who here is 4 fast food???

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i am not ashamed to admit it, and am sick of the disparaging attitude of "health-nuts" when they hear it but: i like fast food. i have a busy schedule, i cannot cook, i consider food a pretty trivial thing, rightly or wrongly, and as i don't smoke, rarely use rec. drugs and very ocassionally drink, and get enough daiy exercise running/walking around i think i am a pretty healthy person generally speaking - so why should i continue to feel GUILTY for eating @ taco hell ?

who else here is unabashed in their fondness for artificial dining? i mean, come on, everything these days can "potentially" cause cancer, even breathing the polluted air, if you live in an overpopulated city. as i live in LA, i am sick of the trendy hypocritical health-conscious nuts all around me - stupid yuppies here rant against fast food, but go to hookah smoke lounges and oxygen bars and are doing lines all the time and think they're living a "progressive digital lifestyle" - wtf?!! i'd rather eat fast food then go through all the trouble of chewing betel leaves in between colonics & enemes, thank U

bring on the fake cheese!!!!!

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 22 December 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

WTF is a 'progressive digital lifestyle'

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 22 December 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"fondness for artificial dining" = mildly amusing in 1986, now so completely over

― J0hn Darni3ll3 (J0hn Darni3ll3), Sunday, 22 December 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the food but i don't like the way these fast food chains do business so i buy a souvlaki if i feel like some grease. also i signed a petition when i was 10 to save the rainforests swearing i'd never eat macdonalds again (oops. but i still eat it very rarely).
macdonalds in australia cut a loss this year for the first time ever - the petition must be working!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 22 December 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Now that I think of it though Vic the L.A. you describe sounds more like the one that existed in '86 than the present incarnation, so maybe your post has just been lost in the ether until now ;)

― J0hn Darni3ll3 (J0hn Darni3ll3), Sunday, 22 December 2002 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

can someone help me get this spandex off?

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 22 December 2002 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

macdonalds in australia cut a loss this year for the first time ever - the petition must be working!

Minna's might....may her will be done;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Sunday, 22 December 2002 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i just can't turn down pizza of any sort. or the likes of chipotle. but i worked at mcdonald's as a teenager and...ewwwww. just can't take the stuff. i've only read reviews of Fast Food Nation, but that's enough. plenty more reason to avoid such things, for me.

some of those sandwich places are great tho. and there used to be a really cool fastfood middle eastern place near me...mmmm...fastfoodtabouli. hm. now i'm hungry.

my favorite article detailing the (flatulence-induced) tribulations of eating at taco hell...http://www.dirtragmag.com/articles/page.php?ID=26

i'm always rereading that when i need a laugh.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 22 December 2002 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Fast Food Nation did very little to put me off fast food - not they go to them hardly at all, but still, it was rubbish and boring.

I'm not taking kids in though, you never know what might happen.

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 22 December 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i do enjoy a hamburger and fries about once a week on average. i get them at local chains. i have only gone to mcd, bk etc a couple of times in the past two years, but unfortunately was a regular prior to that.

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 December 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it because I sometimes feel like cooking is a waste of my life especially when everything just tastes the fucking same anyway.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 22 December 2002 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i wish i knew of a spot in seattle like mama's in nyc. i would eat there every day

― ron (ron), Sunday, 22 December 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I eat a lot of fast food. I like curry and chips from the Chinese takeaway. Also, nuggets and fries in McDonalds. Or curry chips and fresh cod from the chipper. Or a nice take-away pizza. delicious.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 22 December 2002 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

3y3 H8 fast ph00d!@#!@# It tastes like SHIT b/c they always load it up w/salt, plus it = very Xpensive also!@# House ov phraz3r deli in Newcastle upon tyne 0\/\/|\|Z!@#!@# Cheaper also!@# McDon4lds = TeH SuX0R3ST!@#!@#!@#!"@''@@'@@~~~~##@
#'~'~#@#'#@#'#@#@#@~@#!!!!1!!11!!11!!!!1!11!!!!!!!!!11!!!!

― Pashmina, Sunday, 22 December 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Arby's owns all of you

― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 22 December 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Burger chain food is easily the most vile, sloppy gunk you can put in your mouth, and what a rip off! And those over-lit, day-glo, wipe-clean everything toddler restraunts are the most depressing places on earth.
You can always go home and have food that is warm, requires chewing and tastes of something other than salt. And you can watch telly while you eat it. What's wrong with that?

― DavidM (DavidM), Monday, 23 December 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmmmmmm, salt.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 23 December 2002 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Fast food would be fine if it didn't taste like shit, make you enormously obese, and cost more than many flavorful alternatives.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 23 December 2002 06:04 (twenty-three years ago)

― ron (ron), Monday, 23 December 2002 07:28 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

My objection to fast food has less to do with health and more to do with ethics. Granted, I'm lucky enough to live in a place with a good selection of reasonably priced fast/takeaway places (especially considering the size of the town), and not everyone is. Plus, I've been vegetarian for like 8 years, so there's little reason for me to indulge.

Vic, your dichotomy in your initial post is amusing, if false! I'd love to meet these progressive digital lifestylers! Still, though, you don't have to be a hippie/yuppie colon cleanser to object to fast food.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Fast food...count me in.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll only do it once a week or when I miss a meal and am in need of some excess calories to help make up the difference.

― may pang (maypang), Thursday, 29 January 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Clarke, did you just say "takeaway"?

Long time no see, btw.

― Le Coq, Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to love it as a kid but at some point in my middle twenties it stopped tasting so good and started making me kinda sick. I'll still grab the odd Whopper every couple months though.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I had pasta for dinner. Haven't had fast food in a while.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i still love my big macs and double cheeseburgers, though i shouldn't. mcdonald's gives you nasty burger shits.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 January 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Burger King is better.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

but harder to find hereabouts.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, well.

Jack in the Box!

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Burger King burgers taste like lighter fluid and 20 yr old grease. And flame-broiling stuff is supposed to be really bad for you, healthwise.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Who cares.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Go to bed.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

In a bit.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 January 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Does fish and chips count as fast food? If so, fast food - classic, sine fish + chips has saved my skin on many an occasion. And chips and curry sause beats kebabs in post-pub munchage any day.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 29 January 2004 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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