So, shall we go after the pizza parlors too? After all they don’t even list how many calories are on a slice of their meat pizzas and very, very few people think twice about grabbing a second (or third, or fourth) slice of pie. Would you eat a second Big Mac at dinner? Probably not, but the calories in the meat pizza, while not the same are getting close.
Fast food firms are hardly a ‘blight’ on anything. They provide a service: quick food at a decent cost. They don’t shove the food down your throat.
Not to nitpick, but I have pointed this out before in this very thread. That statement is factually wrong. One of the rules of the experiment was that he had to eat every item on the menu at least once. He did not eat nothing but the worst things on the menu.
Again with this weird belief that McDonalds somehow forces its food upon people. You realise that it’s entirely possible not to step into the place at all, don’t you?
Furthermore, do you realise that there exist companies that make champagne and nothing else? The horror! These sadistic exploitative bastards must be stopped immediately! Why, just down my road there’s a shop that sells nothing but alcohol and crisps! This would be truly shocking to me, if I were a complete idiot.
But we’ll always have the death-spike thread, dearest.
And my cube neighbors are looking at me funny now. Apparently bursts of laughter are frowned upon here…
If half the population want’s to eat Big-Macs until they are Midwest fat what the heck do you care? They aren’t running around robbing people for a McD fix. They don’t get in their cars and crash into schoolbusses while drunk on McNuggets and milkshakes. You aren’t going to get “secondhand fat” from being in the same room with them. Maybe they will use more healthcare, but who cares? They won’t be around as long. They aren’t hurting anyone except themselves and possibly my sense of aethetics.
Some jackass wants to make a movie of himself eating McDonalds for a month, good for him. I did that once. It was called “college”. You don’t see making a damn movie about it.
Stupid fucking hippies!!
I refer you to post #6 where JuanitaTech refutes your analogy. Your scenario would work better if we were discussing Mr Burns and the poison doughnut, but not for a product which does not kill instantly.
Is a steady diet of hamburgers bad for you? Certainly they are, and that’s why you shouldn’t try to live on them solely. But any food in sufficient quantities can have toxic effects or can lead to malnutrition. Heck, I don’t eat any processed food if I can avoid it, which is why you won’t find any junk food in my cabinets. No Pop Tarts, no ramen, no instant pizzas, no microwavable anything. But I do have my vices. I occasionally go to the Local Whole Foods, buy 3-year-old Gouda and toasted wheat crackers, and then have a lovely snack accompanied by a glass of Shiraz. Cheese is an artery-clogger, yet I would be quite irate if it were removed from stores on the grounds of saving me from my baser urges.
People should be free to eat crap if they want as long as they take responsibility for their choices, which means no crybabying because a diet of Big Macs and KFC has turned your body into a sphere. Freedom entails risk. We don’t need to be nursemaided by a nanny state.
Of course there are, but you certainly don’t think we let in just anyone.
Well, shit, after the devastation of my failed affair with JuanitaTech I was thinking of switching sides (I need a toaster badly), but now this.
On topic (for once), anybody here find it interesting that a number of the people defending McDonald’s apparently hardly ever eat there? And they’ve been allowed to live? Pizzabrat, apparently your theory that the entire country is being forced to eat themselves to death at McDonald’s needs a little work.
Distinguo. I’m not defending McDonald’s, a corporation with detestable business practices. My principal interest in this thread is defending the principle of freedom of choice against the well-meaning government interference Pizzabrat apparently advocates. Unfortunately, that means defending people’s freedom to eat Mickey D’s toadburgers.
Okay. I probably shouldn’t have lumped everybody together like that. I was conflating you and JT with the folks that said (paraphrased), “dude, the nutritional information is right there, how can you blame McDonad’s for this?”
You can woo me with Latin all you want, the lack of Pop-Tarts is still a deal breaker.
Not to nitpick, but he did do himself in. I have the McDonald’s menu in front of me right now, and I have managed to work out a regimen that has every item on the menu at least once, three meals a day, and still keep my daily calorie count to below 2000 calories/day. But that wouldn’t have made for a movie deal… See for yourself.
silenus, Don’t misunderstand me, I am not trying to say that this wasn’t a stunt that had a specific goal in mind. Obviously this is the case. All that I am saying is that when folks make broad statements that he ate nothing but the worst stuff that this is not correct.
To be honest, health wise, I would be a lot more worried about the sodium on that menu than the calories.
Understood. I shudder when I read the sodium content of some of those foods. But then, if it didn’t have all that salt, it would taste like…nothing at all.
Well, by this asinine criteria, I could easily overeat at an restaurant if any time the waitperson asked “Would you care for anything else?”, I was compelled to say yes.
Again, I am not saying that this guy was not pulling what amounts to a lucrative publicity stunt. All that I am trying to do is to correct a slight factual misunderstanding.
I have a $1,200 lounge chair in my office (yeah, I splurged on furniture, hopefully it’ll be with me a few decades). If I sat in it 24/7, I’d wind up with horrible debilitating, infected bed sores that would kill me without medical treatment. I don’t believe that my chair comes with death spikes, I’ll have to check the brochure, you never know about those Swedes.
Many things, even if they are nominally safe can be dangerous in excess. Yes, the Super Size guy ate a wide variety of things at McD, however, he never tried to eat well at McD. He set himself up with ‘rules’ and ignored what his body said. I sit in my chair, after a while, my body says “Get your ass up!” and I listen. Eat at McD every day, your body will say “Get the salad.” or “Get the small sandwich” or “Get the grilled chicken.” rather than “Get yet another giant calorie laden sandwich with super size fries and drink.”
pizzabrat - I think what “you” don’t “get” is that “normal” “people” “know” that these “foods” aren’t “good” for you. They don’t want or need “morons” like “yourself” going around “telling” them that this stuff is “bad” for “them.” The “market” is not going to “fold” when people see this “movie” or hear “criticism” of it.
You remind me of those evangelical Christians who walk up to you and say “have you ever heard of Jesus Christ”?
