Eat Out At Your Own Risk.

Rob43 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-28-2005, 07:12 PM

Worst Fast Food Choices.

By now, it's probably not news to you that most fast food choices are bad for your health. Packed with artery-clogging, heart-attack-causing amounts of calories, fat and sodium, many fast food items are essentially death traps in little cardboard boxes.

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zookeeper671 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-29-2005, 01:42 AM

That's just nasty. Take a look at that kid, too! I can't believe a parent would let that happen to their child. (It's the parent that's buying the food for the kid, hence the parent is the problem.) Maybe what's needed are mandatory nutritional classes for expectant mothers? Wonder if that would even do any good...

DeusXM · #3 (**permalink**) 04-29-2005, 04:27 AM

Be fair. The food featured is the absolute worst you wcould choose to buy from these fast food outlets and aren't childrens' meals, so it's not as if a child is going to get 1,500 cal and 107g of fat when they go to a fast food place. Or you, for that matter.

Plus, I know I don't speak for everyone, but I'd hardly call going to McDonald's 'eating out'.

HeatherP · #4 (**permalink**) 04-29-2005, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by DeusXM

Plus, I know I don't speak for everyone, but I'd hardly call going to McDonald's 'eating out'.

AMEN!

(darned minimum character requirements)

rzrbks · #5 (**permalink**) 05-05-2005, 02:56 PM

Quote:

DeusXM

Plus, I know I don't speak for everyone, but I'd hardly call going to McDonald's 'eating out'.

There are only a very limited number of people I would make eat at McDonald's, strangely enough, most of them are from Texas

camjen1 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-05-2005, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob43

Worst Fast Food Choices.

By now, it's probably not news to you that most fast food choices are bad for your health. Packed with artery-clogging, heart-attack-causing amounts of calories, fat and sodium, many fast food items are essentially death traps in little cardboard boxes.

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/home...ds&floc=HR-1_T

Not to mention the extra toppings that have been added lately (hint: finger lickin good).

BeckieLynn55 · #7 (**permalink**) 05-06-2005, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by DeusXM

Plus, I know I don't speak for everyone, but I'd hardly call going to McDonald's 'eating out'.

Hey now. Before this year, I would definitely call McDonalds my favorite restraunt. I went on a huge health kick and havent ate there all year.. and somehow this is the first time since freshman year I've gained any weight? Go figure.

I guess the only time I actually did eat McDonald's was last week when I was moving into my new apartment with my parents help. They dropped me off at work and since I hadnt ate all day, they literally drove me through the drive through and made me eat McDonalds since it was the only thing we had time for. I guess it is the parents fault!

DeusXM · #8 (**permalink**) 05-06-2005, 08:36 AM

Yeah but my point is you can't call McDonald's a 'restaurant'. A restaurant has cutlery, for a start, and usually a waiter. And a chef. McDonald's is just a fast food vendor. You wouldn't call sitting on a chair in front of Greasy Joe's burger van 'eating out', and it's the same for Maccy D's. I'm not saying the food's that bad (****, I go there myself occasionally) but I really do kinda despair when people consider getting fast food as going out for a meal.

zookeeper671 · #9 (**permalink**) 05-06-2005, 07:13 PM

"Picture a nice family sitting down to dinner, the two kids squirming in their seats waiting for the food, the dog padding around seeing the McDonald's bags and, having to pretend he can't read, decides instead to drool all over the linoleum until someone gives him a scrap. Then out of the box of wings comes...

McCHICKENHEAD!"

HeatherP · #10 (**permalink**) 05-06-2005, 08:45 PM

Mmmmmm! YUM!

lgvincent · #11 (**permalink**) 05-13-2005, 09:56 PM

I think restaurants and fast food joints serve big portions because they can charge more for the food and make bigger profits. It's rare that I eat out but when I do, I always try to eat the same amount I do at home. Whatever is left is taken home in a doggy bag and served in the portions I'm used to. I've just finished a meal I brought home from a restaurant and while most folks are eating this in one serving, I was able to make 3 meals out of it, with 3 ounces of meat and 2 servings of bread in each.

arnold84 · #12 (**permalink**) 05-15-2005, 05:39 PM

My father co-owns a cheese import shop here in Denver (just recently promoted too) that is a major supplier of fancy artesian cheeses for all the fancy foo-foo restaurants in the downtown area. Needless to say, he is becoming somewhat well known with all the chefs and restaurants, and we as a family eat out at said restaurants fairly often - around 3-4 times a month (may not sound like much.. until you realize that little 6oz steak and spoonful of rice you're about to eat costs $18!), and the food these places serve is some of the best I have EVER eaten. Now THAT is something I consider good eating out!

(Now the question is - which is more fattening... a big mac, or french cuisine?

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Eri's mom · #13 (**permalink**) 05-15-2005, 09:18 PM

My kids LOVE Chinese and Japanese foods...especially those buffets where they can have as much sushi and crab legs as possible(my 7yo can out eat anyone on crab legs and my son can eat more sushi than anyone I've seen)...
Anyhow, on my son's bday this year, my dad and I took him to this one Chinese Buffet...unfortunately, I ended up getting really really sick from eating there(the only place I ate that day)...and just yesterday, I was talking to a co-worker asking about a good Chinese restaurant, and I mentioned the other place and she informed me that while she and her husbande were there, he went to eat a baked clams casino and there was a cockroach, baked right on top of it...EWWWW...so, needless to say, I am NEVER going there again(wouldn't anyway after the last time)...
OK, shutting up!!!

arnold84 · #14 (**permalink**) 05-18-2005, 12:21 PM

I too have become violently ill from a Chinese buffet. Came home, not 4 hours later.. I swear all $13 worth of food came up in about 3 1/2 heaves. Not a fun day

And sadly enough... I still go to said buffet on a regular basis =/ The sick incident only happened once, though.

Eri's mom · #15 (**permalink**) 05-18-2005, 02:25 PM

I did once get sick from a beef and cheddar sandwich from Arby's...actually VERY sick...3 days of being sick, and ended up in the er for fluids and a shot of compazine(this was 11 yrs ago)...a week later I was back eating beef and cheddar sandwiches from there(although not THE same Arby's!!!)

Oh...and McDonalds...during my college days...it was a Friday, hadn't eaten a thing, so around 5/6 pm, my friends and I stopped so I could eat something, I got a chix sandwich...well, I got halfway through it and noticed it was all pink and raw in the center...I ended up just putting it in the back of my car...(I drank quite a bit that night as well...bad me)...and I ended up sicker than a dog w/ salmonella...my doctor actually said he was glad I drank what I did b/c it killed half the salmonella(I was sick for a week or so)...that was NO fun!!!...it wasn't fun either when I came across that half eaten sandwich....EWWWW!!!(and yes, I have eaten back at McDonald's since then...but I don't eat there often at all).