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Why Fast Food critics are full of it

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astroidea said:
So fucking obvious but people are so fucking dumb.
That's why Supersize Me! was such a big hit despite being so obviously retarded. It's obvious if you eat three of the largest meals at mc donalds, that NO ONE ever fucking does, you'd fuck up your health. If you ate that much of ANYTHING, you'd fuck up your health, regardless of what restaurant it's from.
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Yup, it shoulda been titled spurlocks life as a fois gras duck😛
cept ducks are made for that kinda gorging.
 
zerocool84 said:
People can like it that way cus that's how it was cooked at home as well. Blaming everything on restaurants isn't fair.
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it may have been cooked that way at home but it's nearly universally cooked that way at restaurants. the packager/manufacturer adds saltwater to frozen things in order to increase the weight (maybe there's legitimate reasons like improving the freeze), then the restaurant adds more salt because you've got to please the people who have numbed palates. so now everything is too damn salty.

it's like the compression issue with music. the louder one sounds better at first but then you get earfvcked from listening to it and you don't realize you're missing out on sounds that should be audible but have now dropped into the background. but because of that initial preference now just about everything is compressed to shit and no one can take a step back.
 
nerp said:
Shakespeare started sentences with and.

People who think you can't start a sentence with and or but or or either mistakenly took their high school English teachers to heart or they never wrote professionally.
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LOL I'm afraid I'll just have to settle for the conjunctions part of Shakespeare.
 
Have a B1G1F coupon for an Ultimate Cheese Burger from JITB UMMMMM! This thread has opened my eyes though, so I think instead of eating 2 Ultimate Cheeseburgers plus an order of seasoned curly fries. I'll pass on the fries tonight.
 
OCGuy said:
Sorry, I normally like that show, but that came off like a fat person trying to justify eating like shit all of the time.
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That's exactly what I was thinking, especially since Penn Jillette himself isn't exactly skinny 🙂

But yeah, an occasional meal at a fast food restaurant won't make you obese. But when you go there every day and you don't exercise enough, you get fat.

This kind of food contains a lot of energy - if you put more energy in than you use up, your body stores it. It's that simple. People need to stop eating as if they spend 10 hours a day doing manual labour when most of them just sit in comfy chairs in front of desks all day, then take the car or subway home.
 
astroidea said:
So fucking obvious but people are so fucking dumb.
That's why Supersize Me! was such a big hit despite being so obviously retarded. It's obvious if you eat three of the largest meals at mc donalds, that NO ONE ever fucking does, you'd fuck up your health. If you ate that much of ANYTHING, you'd fuck up your health, regardless of what restaurant it's from.
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Well technically, the first purpose wasn't to show technically that McDonalds specifically was unhealthy (it was chosen because it was the king of fast food restaurants: it was more of a "the fuck, did you really say that?" response to the fast food court cases in which McD said that its food was "good for you"
 
ahenkel said:
I'm turning off my internet D:
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He means someone that's critical of fast food. Not someone who travels between fast food places judging their quality.

Edit: Oh, I just realized he quoted that stupid picture. Without the picture looked like he was boggled at the term : (
 
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Yeah I thought this thread was going to be about people who critiqued fast food, not critics of fast food. People who hate on fast food are idiotic. Most of us live in marvelous countries where what we eat is left up to us. I know several people who haven't eaten at a fast food place in years. I eat at one several times a week currently and it hasn't killed me yet. If you don't want to eat it, don't eat it. I don't eat lots of things.
 
I love fast food...but I don't eat it very often nor do I eat a lot of it.

Honestly, I cook quite a bit at home and don't gorge myself on food.
 
I think the points they were making were pretty clear.

1. Your expectations have a lot to do with what you think a product is.
2. Fast food restaurants don't force or try to addict you to their food.

Even without watching the video you should be able to conclude that just by observing people. I've seen plenty of people talk crap about food, but they'll go to there "statusy" place and it's perfectly fine, even though the calories will be the same. Yeah they only showed a few people in the video, but I'd put just about any amount of money on the table and say that MOST any amount of people you did that test with would turn out the same way. Like it or not fast food is not the devil. It does not in and of itself, make people fat, sick, etc. It's just like the retards against guns. Guns by themselves don't hurt anyone. It's the retards behind the trigger that give them a bad name.
 
I love Penn and Teller. This clip was highly amusing. It's essentially the placebo effect. People do the same stuff with wine tasting too. Tell them it's a $3 bottle, and they'll tell you it's cheap garbage. Tell them it's a $30 bottle, and they'll say it's pretty good. Tell them it's a $300 bottle, and they'll consult a thesaurus or just make up new words.

Zebo said:
Look at old Indigenous American pics, old Chiefs even all thin, now they are all corpulent and people blame "genetics" even though it's impossible to change genetics much over 100 years. "diet" even though their diet has no changed much. What changed drastically was AC units being put on top of their houses and being inside not exercising.. Same thing that changes in all HS/college athletes one they get a desk job and before they used to have contests who could eat the most pizzas and were thin. Heat and outdoor exercise.
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Diet has changed substantially. People eat a hell of a lot more than they did 100 years ago.

The difference in the amount of calories that you burn in the heat vs in cooler temperatures is minimal. I have read though, that constant exposure to extreme heat will increase your base metabolic rate by around 5-20%. Of course, if you go running in 100 degrees, you'll likely get heat stroke unless you're conditioned for it. With heat stroke, may come nausea and vomiting. You'll likely have less appetite as well. Ohh, and you could also go into a coma and even die too.

Now, even at rest, if you go into the extreme cold, your body will burn more calories since it has to work to generate heat. Thus, I propose, buy yourself a walk in freezer, set it to 0f, and live in it.
 
zerocool84 said:
People can like it that way cus that's how it was cooked at home as well. Blaming everything on restaurants isn't fair.
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I find most restaurant food to be too salty - I don't use any salt on anything I cook at home, with the exception of a bit of kosher salt on my steaks before I toss them in the cast iron pan (Alton Brown method of cooking steaks - see other thread in OT elsewhere. Best steaks I've ever had have been cooked that way.)

But, a couple of restaurants were so salty, I was gagging on the food. I won't return to Red Robbin - usually the first thing I eat on the plate is the vegetables. I couldn't stand them they were so salty. My baked potato was salty (wtf??). My favorite part of the baked potato is the skin & I couldn't eat it. I was able to gag down my burger, that was about it.
 
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