Posted
12/13/2007 05:42:00 PM
by Douglas
We're not fat because of fast-food, fast-food is around because
we're fat.Fast food makes such a savory scapegoat for our perpetual girth control failures that it’s easy to forget we eat less than 20 percent of our meals at the Golden Arches and its ilk. It’s also easy to forget that before America fell in love with cheap, convenient, standardized junk food, it loved cheap, convenient, independently deep-fried junk food.
He goes on to make some other pretty outrageous claims, but the bottom line is this: You could serve billion and billions stalks of broccoli, just like McDonald's does to hamburgers, if anyone wanted one.
Fast food is ubiquitous, cheap, and if not delicious, at least it's consistent.