# I hate fast food **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 3, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734 "2003-08-03T17:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/21 "2003-08-04T13:40:41Z")
My local McDonalds is now claiming to have a veggie burger. Pardon me, a _McVeggie_ burger. I told me vegitarian GF that it was a sign of the apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/22 "2003-08-04T13:41:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gorgon Heap \* > **But there is oh-so-much food at home! Damn my wife! _Damn_ her!!!** Ahh…see…I can justify eating out EVEN if there is a pile of food at home…I commute 35 minutes so there is no way I would have time to run home at lunch, eat, and make it back in a reasonable time. **Sauron** on the other hand only works 10 minutes from home so he is SOL when it comes to justifying eating out. 😉 Hahahahahahaha… ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/23 "2003-08-04T13:42:05Z")
Forgive a possibly impertinent question from an Australian cousin, but I have to ask this - based on the number of Pit threads created by Americans about the quality of their fast food outlets - but ummm… do any American’s anywhere prepare their own food anymore? I mean, like, ever? Honestly, if you were a foreigner and if you were to judge America’s eating habits - purely on the BBQ Pit alone - you’d definitely be excused for believing that no Americans whatsoever even know how to make their own sandwiches these days. And even if you were to make your own lunch, and prepare your own food - if it wasn’t to your liking or your required nutritional requirements - that same foreigner would also most likely be excused for predicting that you’ll doubtless sue someone soon enough for the product not meeting your specifications. I know… I know… those are broad brushstrokes I’m painting there - but there’s a bit of truth in it too you know. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/24 "2003-08-04T14:12:00Z")
**Boo Boo Foo** , I’ll have you know I just made myself a sandwich yesterday and have not sued a single person yet. **Aries** , I understand, but my wife has this idiotic tendancy of using all my money to buy groceries and then leaving for a week. As I commonly eat only a single meal a day, all the food goes bad and gets mad at me. For spending all my money on food I can’t eat. And to **ninjachick** : Settle the hell down, kid. Did you ever _think_ about asking for meatless greens? ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/25 "2003-08-04T14:24:53Z")
I can’t argue with you on that one \*\* Boo Boo Foo \*\*, I’d like to but I just can’t. You’re painting looks pretty realistic from where I’m sitting. ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/26 "2003-08-04T15:13:09Z")
**Ninjachick** , sorry about the slight hijack here. **Boo Boo Foo** , I must respectfully disagree. I live in what’s called the Heartland of America and I cook nearly every meal at home. Last night I cooked a huge pot of gumbo. The night before that was Japanese, the night before that potato pancakes, the night before that was a summer squash casserole made from ingredients from my own garden. Last weekend I also made my own bread, from scratch, and not in a bread machine either. By hand. I also made this absolutely delicious sweet potato and apple casserole. I absolutely love to cook, and have been doing so my whole life (I’m 26). I used to cook for my parents, too, having dinner on the stove for them by the time they got home from work. People come to my home from far off places like Minnesota to feast upon such things as fresh waffles with homemade strawberry compote with hand-whipped cream. I’m starting to get hungry…homemade tuna salad on homemade bread with plums for lunch! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/27 "2003-08-04T15:20:44Z")
Bread with PLUMS? You mean with plums in the bread? _dies_ could i have the recipe? ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/28 "2003-08-04T15:39:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*Bread with PLUMS? You mean with plums in the bread? > > _dies_ > > could i have the recipe? \*\* Actually I meant fresh plums, but I bet you could substitute applesauce with plum sauce in a applesauce bread recipe… ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/29 "2003-08-04T16:14:55Z")
**NinjaChick** , do they have Subways where you live? ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/30 "2003-08-04T19:04:46Z")
**Elysian** … you make your own bread? And Gumbo? And summer squash cassarole? You must come to live with me at my house, no, palace, no, _castle_! Yes, you must come to my castle and vast estate to make food for me. You can have a whole wing. Really! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/31 "2003-08-04T19:08:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferret Herder \* > A Jewish (? - non-pork-eating, I know) friend of hers went into McDonald’s and asked for one prepared minus the bacon. They gave her one. The next day she came in and asked for another one, and they refused. The cashier also basically told her that she could take her business elsewhere. Complaining to the corporation got a response amounting to “our franchisees can do what they want.” > > So hey, sometimes people do bitch, and they get told to screw off. I vote for a harsh and scathing letter to McDonalds’ corporate offices, myself. Franchise or no franchise, those dipsticks behind the counter don’t want to piss off **The Clown.** ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/32 "2003-08-04T20:54:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > I vote for a harsh and scathing letter to McDonalds’ corporate offices, myself. Franchise or no franchise, those dipsticks behind the counter don’t want to piss off **The Clown.** Unfortunately, as I said in that post, she did write the corporate office. Whoever she got hold of said that franchises can do what they want. ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/33 "2003-08-05T06:18:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lord Ashtar \* > \*\*If that pisses you off, you’re probably not going to like [this](http://www.burgerking.com/). \*\* Well that Caeser Chicken Club link finally got the best of me so I drove a few blocks to the Burger King and ordered one. Damn place was busy for 12 at night. It took 15 minutes just to get to the window. So I’m driving back home and I take a bite of the new creation. Uggghhhhh. Disgusting! Wait. This is not a Caeser Chicken Club. Its a Chicken Club, no wonder its disgusting. Did I mention disgusting? So I turn around and get back in line (only the drive through is open this late) another 15 minute wait and I have my Caeser Chicken Club. I wait till I get home to taste this sumptious creation. Let’s just say that the photographers took some liberties with this one. It somehow does not look like it looks, know whut uh mean Vern? It’s not quite as tasty as it looks either. The toasted sourdough is VERY greasy and barely toasted at all. I’m munching on it as I type and I will say that it is growing on me (as well as my keyboard) but it is decidedly not that great. They were advertising this as a salad you could eat with your fingers? Puhlease! What a freaking laugh. Its a greasy chicken sandwich with a few pieces of lettuce and a sad looking excuse for a slice of tomatoe. This is, to a salad, what a puddle of spit is, to a lake. All in all, I wouldn’t go out of your way to get one of these, I especially wouldn’t get back in line a second time to get one of these. Overall, on par with everything else at Burger King: Mildly disgusting, exceptionally greasy, funky aftertaste, pretty much everything you have come to love and expect from them. Good thing I got a cookie… We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. ---
**Author:** ![greyseal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@greyseal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greyseal)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/34 "2003-08-05T06:30:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Thudlow Boink \* > \*\ ***NinjaChick** , do they have Subways where you live? \*\* Don’t get me started on Subway (or as I like to call them: Cheese Nazis). Blimpie’s, Quizno’s, or even Mr. Subb are all vastly superior fast-food sub chains. And yes, I’m a vegetarian. Luckily there are multiple Taco Bells, Del Tacos, and Green Burritos within spitting distance from me. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/35 "2003-08-05T22:26:36Z")
At the risk of being pelted with styrofoam, please read \*\*Fast Food Nation[/b} by Eric Schlosser. You will probably never eat at one of these toxic dumps again. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/36 "2003-08-06T01:35:35Z")
I don’t mind that fast food is fattening. I’d never expect Steak 'n Shake to try and convince me the All-American Melt is healthy. (That’s toasted, buttered bread, two hamburger patties with two slices of cheese, bacon, and mayo. Portable heart attack? Sure. Good? Damn yes.) But it does seem odd that they make salads that are so high-fat, high-salt, and poor in nutrition while acting like they invented a vegetarian’s best meal. I ordered a salad from McDonald’s, wanting something healthy at two in the morning when supermakets and other restaurants are closed, and it’s got bacon, egg yolk, croutons, high-fat dressing… I mean, just put a no-nonsense, healthy option on your menu. Some lettuce, spinach, tomato, carrot, cucumber… you don’t have to cover it in bacon and egg and all the rest of it. Not all of us need 50% of our daily fat in each meal to feel satisfied. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/37 "2003-08-06T02:45:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Boo Boo Foo \* > \*\*Forgive a possibly impertinent question from an Australian cousin, but I have to ask this - based on the number of Pit threads created by Americans about the quality of their fast food outlets - but ummm… do any American’s anywhere prepare their own food anymore? I mean, like, ever? > > Honestly, if you were a foreigner and if you were to judge America’s eating habits - purely on the BBQ Pit alone - you’d definitely be excused for believing that no Americans whatsoever even know how to make their own sandwiches these days. > > And even if you were to make your own lunch, and prepare your own food - if it wasn’t to your liking or your required nutritional requirements - that same foreigner would also most likely be excused for predicting that you’ll doubtless sue someone soon enough for the product not meeting your specifications. > > I know… I know… those are broad brushstrokes I’m painting there - but there’s a bit of truth in it too you know. \*\* Actually you may be closer to the truth than you realize. Here in California my 50 year old 1500 square foot house has a larger kitchen than any of the new houses built near by that average 2500-3000 square feet. Why? Simple these new houses cost so much money that both mom and dad have to work. People don’t want to come home from work and have to cook. So fast food booms. Also in the market is an ever growing section of food that is either hot and ready to eat, or only needs to be nuked to be ready to eat. Personally I love to cook. Tonight I did 2 chickens on the barbie, and last night I smoked three racks of ribs. Tomorrow not sure what I’ll fix, I’ll have to see what kind of mood I’m in. Maybe steak. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/38 "2003-08-06T03:03:13Z")
I love those salids, they rock, I order them every time I go there. Also Boston Market makes a great one too (just make sure you tellthem rioasted chicken, not he premade grilled chicken\_. I have ordered them w/ extra meat but have never gotten close to a dead chicken on them, maybe about 1/6 of a dead chicken, where do you get a whole dead chicken? ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/39 "2003-08-06T04:42:28Z")
If I could, I’d go to Taco Bell for lunch every day and eat greasy, beefy, sixty-nine cent tacos until I couldn’t fit anymore. So, **NinjaChick** , as a fast-food lover, I sympathize with your plight. There is simply no good veggie fast food. Next life, try being a first world white male meat-eater, I guarantee things will go much more smoothly. ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734/40 "2003-08-06T14:22:21Z")
I love fast food salads, especially Wendy’s and McDonald’s. I lost about 40lbs eating them for about 3 months…I’m kind of like the Jared of fast food salads. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-fast-food/192734.md?page=3)