[Michael B]

What do you think about the fast food industry? Prices? Quality?

[Kate B]

Yummy, but they sell it for too much compared to what they buy it for from the companies that originally grow the potatoes etc.
Even though it tastes nice, it makes you fat and spotty.
They should make healthy McDonalds, they could make a fortune.

Hi Flavia!!

[Kate B]

Chicken nuggets are nice

This post has been edited by Kate B: 12 October 2004 - 08:13 AM

[Clare H]

hey kate,
i agree with what you said about the fast food industry being too expensive and making you fat and spotty, but i think that many other foods we eat are unhealthy too, not just a tplaces lik emcdonalds. Mcdonalds isn't good for you all the time but every once in a while i don't see the problem with it .

This post has been edited by Clare H: 12 October 2004 - 11:28 AM

[Theo K]

The fast food industry has a lot of enemies, and it will fail unless certain things change, it is unnecessarily unhealthy. There are salad dressings that have as many calories as a burger, that is simply illogical. There is nice food that doesn’t have many calories. and they need to diversify. All the burgers are the same, as are all the burger chains. It seems strange, why not change??

[Sam O]

ermm....
although i never usually approve to things like this (i sound like the queen, but hey) i do actually love fast food. i mean delicious, quick (sometimes) and cheap, but NOT value for money, but i think that is because McDo use the biggets brand name of each item (e.g Coke, Sprite, Fanta, Danone, Cadburys in england), so it should be kind of expensive anyway, rite?
but, unfortunately, there are always the negatives, fatty, greasy and after you eat one, u always regret it, right?

[Clare H]

Sam O, on Oct 13 2004, 10:22 AM, said:

but, unfortunately, there are always the negatives, fatty, greasy and after you eat one, u always regret it, right?

Is that why you have been to McDonalds for the past FIVE days Sam? Just wait 'til your body turns into a big fat blob of poo.

Doesn't seem like this is regret to me Sam

This post has been edited by Clare H: 15 October 2004 - 08:25 AM

[Stephen M]

Hello everyone! I am Stephen McCarthy, and I live in Canada. In case you haven't met me online before, I am a student moderator of this forum. I would liek to encoiurage you all to broaden your use of the forum, possibly to include the General Disdcussion section, or indeed other class sections.

About fast food, I generally try to avoid fast food places, and I haven't eaten at MacDonalds in a long time (and generally don't support it). If I am eating the same type of food, I will try to go to locally-owned businesses, which generally have larger portions and better food.

That said, I am not above having the occasional Subway sandwich, Tim Hortons (only in Canada) donuts or Wendy's burger. I just try to eat it rarely.

So in summary, this is my opinion:

(1) benefits: cheap, tastes good, popular food
(2) downsides: leads to impulse purchases, not supporting local economy, and bad for health, as well as drains money out of pockets.

This view is not altogether different from my sociological view of fast food as an industry (i.e. how it fits into society). I may explain that in a later post.

[Guillermo U]

Fast foods are a nice way to eat. I never said it was good, just nice. Its good to go there like maybe once a week (thats what i do on average). The prices here in france are quite high the the "Euro". I think that in the US is way more cheaper. Still, is nice to eat, the proble is that people can get addicted to eat, and then become overweighted.

[Remond B]

Here's the catch. People(not everyone) love fast food. They love the taste and how quick and cheap it is. Not everywhere is cheap though, here in France it is expensive. I do like McDonald's etc. but I don't like to eat their 24/7. It does taste good and every now and then is not too bad, I get a burger every now and then. McDonalds is making a fortune because of their salad. Because people love to eat at McD's they now that the salad will be good but as Theo said the have salad dressing with as much calories as a burger which is outrageous. The obeisce population is growing drasticly becasue of fast food chains. Now a days the idea of a children's birthday party is going to McD's to eat. That is uterly dispikable. Its pointless. Anyway its really up to you, if you want to eat fast food or want a healthy dinner at home. It is your choice.

This post has been edited by Remond B: 20 October 2004 - 10:42 AM

[Charlotte N]

Although I avoid eating fast food, I don't think it's a terrable thing if you eat it only very occasionally.
I think the really bad thing about fast food is when children eat it as their main food source. Many being small children, they most often don't protest to their parents about eating at McDonalds every day because they like the food. I read a statistic a while ago that stated 1/3 american children eat one or more fast food meals a day. This leads to obesity and ultimatly health problems.
Fast food is OK in moderation, but too much is a bad thing.

[Justine S]

I agree with you Charlotte about moderation, in terms of nutrition.

It's not only about how bad the food is for you though; it seems to me as though it's bad for humanity. I havn't looked into it that much, but I've read some stuff about how McDonald's gets their food, and it's atrocious. They cut down rainforests and ruin other precious land to raise cheap beef. They raise their chickens in miniscule cages (the smaller, the cheaper) until they can be slaughtered. There's a reason McDonald's can sell their food cheaply- because they've sacrificed our environment and our morals. Personally, I choose not to eat at McDonalds (I know I'm picking on McDonalds here, but it really could be any large fast food chain), because I feel as though I'm literally feeding into the loss of morals our culture is experiencing.

[Claire S]

Justine S, on Oct 26 2004, 02:46 AM, said:

I agree with you Charlotte about moderation, in terms of nutrition.

It's not only about how bad the food is for you though; it seems to me as though it's bad for humanity. I havn't looked into it that much, but I've read some stuff about how McDonald's gets their food, and it's atrocious. They cut down rainforests and ruin other precious land to raise cheap beef. They raise their chickens in miniscule cages (the smaller, the cheaper) until they can be slaughtered. There's a reason McDonald's can sell their food cheaply- because they've sacrificed our environment and our morals. Personally, I choose not to eat at McDonalds (I know I'm picking on McDonalds here, but it really could be any large fast food chain), because I feel as though I'm literally feeding into the loss of morals our culture is experiencing.

Hi, I think fast foods are nice to eat but only if you have them every now and then. I think it is horrible what they do to the chickens. Did you know that some fast food joints like burger king had been messing with the food. I think that it is good that Mac D have got some healthy things in their menus. What do you think about their healthy menus?

[Charlotte N]

I just watched 'Super Size Me' last night, and so am pretty disgusted with fast food at the moment

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Did you know that some fast food joints like burger king had been messing with the food.

Well, in the extra features of Super Size Me they show what happens if you leave regular french fries sitting at room temperature vs. McDonald's French fries. after 10 weeks, the regular french fries were incredably moldy, and not recognisable as you would expect. The McDonald french fries looked like they were just bought that day.
What is IN this food? (do we want to know?)

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What do you think about their healthy menus?

If you look at the healthy menus, they're actually not really very good for you. I just took a look and the Wendy's BLT salad is 700 calories. I don't think of this as a light lunch.

[Duncan P]

I agree with Charlotte on that many of the "healthy" menus at fast food restaurants can sometimes have more calories than a hamburger, but it doesn't have to be that way. Sometimes if you simply substitute the dressing you use on the salad you can cut the calories almost in half!!!

Thanks to Mr. Houle (my grade 9 CAPP teacher for the facts)