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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This comment section is officially open for Shrek memes.
Get outta my comment section!
Shrek is love, Shrek is life
@@realDave1337👈🗣HE LIKES YOUNG BOYS
This is why you don't intrude Shrek's swamp.
@@realDave1337young boys fan zie ik!
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!
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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.
@@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".
@@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.
@@DaTimmehAnd the guy that measured sting pain?
You're an art major. Shut up.
The questions “did McDonalds poison millions of kids” is very sarcastic and I love it.
😏
dont you mean
"and I'm lovin' it"
@@coobk
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.
@@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.
@@masterofdesaster4902dont you know the slogan "i'm lovin it"?
blaming my low IQ on tainted shrek glasses.
At least now you know
Feed him medication
@@FunnyChannel-gIf you've got smart pills that raise your IQ, I'll take some
Yessssssss! It's not my genetics that gave me 3 learning disabilities it's the Shrek glasses! 😂😂
@@DystopianOverturethe two are intrinsically connected. Check out epigenetics, it's fascinating stuff. It's why I get so aggravated with the nature vs nurture debate. I have a suspicion that a lot of this also has to do with mthfr genetic mutations that affects about 40% of the population and keeps you from being able to convert folic acid into usable folate. That also affects how one's body deals with heavy metals.
Shrek to McDonalds to mom-with-an-xray-gun to Jonestown is a crazy video progression
And he doesn’t even say Jonestown lol like come on you gotta mention THAT!
just saying whatevr he can to stretch the video
@@BADSTXR Yeah, but he coulda gotten a couple extra minutes just by mentioning how it was Jonestown where she got shot.
This goes amazing as a story though, introducing characters’ vastly different backstories like a smash bros intro then showing how it still all came together in this incident and exposé
it’s way more serious than smash bros but it did feel that way
idk why but the whole bit with the mom and the xray gun killed me
Well, the rest of us are sitting here wondering how much of our glassware is affected... and she decided to buy the tool and find out.
I didn't even know an xray gun was a thing lmao.
@@Lunk42 Me too
Maybe because that was the entire point--it was a bit.
I want to be her when I grow up
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.
Many artists still use cadmium and lead paints today. Heck, I have some that I bought less than a year ago that contains both.
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.
i was wondering what happends if the pain washes away after years of use? can cadmium still be found on the glass?
@@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.”
@@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.
Shrek is love, Shrek is life, and now Shrek is also death.
Shrek is eternal
Shrek has become Death, Destroyer of Worlds -Robert Oppenheimer
The snake eats its own tail again
@@olibo1149 Don't you mean Robert Shrek-kenheimer?
Shrek giveth, and Shrek taketh away.
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
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.
The danger is everything from McDonald's that is edible.
@@bradsanders407This is a pretty crucial point that seems overlooked-their _edible_ products are addictive poison.
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...
I want one of those now.
I had every single one of these, and when my parents threw them away in front of me, I bawled
Core memory
That kinda sucks. If I had them I would have saved but not used them. Imagine their value today?
Don't think I would do it in front of the kids.
I was in McDonald’s today, THEY ARE SELLING SHREK CUPS AGAIN!! Plastic this time but I think it’s funny that they brought these back
omg!!
That's wild
I have a few of them. They're good now I doubt they would make the same mistake again.
@orange6538 …They used lead and cadmium paint on their cups since the 1970s with articles even back them calling them out of it. That’s 30+ years hun. Of course they’ll do it again lmfao
@@OkamiRose if you even thought about it for a second, they obviously wouldn't do it again lmao. Why risk the lawsuits when they can just make safe cups this time? (And the new cups are safe btw hun)
God damit, how can one meme this hard while still delivering high quality and interesting content plus this regularay. Impressive
"It's Ogre now"
Life-changing TV specials like “Scared Shrekless” changed my life
i think there's going to be a massive increase in sales of XRF just because of this video
Shrek is an insufferable character.
I love Mickey Disease! Or is it SickDonald's?
the real controversy is how CRIMINALLY underrated this channel is
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!]
overrated*
Its made by well known youtuber of gernany, they just started their english channel :)
@@olafp.3673 ja klar, simpli kennt man doch ;) :p
@@GiovanniKody100 🧢
6:05 "Naturally as any responsible parent..."
Best mom ever… this is Helen Parr as a mom 😅
I had one of these growing up. We all heard about the recall but my mom was just like "don't lick the design then, keep your mouth on the rim of the cup and you'll be fine."
We kept those cups for years and 10+ years later I'm still alive so.
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.
Do you have those Burger King Batman glasses? My mom collected the whole set and I used to mess around with them.
I still have my shrek glass. I broke one and then bought the same one second hand. Oh well 🤷♀️
@@surlyGir I have 4 I still drink out of! I'm just finding out about this now 😂
Symptoms include "permanent loss in IQ" so yeah that checks out.
@@Heather-lg4gq let us know if you start feeling any side effects from drinking out of toxic glasses 😅
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
If the cadmium didn't kill me, the anxiety from realizing that would 💀
If that's a concern tell him to stay away from printed ceramics in general, virtually all of them contain lead and other harmful elements
@@wh0_am_152not true at all. I’m a ceramicist and we are now taught the extreme dangers of the materials we work with. If a functional piece is going to be used with food we have to use food safe glaze. This doesn’t stand true to everyone especially less experienced artists and historical vintage pieces as this knowledge was uncommon not that long ago. Most ceramics today are completely safe ❤ I’d be cautious with other countries ceramics as these issues are also not that known. Mexico pottery usually contains lead for various reasons and there are lead testers if you’re extra worried
Insanely good mix of humor, quality and a thrilling story told
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.
I use to drink out of the Garfield ones constantly.
Getting a McDonald’s ad in the middle of this video was peak hilarity for me
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.
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.
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
This was before republicans made that acceptable.
Even now, without playgrounds, they are one of the top toy distributers in the world via Happy Meals. Kids and pretending to care about them is one of their biggest selling points and source of semi-redemption.
No chance. This was damage control. Can't blame this on anyone. Same if you're a truck driver for example. If your load isn't secured properly you can't blame the guy that loaded it. You're responsible for your load/product. Can't just sell stuff and be like "didn't know" or whatever. "I thought I was selling Oregano"
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
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.
Absorbed not faded
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
How ya feelin
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
This also ocurred with Garfield-themed mugs from the same restaurant franchise, albeit with the deadly chemicals only being discovered after 40-ish years.
Yeah, I still have one thar my mom bought from a thrift store in the 90s to use as a paint water holder lmao
I drank out of those constantly. Might be why I'm so fucked up, though it's probably the autism
@@soogymoogi yo
This is actually the reason I read the comments. I was curious if my garfield mugs had bad paint too.
the real kicker is that they found the SAME FUCKING CHEMICALS
"Her name is also Karen"
I had to struggle to keep my water off my keyboard and monitor.....
My mother collected all of these and still has them in her collection cabinet
Same lol
Like any respectable parent she is in hand of an X-ray gun
It's fun to be the "cool mom" with the x-ray gun. The kids get to do fun science projects for school too! 🤣
@@LeadSafeMama not like it’s extremely radioactive ☢️ or anyhting 😂🤣🤣
@@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 :-)
@@LeadSafeMama nice 👍 👌
@@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".
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
“Her husband died but her name is also Karen” brutally unhinged but amazing journalism and production value none the less
I had to have a little laugh when I heard that! :D
She uses her Karen Powers for good!
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.
It only took McDonald’s for the Shrek cups to truly learn their lesson about painted glass cups.
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.
thats so interesting!
What kind of concentration of Cadmium is normal for chocolate?
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
@@Gizzmo112 As a chocolate addict, that's scary...
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
God I wish it was Farquaad, so they'd call them "Farquaadmium Glasses".
I know so many middle aged adults who refuse to get rid of them and still use them today.
I guarantee if I go over and dig through my grandparents house I can find every single painted glass McDonalds has ever sold. Wouldn't be surprised if I drank out of a few when I was younger too.
And I bet they are all still alive
Oh hey I remember these little things. My mom went out of her way to collect every single one and refused to turn them in when the recall was ordered
Now i'm questioning every souvenir glasses in my house. No way my country has stricter regulation than US to prevent this to happening
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.
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.
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.
Your country might have more regulations compare to US. Many foods US has is illegal in other countries because they are toxic
LOL, the US regulations are horrible
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
i'd hesitate to call anyone the first. wikipedia says cracker jack started doing theirs in 1912
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.
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
File this under making a big deal out of nothing at all. About like this whole video.
You can ask for a certain one, but at the time many kids just didn’t asked and hope they got what they wanted. Still relevant now
Back in the 1980s, my McDonald's never let us pick. Easy to get stuck with duplicates. If you didn't have siblings it was pretty hard to trade so you would end up with many duplicates.
This was a thing in Norway too. They also had a little staircase up to the counter, a ball pit and a balloon tree. Those are all gone now and has been replaced by touch screen displays you can order from so you don't have to interact with humans
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!
The whole sequence with the x-ray gun brought me so much joy. Indeed, Jennifer is no ordinary parent.
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.
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!
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.
Wait you are from France and speak English?
I am officially curious if we’ve found a one in a million
@@yodukenukempeople can be bilingual
I am also in France and would be interested in your sources ! We have a cabinet full of these glasses...
Oh no, are the small nutella pots (e.g. the small christmas ones) also bad?!????
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.
I actually still have the same garfield cup they showed in the video. It was my favorite as a kid. Fuck
got some cadmium in the brain brah, that's rad @@LeticiaFerreira-zg9gt
Did you do an IQ test? (To see whether it damaged you)
@@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.
@@DogDogGodFog He started his comment with "Bruh." I think we have our answer.
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.
3:26 Instead of a history of McDonald's toy bundles, this would have been a great opportunity to go into the beginning of food consumption, the evolution of bacteria into fishes and then humans, and from there go on to the history of McDonalds and then it's toy bundles.
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
its the second channel of 2 TH-camrs. No surprise.
@@Jaangraphytwhat TH-camrs?
@@MrLegendra Simplicissimus or Bored2Guys from Germany.... fern is their 2nd English channel.
@@Canleaf08and Hoog
@@MrLegendrasimplicissimus and hoog. Hoog makes Videos in english and simplicissimus in german
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.
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.
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.
I've been collecting limited release coca cola glasses from Mc Donald's for a few years now.
@@GoodOlTazzy they are nice glasses
Isn't McDonald's poisoning their customers regardless of Shrek glasses?
Its a Trick question, the awnser is yes regardless of the topic discussed in the video, this question was intentionally like that.
Given meat is a proven carcinogen and a bad one at that absolutely the are. Nevermind anything in drinks or other products.
@@commygames bro probably has 8 chins and is 400lb from eating a million big macs per day
@@commygamesthis is bull§hit.
@@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.
All I remember from this is the recall sticker on the McDonald's drive thru window that was there until it got remodeled
"Not selling saturated fats to kids is not an Option!" Lol I would love to buy a shirt with the McDonald's logo or Happy meal inage with that quote. 🤣
It's also out dated. Saturated fat and cholesterol are essential building blocks of your cells. The brain is 30% cholesterol, your skin uses cholesterol to make vitamin D, insulin, testosterone, and estrogen are made up of mostly cholesterol, saturated fat is the most stable and least oxidizing edible fat.
The vilification of cholesterol and saturated fat is the worst crime ever committed on the human race.
The shrek glass is connected to jonestown?? Did not expect that 😭
Very weak link, not impressed they mention it.
Huh not surprised
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.
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!
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.
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
RIP
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 ^^"
put it on display and dont used it instead
Goddamn that intro was intense for a fucking glass. *grabs popcorn*
Average people : Shrek on glasses
Intellectuals : Shrek in a jar
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! 😂
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
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
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. 🤞
Update?
Can we just spend a moment to appreciate the editing at 2:17?
The subtle jokes in your videos r killing me u do it for shrek💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
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!
We also had the Shrek the third glasses! I remember when the story broke about the shrek 4 glasses and my mom made us throw them away out of caution. I kinda wish we kept them just for decoration because they were pretty cool. I was obsessed with drinking out of them too.
@@Mar-pe9kxwe had some at my house growing up, and my mom threw them out too 😢
"Her first name is also Karen" ~ this made my evening a better one. Thanks!
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.
Bro wtf
@@Joe-sg9llthese type of comments feel so AI generated
your comment feels overly forced
Which is why I love fern. I recently discovered them and subbed.
@@dxrk81The fact that this even got 5 likes is so sad
Mcdonalds has new glasses coming out here soon. I'll have to keep an eye out for someone testing them. I'm curious if they changed their ways or if they are just gonna do it again expecting that people have forgotten.
I still have one of these. We used it all the way to 2020 without knowing. The entire thing blew right past us
Sounds crazy to me that there stil is no good legislation for those types of glasses
Crazy but true!
It’s honestly funny, my aunt actually still has those glasses in her cabinet to be used by anyone who walks in
My family had a few of these in a cabinet until 2018. We knew they were toxic and did not use them.
Scary part? The older they got the more faded the paint became and when we finally got rid of them.... the paint flaked off.
Me watching this video as I’m drinking milk in my Shrek glass..
4:26 shrek should never be taken out of his swamp 😂
Wasn't expecting Jonestown to be involved in this video
I can't believe how far I had to scroll to find mention of Jonestown!
That specific detail surprised me as well.
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. 🚬🙄
I'm reading this as I smoke up 😂🍻
"You know, average parenting device..." LOL
I remember these glasses! I remember an AD where the characters were being moved around as people used the glasses. One character is literally CRYING for it to stop.
0:39 I almost choked on my food because that was very unexpected.
Love the presentation script! Great attention to detail too! Didn't think the rabbithole ran that deep!
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.
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.
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@@JesusLoverV same here. It often happens.
7:16 casually mentions Jonestown without even using the name of the tragedy
My sister was abarista for a particular popular coffee chain. They would use toilet cleaner on the ice machines because they either didnt have time to clean the machines or just lazy incompetence. The metal that would form the ice would deteriate because of how abrasive the chamical was to the metal. Thus exposing the cadmium to the ice and cause the ice to not form correctly.
I would love to hear from the manufacturers of these products
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.
SHREK IS LOVE SHREK IS LIFE
Shrek is Cadmium
@@lemonleader8504 no, puss in boots is cadmium. SHREK though, shrek is love, shrek is life
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.
The mom with the ray gun is in this video at 5:32
whats crazy is I had those glasses and was never told they were toxic even after all these years I mean my fam never did research I clearly i think I only drank out of them like 3 or 4 times but jesus....my dad died a few years ago so I dont go over to his house anymore so no clue where they are now what kind of effects can happen from drinking from these cups do we know at all any kind of issues? or we not gonna know till we all old as hell living in old folks homes
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 😅
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!
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!
Great sponsorship transition ❤
i remember how kids heard "the glasses are toxic" and that very easily morphed into "the glasses are radioactive". which was something i am ashamed to admit i believed up until recently. to be fair to past me, i knew of fiestaware, and i knew of the old trend of people painting things like clocks and watches with radioactive paint, so it wasn't too wild of a conclusion to jump to
imagine the shrek glass being the what takes you out lmao
The puns in this one 😂
I like the german CC, which is translating Shrek glasses into Shrek-Brillen :D the glasses you have on your nose
lol
4:42 Atlantis is extremely underrated and I don't know why.
"She rose to prominence like a washington version of 50 cent" had me dead 😂
This sounds like one of those bizarre clickbait articles. "Woman shoots glass cup, calls police when she sees what's inside"
The toxic p*ssy line got me. 😂
I would already be happy if I received the entire order. I don't need an extra portion of cadmium thanks.
I am kinda liking this less serious tone fern is taking, viel lekker
Not me having the whole shrek collection in my garage...💀
this is such a high quality documentary but it’s so funny as well omg
Some kind of nestlé greenwashing unveil would be interesting in the future.