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Corporate Food News: McDonald’s Goes Belly Up In Bolivia
The golden arches are belly up in Bolivia. It seems Bolivians don’t consider fast food good food. Cue the panicked and confused Mickey D marketers grasping on to their established American victims.
Lisa Karpova of Pravda translated from the original Spanish:
After 14 years of presence in the country, and despite all the existing campaigns and having a network, the chain was forced to close the eight restaurants that remained open in the three main cities: La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
It is a question of the first Latin-American country that will remain without any McDonald’s, and the first country in the world where the company has to close because it persists in having their numbers in the red for over a decade.
Confused marketers made a documentary entitled “Why McDonald’s went broke in Bolivia” in which they tried to explain that Bolivians don’t like hamburgers. But it turns out that Bolivians simply prefer slow cooked food.
In Bolivia, the food to be good requires, in addition to taste, care, and hygiene, a lot of preparation time. This is how a consumer values the quality of what goes into the stomach, also by the amount of time it took to make the meal. Fast food is not for these people, the Americans concluded.
So, we are not hard-wired for Mickey D’s. This means that something else is selling us on eating cardboard grease. Gosh, whatever could it be? How did corporations sell Americans on a culture of fast food, creating a desire for semi-food, frozen specks of animal fat laden with additives covered in sugary syrups?
In May of this year, McDonald’s got a letter from 550 health experts, accusing the corporate monster of ignoring the impact its product and predatory marketing has on kids.
“McDonald’s and industry front groups have refused to address the dangerous toll that fast food and predatory marketing is taking on our kids,” they wrote.
“In the decades to come, one in three children will develop type 2 diabetes as a result of diets high in McDonald’s-style junk food, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” the experts noted. The letter, which also attacked Ronald McDonald as a marketing toll which helps the fast food company draw in younger customers, ran in several papers around the country, including large metros like The Chicago Sun-Times.
In Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 documentary Super Size Me , he ate nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days. In that short period, his health rapidly deteriorated.
John Robbins, one of the participants in the documentary, concluded for Huffington Post, “It turned out that in the 30 days, the then 32-year-old man gained 25 pounds, his cholesterol levels rose dangerously as did fatty accumulations in his liver, and he experienced mood swings, depression, heart palpitations and sexual dysfunction.”
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine draws attention to the link between heart disease deaths and fast food with this ad, taking aim at McDonald’s:
While it may be overtly manipulative and pushing a vegetarian diet (fwiw, your writer is a ‘mostly vegetarian’), is it any more manipulative than the typical McDonald’s ad?
In 2007, McDonald’s won an Australian award for most manipulative ad.
The SpongeBob Squarepants Happy Meal ad was named the winner of the Pester Power Award at the third annual Children’s TV Food Advertising Awards in Melbourne today.
The award recognises the most manipulative food ad on television and is voted on by the 2900 members of the Parents Jury, a web-based forum for parents to voice their views and advocate for the improvement of children’s food and physical activity environments.
Professor Boyd Swinburn from Deakin University said the result clearly highlighted the continuing frustrations parents had about toys being used as marketing gimmicks for unhealthy foods. “The message is loud and clear. Parents are fed up having to contend with McDonald’s enticing their children to want its food by using free toy giveaways,” he said.
Here’s the Sponge Bob German version commercial:
Which is more manipulative – the Sponge Bob giveaways aimed at the kids or the Mickey D toe-tagged heart attack patient clutching a McDonald’s burger? One is using toys to manipulate children into eating death, while the other is trying to manipulate adults into not eating death. However, the medical evidence supports the Mickey D toe tag theory whereas I have yet to see any evidence that Sponge Bob has great taste in food.
Bolivians let the free market decide McDonald’s fate and they went broke because Bolivian culture does not value fast food. But we Americans are way too busy and important to value the food we put into our bodies and our children’s bodies. After all, we have to work so we can pay the outrageous healthcare costs that this bad food creates a need for.
Thanks to our willing complicity, McDonald’s shares rose 120% in the last five years. They get rich as we go broke, and the more broke we are, the more we eat their food, which is causing a need for healthcare we can’t afford. And so it goes.
Speaking of too big to fail, just how long do you think it might be before the awakening to economic injustice leads to the death-by-corporate food awakening?
Feed yourselves, people. It’s cheaper, it’s better for you, and it will save you tons of money in the long run on top of saving the quality of your life. It will also keep you from paying the corporate monsters to screw you out of your health while supporting local farmers. It’s called freedom and independence.
Yes, it’s a PIA, but isn’t your life worth it?
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Reynardine
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
When horses and goldfish go belly up, it’s from contaminated or toxic food. When McDonalds goes belly up…
holmes
Jan. 6th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
I’ll have some fries with that double cheeseburger. Nothing looks better than McDonald’s after coming home from Bolivia. Make that two double cheeseburgers please.
crystalwolfakacaligrl
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
I saw this yesterday and was pleasantly surprised! Started looking up Bolivian recipes and ended up buying a Alpaca poncho :)
Today cooking a bean soup and making whole wheat homemade rolls to go with.
A PIA but so worth it. Crockpots are your friends, as well as breadmachine.
I always keep a organic bean mix and some organic tomato paste, add celery, onion spices & herbs, barley or potato & mix veggies & whole wheat pasta for a healthful soup in crockpot.
There are many cookbooks out now to cook healthy in a minimum amount of time.
Takes planning but its not worth risking your health by eating crap. You can buy heath when it goes bad. Buy good food. Cook healthy.
Reynardine
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Crockpots are always good, but some people can’t live vegetarian, even when they’re careful to balance grain and legumes. Some people have the genetic ability to assimilate vegetable protein and iron; others can’t, and need meat twice a week. A garden, even if it’s just a couple of pots or planters on the deck, is a good thing. So are chickens, if you live where you can get away with a few. I have only one chicken, a Frizzle named Rupert, who doesn’t lay eggs and whom I ‘m not planning to eat, but with a couple of hens, I should have a good thing going.
Sarah Jones
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Completely agree re different bodies needing diff food. I grew up not eating meat, and it works for me (unless I need a shot of iron). Meat sans hormones, etc. is the real issue for meat eaters.
I only care that people don’t feed themselves corporate poison on a daily basis. Nothing wrong with eating it occasionally — sometimes there is nothing else around.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
I myself have given up my Sunday barbecues now for at least five months. I feel no differently unfortunately. I was hoping I would have a little more energy And possibly lose a little weight. Nada. The trick is if you’re not eating beef fat that you will want sweets because sweets and fat produce the same reaction in the body. So you have to make up for it in some other kind of fat. Of course in your case you are just naturally sweet
Sarah Jones
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
If people could cut out the preservatives and the fake food (low-fat crap, fake sugars unless they’re a diabetic, etc) it would be a good start. I prefer natural food in as close to organic state as possible (it’s amazing how people will look at me like I am nuts when I suggest this- as if eating plastic chemicals is somehow sane just because everyone does it). That doesn’t mean I don’t pig out on Hagen Daaz and pizza when the urge hits me:-)
I just know you are buttering me up for something…..:-)
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Who me?
Always buy hormone free chickens
A Walkaway
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Think about it from a evolutionary point of view.
Humans evolved eating a diet that was strong on meats (including fats), vegetables, and fruits (demonstrated fact – many studies triangulate on that fact). Grains and similar types of carbohydrates were a rare treat and that only in season. Now they want us all to eat lots of grains (which, by the way, are the most profitable food to grow/make), and many of the doctors try to push meats out of the picture (or reduce it to a fraction) – the least profitable for big corporations. At the same time, the big push now is for “REAL SUGAR” (sucrose), which is something that is fairly rare in nature (most fruits and so on contain FRUCTOSE, fruit sugar). It’s all about profit for the corporations (including big sugar).
The South Beach diet (and related diets, along with the Atkins diet) seems the closest to what humans ate through most of our existence. Only in the last 10,000 years or so have grains become a major part of the diet (and not for all cultures). So it would make sense that a diet we evolved with would be the best for human health.
Recently I’ve been having a big fight with T.G. Lee dairy. I used to be able to drink their chocolate milk (the only way I can consume milk). They changed the packaging, and when they did I suddenly got a massive sugar headache. Nowhere on the packaging does it say that they went to sugar, except in the list of ingredients, which I hadn’t read. They’d gone from corn syrup (fructose) to “Real Sugar”, sucrose. When I lodged a formal complaint, they told me that their marketing division had told them that people wanted “Real Sugar”, so that’s what they were going to sell and if I didn’t like it, I could buy something else.
They don’t care that fructose is just as much a sugar as sucrose. I’m expecting (because of the anti-fructose crowd) a huge upturn in the number of kids developing diabetes later in life – as I did. Sucrose was rare in nature and although it’s very close to the sugars you encounter in the human body (glucose for instance), it’s not something we evolved eating a lot of. It also seems to directly impact your blood glucose levels, unlike fructose which has only a small impact.
I might also add that when my FMS was diagnosed about 15 years ago, the doctor put me on meds. I went from over 400 pounds and tight size 56 pants, to 270 and size 44, without changing my lifestyle, exercising more, or changing my diet. (It’s gone down further after I was put on different medications, and fluctuates up and down along with my ability to afford and get the meds.) I’d tried all sorts of diets before that, but none worked (I’d just get a splitting headache and would slow down and get weak).
People keep nagging about ‘reducing calories’ and so on, but they miss the biochemistry basis for obesity. Obesity isn’t always because one eats too much (so much for another popular American stereotype). In fact, the reason why obesity is prevalent among the poor is because their diets are strong on carbs and starches, and poor on everything else. A high carb/starch diet is far cheaper than eating ‘right’ – as well as far more profitable for Big Food. The next time an obese person tells you that they usually eat less than everyone else… you might stop and think that they might be telling the truth! I also blame the corporations for the problem with obesity… their maximizing profits also maximizes our waistlines!
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Many veggies get their kicks from sugar too. For instance Cauliflower gives up its goodies in sugar compounds.
You can not eat enough, the body goes into starvation mode and bingo, your overweight. Or you drop weight from not eating and gain it all back when you pick your old bad habits back up
Reynardine
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Olive oil is about the best fat you can get. As for grain foods, hard-ripe grains may not have been in our diets for more than 12 K years or so, but young culms were edible long before we knew about popping (the first form of grain cookery), milling, baking, or brewing. For a real pleasure, plant Great Value raw popcorn, and when the ears are about 4″ long, pick them and eat them raw, cobs, silks, and all, preferably right in the garden. A purer, more delicate, corny delight cannot be featured.
Sarah Jones
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
That sounds great, I’ll give it a go:-) Corn recipe to die for is from Patricia Wells French vegetable cookbook — a bit of butter and olive oil in a pan, fresh corn cut off the cob, toss with freshly grated sea salt and fresh lemon rind – just till warm (still crunchy). SOOO good. Taken with glass of wine and a good book.
A Walkaway
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
You might be interested in knowing that maize was most likely developed not as a grain, but as a source of sugar (in this case fructose) for fermentation.
The early grains were not much, but the stalk? Loaded with fructose.
Also, for a laugh, look at the ancient corn cobs. Tiny and not much in the way of grain!
Reynardine
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 11:18 pm
I’m tolerably familiar with the evolution of Zea mays. The ancestor of the genus Zea was likely a sorghum-like grain whose rachides consolidated into a single cob, creating cornfusion.
Sorry to do that, but my intense interest in the latter grain earned me the nickname of Sorgha the Geek. All right, that was corny, but at least there’s a grain of truth in it.
A Walkaway
Dec. 29th, 2011 at 12:08 am
ROFLMAO!!!! Now those are jokes I can appreciate! It’s ok to get a little corn-y now and then – as long as things are spelt right! Even if it brings a Rye smile! (GRIN!)
The primary ancestor was Teosinte, and they believe it somehow was crossed with another grass – the genus and species escapes me. The history of Maize is fascinating, along with the development of other food plants. People fuss about evolution, yet without evolution (guided by humans), we wouldn’t have a fraction of the food we have now. I laugh, because evolution is used in domestication and breeding of plants and animals all the time, yet people refuse to accept it as fact.
Sorghum… know it fairly well, although I haven’t eaten it (knowingly) except as the basis for an additive in foods (molasses comes to mind). I’d love to try some of it sometime besides as molasses or whatever. Also several other ancient grains- I’ve always been interested in trying Amaranth and Quinoa, plus a few domesticates my ancestors used to have but which were superseded by maize. I’ve also done work with old strains of rice and millet and may even have some millet left around here from my research (I was looking at the transition from millet to rice at a site in eastern China during the Longshan period). And, I am VERY partial to “wild rice”.
Anyway,
An interesting (but somewhat technical) read on Maize is “Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica. Multidisciplinary Approaches.” (2010) edited by J.E. Staller, R.H. Tykot & B.F. Benz and published by Left Coast Press (Little tidbit – I helped with the index.)
It’s a shorter and more focused version of an earlier book “Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize” (2006) by the same editors… That has a lot more “Juicy info” in it but is a lot thicker and a bit older.
Reynardine
Dec. 30th, 2011 at 1:10 am
At one time, it was thought that the only member of the genus Zea was Zea mays, and that it might have arisen from a cross of a teosinte and a tripsacum, or even an andropogon or sorghum. The trend now is to place all the teosintes in the genus Zea, and to postulate that domestic corn is an amalgum of several teosintes, with any of which it can still interbreed. The genus Sorghum is circumglobal, and the resemblance between an ear of pod corn (the most primitive living kind) and a fruiting culm of sorghum is unmistakable. Until the two grains begin to produce culms (a single hermaphrodite grainhead in Sorghum, a terminal tassel and axillary ear in Zea) it’s almost impossible to tell the plants apart visually. Furthermore, some of the old races of corn can produce branching axillary ears, and most corn sometimes produces tassels with assorted unsheathed kernels. A cross-polination has set seeds, but those lacked viable embryos.
Sugar sorghum not only produces a rich and delicious syrup from its canes, but grain sorghum can be milled into a flour very like corn, and there is even a kind you can make a little popcorn tree from by dipping the intact ripe grainhead into hot oil. Because, unlike most grains, sorghum is circumtropical and easy to grow, it’s likely the first grain our ancestors ate on any regular basis. It’s heat resistant and a suckering short-lived perrenial in Zone 9 south, can be easily grown in home gardens and vacant lots, and thus can supply many needs while sparing farmland for the crops that really need them. And…it’s beautiful.
Sincerely, Sorgha the Geek.
mikeyhatesit
Dec. 29th, 2011 at 1:24 am
This is in response to yours & AWalkAway’s convo about corn- I didn’t want to start a whole new thread:
One of my favorite pieces of anthropology is about a Madagascar creation myth. Humans were initially made as kernels on the corncob, and scattered to grow across the world. The interesting fact that disconnects the brain is that Malagasy culture predates the introduction of corn into their agrocultural economy by at least a millenium; the myth was retroactively changed (retconned for the nerds) to include corn as if it had always been a part of their diet.
A Walkaway
Dec. 29th, 2011 at 10:38 am
I run into that sort of confusion all the time. It really gets weird sometimes because “Corn” is an old word meaning “grain”, and I encounter journal articles that talk about “Corn” in a prehistoric European/Mideastern/Northern Africa context.
Maize was introduced in many areas around the world a long time ago, and is now a staple in many parts of Africa. In fact, I’ve read of cultures where more ecologically appropriate foods are not eaten because they’re no longer considered “food”… because the people have been eating maize for so long.
crystalwolfakacaligrl
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Can’t buy health…sorry.
A Walkaway
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Ah, the fundamentalist vegetarians have showed up too. I expect the militant vegans will follow. They face the militant corporationists pushing “fast food” (which we call “human fuel”), the militant fundies, and maybe some other militant groups. Too bad we couldn’t sit back and watch all of the fundamentalist factions fight it out (especially without being caught in the middle).
To be more serious, for us going out to eat is a luxury that we rarely afford. It means not having to spend time cooking and so on… freeing up time which in this country is a precious and rare commodity (I think that’s a prime reason why so many people eat out). It’s also nice to have places like McDonalds if we want food but don’t have the time to stop and wait for it to be cooked. That being said, I couldn’t imagine eating a “fast-food” or even “slow-food” restaurant diet as a regular thing by choice. I had to eat out in “slow” restaurants (with a couple of exceptions) when I was on the temporary job in Mississippi, and boy, was I glad to get home to our regular, simple meals! (Example, baked chicken quarter with veggies, and a little sugar-free pudding for dessert.) I’m just not that used to eating that much food at one time (with a couple of exceptions, I always skipped dessert while out in Mississippi, because I was too full) and while the food was tasty, it wasn’t what I’m used to. I’d rather save the fancy stuff to have as a treat.
Sarah Jones
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
That’s a great point re the meaning of slow food.
From their website, they say they:
Slow Food USA is part of a global movement that believes everyone has the right to good, clean, and fair food. With over 250,000 supporters, 25,000 members and 225 chapters nationwide, the organization advocates for food and farming policy that is good for the public, good for the planet, and good for farmers and workers.
A Walkaway
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Good organization. I wasn’t thinking about them so much when I said “slow food” (although that’s where I got the term), but in terms of having to wait for the food to cook.
I do agree with the Slow Food USA movement.
crystalwolfakacaligrl
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
FYI, I am not a fundamentalist Vegetarian. I do eat beef & chicken, my beef is local ranch grass fed more expensive so I eat LESS. My butter is grass fed, and I drink goat milk or coconut milk.
McDonalds is crap food!
You can hard boil a few eggs for lunchbox or PB sandwich…or pack a salad.
I never eat low fat or low suger….b/c that means FAKE, chemical and ingredients.
A Walkaway
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 11:31 pm
I hope you didn’t think I was talking about you. If so… I apologize and should have been more clear.
I was commenting about the commercial put out by “Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine”. I’ve run into them before (forgotten the issue)… as I remember they’re a front group to add legitimacy to some rather “out there” organization – I think they were tied to militant animal rights groups or militant vegan groups. Someone should look into their connections. There was another “Physicians” group that came around our campus one time… anti-evolution. (You’d be surprised how few medical schools teach evolution and how few the number of doctors that consider evolution in their practice!) I tend to have a knee-jerk reaction because of things like that.
McDonalds… while I don’t like the company at all (“McJobs” comes to mind, along with some rather dirty dealing I’ve heard about), and don’t care for their food (maximized profit means reduced quality), at the same time it sounds more like militant vegetarians trying to pressure people to me.
simple
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
My husband and I have been living on 700 a month for a year and a half. After elec , water,gas,ins., phone and internet that leaves us with about 150 for food. So we eat very basicly. While our health hasn’t improve a lot I believe its because we can’t afford enough fruit and vegetables. We eat mostly rice and beans. However, on the rare occasion that we are able to eat out I have found that fast food from McDonald’s tastes even worse than I remembered. I pass on the Mickey Ds now even if I’m starving because I’d rather be hungry than eat their burgers.
Sarah Jones
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
I couldn’t agree more re their burgers. The smell of them makes me feel queasy, but I have been known to eat their fries and a shake when nothing else was around.
A Walkaway
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Been there, and almost in that sort of boat now. During one period of our marriage (years ago), our usual breakfasts were a bowl of grits and our normal dinner was tuna mac (we often went without lunch). The weekend treat was to make a pot of spaghetti and eat on that for three or four days. Cheap, filling, but it wasn’t that good for us. We couldn’t get food stamps (they made it almost impossible), and our food budget at the time was $22 a week. We both gained a lot of weight even though we weren’t stuffing our faces (medical conditions didn’t help either).
I’m glad we liked grits (and still do). It did get old after a few weeks.
Personally, I don’t go to McDonald’s unless it’s the only option. The only food they sell that I like is their breakfast burritos and hash browns. That’s it. I don’t even like their coffee that much. As I said elsewhere, I consider most of their fare to be “human fuel” and not more. Good for keeping the machine going, but that’s it. Kind of like putting really cheap gas in your car, even though it runs a lot better on something else.
crystalwolfakacaligrl
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Simple,
Try to find a food pantry nearby. Many churches have them but don’t advertize the fact.
Usually they have fresh fruits and veggies in there.
A Walkaway
Dec. 29th, 2011 at 12:25 am
Depends on the area. Some areas have a central organization that the churches use to direct people to… like what exists in this area. Plus food pantries (and organizations like I mentioned) depend on donations for the food they give out, and generally those donations are heavy on carbs, usually canned, or heavily processed. Donations of fresh stuff is not always that common (I think this depends on the economy of the area).
Plus, many churches that do have food pantries require religious activities (even conversion and joining the church) before they will give aid. Invariably such organizations are either dominionist or fundamentalist in nature – and hostile to liberals/progressives.
I’m trying to remember the name of a program where people can do volunteer work and then get food for pennies on the dollar at a participating agency. The food that comes from that seemed to be OK (we got some a couple of times several years ago). Plus, farmer’s markets sometimes have great bargains, and I HAVE heard of bartering for fresh food in areas where a lot of farming takes place.
mathazar
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
You all should click the 1st link above. (and the comments)
Apparently this story is nearly a decade old. Although I don’t doubt the
Bolivian’s preference for high maintenance meals, they do also enjoy their own version of “fast food “, as long as it’s the native cuisine,and
low budget. A quick google search suggests they’re not as health conscience as we’re led to believe, like say the Greeks or the Japanese.
Jason Easley
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Story was first reported on December 22, 2011, which is not a decade ago.
www.hispanicallyspeakingn...
mathazar
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
mea culpa. Although it makes me wonder why something that happened in 2002 is just now making the rounds on the internet.
Surely it would’ve been newsworthy back then.
Jason Easley
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
No problem,
There seemed to be some confusion over when it occurred, so I hope the link helped.
Sarah Jones
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
True- every culture has their version of “fast food” — but they are often fresh foods, cooked or made in a cart operating on the street. Not the same thing as food that sits frozen for months before it’s shipped to a store.
Re the health issue: They weren’t claiming to have found anything other than Bolivians value the time going into the cooking. They never claimed it was better for you (though hard to figure how it could be equally as bad without a lot of effort given the preservatives issue).
A Walkaway
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
The “fast food” I had in Sicily was usually made from fresh materials and quite delicious!!! The stores themselves made it, and in most cases they got the materials locally. I believe it was also far more healthy to eat than the stuff you sometimes find in “fast food” joints here.
It didn’t come from a huge factory where some manager was cracking the whip, shooting for maximum profitability and cutting every corner he or she could find.
Sarah Jones
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Exactly. I was thinking of the crepe carts in Paris and then Italy’s fresh and fast yummies..:-)
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
In all the years the fast food garbage has been around, they refuse to create sauces that taste like mayo without the fat. It would be so easy for them to make their products socially less reprehensible
Reynardine
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
If you’re going to eat mayo, eat real mayo. I stick to Duke’s, which doesn’t have much beyond egg, soybean oil, lemon juice, vinegar, salt, annato & such. No sugar or egregious polysobylglopylbutylate.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
I don’t eat mayo or fast food but it would be to their credit with the billions they make getting people fat, to create non fat foods
Reynardine
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
The obsession of Americans isn’t sex. It’s food. Witness this column.
Reynardine
Dec. 28th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Furthermore, when I opened my mailbox, I discovered myself to be dwelling in vegipornia. All the garden catalogs arrived on the same day.
SinghX
Dec. 29th, 2011 at 9:14 am
I have said it, pontificated, preached it since my high school days that the only way to get rid of anything that is bad for you is to make it “unpopular”.
I discovered that any time I ate McD’s with my HS friends, I gained weight, wasn’t up for track (or whatever sport I was playing) and got zits…I connected the dots and refused to give them my hard-earned $$ from my summer job. I know, very sophomoric, but true. If I connected the dots at 16, then why can’t others? After all the debates on unhealthy food, “Super Size Me”, etc., people still walk right in the door and order garbage instead of nutrition.
Americans are driven by whatever is popular; take away the status, the popularity, all the marketing that makes it “cool” and you won’t see many McD’s around very long.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 29th, 2011 at 9:39 am
just smelling the food in the parking lot should be enough to turn anyone away from McDonald’s. My God those places stink