Maybe it's a bit of repression and projection onto the people who eat there?
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 29/07/2013 01:36:10 AM
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The point of the article isn't that cheeseburgers should be all that you eat the point is how senseless all the modern war and disdain some people have for places like Wal-Mart and McDonalds. If you can afford organic food and to designer clothes that's great but for the poor places like that serve as valuable resource to provide low cost necessities like food and clothing. It would be great if poor people ate more vegetables but they are expensive. To the single mom with four kids coming home for second job with only ten dollars to her they McDonald dollar menu is a blessing. He isn't saying that poor people should only eat cheeseburgers just that wealthy foodies should stop looking down their noses at places like this and should stop acting like the Wal-Mart and McDonalds are part of the problem.
The point of the article isn't that cheeseburgers should be all that you eat the point is how senseless all the modern war and disdain some people have for places like Wal-Mart and McDonalds. If you can afford organic food and to designer clothes that's great but for the poor places like that serve as valuable resource to provide low cost necessities like food and clothing. It would be great if poor people ate more vegetables but they are expensive. To the single mom with four kids coming home for second job with only ten dollars to her they McDonald dollar menu is a blessing. He isn't saying that poor people should only eat cheeseburgers just that wealthy foodies should stop looking down their noses at places like this and should stop acting like the Wal-Mart and McDonalds are part of the problem.
Cheeseburgers really are not that bad anyways. It is meat, dairy and bread. People pay a lot more an get no better nutritional value all the time.
If you think about it, most of the do-gooders I know who cream their pants over organic and sustainable and (insert keyword phrase) aren't any healthier as far as I can tell. They know their beliefs about the food they eat are bullshit and are in denial about it and repress it until they can't anymore and so they take it out on those "horrible" places that sell "horrible" food. That makes them feel better and makes it easier to keep the failure of their phoney-baloney ideals repressed.
I'm only half kidding...
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
The greatest food in human history?
- 28/07/2013 05:13:31 PM
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That would've been a rather more useful article...
- 28/07/2013 06:31:01 PM
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If you are going hungry calories do matter
- 28/07/2013 09:19:45 PM
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Maybe it's a bit of repression and projection onto the people who eat there?
- 29/07/2013 01:36:10 AM
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He sounds like a nut. *NM*
- 28/07/2013 08:29:29 PM
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unlike the people who think we should all eat food grown within 100 miles of where we live?
- 28/07/2013 09:22:07 PM
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Supply issues of transportation are not entirely unjustified, though often exaggerated
- 28/07/2013 10:38:04 PM
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population distrubution makes that solution unworkable
- 28/07/2013 11:34:16 PM
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Since when?
- 29/07/2013 05:11:52 AM
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I am all in favor os sensible thigs and try to practice them myself
- 29/07/2013 01:03:45 PM
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Re: I am all in favor os sensible thigs and try to practice them myself
- 29/07/2013 08:04:26 PM
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I thought he was being satirical. At least until I kept reading.
- 29/07/2013 03:15:12 AM
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fast food doesn't make you fat. To much food makes you fat
- 29/07/2013 01:11:28 PM
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Too much food definitely makes you fat but in comparing apples to apples...
- 29/07/2013 01:46:08 PM
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calories are calories
- 29/07/2013 03:36:59 PM
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I don't agree with your subject
- 29/07/2013 07:05:50 PM
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Yeah, I thought the same. Body totally contradicts subject. 
*NM*
- 30/07/2013 02:50:59 AM
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- 30/07/2013 02:50:59 AM
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I was refering to weight gain not general health *NM*
- 30/07/2013 05:38:15 PM
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And I don't really see
- 29/07/2013 02:55:41 PM
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Re: And I don't really see
- 29/07/2013 05:29:55 PM
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Well let's keep in mind here you don't *need* vegetables at all, no more than dairy or meat
- 30/07/2013 04:45:28 AM
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Not to discount the points he makes, but what I find interesting ...
- 29/07/2013 03:51:59 AM
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I don't know if thinks it is OK or just acept the reality of it
- 29/07/2013 01:05:52 PM
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I'm sure you could live off them for quite a while.
- 29/07/2013 01:38:09 PM
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RT's correct, Super Size Me was at best badly documented and exaggerated *NM*
- 29/07/2013 08:10:58 PM
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I eat mostly organic, homemade, etc
- 29/07/2013 07:23:02 PM
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I think most of us track costs just as a self-justification though
- 29/07/2013 08:43:09 PM
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I have brown eggs and free rnage chicken in mmy fridge so I am not judging
- 30/07/2013 01:12:51 PM
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- 30/07/2013 06:51:11 PM
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- 30/07/2013 06:51:11 PM
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What, you have brown eggs?!
- 30/07/2013 06:56:28 PM
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well I don't do the shopping just the eating
- 30/07/2013 08:49:51 PM
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FYI: Egg shell color is determined by the breed of the hen, not by diet or living conditions.
- 01/08/2013 05:04:32 PM
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Re: bird diet
- 02/08/2013 02:51:23 PM
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Yes! I have two hens. "Raptor" and "Val-ociraptor" She is "Val" for short. 
- 02/08/2013 03:44:12 PM
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