Probably no mobile device data plan.
lol that’s an accomplishment! I cant even do that sitting down at a table although I usually get the double western …… id think it depends on how generous they are with the BBQ sauce ….
It didn’t fit the definition of the OP, but this is what I do literally every day. 5 min from my office there is a little park with 2 shaded benches and one out in the sun. I’ll (usually) pack my lunch and take it to that park and eat outside while reading a book/my kindle.
It’s literally the most enjoyable part of my workday and what I’ll sorely miss when I inevitably leave here.
I see no appeal whatsoever in eating inside a car, I’ve only done it a couple times in college and that was when we had bunch of people sleeping in the living room and it was late after being out and didn’t want to wake anyone.
This…it’s bad enough to transport the food, but eating in the car guarantees the car stinks like fast food for two weeks…
Other: I go through the drive-thru, then eat while driving to my next appointment.
I’m a vegetarian. My standard fast food “meal” is large fries, two apple pies, caramel sundae and a large coffee.
I also hate discussions about food and eating habits, and refuse to explain my eating habits beyond I don’t eat meat. Yet, total strangers will come up to me and ask “You’re not having a burger?” Some even offer to buy me food.
I do not usually eat in the restaurant, but in the nearest park.
[You’re not eating those fries at McDonald’s are you!?]](The non-vegan ingredient McDonald’s adds to their fries)
I don’t see the problem for Annie-Xmas, who said that she is vegetarian, not vegan. The article says the “natural beef flavor” is milk-based.
Right, I’m a vegetarian. I do eat dairy and eggs. Sometimes I’ll go to McD’s for breakfast with a friend on Atkins. We both order two breakfast sandwiches, she gets the meat from mine and I get the buns from hers.
“Vegetarian” is a bit ambiguous and I’ve heard it used to mean everything from vegan to even pescatarian. (Typically more often the former than the latter.) While most people do use vegan now to describe a stricter form of vegetarianism now the word’s been pretty well-known, I still have friends who call themselves vegetarian but don’t eat eggs and/or milk. For example, many Hindu people I know are vegetarian, but lacto-vegetarian (they don’t eat eggs.) So it’s always good to ask, though if people are on restricted diets, it’s also on them to clarify. Whenever I cook vegetarian for others, I do ask “how vegetarian” they are in terms of milk and eggs, for instance.
The “natural beef flavor” is beef tallow, which is rendered cow fat. If cow fat is vegetarian, then so is bacon!
Not according to the article you linked to, which says, “The beefy addition gives the fries an extra kick of flavor, but it means that they aren’t vegan, since the flavoring is actually made from milk.”
And if you don’t even believe your own source, the McDonald’s website says, “Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [Wheat and Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (Maintain Color), Salt. *Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients.”
And animal fat, apparently. You are certainly free to eat what you want. If you want to add fish, milk, eggs and whatever else to your plant-centric diet, you’re absolutely free to do that. I’m not here to judge. My point is that if you add melted cow fat to your diet, it’s disingenuous to call it vegetarian. Call it the “Plants, birds, milk and cow fat” diet, for all I care. But there’s no way it’s vegetarian.
Other, “It depends.”
If I’m on the road, travelling, I’ll probably chow down on the road. But I also may want a break from being in the car, on the road, and eat inside.
It really depends on my mood at the moment. It’s a bit of a coin toss.
Inside. I generally like to play an online game, for a little bit, with their free wi-fi. I can check my emails from the paring lot, but for browsing and clicking, I need a table.
Otherwise, same answers other have – I want to keep my car clean of fast food smells, I find my car confining, and I’ve left work anyway, why stay in my car.
Usually, when I eat fast food, I’m either in an airport or at a mall food court. Either way, I eat in the food court seating.
If I stop on the highway for fast food, I will eat it in the restaurant unless I’m so pressed for time that I eat it while driving. Why sit in my car and balance my food on my lap when I have access to a table and chairs?
Seems a bit cagey to me. I can’t find anything on American McDonald’s website claiming their fries to be vegetarian or vegan (well, they don’t have to say the latter, as milk is in there, I suppose). Canada’s website says they’re straight-up made without any product of animal origin, but they don’t use that beef flavoring.
I can’t find any sources that definitively say the only animal products in US McD’s french fries is the milk. Note the phrasing just says it “contains wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredient,” and I presume that is for allergen information. There’s no such disclosure necessary for meat products.
So I’m not so sure they are truly vegetarian.
Sad is in the mind of the beholder.
What you see as sad, I see as thank jeebus I get an hour of peace with nobody needing anything from me.
(I eat work lunch in my car once a week)
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I’d eat inside (or outside) the restaurant. Eating in the car is not an option because I don’t have a car.