This might seem like a crazy, contradictory statement, but I’m going to say it anyway: I LOVE fast food, but I HATE McDonald’s. Weird, right? Well, allow me to explain.
When I eat fast food, I do so knowing that the food is unhealthy and that I’m probably going to die at a younger age as a result. At this point in my life, I really don’t care that much. I want some tasty food, and I’d much rather know that it’s unhealthy than be told that it might actually be good for me.
That’s where my problem with McDonald’s comes into the picture.
With items like the Fruit and Walnut Salad, or even their regular salads, McDonald’s is constantly trying (and claiming) to be healthy. Don’t feel like a hamburger? Eat our healthy Fruit and Walnut Salad! What they don’t tell you, though, is that the yogurt is sweetened with sugar, and the walnuts are candied, which means that the salad has almost as much fat as a regular hamburger, and it barely has fewer calories.
And their regular salads, once you factor in the chicken they put on top, are packed full of sodium and cholesterol.
Seriously? Just do like Carl’s Jr. and Burger King do, and don’t even try. Give me a massive burger piled high with unhealthy ingredients. Don’t fool me into thinking that what I’m eating is healthy.
What’s even better is the commercials McDonald’s runs, in which a mom declares that when she wants to give her daughter a good meal, she takes her to McDonald’s for a kid’s meal.
Are you serious? Those chicken nuggets and fries your daughter are eating aren’t going to nourish her as properly as a home-cooked meal would. “Oh, but she’s drinking a bottle of milk instead of soda,” you say. Big deal. One bottle of milk isn’t going to save your child from obesity.
At least the other fast food restaurants don’t even try to be healthy. They just focus on having food that tastes good.
I have yet to see a commercial in which Burger King praises the healthy qualities of its food. Instead, they stick to what people want: a declaration of how amazingly tasty their food is. Wendy’s has recently started marketing their burgers as fresh and un-frozen. But have they tried to fool me into thinking their burgers are healthier than anyone else’s? Nope. And that’s just the way I like it.
To make matters worse, food at McDonald’s isn’t even very good. Their Chicken Selects are probably the driest chicken strips I’ve ever had. And their fries? Limp and tasteless.
Jack In The Box, on the other hand, has wonderful, potato-y fries, and Burger King has chicken fries to satisfy my undying hunger for moist, tasty chicken.
When I’m hankerin’ for something deadly tasty, I’m gonna go to one of those places instead of McDonald’s.
If I wanted something healthy to eat, I wouldn’t be at a fast food restaurant in the first place. Now leave me alone, you dirty liars.
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