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Loading ...I very rarely eat fast food. Precooked food doused in salt and grease and left to marinate under a light for a few hours is decidedly unappetizing to me. However, […]
Original post: The Cycle of Fast Food Abuse
I very rarely eat fast food. Precooked food doused in salt and grease and left to marinate under a light for a few hours is decidedly unappetizing to me. However, […]
Original post: The Cycle of Fast Food Abuse
So why didn’t she ask for an actually REASON why she couldn’t have the burger? I’ve gone to Wendy’s 4 different times this weekend for one for what seems like everyone I know, and haven’t had a problem.
The problem with Fast Food isn’t that it is greasy, slimy and includes sweat and hair from the 17 year old cook. It is that people expect it to me something that it is not. Props to you V for not jumping down the poor girls throat. She has no control and I am sure she wasn’t given a REASON from her 19 year old manager when he told her not to sell them anymore.
As I typed this comment I realized the best analogy in the world:
Fast food is like sex from a cheap hooker, it’s nasty, dirty, sloppy, and you wake up regretting it.
Now you try—just add on to “Fast food is like sex from a cheap hooker, it’s…”
the burgers and all the stuff Fast Food restaurants offer.. they always look so nice in the pictures, even in the restaurant they have zoomed pictures of fresh and tasty ingredients, but in the end you get some stuffed bs. i go to fastfood`s only when i`m tired after some party, in a hurry and starved to death
Pablo, you made it :D
That is the same time you go to cheap hookers too Bordersdown! My analogy clearly is dead on!
Fast food didn’t receive its moniker because the master chefs are meticulously crafting your food specially for you. It’s fast food because they can accommodate a large amount of people in a short period of time.
With that in mind, there are a few fast food restaurants that serve (actually) good food. Chipotle is one of my favorite fast food places. They make a gigantic (and reasonably priced) burrito directly in front of you. You can even see them cooking the chicken as you stand in line. Of course, you don’t get to see them prepare that “mystery liquid” that they pour all over the rice…
Then there are places like Five Guy’s. You’ll never see a picture of them glorifying one of their hamburgers because you don’t eat it for how it looks, but for how it tastes (Wendy’s and McDonald’s, on the other hand, have to do something to compensate for how crappy their food tastes).
Also, you can never go to a fast food place expecting good service. These are usually kids (or adults with little education) that don’t care about you. They have no motivation to care about you. They don’t work for tips, they stand their all day helping a non-stop line of people for minimum wage.
The only fast food restaurant that I have been consistently impressed with the level of service is Chick-fil-a, and that’s probably because they actively hire Christians (not that non-Christians have less to offer, but that the employees they hire are typically affluent white kids that will eventually go to college and make something of themselves).
I think they must put heroin or something else extremely addictive in those fast food hamburgers because I gave up red meat 7 years ago because I didn’t like it and for some reason every once in awhile I think about McDonalds hamburgers. Of course I don’t give in (by the way giving up red meat is a great way to NEVER eat fast food because who trusts the chicken from those places and what the hell else do they serve?!) but why do I even crave it when I know that I don’t enjoy the taste of beef? Wierd.
another fast food place that is great, in addition to chick-fil-a, is quiznos. quizno’s ingredients are in fact quite fresh, and i’ve found typically (of course it depends on the store) that the service is very good, especially since they make the sandwich in front of you. subway does the same thing, but you dont’ get the same effect - i think their ingredients are much less fresh.
Wow! I am quoted in the header graphic. I’ve hit the Big Time! I am going to celebrate with a Frosty and a hooker!
If fast food is comparable to a cheap hooker, what is comparable to an expensive hooker?
I have a love/hate relationship with fast food. I work in an area where there are at least dozen fast food restaurants. It’s unavoidable it seems. During my Christmas vacation, I ate so much fast food that I became so sick of it yet a while later, I wanted it again. Despite the nasty nature of fast food, I still occasionally crave a Slider or Taco Bell taco.
@ #10—just to clarify:
Cheap Hooker = Fast Food
Expensive Hooker = New Jersey Diner
Stripper = Tavern
Skinemax = Texas BBQ
Peg Boy = ?????
Watch “Supersize Me” sometime. You’ll never eat at McDonald’s again. Not that I ate there anyway.
Chipotle is owned by McDonalds.
The only fast food I regularly eat is Sonic. I have a weakness for Sonic Jalapeno Cheeseburgers.
pasketti -
i don’t think reasonable people would stop eating mcdonalds after watching ’supersize me’; unless they were doing it for a moral reason, rather than a health one -
’supersize me’ wasn’t a very realistic or accurate movie - and didn’t even give you the benefit of letting you think for yourself, or come to your own conclusions… it force fed you conclusions that were already preconceived, and predetermined.
something like ‘fast food nation’ would be a more realistic reason to stop eating all fast food, as it did what informative media is supposed to do - present you with accurate information, give you some ideas of what that info could mean, and allow you to come up with your own opinion.
((i for one, wasn’t fully aware of how mcd’s targeted children; and their aggressive child tactics is what turned me off of that company. also, shortly after that movie came out, a media studies teacher went on a mcd’s diet for 30 days - she chose better options, worked out and actually lost weight - to prove to her class not to blindly believe everything you see, without using your reason…))
Pasketi–you are only partially correct about Mcdonalds and Chipotle. The original Chipotle was based out of Denver and when he was approached by MCdonalds to Franchise it he structured the deal so he retained 51% control. The original deal also included caveats such as “No Chipotle will ever have a drive-thru window”
The guy just used mcdonalds infrastructure but still has all the power. Personally, I liked Chipotle even more after hearing about all that.
This puts me in mind of the scene in “Falling Down” when Michael Douglas shoots up the fast food place and holds up the dripping, slimy hamburger next to the picture of the beautiful burger in the poster and says “DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THAT??????” (Or something to that effect….!)
Holy crap I just realized that Emeril guy stopped posting! I was wondering why this thread had gotten a little less eventful.
Wikipedia says that at one point, McD’s owned 92% of Chipotle, but as of October 2006, it’s fully divested itself.
There’s a lot of interesting info in that article that I hadn’t realized before. I’m more impressed with the place because of it. Thanks for the motivation to look into it a little more.
jenny984 - shhhh!
In ‘n’ Out! Best fast food ever! The workers make about $10/hour, the managers about $80k/year and the food is fantastic. I think they are owned by some religious freaks (judging by the bible quotes on the drink cups) but who cares the food rocks.
I’ll second that Astrid…its so good, it hardly can be grouped in with micky dees.
The simple fact that eating fast food will make you a fat ass, should be enough of a deterrent for anyone. If anyone has ever taken the time to look at the fat/cals intake from eating at these places you might understand where I’m coming from on this matter. I’ve also notice a correlation between the types of people that eat at fast food chains and don’t exercise what so ever. I guess they are just lazy all the way around. Here’s a link to a site where you check you local feed bag to see the amount of crap your eating.
http://www.calorieking.com/foods/category.php?brand_id=1090&category_id=21&subcat_id=-1&partner=