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There are tons of good for you, cheap, quick to make meals if you have access to the most simple kitchen. A simple salad, sandwich or bowl at spaghetti at home

There are tons of good for you, cheap, quick to make meals if you have access to the most simple kitchen. A simple salad, sandwich or bowl at spaghetti at home is cheaper at McDonald's and much better for you. Lack of time shouldn't be a justification for fast food. When I worked in an office it would take longer to go out and get food than it would for me to pack a lunch and eat at my desk.

TelmoMenezes 14y ago
Sure, but they don't give you the serotonin rush that McDonald's does. The fat+salt+sugar+carbs+MSG combinations is a very affordable drug these days. With more resources you can adopt healthier pleasures. Poor people don't have that luxury. It's very easy for people with confortable lives to prescribe rational choices for the less fortunate, as if they were characters in the sims. But they are human beings with all the usual human flaws like the rest of us, and they want their day to be less miserable, like we would.
- DanBC 14y ago
  fat+salt+sugar The book 'The End of Overeating' says that modern food is engineered to maximise this enjoyable aspect of food, to make it hyperpalletable. (It feels like a reasonable book, the biases are clear, it's just popsci so it's a bit flaky in parts and obviously a bit sensationalist. (http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Overeating-Insatiable-American/dp/1605297852 http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Overeating-Insatiable-American...)
- trolley 14y ago
  Please don't perpetuate the myth of the MSG placebo effect here. It's a cultural meme with no basis in science [1, 2]; glutamate is widespread [3], yet nobody complains of "green tea headaches". [1]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/027869159390012N http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/02786915939... [2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2006.00160.x/abstract;jsessionid=FB418E2F4DBF2C5491A20CD9296B9E89.d04t03 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2006.... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic_acid_%28flavor%29#Concentration_in_foods http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic_acid_%28flavor%29#Conc...

TelmoMenezes 14y ago

Sure, but they don't give you the serotonin rush that McDonald's does. The fat+salt+sugar+carbs+MSG combinations is a very affordable drug these days. With more resources you can adopt healthier pleasures. Poor people don't have that luxury. It's very easy for people with confortable lives to prescribe rational choices for the less fortunate, as if they were characters in the sims. But they are human beings with all the usual human flaws like the rest of us, and they want their day to be less miserable, like we would.

DanBC 14y ago
fat+salt+sugar The book 'The End of Overeating' says that modern food is engineered to maximise this enjoyable aspect of food, to make it hyperpalletable. (It feels like a reasonable book, the biases are clear, it's just popsci so it's a bit flaky in parts and obviously a bit sensationalist. (http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Overeating-Insatiable-American/dp/1605297852 http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Overeating-Insatiable-American...)
trolley 14y ago
Please don't perpetuate the myth of the MSG placebo effect here. It's a cultural meme with no basis in science [1, 2]; glutamate is widespread [3], yet nobody complains of "green tea headaches". [1]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/027869159390012N http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/02786915939... [2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2006.00160.x/abstract;jsessionid=FB418E2F4DBF2C5491A20CD9296B9E89.d04t03 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2006.... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic_acid_%28flavor%29#Concentration_in_foods http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic_acid_%28flavor%29#Conc...