• Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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    Fast food used to be cheap AND convenient. Now it’s just convenient. The fact that I can get a McDonalds meal from the drive thru for the same price as getting a pizza delivered… why would I leave my house

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      They aren’t that convenient anymore, at least here. Drive thrus and counter service are glacial in most fast food places. Legit Mexican restaurants cost less than taco bell and are generally faster, just for one example.

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    I used to get breakfast at McDonald’s every day before work. I’d roll up, place my order, hand them a $5 bill, and get change back. And I had a filling breakfast after it all.

    Now they want you to finance a hash brown.

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    Imagine getting people to eat (slightly, if anything) healthier because you are now more expensive than the actual freshly cooked food around your location.

    As always, corpos have the biggest of brains.

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    I bought a filet o fish recently after many years and the thing fit within the palm of my hand. It had exactly one half of a cheese slice since that was enough to cover the entire fish patty.

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    Mc Donald’s… 5 years since I’ve spent any money there. Burger King one year. I still once in a blue moon go to Arby’s (which I think is the last one still making good food) and even rarer I will visit Taco bell ( can’t get the wife and I food there for less than 25) or Hardee’s. The days of fast food are over.

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    Taco Bell isn’t terrible but yeah most of them can get fucked. Local fast casual is faster, better, and cheaper. Fast food literally has no value prop left.

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        “Gatekeeping” is the best you can come up with? FFS. You deserve to eat the trash they tell you is “food”. Jog on, son. 🤌🏼

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        The simple fact that we’ve accepted their engineered insinuation of “food” is why it’s still an industry — dying as it may be, lately. The entire species’d be better off if global gen pop wasn’t such a fuckin’ crab bucket of slack-jawed idiocy. gestures at certain others here 🤷🏽‍♂️

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          But I mean it’s a question of how you define food at that point. How would you define food?

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            Nutrition/nourishment is a zero-tolerance requirement.

            Fast food, et al, has lobbied against this and other fundamental aspects of the term for ages — to the point now that we’re apparently discussing differences in “personal definitions” of the basic linguistic term.

            I mean, fuck. What is and what isn’t “food” is such a baseline at every level (ie. micro to macro) that the vast majority of organic life doesn’t riff on the tableture — let alone do so with fanboi frothy zeal and only the assurances of randos trying to pitch the squawk of shit as “music”.🤦🏼‍♂️

            You are what you eat, friends. Do better. You don’t have to be shit. 😘

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              As bad as it is for you a Big Mac does have nutrition. There are things like protein and calcium in there.

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                Keep handjobbin’ ol’ Ronald and telling yourself he loves you. The mental gymnastics you’re displaying are a coping mechanism. Stop eating shit.

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                  I mean, are we at the point where facts just don’t matter? Are you saying there isn’t protein in a burger?

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          I don’t think that rolls off the tongue as well as fast food. Maybe it’s the alliteration.

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        “Biomass” implies organic origins — precisely what this shit lacks, in general. 🤢

        For example, Taco Bell was long ago restricted from referring to their taco stuffing as “meat” as it had/s lower than 20% “meat” by volume. (and even that’s below “prison grade” — which is already below dog food)

        So, they call it “taco filling”, and people still slurp it down like always. Fucking morons.

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        Yes, I too am confused when people like different flavors than I do. How can they not be me? I’m me, they should be me, too.

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    Youre just picking a target that has a higher public opinion. TB for those that eat there, consider it to be a better tasting food experience which has actually gotten better over the years. Demo man might turn out to be right…

    Edit: i meant to reply to another comment but, meh