 When Saveur Magazine's editor-in-chief and Top Chef Masters judge James Oseland 'fessed up to his fondness for McDonald's Filet-O-Fish in yesterday's 5@5 post, readers came out of the woodwork to wax rhapsodic about their obsessions with that very fishwich, Taco Bell's chalupas, tacos and nachos, Papa John's pizza and plenty of other fast food staples. For many folks, chain take-out is a way of life; a necessity or a simple pleasure. For others, in light of 'factory farm-to-processing plant-to-the nation's highways-to-freezers-to-local fast food franchise' polemics like Eric Schlosser's 'Fast Food Nation,' Michael Pollan's 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' and last year's eco-It documentary 'Food Inc.', coming out in favor of a McDonald's menu item is an act of culinary, ecological and moral treason. Where do you stand? We'd love to know why as much as how often, so super-size your stance in the comments below and we may include it in an upcoming post. |
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I will only eat fast-food if there are no food around.
Like in the airport here where I stayed, they only have fast-food outlets.
If it were just your life that your choices affect, you would have a point but it's not and you don't. The rest of us tax payers shouldn't have to help you pay for your mutant meat nugget diet but sadly, we do. Fast food would not exist without billions of annual tax payer dollars artificially propping it up. This is to say nothing of the massive environmental havoc it wreaks nor the diseases it creates, both of which affect literally everyone.
You guys crack me up-A lot of us work LONG hours and generally don't have time to cook so stop with this "cook at home Sh**" I work everyday 7am-5pm with a 1.5 hour commute each way which leaves me eating fruit parfaits or oatmeal at mcdonalds or a egg mcmuffin twice a week, lunch usually consists of a turkey sandwich or wendys chilli, and dinner is usually a lean cuisinen or a salad from wendys-so yes I do eat FAST FOOD!
I exercise on weekends-I'm a runner so I run about 10 miles saturdays and sundays and i'm healthy as a horse....i suggest people who tell others how to live their life to get a life-do you have to agree with everything-no? but coming here wasting your time telling people how to live your life is ridiculous.
What was the article about? I'm craving some fast food ... =D
"out of necessity" = hangover
oh yeah!
It would be rare that I would eat that stuff!, Didn't grow up with it, dont need it now.
if you want some strong reasons to stop ingesting fast foods (and yes Subway is a fast food) watch an autopsy of anyone who has eaten it on a regular basis and pay attention to the belly fat and the fat around the vital organs – it killed them – albeit slowly it still is a contributing factor as processed foods are not natural and contain chemicals that can be recovered from the fatty tissues after years in the gravel
Most of us know this, in theory. What would be more helpful is ideas about an alternative. What would you suggest when I'm not at home, unpredictably have only 30 minutes to get to the next thing on my schedule, and this is my only change to eat in the next 5 hours? All of us don't live in circumstances or with resources where we can be as perfect as we would like to be. Ideas?
Over the years I have known many folks who were "health nuts" and constantly pointing out how awful it was that the rest of us EVER eat something not up to their standards. Percentage-wise, more of these folks have had sudden death or debilitating conditions compared to the rest of my acquaintances who don't stress out about an occasional totally unhealthy meal. There are times when I have a choice between getting fast food or not eating until later, when my schedule allows time to fix something at home. It is totally unpredictable. When this happens, I try to eat something less bad for me, but once in a while I will get something greasy. I am amused by all the people who get on their high horse about anyone ever eating something that's not perfectly healthy - I find that these folks need to give the same attention to their mental health and self-righteous stressing out that they do about food additives etc.
Fast food is an indefensible abomination.
Economically, it represents a one-two punch right to the jaw of the taxpayer. First you have the BILLION dollar tax payer subsidies for corn which are the very bedrock of the industry. Without these, not only would there not be a dollar menu, there wouldn't even be a ten dollar menu. Inevitably, millions of people come down with type 2 diabetes, heart disease, various cancers and all the other adjoining health problems directly linked to a diet of nuggets and cheeseburgers and who do you think gets stuck with the bill for a majority of these cases? The tax payer of course! Through medicaid and medicare YOU pay for their horrible diet of dollar menu sludge.
When you buy fast food you also support factory farms which are, without question, one of the most truly evil industries civilization has ever witnessed. Swine flu? MSRA? Circovirus? Bird flu? Antibacterial resistant strains of E-coli? Mad Cow disease? Foot and Mouth disease? You can thank your local factory farms for all of them.
Every pound of protein requires more than ten times that amount of feed to produce. In a world where 15 million children die every year from starvation, that is heinous.
Factory farms contribute more to global warming than automobiles and is one of the leading causes of deforestation. You want to save the environment? Don't buy a Prius, just stop buying fast food!
Finally, anyone who knows what the animals endure inside the walls of factory farms everyday and still eats the end product is, quite frankly, a monster. Poultry and beef farmers (back when they actually were "farmers") from a century ago would fall to their knees and weep if they saw the leaving, breathing, Hell that would eventually become their profession. Factory farms are nothing less than soulless, barbaric concentration camps for animals. The suffering inflicted there only a daily basis is indescribable.
Enjoy your dollar menu.
Thank you for your self-righteous diatribe. Sure, there are some things we can all do differently to eat better. We don't all have the time and resources to be as perfect as you are. Some of the population literally has to make a choice between feeding their children cheaper factory-raised fcod or paying the electric bill. If you spent as much time making non-judgmental suggestions that helps them out in their day-to-day struggles as you did being so self-righteous, you might actually make a difference and be worth listening to. Would you like me to point out all the obvious places in your post you are stressing out and appearing to be angry, and pointing out all the well-documented studies since the 1930's that this kind of self-induced stress puts on oneself, and all the health consequences of this that is at least as socially destructive as what you point out?? My guess is that you don't have the courage to take my suggestions about what is healthier for you than the way you are now, mental health wise.
The "suggestions" Conqui, are obvious. Repeal the tax funded subsidies that make fast food possible. Everything will crumble and be built up anew after that. Better still, tax fast food like we tax cigarettes, as the ailments arising from fast food (and processed food in general) are orders of magnitude more prevalent and costly than the ailments arising from cigarettes, alcohol, or any other drug.
Unfortunately, the regulatory bodies responsible for keeping agriculture industries in check have bowed to every piece of dirty silver they were offered. The first victim of this abuse is the family farmer, who grows increasingly rare as more and more bribery-induced legislation is passed with the sole purpose of driving them out of existence. The second victim, is of course, us, the consumers, whose food becomes increasingly contaminated and exponentially damaging to everything around us. The USDA is one of the most ineffective, corrupt organizations the United States has ever had the misfortune of housing. Oust the modern day Judases that comprise the USDA and there might just be a glimmer of hope amidst all this darkness.
P.S. stating facts you would rather not hear and using the occasional exclamation point or capitalized word in an online post is not tantamount to dangerous levels of real world stress, although I do appreciate your concern.
And again, enjoy your dollar menu.
When I was younger I used to eat fast food all the time. Now, at 17, I'm more aware about what I eat and where it comes from. I have not eaten fast food in about 2-3 years, and I even converted to vegetarianism. Personally, I don't consider subway fast food. Anything like McDonalds, Wendy's, BK, or anything like that it out of the question for me. McDonalds is just nasty, and only God knows what's really in that Fish Filet or Big Mac
The only type of "fast food" I will eat any more is places that have a healthier option. Chipolte is one of my favs...plus they try to get food that has been treatedwith out added junk. If you have not tried it you may like it. Even the vegitarian will love this plave.
I eat fast food once in a while but really try to limit it. I've had success by using a "fast food motto", I'll eat fast food but won't wait in line to eat it. Works 99% of the time.
I like this policy!
I buy take out as often as I can get away with it. Not because I like fast food so much but its easier than putting up with my significant others whining about when supper will be ready. He doesn't eat half of what I cook anyway and then I'm stuck cleaning up the kitchen afterward. To top it off he refuses to eat leftovers so its all a big waste anyway. I could feed a nation on what I cook and throw out in a week. Fast Food He Devours!
wow...sounds like someone needs to be kicked to the curb and left to make his own dinners. Why would you put up with someone so ungrateful?
I eat fast food about 2x a week, but never the traditional fast food. It is always Pancheros, Subway or Quiznos, which I think aren't nearly as bad as BK. I avoid McDonalds like the plague though. Haven't eaten their food in 5 years (and that was in a foreign country)
got Hole Mole for lunch just now 3 carne asada tacos and a large horchata- good
I would have to go with the craving option... I am trying so hard to stop. but with all the advertizements and the wonderful smell of it. I seriously have to have it. I love all fast food, Taco bell, Mcdonalds, Wendy's,Subway, Quizno's,Pizza hut, Dominos, Braums, Jack in the box, Burger king, Popeyes. I cant get enough of it. But my body has recently been fighting back. I get the worst stomach and chest pains after I eat it and gulp it down with some monster and red bulls. I run 4 miles daily, and I dont get much sleep. I got a problem and need help but I live by myself and am very antisocial and live far away from home cause im in the military. Ive managed to limit fast food to once or twice a week and ended up saving $300 a month. I want to stop but I literally am an addict. I grew up on all that food since I was a baby. What sucks is I got skinny arms and legs and it all is going to my gut which grosses me out. I constantly suck it in to look normal
That should do wonders for your abs...
I used to several times a week for convenience sake, but have almost exorcised fast food from my routine. Since March, I've had it maybe twice, once because it was lunchtime on a business trip in a small town that only had fast food joints (in Mississippi, no wonder they're the fattest state), and once because I was with family and they insisted on going to Chick-Fil-A. (I went in to a Chick-Fil-A one other time too for a lemonade, but nothing to eat, I just wanted one).
There's a sign on I-55 south of Memphis (still in Mississippi) advertising for BK. It said something like "40 Memphis Area Locations!". Ugh, again, no wonder this area of the country is so fat!
I used to live with a lady who was always riding me about what I ate...Even if I had a salad, she would complain that I used iceberg instead of romaine, which is supposedly healthier. The irony there was that I like to run marathons, and she was VERY out of shape.
Flash forward a few years, and since we broke up, she gained a pile of weight, and I still run marathons.
The moral of the story, I would rather live an enjoyable, but possibly shorter life, than live a life of denial which may not get me much further. JMHO.
I don't eat fast food anymore. I quit smoking 3 years ago and never realized that I couldn't really taste food until then. Once I was able to taste food, I realized how absolutely disgusting fast food tastes. Now, I crave fresh healthy food and shop as much as possible at local farmer's markets.
Unfortunately, every time I buy fruit from a farmer's market, it is moldy within a day...kind of makes it not worth the money.
Does it really matter anyways? Everything is all over in 2012 anyways.
I was literally JUST saying that! ;) right? :)
I used to eat a ton of Subway but have cut back on my food spending- It is so good! Seriously like crack..Anyway yea now I want some InNOut...Thanks a lot article... :)
I don't usually eat fast food because I don't like fries or soda. Sometimes I'll go for a cheeseburger. I hope I die young though because I'm pretty sure I won't be able to retire and I don't want to be working when I'm 70.
Hey, at the rate Obama is going, there will be no more social security and we will all be working until we are in the ground.
There's Truth and his soap box again. Social Security's been in trouble since before Obama was in politics. But, yeah, you're right. He should have been fixing it then, along with the Rubublican's blunders as he is now.
If I lived near a Burger King or MacDonalds I would weigh 800 pounds, I just love the stuff. After I moved to a rural area where there's no fast food nearby, I lost 60 pounds and my blood pressure is back down into a normal range.
I don't go near any fast food joints because that stuff is garbage!!! There are so many of them here in the city where I live that it's pathetic. There are more obese people around here than thin ones!! I have been exercising and eating healthy and have lost 44 lbs . The weight gain was due to medication I was on , not fast food by a mile. America is headed for a health crisis if some of these overweight people don't get the nutritional help they need.
Bonnie! Headed for a health crisis, or already there? I would say we're already there.
I used to eat alot of it because it was fast and easy and I could just grab it and go. But after triple bypass not so much anymore. Although I do crave FiletOFish and Krystal's burgers every now and then. I pretty much cook and eat at home now. It is just easier for me and then I can eat what I want when I want and sometimes I just think of what it is coked in or on and can't get the idea of eating that outta my mind. They just don't clean like I do so I do not trust them
why is everyone so worried about what I eat. eat what you want and mind your own business. ever since a bunch of FAT nosey asses decided that transfats were bad, no fast food restaurants french fries have tasted any good since. if you can't handle it or can't handle your fat kids, learn how to make your own decisions and let the rest of us be.....and our businesses.
Danny...You are kind of stupid.
Necessity is right. If I could get a nice healthy meal as quickly and cheap as fast food, I'd never eat fast food again. Unfortunately, those of us who are working poor get as much healthy food as we can, but often need to supplement fresh food with unhealthy frozen meals or fast food because it's cheap and quick, and when you're working two jobs and trying to grab something while rushing from one to the other... If only I could get cucumber stick instead of fries, I would do it.
Most things in moderation are ok.
Most fast food now is made by Mexicans and Middle Easterners and cleanliness is not a factor with them
nice stereotype buddy...
ignoramous
You are a dumb A$$
lol almost every restaurant you go to is going to have a kitchen full of mexicans, open your eyes. And fast food places are full of highschool kids, not mexicans.
I dont mind Subway here and there. I do agree that the cold cuts arent very appetizing looking, kinda slimy and they come in clear plastic bags. Would be much nicer if they cut it right in front of you like Jersey Mike's. i agree that there is a certain smell I have on me after every trip there.
Two weeks ago; I had a craving for a Big Mac; that happens about twice a year, usually when I am stressed (which doesn't happen too often). Other than that, I don't eat this stuff; too much salt and the fat makes me sick, literally.
I don't understand the argument of "having" to eat this; I work full time and I don't "have" too; I pack my lunch and it takes as little time as going through the drive thru. You just need to put some thought into your shopping list and your week ahead. With freezers, you even can pre-cook your dinners and don't have to worry about that during the week. Heck, I have dinner ready within 30 minutes and I don't even have a microwave.
The easy answer is not always the best answer. I really don't care what you eat, but I also don't care if it kills you. Your life.
I *maybe* eat it once a month when I am on the road coming back from some place out of town and didn't have time to make food to take with me. Otherwise it is MUCH cheaper and MUCH healthier to just make your own meals every day. Really only takes me about 30 minutes a day to make all my meals too.
I am a vegetarian and a bit of a health nut, so I never eat fast food. Once in a while I will have pizza. BTW, Burger King makes a good veggie burger. I have one once a year if I am with people who want fast food.
Used to live in Los Angeles and moved to Idaho a year ago and recently decided that I wanted to eat only home cooked food – the fast food choices are not on every corner here. After about 3 months am still on the program and not really thinking or craving fast food or processed foods. I do have my favorites, though, and have made my own versions of them to satisfy my cravings, and they are much healthier. Honestly there is nothing like a good home cooked meal – healthy, nutritious and good for the soul.
I work on the Navajo reservation and there aren't many food options at all there except fast food. I pack lunch most of the time, but often I'm there for a few days at an time. The prices at grocery stores are marked up from what they are off the reservation making produce pretty pricey. I really feel for the people who live there all the time. They eat a lot of fast food because that's what they can afford.
when I have to travel on the road for longer than 2 hours, and if I get hungry yes otherwise not really.
stay away from this stuff and even more...do not let ur kids eat it...its not a treat is aboslutly disgusting and causes health problems...teach ur kids at an early age
There are "craving" ingredients in fast food that serve no purpose except to have you coming back for it again soon. They send signals to your brain when you're sleeping, which makes you get up and hit the drive thru for a twenty sack of murder burgers at white castle.
Fast food is basically a lab experiment and guess who are the lab mice...
I probably eat fast food 2-3 times a week. Usually for lunch because I'm too rushed in the morning before work. I try to be "good" and have chicken or avoid cheese. I try to skip the fries. I get fruit often, like apples.
once in a blue its ok...mcdys big macs are good...Twice a year maybe....this stuff kills you...its totally gross...but tasty
I dont think there is anything wrong with it once in a while. And as a vegetarian i would be sooo happy if somewhere had a really good veggie burger i could get when i have to go thru a drive-thru somewhere
BK has a veggie burger, granted it's probably not the best quality in the world
Actually I'm fairly positive that the veggie burger patty (in the US at least) is a Morningstar patty. As a vegetarian, I generally prefer the Morningstar brand to the Boca brand so the BK Veggie patty is alright with me... especially on hungover, need a salty fix days!
Only when I'm roadtripping. Otherwise there is no need for drive-through food.
Growing up my parents used Fast Food as a treat for birthdays. which I thought sucked ..so when I got married and had kids I started taking them once week to McDonalds as a treat. as they got older it was easier to feed them fast food on the run between dance, ball practice ect.... after a few years and many trips to the Dr's offices due to poor health. we cut back a bit and saw slight diffrence in the health and weight( since All of were over weight). Sadly it's going to take a lot of hard work and time exercising to fix years of what fast food has done to us.....I regret feeding my family Fast Food.
Sorry about your family's health problems. Hopefully, someone will learn from you sharing your experience.
Once a week I buy a loaf or bread, a half pound of turkey and a quarter pound of cheese. That's my lunch, a turkey sandwich. It totals about $12, and I live in NYC. It's not fast food and it averages less than $3 a day. The $$ excuse for eating all that crap is just that: an excuse. If your body is used to getting that insane amount of salt and those other chemicals, it will crave them. Stop eating it and you'll stop craving it.
I do this every once in awhile but after a couple weeks I get sick of turkey and cant even look at a turkey sandwich. Super market deli meat selection is TERRIBLE. Its very difficult to make varied sandwiches, its either turkey, ham or roast beef. I dont like ham and the super market roast beef tastes weird with lots of gristle. I cant eat the same thing every day, my body starts to reject it, fast food at least offers variety as there are many places to choose from with different types of food.
Grad students like me are poor, so I'd go for the option "Every day, out of necessity"
John, saying "Grad students like me are poor, so I'd go for the option "Every day, out of necessity" is just silly! Fast food is overpriced and a waste of money! You can eat for much, much cheaper simply by getting food at the grocery store and making your own meals. Eating overpriced fast food is the last thing a poor college student should be doing.
Agree with Noah on this one. I spend about 40$ a week to feed myself (that's 3 squares a day and treats); two weeks ago, when I had my semi-annual Big Mac craving, I paid $5 for it. It is a myth that fast food is cheaper, unless you life in a place that does not have real grocery stores or farms that sell produce. Then, yes, it is cheaper. Maybe that should be the next community project; farmer's markets everywhere.
Anyone who is raising their kids on fast food is slowly killing them. This generation of kids is the first one that is expected to have a shorter lifespan than their parents.
Once Every Saturday.
I use to, but I stopped because I can't stand the taste of fast food....with the OCCASSIONAL exception of Chipolte, which really isn't in that category, I don't think.
Chipotle is actually a great choice, as long as you don't load up on the unhealthy stuff. They use sustainably produced meat in many of their restaurants.
IN THE USA WITH SO MANY PEOPLE SO FAT AND I MEAN SO FAT WHY WOULD YOU LOOK AT FAST FOOD. YOU COULD EAT SOME FRUIT OR VEGS AND BE WAY BETTER OFF THEN TO EAT FOOD THAT IS FULL OF FAT AND MORE FAT AND GOD KNOWS WHAT TO MAKE IT LOOK SO GOOD FOR A LONG TIME UNDER HEAT LAMPS. IF WE ALL WOULD STOP WITH THE FAST FOOD AND EAT THE RIGHT WAY THE HEALTH OF THE USA WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER AND WE ALL WOULD LIVE A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE.
Just as some of prefer to type in small case letters and capitalize only when appropriate, there are those of us that would rather do what we want when we want and live a shorter life, than deprive ourselves and live longer. I eat fast food once a month or so, out of necessity, and usually regret it afterwords. I don't, however, get all preachy towards those who like to eat fast food far more frequently. It's their life, their body. I think it's pretty safe to assume that anyone with a sixth grade education and a rudimentary understanding of our government's food pyramid knows the risk of damage to their body when they indulge. Would you like to now rant about alcohol consumption or nicotene addiction? Consenting informed adults ingesting toxins and indulging in intoxication? How about fornication? Just turn off your caps lock before you continue...
Bravo.
I tend to agree with you in principal, but there is a societal cost for poor health. There needs to be a balance.
Thank you NYPrincessTt. Can't there be a discussion without the holier than though posts? Save it for political discussions.
I love fast food! I only eat it once a week though thanks to my wife's wonderful cooking. I also prefer to make my own lunches especially so I can have some fruit (which I love). We take the family out once a week to eat out and it is almost always fast food. We would like to go to sit down restaurants more often but a family of five at even a place like Chili's is kind of expensive.
We stopped because it costs too much.
I don't eat it, but this picture of the filet of fish makes me want to have one, this was my favorite.
WHY IS AMERICAN FOOD BROWN? – I like red and green and yellow and purple and blue and white and black and...ANYTHING BUT WHATEVER THAT MANUFACTURED SOYLENT BROWN WAFER IS ON THAT WALL PASTE BUN WITH A SLICE OF BP.
Yeah, our food kind of sucks. I'm American and I don't even like it. Some is OK, but it's more of a passed down European dish usually any way. Of course, I also grew up around a bunch of Mexicans, so experienced a lot of different tastes early on. If you notice, most of the most popular restaurants in the US are of those featuring food from other countries. Mexican, Italian, Asian, Canadian. Well, maybe not the last one so much.
Ooo what is canadian food?
There is so much more to food than just consumption. Cooking meals is such a good way for me to just chill out, and even better when I cook with someone. Its a great way to just wind down at the end of the day and feel accomplished when you make a great dish. Fast food doesn't allow that kinda of feeling. Although I do get my burger cravings every once in a while, but I always wind up disappointed once I eat one. That plus I always pay for it later... :(
I say eating out should be reserved for awesome food adventures, like trying ethopian food, not moseying over to taco bell to try their newest grade D meat concoction.
Because brown food tastes good! Don't you watch Ann Burrell? ;-)
You are right, of course: fruit, fresh veggies, dense whole-grain breads. Yum! Too bad most Americans have no idea what they are.
Our food wasn't always brown. Watch old TV shows. Our food used to be shades of gray.
I only eat fast food once every few months. I dont consider SUBWAY as fast food since its not fried in grease and healthier. I usually get a turkey sandwich with mustard and veggies. I do eat fast food on occasion (like superbowl). Friends and I would order the 50 nuggets special. If I crave a hambuger, I try to make my own or find a healther place to eat it.
50 nugget special?? That's awesome. I don't think we have that here.
kk, if you stop being a vegitarian you would have more options. LOL
Melissa..you can cook tasty food at home if taste is what you crave. It is not only weight gain you should be concerned about but you will probably develope Type 2 Diabetes, heart disease and many other problems associated with a fast food diet. You don't neep to spend two hours a day exercising, you can walk 30 minutes a day with a great result. Cut out the fast food as much as you can, cook tasty meals at home and walk a little. Would you rather be healthy or worry about living the "rest of your life without tasting anything"? because you will cut your life short keeping this up.
Dead on accurate. Excellent post.
I don't eat it so often, because it's hard to find a lot of variety in fast food when you're a vegetarian.
I never eat fast food. That's dosen't mean I don't eat fatty food. But if I'm going to eat something fatty I want it to taste good. Fast food is disgusting and it's bad for you. Lose/lose situation.
Well said. I agree 100%.
I go maybe once a week, and even when go I still tend to get healthier sides(apples, fruit) but indulge on the chicken nuggets :)
Yum Yum! rehydrated chicken sawdust.
I'm looking back at the last time I ate fast-food and can only think of vacation. It seems I don't each fast food as often as I thought. Vacation time and maybe once or twice a year are about max. But now that I'm talking and thinking of fast-food, I'm starting to crave a Krystal (White Castle for you Yankee's).
I eat fast food maybe twice a month. My children and husband love it, but I stay away from it. Fasting sure does wonders for the body and that took away the craving for BK, McDees, Wendys, KFC, and others to name a few.
Fasting is terrible for you healthwise. Just make good food choices and eat reasonable portions.
I agree fasting is great. Just be sure to do it for the right reasons :D God calls us to fast on a regular basis. I don't think it's going to be unhealthy. If God wants us to do it he will provide what we need in our bodies to stay healthy.
I fast for at least 8 hours every day.
While I am sleeping.
Oh yes, yes, yes!!
And "Cole' unless you understand the real science behind fasting, don't knock it.
My favorite is a juice fast using only huices made from my juicer. Talk about rejuvenating! I did 20 whole days once and I am telling you, I felt 10 years old again- the energy was AMAZING!
Friggin Hippies. The "real science" behind fasting is that it does nothing besides make hippies feel good about themselves. We need a real life Cartman to take care of these hippies.
"They talk about saving the world but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad."
Your last sentences infers that those are bad things...:)
Hey "Valerie", you're kidding me, right?
Starving yourself is unhealthy, period. ANY doctor (with an actual M.D.) will tell you that. I trust their knowledge of the science behind it much more than I do yours.
Idiot.
I stopped eating Meat after a heart attack. Mostly ate it for convenience not preference. The U.N. Study last year listed the Top Contributers to Global Warming – Meat production ranked NUMBER TWO after Coal Power Utilities but before Automobiles. Also I learned in college many years ago that it takes 10 pounds of plant protein (which could be feeding ten people) to produce 1 pound of beef to feed one person. It doesn't seem right to use ten times what I need.
The 10:1 statistic is a little misleading. Most cattle in this country are fed silage, which is fermented corn stalks. Basically, feed corn is grown and the entire plant is cut processed into food. 95+ percent of silage cannot be consumed by humans.
I used to eat it at least 5 days a week until I got a woman to pack me sandwiches.
Win.
That is very nice. I make my husband sandwiches too. Why is it that ordinary sandwiches taste so much better when someone else makes them? : )
If a vegetarian sub with no cheese and only vinegar for dressing counts as fast food, I eat it about twice a month. As for traditional fast food, I think I had a McDonald's burger in 2003...
Few times a week for lunch. I cant afford to go to finer establishments every day. I'll do the dollar menu for a $3 lunch a couple times and then with the money I saved I'll go somewhere better. Spending $8-10 a day on lunch is out of the question. I could and have made my lunch, but I like to get out of the office instead of spending the whole day in a chair. Dinner is a different story, I almost always make that at home.
VERY seldom...maybe once a month, if that.
I eat fast food every other day or so. Honestly, its easier and tastes better. I was in a car accident in 2004 that left my sense of taste messed up. There are times (like last night) when I can barely taste anything at all. Seriously, we had spicy gumbo for dinner last night and it just tasted like plain rice to me. The only thing I can be sure of tasting is sugar, and subtleties in food taste are pretty much completely lost on me now.
Yes, this means I have gained weight. But I don't want to live the rest of my life without tasting anything either. I don't know what to do short of spending two hours every day exercising.
It's not just about weight gain. Eating good, clean, fresh food also provides your body with the nutrients you need to be healthy and for your body's systems to function correctly. You are getting hardly any nutrients at all by eating fast food. You are also seriously increasing your cholesterol levels and slowly clogging up your arteries. I'm not trying to be preachy, just telling you what's what. I would encourage you to learn some basic cooking techniques and spend some time in the kitchen learning new dishes to try. I think you will be pleasantly surprised and satisfied by eating better foods.
Did your gumbo have any sheen to it? Tar balls?
Chemo deadened my taste buds for a while.. I pretty much kept my normal diet but added dashes of hot sauce to a lot of things.. helped with the taste. Now of course, I am addicted to hot sauce!
Your an idiot... you are just making excuses for yourself
You are the reason health care costs are at an all time high, get healthy and stop making excuses as to why you can only taste 'fast food', stop being lazy and find some healthy dishes, (or just not fast food) that you can taste
Five people have NEVER eaten fast food? Really??
About the same percent of the population who are liars.
You think only 5% of the population are liars?
TRULY AMAZING – than ANYONE would subject themselves to consuming nothing but INDUSTRIAL SLUDGE. Americans are about not made of snips and snails but about 90% corn syrup and tallow.
I actually know someone who has never eaten fast food because she was raised a health "nut" and remains one, even at 50.
I could see 5% of Americans that have never consumed fast food, but none of them would be sitting in front of a computer in the middle of the day taking a poll (farmers) and the ones who are at home in the middle of the day are still on milk or formula (=
I eat Subway just about everyday. I used to manage a Subway restaurant a few years back. Ate for free and basically lived off the stuff for 2 years. Once in a while I'll crave some BK or some McNuggets. After I eat it I regret it about an hour later as my gut twists and turns into a knot and I have to make a massive download in the restroom later.
it kind of boggles my mind the subway isn't considered fast food by a majority of people – the meat still has high amounts of sodium and nitrogen in it and the bread has corn syrup in it – lots of over-processed foods on the menu even though the fat quotient is lower than a burger-chain. this isn't food that is great for your overall health.
Yeah, but had I done the same thing at a place like McDonalds I'd be one of those people paying for two seats on an airplane that no one wants to sit next to if you get my drift.
Plus, I strive to have high blood pressure and carry toxins in my blood. Puts hair on your chest.
The look and the smell of Subway makes me naseauos. Yuck!!!
I don't eat fast food at all. It is nothing but garbage I don'tcare which fast food it is. It's just gross!!!
Subway has a smell?
Oh, yeah. Sure does. Comes from the proofer (section of the stove where the bread rises) as well as the baking of the bread. Employees smell like it when you they get home from working all day. Kinda like BK employees smell like hamburgers after work.
Bad quality pre-cut coldcuts at Subway, they always seem to have a layer of slime on them from sitting there. I haven't been to one in years and don't plan on going anytime soon. I buy boarshead cold cuts and get them sliced extra thin, melt in your mouth, nothing better on a freshly made roll.
Yep. I'm a Boar's Head man as well. Gluten free, low sodium and not processed. Good stuff.
Yeah, I didn't even like to smell them whem we'd get them out of the bag. Inventory rotation is key, though. Some managers order too much and you end up getting old cold cuts.
At least it's not as bad as that pastrami sandwich they had when I first started there. GAG. Especially when the customer wanted it toasted. Looked and smelled like road kill that went through a meat grinder with melted cheese on it.
Blimpie would cut the meat fresh when you ordered it. I miss them, they were a million times better than Subway and had meat selections you could only get at specialty italian delis, they were the only chain to offer a true italian sub with the correct meats.
If McD's fish sandwich actually looked like the picture you show I'd try it. None of the food served in the fast food restaurants EVER look like the picture!
JDizzle your comments cracked me up