to think that fast food is just utter and complete rubbish??

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I am not trying to be smug, but I would never intentionallytake my kids to a fast food place (like McDonald's, for example). We have eaten there a few times when it was a last resort, but I honestly think it is the worst food you can eat, even if it's only in moderation. I keep hearing casual comments from friends about going out as a family for an evening meal to McDonald's , and I just scratch my head; if I want a meal out, there are plenty of places we can go as a family that isn't going to cost a fortune, and where we can eat proper food. Am I wrong to feel this way?? I'm probably being all judgey pants about it, but I just don't get it....

Here, I'll get my own .

What about an incy wincy cherry tomato?

Or a grape?

when you're at a party and the staff are bringing round champagne and canapes do you insist that everyone sit up at the table and eat them with cutlery

Nothing better than a Big Mac meal and a chocolate milkshake to cure a hangover....

But IMO, it's not that fast - DP always has a Filet Fish meal and I always have to wait ages for that!!!

Different strokes and all that, judge away OP - see if I care :)

I really fancy a quarterpound with cheese now.
And a McFlurry!

I have just sent a minion valued colleague on a maccy ds run just so I can remind myself of how bad it really is.
I hope they run so the chips don't go cold and soggy by the time they get back to the office.

ladyofthemanor that has happened in every fastfood restaurant around. it's and urban myth.

How do you buy your fruit and veg ?
Do you choose jersey royals out of a big box of them. someone else could have touched that one, you know ?
when you pick up an apple, do you know how many other people may have done the same ?
germs germs. oh. yuk.
eating with your hand ? yucky. best we don't do anything with our hands, ah ?

Booy, it genuinely did happen here. It was closed down for about 5 months, then it re-opened again. Bizarre.

Think what you will, I don't eat in those establishments so I don't really care

I have visions of Nijinsky with one of those expandable camping forks.

Just whip it out of your clutch and stab whatever is going passed on trays. Blinis wouldn't be a problem that way.

it happened in my local mcd's aswell. environmental health involved. place shut down, staff sacked...apparently.

poor najinsky I am still tittering at the thought of anyone typing 'wanksock' - oh no i've done it myself!

Interesting that a w***ck means you don't have to use your hands either :)

LOTM - You want the Urban Myth thread.

The first time I heard the story of spunk in the mayo was sometime in the 90s. Glad to hear its still going, it makes me feel all nostalgic!

It was in the local paper, I'll see if I can't drag it up online somewhere.

My mum eats pears with a knife the same was nijinsky does except she eats the skin too.

Why are you all being so horrid to Nijinsky?

I imagine, like me, she uses cutlery when eating fruit to avoid it looking like a lewd act.

I have eaten bananas with a knife and fork ever since I read a snippet from Paul Burrell's etiquette guide saying the Queen does it that way.

It's an entirely sensible way to behave and probably heads off unpalatable suggestions from Prince Philip. I sincerely hope someone tipped off Michelle Obama before last night's banquet.

Limited, I do hope you are joking.

Absolutely not. I believe everything I read.

It must be true because Paul Burrell never lies and it was in the Telegraph, the Establishment's paper.

Though I did read it first in the Daily Mail's Weekend magazine. I hear the Queen loves it for the telly guide.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1411382/Through-the-keyhole-of-the-man-in-the-dock.html

So, if Nijinsky thinks that not using cutlery to eat is a step backwards on the evolutionary scale, what is his/her take on other cultures where it's the norm to eat with your fingers?

Exactly. What about Egyptians, turks, Indians, who eat with their right hand.
I mentioned this earlier on the thread, but no one commented.

Nothing wrong with the odd mcdonalds now and then and i agree quite tasty as a treat for DS, oh christ, i have heard that mayo story about a gazillion times, it has meant to have happened in a mcdonalds in Edinburgh too and all over the UK, you would have think they would have been forced to close their doors by now, with all this masturbation mayo on the go

Maybe mayonnaise gets the pulses going?!

I'm originally from North Africa. While there are spoons for serve things like rice and cous cous we rarely rarely ate with cutlery...food tastes better like that.