More evil than tobacco companies? Yes!
May. 13th, 2004 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserGo Active! The Happy Meal for adults!
At least cigarette companies aren't attempting to claim to be good for you. McDonalds is less honest than them. They're offering a "healthy" (HA HA HA HA HA) meal for adults -- a Happy Meal with a salad. Excuse me while I laugh, but their damned salads have more calories than a Quarter Pounder! Plus you get a "stepometer" (WTF? Your customers are too stupid for you to call the tool by its real name, aren't they?) to count how many steps you take per day.
Earlier this morning, before I walked off my anger, I was growling and muttering that all McDonalds should be closed. Really, what is the purpose of a McDonalds? To put the utterly worst quality food available into people? To sell food which is nothing but fat and salt? Where a single meal gives you more fat, salt, and calories than you need in an entire day?
Alton Brown said that if he had kids, he'd never, ever, ever take them to a McDonalds, and I'd have to agree with him. Despite what McDonalds claims, it cannot be part of a "healthy diet", not unless you eat nothing for the rest of the day anytime you go and eat there (and even then, that wouldn't be healthy). Why is it that a company is permitted to lie like that?
But anyway, this is America, and Americans are free to kill themselves any way they like. Oh, unless they have some advanced terminal disease and have nothing but pain ahead of them for the remainder of their life, then they have to be kept alive as long as possible.
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Last night I saw a ten minute trailer/preview for The Day After Tomorrow, and boy does it look good! The effects were amazing! I've not been to a movie in more than a year*, but I want to see this one in the theater!
(* There's never much I want to see, and when I do find a movie I'm interested in, I can see it in other ways.)
FFXI went well last night. I went back to Sandy and cooked for a while... and now I'm nearly at the level for the next test! Arg! That means back to Windy again! Fishing went less well, but better than it had in the past. I'm at fishing 29 now, and alas, once I hit fishing 31 I have to go back and stay at Windy so I can fish in the sea there. Le sigh.
I noticed that things are selling better than they used to, I suppose because it's higher level stuff. Meatballs are flying off the shelf (though I still have like 20 stacks left to get rid of), and now pie dough is joining them. Hm. I should probably ship a bunch of the dough to el mule so that she can store it and send it back to me once I move on to apple pies.
At least cigarette companies aren't attempting to claim to be good for you. McDonalds is less honest than them. They're offering a "healthy" (HA HA HA HA HA) meal for adults -- a Happy Meal with a salad. Excuse me while I laugh, but their damned salads have more calories than a Quarter Pounder! Plus you get a "stepometer" (WTF? Your customers are too stupid for you to call the tool by its real name, aren't they?) to count how many steps you take per day.
Earlier this morning, before I walked off my anger, I was growling and muttering that all McDonalds should be closed. Really, what is the purpose of a McDonalds? To put the utterly worst quality food available into people? To sell food which is nothing but fat and salt? Where a single meal gives you more fat, salt, and calories than you need in an entire day?
Alton Brown said that if he had kids, he'd never, ever, ever take them to a McDonalds, and I'd have to agree with him. Despite what McDonalds claims, it cannot be part of a "healthy diet", not unless you eat nothing for the rest of the day anytime you go and eat there (and even then, that wouldn't be healthy). Why is it that a company is permitted to lie like that?
But anyway, this is America, and Americans are free to kill themselves any way they like. Oh, unless they have some advanced terminal disease and have nothing but pain ahead of them for the remainder of their life, then they have to be kept alive as long as possible.
---
Last night I saw a ten minute trailer/preview for The Day After Tomorrow, and boy does it look good! The effects were amazing! I've not been to a movie in more than a year*, but I want to see this one in the theater!
(* There's never much I want to see, and when I do find a movie I'm interested in, I can see it in other ways.)
FFXI went well last night. I went back to Sandy and cooked for a while... and now I'm nearly at the level for the next test! Arg! That means back to Windy again! Fishing went less well, but better than it had in the past. I'm at fishing 29 now, and alas, once I hit fishing 31 I have to go back and stay at Windy so I can fish in the sea there. Le sigh.
I noticed that things are selling better than they used to, I suppose because it's higher level stuff. Meatballs are flying off the shelf (though I still have like 20 stacks left to get rid of), and now pie dough is joining them. Hm. I should probably ship a bunch of the dough to el mule so that she can store it and send it back to me once I move on to apple pies.
