|   THE EVIL THAT IS........MCDONALDS | natalie
Aug 15, 2003 11:33 AM | | PLEASE READ ON....www.andrea.wsmcafe.com |
| Don't read...waste of time. | Drewpy
Aug 15, 2003 12:14 PM | | However, since I did skim it...
A majority of McDonalds restaurants are franchises. This giant corporation you speak of doesn't exactly fit the image you are projecting on to it. I won't be surprised if you don't understand that and come up with a "thoughtful" reply.
McDonalds was the first major chain to toss the styrofoam and go to paper. Yes, there is waste. I suppose you recycle all of your garbage.
If you want to be an enviornmentalist, that's great. Please understand what you are talking about first. |
| Oh, I missed this little gem. | Drewpy
Aug 15, 2003 12:17 PM | | i "It fills me with chills to think of how many poor dead Mexican children have probably already been consumed by obese Americans"
mmmmm, I want my baby back baby back baby back.....ribs. |
| Well that settles it - I'M GOING TO WENDY'S TONIGHT!!!!! nm | MongooseMan
Aug 15, 2003 12:20 PM | | |
| Some people REALLY worked on the subject. | Duff
Aug 15, 2003 12:28 PM | | If you want to know more about MC world and have look at facts, read
Fast Food Nation, great book from Eric Schlosser (the reefer madness)
Duff is pointing in the right direction |
| this was my favorite picture | pfunk
Aug 15, 2003 12:56 PM | | 
Way too much time and energy put into this. Half of it doesn't even make sense.
Nobody's forcing you to eat fast food or buy it for your kids. I've heard of a bunch of people recently trying to sue fast food chains for making them fat! Damn super size fries! |
| another classic | pfunk
Aug 15, 2003 1:02 PM | | mcdonald's gang signs |
| That's where those Mexican children went! | pimpbot
Aug 15, 2003 2:49 PM | |  |
| Yikes! | kb
Aug 15, 2003 10:49 PM | | and I was hoping to get a good night sleep tonight. |
| Geeez! No opinions here, eh? | pimpbot
Aug 15, 2003 2:44 PM | | Somebody clearly set out to slam Mac D's here, not that they don't have bad practices. |
| Oh, oh, I have one! | kb
Aug 15, 2003 11:17 PM | | What do you get when you mix an obsessive compulsive teen with too much free time and cheap web hosting? I think we have our answer. Of course, that's just my opinion. |
| People not being conscientious is not McDonolds fault. | Sprocketeer
Aug 15, 2003 10:50 PM | | As an American living overseas--in Japan, where there is a McDonolds about every 2 miles (max) in the greater Tokyo area--I can say that the appeal of McDonolds is not their food. People here ask me often, "Do you like McDonolds?" thinking it's a rhetorical question--ie. Americans eat hamburgers and fries three meals a day--and I tell them, "I like going there to read the newspaper, but I don't like the food. It's not good food, but it's cheap and fast, and they have comfortable seats and free refills on the coffee." Japanese people are shocked by this answer. After all, how could it be so popular if it wasn't serving the quintessential American chow?
Then I tell them that it's not really all that popular in the States--certainly not by comparison to Japan. If you want a hamburger in the States there are a lot better choices than McDonolds, unless you only have 15 or 30 minutes for lunch or you're poor, in which case it's the only choice. I figure Japanese people, per capita, are greater consumers of McDonolds food than Americans. Here, every McDonolds is packed every day.
And is McDonolds to blame if someone eats in it's restaurants so often that its' meals comprise a significant portion of their diet and effect their health to a clinical degree? Of course not. We're talking about people who don't bother learning how to eat healthy; who don't know how to cook or are just too lazy to do it; people who are nutritionally retarded. Even if a person is going to eat fast food every day, is it wise to eat so much of McDonold's food? Especially in the States, are there not sandwhich shops aplenty who make healthy food to order literally everywhere, and for about the same price?
Yeah, Americans need to cut down on beef consumption (as well as energy consumption, and consumption in general), but don't tell me that McDonolds created this cultural phenomenah all by itself. That's just bunk. McDonolds is just doing business between outrageous consumption and it's supply. If people started lusting after chicken and fish, then they'd be changing their business to match the demand--as they're doing with Mac Café.
The answer is, people need to learn how to cook for themselves--not microwave, not throw some pre-cut veggies in a frying pan and dump it on a crap load of minute rice and call it dinner. Heating up ready prepared foods and serving them is not cooking. And they need to exihibit self-control. (The last time I was in the States, I couldn't finish my meal--a salad and a sandwhich--because it was enough for three people!).
People don't eat the super-size meal, smothered in cheeze, salt, and mayonaise because it's there; they eat it because that's what they ordered. |
| check out the site!!!! | cyclopdss
Aug 15, 2003 10:50 PM | | ...very..um....wierd? |
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