Bloody good question.
You mention McDonald’s, and for me that’s a special case. I know exactly why I eat at McDonald’s: when I’m feeling like I might be getting sick, I go and have a Big Mac. It improves my health, quickly, almost every time!
A couple of hours after eating said Big Mac, I get diarrhea. This, of course, quickly causes the, uh, evacuation of lots of microbes. Big Mac = BM = Bowel Movement. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.
Now, to be serious…
Actually, I was serious.
But what about all the other fast foods? Why do people eat all that deep-friend crap with too much sauce? Sauce that makes the rest of the ingredients slide out of the bun like, well, like what comes out of me when I eat a Big Mac while not feeling well? And what about those grease-sticks they call fries or the circular form called onion rings? Ever accidentally had one of those fall on your shirt or pants and have to throw away your clothes because they’ve absorbed a grease and now have a permanent grease spot?
It’s the fat.
Yes, after just a short, short while people come to love the smooth texture of fat. It’s a tough habit to break. It might as well be a white powder.
Besides its attribute of being inherently tasty to the addicted palette of the average consumer, fat has another attribute: it is CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. And that makes it an addictive ingredient to the restauranteur – the food they sell doesn’t cost them very much to make, so they can have a 99 cent burger.
Have you ever thought about the economics of a 99 cent burger? I mean, how many 99 cent burgers can you get out of a cow? LOTS – if you use almot everything except the bones (which do have other uses).
So, to review: Fat is cheap. It tastes good. So we can produce lots of cheap food and sell it for not much and still make a good profit because the customers actually love the taste. Because fat is so cheap, we can give the customers super-duper-extra- biggie-sized portions and make them feel good. And since the consumer isn’t too bright (or the wonderful taste of fat makes them ignore what their brain tells them about the goodness of the food, for the ones that ARE bright), they EAT IT UP and up and up and up.
And then they get fat and die. Or at the very least, they don’t have to go through the stress of getting a boyfriend or a girlfriend,’cause THAT ain’t gonna happen.
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