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 .

I don't really do mcdonalds but when I got pregnant this time I couldn't eat any meat at all, then one of those saver menu adverts came on and I just had to have a saver menu double cheeseburger...after having the burger I could eat meat again hooray so mcdonalds saved me from 9 months of no meat which would be hell on earth for me.

On a serious note, as others have mentioned their burgers are actual meat and they do have healthier options, and quite often pre packaged sandwiches/salads contain more fat,calories and salt than a burger. Id rather chomp on the burger and know I'm eating 'crap' than have the crap disguised as a healthy salad personally.everything in moderation except biscuits which should be enjoyed daily as my lovely nana used to say

hmmm

wagamama also do not publish their nutritional information, so we can only trust "my fitness pal" to represent them... which may or may not be accurate!!!

sam i like the sound of your nana.

Booy she was the most brilliant woman ive ever known, her other pearl of wisdom was 'to court many and marry non' ......she would be most displeased dp and I got engaged haha

ooh i like her even more now!

We eat at the dinning table most meals. I have also eaten with royalty at posh functions, where you had so much cutlery, you had to as American woman says to De Caprio on titantic, start from the utside and work your way in.
Yet I love eating with my hands. nothing uncultured about it. sandwiches, picnics. In Egypt of course I ate with my hands always, as is their culture.
And lots of countries have fast food. markets that are the best food you can get in that country. chicken and crabs cooked so tasty, it would be hard for a michelin starred restaurant to beat.
Aint nothing wrong with 'fast food'.

chicletteeth, eating asparagus with fingers is the 'correct', 'polite' way to do it. Nothing unusual about it.

Christ has no-one on here ever heard of peeling a fucking apple? Or I suppose you rip the peel off with your teeth. Or perhaps peel is compulsory, even if you don't like it. (And before its pointed out that not eating peel is wasteful, I gather it up and feed it to my pigs, yes, really).

Wanksock Nijinsky - I was brought up to believe that it is bad manners to put your knife in your mouth

Does this really need to be explained in great detail? You peel with your knife, you cut the apple with your knife and then once a piece of apple is on your knife and near your mouth, you push it off the knife with your thumb. Into your mouth. FFS. How much brainpower is needed to work that one out? Have you never eaten cheese in a restaurant, with an apple alongside it?

And sorry, but ugh to using fingers and getting covered in food and having nowhere to wash. Ugh to Macdonalds and ugh to KFC buckets. This is obviously one of those particularly inane threads where people compete to be the worst behaved, a bit like P3 children. "I can do it messier" "No, I can do it messier still, me, me".

HAHAHA @ njinsky's extreme frustration. that alone has made this thread worthwhile.

why can't you wash your hands in McDonald's?

I think Nijinsky thinks she is being veh veh posh by eating EVERYTHING with cutlery.
Sadly, she is wrong

To be fair, if you can't work out how to peel an apple with a knife, its probably not safe for you to eat with a knife! (is this the real reason they banned plastic cutlery on planes I wonder...)

This thread's got so funny I can't even remember what I was going to say?

oh i can peel an apple no probs. but once i have peeled it. i set the knife down and get to chompin'!! and that aint rocket science either honey. surely even you can work that out.

i don't need to peel an apple becasue i'm not a baby,

but thanks anyway

and yes, i do wonder as well, why DID they ban plastic knives on planes???? must be because someone doesn't know how to peel an apple and present it to their mouth

you're a genius nijinsky.

...and if you eat in MacDonalds regularly, you certainly aren't going to get used to eating with cutlery.

Nijinsky - how do you cope with cheese and biscuits? And canapes? Surely you must eat certain things without cutlery?

I feed them to my pigs, along with my half eaten muffins, of course!

what do we even need cutlery for anyway njinsky? fingers were perfect before cutelry existed. i really don't get your problem. cutlery isn't natural dont ya know

Pia thanks for stating the bleedin' obvious

Was intended as a statement and perhaps in fact as an example as to when cutlery is neither expected nor required.

Glad you've cleared that up!

actually when i go to mcdonald's i ask for some of the cutlery they give out at breakfast

that way i can cut up my food into tiny morsels and present it to my mouth. my mouth loves that

what a lucky mouth you have thisis.

So why does ancient cutlery get unearthed on Bronze Age digs BooyHoo? MacDonalds is an evolutionary step backwards.

Once again, nijinsky GET over yourself.

I don't get cross often, but you really take the bisicut......

Excuse me, the Duchy's original, fairtraide, dark chocolate covered, locally grown-wheat biscuit!

p.s. BTW we eat three meals a day as a family in this house, in our dining room with acutal cooked breakfasts (by me) in case you were wondering

i hope you've got a knife and fork for that biscuit chic!