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Something that's really annoying me is the PC food brigade slagging off fast food places such as McD's and BK for selling unhealthy stuff. So, they start selling salads and other "healthier" stuff to please the PC lot. Now please forgive me if i'm wrong but if i go into McD's....i want fat and i want unhealthy !!! I go in there as a treat and my kids might have a McD's once a month if they're lucky. If i want healthy, i'll buy a take away salad from a salad bar. If others choose to go in McD's on a daily basis, well that's up to them surely and they need shooting if they feed their children on the stuff everyday ! So why all the fuss....should we really have to bow to the PC brigade ? |
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.did you know that the calories, fat and salt content in the maccy d's salads are more than in a quater pounder with cheese, there was an article in take a break mag regarding the 'healthy' options in fast food restaurants, its really quite shocking!
i myself love a maccy d's occaisonally and wouldnt have any qualms letting my child have it very occaisonally, but if you feed it to your kids every day you are setting them up for major problems in the future.
Hi aj, Interesting question, I dont think McD's etc.. sell salads because anybody forces them to, they just do it because they see an opening to sell food to somebody who doesn't like their main line of stuff, quite clever really because I am sure that the if the PC brigade go in for salads that their kids are sure to want the other stuff that everybody else is eating.
I think McD's started selling salads in response to the film Supersize Me, not simply to appease the PC brigade who do their protests outside every now and again. It was the first time someone provided irrefutable evidence into how unhealthy their food was. Previously any attempts at slandering their 'good' name was met with big legal suits. This time they couldn't, so tried to appease the consumer by a bit of re-branding and bringing out their salads. The impact of that film was so huge that they had to do something ...
I like the salads and good value I have brought them and taken them to eat later in day say if staying in hotel and want a snack instead of a second full meal I think they did introduce them because of bad image but they will never go out of business the burgers will always win over, and can find them everywhere and in europe know what to expect and always the cheapest coffee !!
Just found this today
CHEESEBURGER BILL' SET TO STOP OBESITY LAWSUITS |
The film supersize me really annoyed me, i didn't see it, but eating anything (of McD's type) day in day out would lead to massive health problems, so why pick on McD?
And why stop supersize meals? i used to be able to eat a supersize 6 chicken nugget meal, and extra supersize chips, for under a fiver and be perfectly full after, The best part was the massive drink. Now you can't do that without spending more than a fiver, grrrr.
Type 2 diabetes was unknown before the introduction of hydrogenated oils and fats into the food chain. Now it's in hundreds of items.
By the way, KFC is top of the league when it comes to using these pernicious oils. You get over 4 grammes with a serving.