From the BBC:
Pre-packed salads are often not the healthier option, with some supermarket items higher in calories and fat than a Big Mac and fries, a report warns...
I have no particular interest in proscribing what people eat or any specialised knowledge on healthy diets - but what stinks here is the fundamental assumption that a Big Mac with chips* is the quintessence of an unhealthy meal.
Why? It's a bread-bun, some meat, a bit of salad maybe, some potatoes fried in vegetable oil, washed down with a drink that's 99% pure water, end of.
* I don't use the f-word if at all possible.
Thursday 25 June 2009
The Basic Unit Of Evil
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And, of course, like anything else, only 'unhealthy' if that's all you ever eat.
In moderantion, as an occasional meal, perfectly fine...
Incidentally, it's not the salads themselves that are 'packed with fat', it's the mayo-based dressing or dip you get with them.
Can't people just throw them away? Or is that too simple?
Good point, MW. Still, it was fun reading that out to a health-obsessed colleague today whose kids are prohibited from McD's, but fed almost exclusively on salad. :-)
You should smell the crap he brings in to eat himself!
McDonalds is far more than just about being unhealthy. Like so many things, it's more about social class.
It's why the bien pensant left turned on Starbucks. Here's a company doing a lot of things that the left demand - ethical dealings with their suppliers, providing medical insurance in the USA, yet they are despised far more than say Costa or Cafe Nerro and the reason is simply that they're a product that's easily available to everyone.
re what TA says, one of the highlights of a holiday we had a couple of years ago was sitting outside the MCDONALDS at PARIS DISNEYLAND drinking a COCA COLA. And smoking a cigarette of course. I'm sure it doesn't get more evil than that.
I'm sure it doesn't get more evil than that. Does the Disneyland McDonalds sell beer like the stores in central Paris? That probably would have been worse .. .. ..
CFF, Yes, but Coca Cola seemed the more despicable beverage at the time.
Wot TA says.
Also don't forget the enormous reservoir of ill-will among the bien pensant class generated by the Mclibel case where Macdonalds really shot itself in both feet. This ill-will was magnified and extended by the subsequent film (part)directed by Ken "the cockloach" Loach on the case. Macdonalds will never be forgiven until it goes bankrupt. Then, of course, Ken and his friends will moan about all the workers who have lost their jobs . . . and on and on and on . . . . . .
Julia 17.29; If it wasn't for the salad dressing, salad would just taste of leaves instead of mayo/tangy vinegar and leaves.
I much prefer a Glasgow salad. Otherwise known as chips.
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