Why Do You People Eat This Stuff?


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Author: grouchyfarmer


10 thoughts on “Why Do You People Eat This Stuff?”

  1. I can proudly say I haven’t been to McDonald’s in months. (I wonder if they own pharmaceutical stock) Glucophage and insulin should just be food additives at this point.

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    1. I have to admit I will go there once in a while mostly for their fish sandwiches. I also have to admit that their coffee is fairly decent as well. But as for the rest of the menu, well, they can keep it. Their food doesn’t really taste very good and isn’t really all that cheap, either, at least not for the speciality items.

      But holy cow, the salt in that stuff! Some of those sandwiches have more than half of the recommended daily allowance for sodium. And the calories? I think that one meal I was looking at when I was in there was 1,800 calories. Good grief. Yeah, they should be giving out insulin, along with blood pressure meds and probably statins free with every meal.

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        1. It is getting crazy, isn’t it? It isn’t just McD’s, either. When we go out to just about any restaurant for dinner we find ourselves confronted with about 3 times more food than either my wife or I can possibly eat. Portion sizes have gotten absolutely ridiculous. We’ve gone to places where I would be willing to bet there was 3,000+ calories worth of food on the plates that were brought out to us. I used to think it was a Wisconsin thing but I’ve traveled a lot in the last 15 years or so and it seems to be universal. There was one place in S.D., think it was the Red Rock, where I found myself confronted with a burrito that was literally as long and as thick as my forearm. There was enough meat and beans and cheese there to feed a whole family of 4. It was really, really good, but why so much?

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  2. I mean I suppose it is edible. And there are people I work with who LOVE it. But their taste buds have always struck me as being maimed in some way.
    Still I think a good solid argument could be made for INedible.

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    1. There’s nothing actually horrible or nasty in it. But I just don’t know why anyone would want to eat one. I can’t stand the flavor, the texture . But if they like it, they like it. I have to admit that I do like their fish sandwich and I know a lot of people who ate those.

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        1. I know what you mean. I actually doubt there is anything healthy about the fish sandwich over there. I think my addiction to them is more nostalgia, a reminder of the incredibly bad “fish fingers” my mother used to serve on Fridays or during Lent when I was a kid.

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  3. I’m not so much against eating meat as I am against the way it is produced, and it’s products like the McRib that more or less make my case for me. I’ve been a strict vegetarian for over 30 years. And if you’re not a vegetarian, this kind of stuff might turn you into one!

    It’s true that a lot of these online petitions and seemingly “grassroots” efforts to resurrect old products are actually astroturf marketing scams run by corporations. I’m on the fence about the ethical merit of these projects. They create a demand where none exists, but isn’t that the point of ANY marketing initiative?

    You gotta give it to them. They will probably sell several million of these sandwiches during the “limited run”. Add in the drinks and fries and extras (after all, no one buys just a sandwich, right?), and the profit will be huge. I don’t know if I should resent them or respect them. I tend towards the latter. After all, I’m a business-minded guy. And sandwich sellers are running a business that would not be there but for demand for the products. If people show up to buy the product, then the demand isn’t fake even if the methods used to sell the product (and even the product itself) are.

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    1. I went vegetarian for a year or two but it was so awkward at family gatherings, special events and things like that that I slipped back into eating meat. My biggest issue with the whole meat industry is, as you point out, how the animals are raised and cared for. I still try to avoid it as much as I can.

      These astroturf campaigns have always been with us, and the internet has made it a lot easier to manipulate people with these fake grassroots movements. There’s no doubt they are effective. They still strike me as being unethical, though. Which is probably why I was a horrible salesman when I used to sell computers in the 1980s.


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