Fast Food Weakness

[ForceUser]

And I'm angry that you've decided to espouse your views and veil them as "helping." Most people call it "butting in." No one asked for your opinion on the merits, or lack thereof, on the nutrion of fast food.

We. Don't. Care. We eat fast foods. Yes, it's really bad for you. We don't care how bad. Some of us smoke. Yes, it's bad for you but it makes some people feel good. Some of us drink. Same as smoking. Some of us drive fast even though speeding is directly related to most car accidents. Hell, we're inundated every single day with someone in the media telling us how bad stuff is for us. For gawd's sake, let us enjoy our ing McDonald's for one single minute without having worry that the nutrition and safety monitors aren't going to come by and chastise us for our decisions.

I'm sorry you feel that way. Well, don't let me bother anyone anymore. Guess I'm not cool enough to hang with the /ooc clique.

 

[reveal]

I'm sorry you feel that way. Well, don't let me bother anyone anymore. Guess I'm not cool enough to hang with the /ooc clique.

Hang out all you want. Just don't preach when no one asks. And what's an /ooc clique?

 

[Kanegrundar]

Hang out all you want. Just don't preach when no one asks. And what's an /ooc clique?

I daresay it's you and your little gang of hoodlums, Reveal.

 

[Crothian]

And what's an /ooc clique?

I guess people the people that here a lot though we would be an off topic clique...even though there is no clique.....

 

[Crothian]

I daresay it's you and your little gang of hoodlums, Reveal.

What do you mean his gang?

 

[Kanegrundar]

What do you mean his gang?

Hehehe. Just admit it, Crothian, you like the idea of being a hoodlum in a clique!

 

[Crothian]

Hehehe. Just admit it, Crothian, you like the idea of being a hoodlum in a clique!

I have no problem with that, I have a problem with it being Reveal's gang!!

 

[reveal]

I have no problem with that, I have a problem with it being Reveal's gang!!

You can be the Sharks and I'll be the Jets. When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way!

 

[Hypersmurf]

And that's enough of the bickering, kids.

Behave, hmm?

-Hyp.
(Moderator)

 

[Desdichado]

I have to say I find it really weird that people consider fast food to be a modern, American thing. Your average medieval or ancient city in Europe or Asia had way more fast food available on the street than our cities do today.

It is a modern, American thing. Usage of the term "fast food" is more than just "food you get fast." It carries with it the connotation of going to a restaurant where you order at the counter (or the drive-through), get your food there too, take it back to your table where you get no further service in terms of, say, waiters, and you bus your own table. It carries with it also the connotation of a "kitchen" where mass produced food components are assemblied in modern factory-like assembly line processes by "workers" that nobody even calls cooks in the loosest sense of that word.

Maybe usage is different in Canada, or quite likely in places like Northern Europe where English isn't the native language, but in America, if you say "fast food" that's what you mean. It's quite distinct from getting pre-cooked food from, say, a street vendor. It's not at all just food you can get fast. When I lived in Argentina, I ate a lot of food that was available immediately upon order, but I only ate fast food once. And that's when I was at MacDonald's in Buenos Aires.