McDonald's "food:" Threat or Menace?

[Redstone]

My son was home today, couldn't go to school because of a sore throat. He wanted a McDonald's burger for lunch, and I figured why not, it's soft and salty, so he should be able to get it down his throat and at least eat something...

While I was there, well, it smelled so good inside, and the picture on the menu board looked so enticing, and even though I haven't eaten anything from McDonald's for, well, as long as I can remember, I ordered one of something called a "Big N' Tasty" for myself.

Let me tell you, folks, that "Big N' Tasty" works out to be "Dry N' Disgusting" when you actually make the attempt to eat one.

I just could NOT do it. No matter how valiantly I attempted to do so...after all I had paid three and a half bucks for the damn thing, and I hate wasting food or money.

And no, the part I couldn't eat (about 3/4 of the total) did NOT get fed to the dog. I have more respect for my dog than to give her THAT.

Now I know why I'm one of the 4% (yes, that's the actual statistic) of Americans who have NOT eaten McDonald's "food" in the last year. Though I guess I'll have to be included in the other 96% for the next year, since I did manage to force down a few bites.

(PS: As you know, I'm NOT anti-fast-food in general; if there was a Sonic nearby, I'd be there. But, Christ, at least make the burgers EDIBLE, would you? That's not too much to ask.)

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[drexel dave]

1. Fast Food in America Tastes Like Smelly Old Armpits

or bad body odor in the ghetto.

[lost-in-nj]

2. I have not had McDonalds since

last Oct. (2006)
If someone put a Big Mac in front of me......
I would inhale it.....

the regular hamburgers and cheeseburgers taste alot like
White Castle....


:hi:

lost

[skygazer]

3. 4%?

Wow.

I can honestly say I haven't eaten anything from McDonald's for at least 15 years. Even then, I didn't often and I'd get sick every time I did.

You learn after a while.

Hope your son feels better. :hi:

[Redstone]

4. Yep, the stats say that 96% of Americans eat McDonald's "food" at least once a year.

Amazing, isn't it?

Thanks for your concern, the Little Guy's doctor did a swab and it's Strep, so he's doing the Amoxicillin Dance. It should be knocked down soon.

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[nomorenomore08]

5. I guess I just have no standards at all.

I used to eat McDonald's constantly when I lived right next to one. I'd happily wolf down any of their menu items.

[Redstone]

6. That's OK with me. It's not up to me to tell anyone else what they should or

should not like.

If you like McDonald's, that's OK, you can have my share.

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[nomorenomore08]

7. It is probably the lowest-quality fast food chain out there.

I have to wonder sometimes how much actual beef is in their patties.

[GOPisEvil]

8. Every now and then, I just gotta have some.

It's a craving that I satisfy occasionally.

[Kutjara]

9. McD's food is the archetypal American product.

It's a triumph of packaging, marketing, and hype that hides an intrinsic lack of substance. The reality of the product vanishes behind a shimmering wall of brand values and "buy" messages. You're not buying a burger, you're buying a worldview.

The disconnect between the image and the reality is so complete that it seems to short circuit something in the average person's critical faculties. Everyone knows the food is crap, yet they keep going back for more, as if they can't quite believe how completely they've been duped.

I think McDonald's advertising works on the Hitlerian principle of the "Big Lie." Promoting food that is little better than lard-coated cardboard as the tastiest thing in the world is so brazen, so downright contemptuous of honest marketing, that it stands outside the normal frame of human discourse. It's a non sequitur, a buffer-overflow hack of the human psyche that allows malicious code to run, despite the best efforts of our BS-filtering mental firewalls. Naming something utterly flavorless the "Big Tasty" is an exercise in irony worthy of Oscar Wilde, except that Wilde would never have been so cynical.

Of course, the parallels to our political system, social institutions, and way of life in general are too obvious to be worth mentioning. McDonlad's is America, in all it's ersatz, shiny emptiness. The American Dream was always that, just a dream. The reality is a dry hamburger in a plastic box.

[Taverner]

10. McDonalds tastes good, but then again sugar-soaked meat, buns and fries do

Sugar and fat make EVERYTHING taste good

Bleaching the flour so that it has no nutritional value tastes GOOD

Think of it as a dessert, not a meal.

[Swede]

11. I will eat it now and then,because it is fast.

But that happens once or twice a year.

[CreekDog]

12. McDonalds: Food? (nt)

[Redstone]

13. That's why I used the quotation marks in my original post. The stuff they pass off

as "food" is a pale representation of the real thing.

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