sjayne27 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I only found out about these glasses being toxic about a month ago. I had been using them EVERY DAY for the past six years! Hopefully it did not damage me. 🤞

  • @kvrm_
    @kvrm_ Před 8 měsíci +5

    "her first name is also karen", that got me

  • @MarcelSchr
    @MarcelSchr Před 8 měsíci +10

    I would already be happy if I received the entire order. I don't need an extra portion of cadmium thanks.

  • @locomotive9400
    @locomotive9400 Před měsícem +1

    imagine the shrek glass being the what takes you out lmao

  • @brileevoices
    @brileevoices Před 4 měsíci +3

    Back in 2007 we had the painted McDonalds glasses from Shrek the Third. Not the same ones that were recalled but I can imagine it had the same stuff in it because it was basically the same exact cups just with different designs. I drank out of that thing for years. It was the only glass I drank out of (besides the McD's Flintstone mug once in a while but I assume those were ok because they weren't painted?). I remember the designs getting kinda scratched up over the years too and I still drank out of it. It was my favorite glass. Crazy to think about now. I never even knew the other glasses were recalled until recently!

  • @yomomma6633
    @yomomma6633 Před 4 měsíci +3

    It’s honestly funny, my aunt actually still has those glasses in her cabinet to be used by anyone who walks in

  • @samueleriksson2668
    @samueleriksson2668 Před 8 měsíci +44

    Wow, the timing is almost scary! I just recently finished a meal drinking from a glass with the McDonalds mascot Grimace and a metallic cup with the Berlin mascot Ampelmännchen. (Ironically, I'm an adult). I don't know if the risks apply to metallic cups as well, but my McDonalds glass sure looks eerily similar to the Shrek ones.
    All of a sudden, I feel like reconsidering the way I consume water for some strange unexplainable reason. Thanks for the heads-up I guess 😅

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci

      hi - I had commented earlier but I think they may not allow links in their comments. I have full test results for the Grimace glasses on my website - just put "Grimace" in the search bar at the top of any page of the site. Definitely not safe!

  • @RealDymondZ
    @RealDymondZ Před 8 měsíci +7

    I like the german CC, which is translating Shrek glasses into Shrek-Brillen :D the glasses you have on your nose

  • @user-xs4uc3kz5o
    @user-xs4uc3kz5o Před 4 měsíci +2

    It only took McDonald’s for the Shrek cups to truly learn their lesson about painted glass cups.

  • @noopstv1982
    @noopstv1982 Před 8 měsíci +7

    Some kind of nestlé greenwashing unveil would be interesting in the future.

  • @haydenholdsworth9632
    @haydenholdsworth9632 Před 8 měsíci +4

    I've been drinking out of a thrifted one of these for years now

  • @oshykopope8100
    @oshykopope8100 Před měsícem

    Glad I came across this channel. Great content. Almost a million subs earned. Within this video you mentioned discovering an investigation about a “mom with a ray gun” (reference 0:31 ). I searched your videos and couldn’t come across anything. I tried searching for this investigation on youtube but to no avail, nothing. It would be greatly appreciated if you provided me with the link to the youtube video (if that’s where you found it) on this topic. If not found on youtube, then where? Thank you in advance.

  • @Chris-ut6eq
    @Chris-ut6eq Před 4 měsíci

    Love the production value of your videos!

  • @trueberryless
    @trueberryless Před 8 měsíci +8

    Great sponsorship transition ❤

  • @ucankushincorporations1318
    @ucankushincorporations1318 Před 8 měsíci +8

    I am kinda liking this less serious tone fern is taking, viel lekker

  • @soren7550
    @soren7550 Před měsícem +1

    "Her first name was also Karen" the dry humor here has killed me.

  • @illuminum8576
    @illuminum8576 Před 8 měsíci +2

    I read Spotify Premium in the description lol, good job Simpli

  • @lxam...
    @lxam... Před 8 měsíci +8

    Holy Shoot i remeber the puss in Boots Glass, It was my favoutite when i was a child... but i Font know whether it was a glass from McDonald's or from Bauzner (A German mustard brand that sold their mustard in printed drinking glasses (Peak Marketing btw))

  • @000AnnA000D
    @000AnnA000D Před 8 měsíci +4

    i don't know all the dates for the mcdonalds toys but the smiley glasses and the shrek glasses that we got in germany were produced after all this right? so the Statement that mcdonalds never sold painted glasses again is wrong as far as i can tell.

    • @000AnnA000D
      @000AnnA000D Před 8 měsíci

      nevermind i was informed those were from Merkur

  • @Ostralucia
    @Ostralucia Před 24 dny +1

    this is such a high quality documentary but it’s so funny as well omg

  • @chromylon6244
    @chromylon6244 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I know so many middle aged adults who refuse to get rid of them and still use them today.

  • @-kittn-
    @-kittn- Před 8 měsíci +7

    Certified Fern gang classic

  • @alphasteve9947
    @alphasteve9947 Před 8 měsíci +3

    on point and informativ. i love it keep it up

  • @Karendestroy
    @Karendestroy Před 4 měsíci +2

    Me after eating pure cadmium, radon, radium, lead, mercury, plutonium, and uranium: You say what?

  • @ChakasCave
    @ChakasCave Před 4 měsíci

    This was a great documentary. Thanks for the info

  • @icantthinkofanything798
    @icantthinkofanything798 Před 8 měsíci +10

    LOL my best friend had one of these and it was my favorite to drink out of. She says she lost it when she moved so I hope no one gets sick from it or anything.
    I happen to own 4 Star Trek themed colored glasses from Taco Bell, so good to know I should definitely not drink from them

    • @LeadSafeMama
      @LeadSafeMama Před 8 měsíci +2

      I haven't tested those yet. Do you know what year they are from? I will try to get my hands on some!

    • @masterofryan
      @masterofryan Před 6 měsíci

      ⁠​⁠@@LeadSafeMamaHave you ever scanned the painted Welch’s jelly glasses? Maybe around 2003.
      Edit: nevermind, I found your site when searching for answers lol

  • @toast8089
    @toast8089 Před 8 měsíci +4

    I’ve got a macdonalds shrek glass in my cupboard right now

  • @spaz468
    @spaz468 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Still got these they aren’t used but I remembered them literally a day or two ago

  • @BlackLotusRadio
    @BlackLotusRadio Před 23 dny

    fern-tv is my new addiction. I absolutely love this channel. Thank you for your content!!!
    Also, describing Shrek 4 as Mortuus Equus Syndrome is brilliant! Mortuus equus is latin for dead horse. It's an expression used to describe something as useless or ineffective, although it has been previously valuable. Also, syndrome in medical terminology, is a disease or disorder caused by set of medical signs and symptoms, which are correlated with each other, while often remaining unknown. Mortuus equus syndrome meaning that for a set of reasons, shrek used to be great but now it just doesn't work anymore. Bravo to that rotten tomatoes user. Excellent choice of words!

  • @CrampavanAdventures
    @CrampavanAdventures Před 8 měsíci +4

    Omg I had one of these. Prob explains why im so dumb 😂

  • @Sokol_
    @Sokol_ Před 8 měsíci +5

    Great work guys!

  • @samuraivader3814
    @samuraivader3814 Před 4 měsíci +1

    All I remember from this is the recall sticker on the McDonald's drive thru window that was there until it got remodeled

  • @dy9955
    @dy9955 Před 4 měsíci +2

    And this woman having an expensive radar gun isn't suspicious?
    Don't lick the OUTSIDE of the glass.

  • @TragicFlames
    @TragicFlames Před 8 měsíci +5

    The unique topics that Fern finds to cover....Mc'Lovin' it ;)