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It seems there are three types of people based on what they deem most important regarding the meals they consume. There are people who primarily eat for sustana
by rejschaap 7y ago
It seems there are three types of people based on what they deem most important regarding the meals they consume. There are people who primarily eat for sustanance, there are people who eat for pleasure and there are Americans.
I'm solidly in the sustance camp, I tend to go for quick, easy and nutritious. Occasionally I will splurge and eat out at a good restaurant and enjoy it a lot. My wife is in the pleasure camp and doesn't want to waste any opportunity to have a delicious meal and even hates to have a simple breakfast or lunch. My three year old son might be an American, he just wants to eat McDondalds three times per day.
- yoz-y 7y agoIf you skip the fries and take a drink without sugar then McDonald's fits the first category quite well.
- daveslash 7y agoI was unemployed in my early 20s for over 2 months during the 2008-09 recession. My bank account was overdrawn and my credit cards were maxed out. 2 $20 McDonald's gift cards from the "random stuff" drawer was a God-Send. Double cheeseburgers were still 99 cents then, and had nearly 500 calories. I'd get 1 a day and supplement that with some flour-water mixture I pressed into a cookie sheet to make hardtack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack.
- mFixman 7y agoSmugness aside, there are big cultural issues regarding meal pleasure importance. One of my biggest shocks from moving from a Latin American country to Britain was when I realised that taking 1 hour lunches, which I consider the bare minimum, was seen as a terrible time splurge only reserved for the most important events.