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 .

Now I love Wimpy... I don't care if it's more expensive, I just love them. Can't find them anymore now and I've noticed that they taste different than they did when Wham and Frankie Goes to Hollywood were in the charts...

I don't like BK under any circumstances and McD's maybe twice a year. I'm a Wimpy gal...

You didn't state you were talking about corporate fast food chains specifically, OP, just "to a fast food place (like McDonald's, for example)". So yes, you are talking about FF places that are below your exacting standards.

Everything in moderation, I believe.

wouldn't you eat in a corporate chip shop then OP?

Nope...I wouldn't, actually.

A long long time ago, when we had a life no children and a decent disposable income, dh used to spend at least one Saturday night a month dining in vair posh restaurants/hotels. With accompanying aperitifs/vino/digestifs.

The following day, without fail, lunch was a McDonald's lardfest. There is nothing finer for a hangover.

so you only eat in independant chip shops believing that the food served is far healthier than 'rubbish' served in corporate food outlets. right.

Let's face it, a lot of the anti-MD comments on here stem from simple snobbery. There is no other reason to turn up one's nose at MacD's but think that chippy food, supermarket sandwiches etc are fine. There was a programme on about supermarket sandwiches recently and the high salt content was shocking.

The objection to eating with fingers is just weird, surely we all eat sandwiches etc with fingers and eating chips with fingers is no greasier than crisps and pizzas.

As to their farming practices, I don't know a lot about it but I read a book by Temple Grandin who was a consultant on animal behaviour to the livestock industry and she writes that MacDonald's were the first big company to implement her suggestions to improve conditions for animals in abattoirs and this forced the rest of the industry to make the changes as MacD's were so influential. I do think they've cleaned up their act and a lot of the practices they were rightly lambasted for in the '80s have now been changed.

As an occasional treat they are bloody yummy .

But Harry Ramsdens chip batter is like nectar I tells ya!

I am not weird lecce

I just hate the way salt and sauce get underneath your fingernails and your hands smell like lard gone off.

Seeing as McDonalds is so successful then YABU and 95% of the population would also think YABU. Fair enough if you don't like it but that doesn't mean its utter rubbish.

No such thing as bad food, its all about moderation, etc.

I was reading Jane Clarke's book on kids nutrition and there are some yucky things about McD type places that have made me think twice about them

apparently some of the prepared salads have more fat in than the burgers.
The fat they fry chips in is re-used and heated to v high temperatures which causes the fats to break down into trans fats, also apparently if overcooked these chips contain a chemical that is thought to be potentially cancer causing

of course the chips being thin cut are v fatty

apparently as well, the intensively farmed chickens they use are high in fat due to method of farming and therefore not a better choice than a trad burger

I think that once a week is too much for that kind of crap!

totally agree lecce.

snobbery really does get in the way of rational thinking sometimes.

Yes the food is shit. I know it. I really really do. And then I get that weird hankering for a sausage and egg mcmuffin and I'm like, there man. You know?

Sleeping - the salads have more calories if you buy the one with the blue cheese dressing. Get the low fat dressing and its OK. Also, to Fry chips, you have to have very hot oil. That generally is the premise of frying

Nope, BooyHoo, wrong again. Didn't say they were healthier at all.

so they aren't healthier?

And...I am so far from a food snob, it's untrue.

No.

I'm not talking about health in any case...ummm...are you reading the right thread??

well if they aren't healthier, what is your logic behind eating in them but having to 'scratch your head' at other people eating in mcds?

if not health then what?

your title says fast food is rubbish. if you don't mean nutritionally then what on earth do you mean? do you mean tehy are actually made out of rubbish? do mcd's have bin farms where they gather up all the rubbish and process into burgers?

I've never said anything about health, Booyhoo...that's not what I've been talking about!!

awww....I am obv. BU, and I think some of my post got lost in the translation...I'm not British, so I think I've probably misused some language, and confused some folks. Sorry about that! Good Night.

If by 'rubbish' you don't mean 'unhealthy' what do you mean OP?

Really confused now - what are you talking about then?

your language has been spot on.