Fast food restaurants thread in GD

[Exultant Democracy]

I think they want to flame me till I'm well done.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1485628

[ThomCat]

1. Naw. They're being reasonably nice.

That's barely a 2 on a confrontation scale of 1-10. :)

I agree though, thinning out fast food restaurants would be a good thing.

1. More people might be able to make a living serving good food in this city if franchises didn't occupy almost every block.

2. More people would make better money if we thinned out the franchises, so that it isn't just low paid peole making money for franchise owners.

3. The food would be more diverse, and probably better.

4. It would help counter the image that food means fast food. A lot of kids really believe that fast food is good food because they see all that marketting and never learn differently.

[Exultant Democracy]

2. For me this is a humanitarian issue first

not to sound like Kyle's mom but "Won't anyone think of think of the children."

The other day I was listing to NPR and they had a segment about a book from before my time called "Still Hungry in America." The whole time all I could think about was the inter-generational tragedy that has come to pass. These children are still hungry but almost like a cosmic joke they get to be hungry and fat.

[CountAllVotes]

4. I HAD a brother like that

Lived on junk food. Dead and gone - cancer. Age 41 years.

I am convinced it was diet for he did not drink, smoke, etc. Mr. Clean so to speak.

[NMMNG]

3. It's a noble idea

But I don't really think it will do a heap of good. I almost never eat at fast-food places myself, yet I'm overweight and far from "in shape". (So much for the scrawny vegetarian myth) If people want junk food they're going to get it, fast-food joints or no. Just go to any supermarket and you can find heaps of the worst stuff imaginable to eat and drink--stuff laden with sugar, HFCS, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, sky-high sodium and almost zero nutritional content. That seems to be what people want overall, because that's what fills the bulk of the shelves in the stores. Closing down all of the fast-food restaurants in the nation wouldn't change that. :-(