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How Can Anyone Eat This Stuff?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,022 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48559155#Comment_48559155

    For me, in this area, this niche is filled some of the locally-owned Mediterranean/Middle Eastern places that have take out. Yeah, it might be over $7 for a full meal, but it's affordable, fresh, tasty, and nutritious. Some of the food trucks are pretty good, too.

  • MmeZeeZee
    MmeZeeZee Posts: 19 Member

    I have always hated fast food and ate it maybe once every 3 years. But when I was pregnant with one of my kids I craved McDonald's specifically, after years of not being within 100s of miles of one. I couldn't eat fish, couldn't eat fruit, couldn't eat meat or beans. But I wanted that ammonia flavor. No clue why.

    The first time that very child went to McD's with my mom, she fell in love. She has to be mindful and avoid eating at McDonald's because she loves it.

    So, I don't know how people like it BUT when I had one of them inside of me I got to experience that weird world and all I can say is that such people exist. Tastes are very strange!

  • JCT1000
    JCT1000 Posts: 20 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48525026#Comment_48525026

    Fresh, hot, McDonald’s fries, salted just right, are awesome.

  • Berto8Teen
    Berto8Teen Posts: 15 Member

    I recently just changed my way of eating. I literally would have fast food 4-5 days a week. Rarely took my own lunch to work so I would order McDonald’s, Burger King or go to the local gas station and get a Philly cheesesteak.

    Come home from work and would order pizza, get Popeyes etc. Glad to say I have not eaten nasty McDonald’s in well over a month. Thought it was going to be tough but was really an easy process for me. Now I’m preparing food from home to take for breakfast and lunch to work and I am doing intermittent fasting. So my last meal is at 2 or 2:30 in the afternoon and that will be all until the next morning at 9am.

    Has really helped me not to eat beyond 7pm to where as before, I would sometimes eat at 8pm or 9pm. The harm I was doing to my body by consistently eating McDonald’s on a regular basis is extremely hard to fathom. Fast food has no place in my life anymore. Although I will occasionally enjoy my favorite foods like pizza, Italian.

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,439 Member

    ^^ I'm sure most of us would agree fast food on such a regular basis is not a good idea - would be very hard to fit all that into your calorie allowance.

    For me, fast food still has a place in my life - not in unlimited quantities or frequencies (it never had that for me anyway) but in sensible amounts and frequencies.

    we usually do a take out night once a week - I am mindful of what I pick and how much - but a 6 in Subway or a KFC wrap or a small indian curry - I can fit them into my weekly allowance.

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,559 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48560235#Comment_48560235

    Wouldn't know. Didn't know McDonald's makes them fresh.

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,439 Member

    they do where I live, you can see them being cooked

  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,057 Member

    The one near me is pretty good with everything usually being fresh tasting. I'd get a plain cheeseburger kids meal.I stopped going long ago, though,because the beef was so inconsistant..one day it would be good and the next it tasted like boiled cardboard(waste of money). I would rather them throw on a grilled slice of tofu!

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,561 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48564515#Comment_48564515

    The potatoes we serve are from mostly local growers and usually burbanks which is a russet and use only beef tallow for frying. 😊

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,439 Member

    Re the McDonald’s fries 🍟- they are all frozen. FYI per McDonald’s website.

    Well, yes - I didnt mean they actually peel the potatoes and make them in the store from scratch. . I meant they cook them in the store as yo u order them - ie freshly cooked.

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,439 Member

    Yes, All things in moderation.. but - fast food places are not in high income neighborhoods - they are in low and middle income neighborhoods, why?

    Because people in low income areas also like to eat out and do so at a price they can afford

    obviously gourmet lobster black tie restarants arent going to be located in areas people can't afford to go to them -and vice versa

  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,057 Member
    edited April 13

    One reason why higher income folks have longer life span in general...food deserts still exist in the U.S for sure.

    https://foodispower.org/access-health/food-deserts/

  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 3,057 Member
    edited April 13

    McDonald’s fries - the US ingredients:

    Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. *natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients.

    Hydrolyzed, Hydrogenated ...maybe this is why they don't go bad and rot ever, like twinkies. I'll never eating McD fries again! 😵‍💫

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,561 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48565290#Comment_48565290

    Those oils do have health implications but it's not responsible for preserving food.

    They basically coat their fries in preservatives, flavorings and additives for mostly shelf life, minimal decision making and handling by employee's and of course that represents more profit, can't blame them really, without shareholder profit thing go sideways and you can bet they're going to do within the legal structure that exists anything that preserves those profit and it's the preservatives and not health that rates more important on that pecking order.

  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 4,559 Member
    edited April 14

    I must live in middle or lower class. One established restaurant, one health food pick up, 3 to 5 pizza places, 3 good bakeries, a couple of sandwich places, pubs, etc. And about 10 fast food places in walking distance of my house. But I have to drive to the grocery store—too far to walk. Add distance and/or convenience to your list of reasons to opt for fast food.

    Plus some of them I can get to without crossing the street. The grocery store, I would have to cross 2 busy streets— an important consideration with multiple small children.

  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,561 Member
    edited April 14

    It's frustrating for some people when nuance gets in the way of being right. Nuance is so complicated and bewildering. LOL. I love this place. 😁

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,889 Member

    For me, not in a fast food or takeaway (though I got it occasionally when I worked at Burger King in the 90s), but a cafe, especially if it's lunch, I pretty much always just have tap water.

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