anyone boycot fast food?

Ree Fresh · #1 (**permalink**) Dec 23, 03

I have this thing try and never eat mc dicks and prefebly any other fast food places that fry their food and serve you highly processed materials to eat.

Anyone else in with me on this and what are your alternative besides sushi?

cheeseburger · #2 (**permalink**) Dec 23, 03

is there a reason? a story? some sort of explanation please.

say_whut · #3 (**permalink**) Dec 23, 03

i'd love to give up fast food; but i can't.
there's something addicitve in the grease they all use. or maybe grease is addictive. either way, i'm hooked.

Dean · #4 (**permalink**) Dec 23, 03

its tooo convienent to stop eating!!!

except mcdonalds is gross i dont eat there often

is subway okay?
cause thats good

miss.myra · #5 (**permalink**) Dec 23, 03

It's pretty easy when you're vegetarian to give up fast food...once I gave up mcdick's, etc. for lent when I was a teenager and it seemed to work really well. heh.

the only real fast food item I can't resist is a Wendy's salad...mmm..

but yeah, things like sushi are good because you can get it fast and it's fairly inexpensive..and it's ok for you to boot, I'd have edamame over fries any day. Pho/congee is good too because you can get it fast and cheap too. Things like wraps/falafels/donairs/pitas are also good.

galaxie · #6 (**permalink**) Dec 23, 03

^^ I wouldn't really consider Subway 'fast food' in the way that most people think of fast food.......when I hear fast food I think, ew gross, fatty, grease-ridden grossness!

Personally, I don't eat fast food generally because I'm a vegetarian and there's not exactly a wide selection of appetizing vegetarian fast food items. Burger King has a good veggie burger, but other than that, pretty much no where else is any good.

I do work in a mall, so most days I have the option of fast food place after fast food place, but I've taken to eating Greek salads, steamed white rice w/sweet and sour sauce, sushi, salad rolls, and veggie sandwiches. It's kind of crummy though, all of the good food in a mall food court costs twice as much as the crap food! :sick:

Myra, I'm all about the edamame...yum yum...and agadashi tofu *drool* Isn't most Pho made with a beef or chicken broth, though?

miss.myra · #7 (**permalink**) Dec 23, 03

subway is so bland and gross..

I'd consider it 'fast food' more because its overprocessed vegetables and bread has little or no nutritional value, sure it's low fat..but it's missing a lot of the good stuff

NeVeRLooKBacK · #8 (**permalink**) Dec 23, 03

I work in a mall so its kinda hard to avoid it
but I try to bring a lunch
not only is it better for you
but you save A LOT of money by bringin lunches

crackdragon · #9 (**permalink**) Dec 23, 03

I've boycotted Mc Chuck & Pukes for pretty much the past 10yrs, but I still enjoy the odd A&W burger...especially after a night of drinking

Erica · #10 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

I almost NEVER eat fast food, period. Once you avoid it, it's really not that hard to find easy, fast, cheap alternatives.

Sushi, bagels, soup & sandwiches, wraps, pitas, donairs, etc. There's a SEA of alternatives that are healthy and don't taste like cardboard.

shorerider · #11 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

I haven't eaten at Mcdick's in a long time. I do get cravings for A&W though, but I fight them back with a healthy dose of sushi. i just can't justify doing that to my body.

PHUNK · #12 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

i don't eat fast food either. for almost a year now. the fastest food i eat now is pizza i guess.

Sykonee · #13 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

McDonalds fries
Wendy Spicy Chicken Burger
Burger King Whopper
Dairy Queen, um, ice cream

Yeah, that's about all the fast food I eat. Unless you count microwavables.

Ree Fresh · #14 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

I can honestly say ive gon with out fast food/mcdicks from 6 months to over a year at a time.

Erica your right, after you stop going its realy easy to just say no and avoid over priced prccessed fried non nutritious "food". And I find when you try it again you can realy tased the greace and msg more and more ewww.

I wont even get into the whole economic debate mc dicks has with advertisign and low payed employees.

that a fair enough answer ken?

**MC Hammered** · #15 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

Slow food is where it is at!

mugsy · #16 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

i once went to mcdonalds with a bunch of friends and all i wanted was a cheeseburger and then one of my friends started a small protest in the middle of mcdonalds... and i didnt get my cheeseburger. she was all "animal rights this, globalization that."
honestly i cant afford to eat out so i dont eat out anywhere. mcdonalds is a rareity, and most of the time im there for breakfast in the sumer when i have to be up at 4 am to go coach somewhere.

Ree Fresh · #17 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

btw of corse fast food is addicting. Its like white bread, youll never be able to stop eating it unlike whole meal/brown. Not because "it tased soo good", it a certain kind of sugar put in food that IS ADDICTING.

Scientist are coming up with a kind of powder to sprinkle on your food that pretty much decodes this addictive sugar so it will help ppl stop eating wthen they need too instead of making them crave more after there full.

:cake:

cheeseburger · #18 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

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Originally posted by wellbelove's

that a fair enough answer ken?

never.
U owe mcdonalds ur soul.

Ree Fresh · #19 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

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Originally posted by ninewells

never.

thought soo :moon:

vesperstina · #20 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

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Originally posted by galaxie:
^^ I wouldn't really consider Subway 'fast food' in the way that most people think of fast food.......when I hear fast food I think, ew gross, fatty, grease-ridden grossness!

Personally, I don't eat fast food generally because I'm a vegetarian and there's not exactly a wide selection of appetizing vegetarian fast food items. Burger King has a good veggie burger, but other than that, pretty much no where else is any good.

i would totally consider subway fastfood. it's fast, processed, and generic tasting. also, subway is the second largest fastfood corporation in north america. when i heard that i started boycotting subway, and started eating at a locally owned sandwich shop instead.

ebbomega · #21 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

My stomach boycotts McDonald's. Last time I went there I almost puked. That was 4 years ago.

Thought the McFlurries are alright.

prozac · #22 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

Every fucking time I go to McDonald's (twice a year maybe) I violently regret it. It makes me seriously fuckin ill. And everytime I say I'm never eating there again, and then it'll be late one night and I'm hungry and its on the way home and I will get some. And then I regret it all over again.

But you know, other fast food doesn't make me feel like that. I like A&W sometimes, and maybe Wendy's...and that's about it. They don't make me want to projectile vomit everywhere.

I eat pretty healthy in my day-to-day life so I'm not going to worry about a teen burger on a drunken Saturday night every now and then. Everything in moderation, right?

Goat · #23 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

does salad in a bag count?

Aki · #24 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

the only fast food places i go to are A&W and Wendys...and i go there maybe once a month or less.
I have a weakness for double-bacon cheeseburgers and teen burgers

decypher · #25 (**permalink**) Dec 24, 03

^^ teen burgers and onion rings are my addiction from a&w, soo good..

i didn't eat fast food for like 6 months, but being drunk+stoned makes it almost impossible to refuse those death burgers from mcdonalds at 3am in the morning