On Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:39:48 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>songbird wrote:
>>
>> Gary wrote:
>> ...
>> > Why always the disclaimers here about eating fast food?
>> > Another good on is, "I will admit that I ate some."
>>
>> are you proud of eating food that will make you
>> sick if you keep eating too much of it all the time?
>>
>> are you proud of eating food which is based upon an
>> often unsustainable exploitation of the natural world?
>>
>> are you proud of doing those things and spending
>> even more money than necessary to exist?
>>
>> to me these are similar to the signs of the greedy
>> people who like to think that conspicuous consumption
>> mean something as a status symbol, but to me it looks
>> like idiocy. the same with those who get morbidly
>> obese.
>>
>> to me eating fast food all the time would be an
>> admission that i'm not behaving well and yes it's
>> wrong and a sign that i should change my behavior.
>>
>> learning to cook, even simple things is an
>> important skill, adding to that some gardening where
>> you grow some of your own food can at least get a
>> person more in touch with the natural world and a
>> start to appreciating the planet which gives them
>> life instead of living in a sterile box and eating
>> little cubes of processed foods.
>>
>> but as they say, to each their own. *shrug*
>
>I was going to cut out a bit of that but I left your
>entire rant quoted. I must have made you mad. lol
>
>In this group, it seems to only be one extreme vs another.
>
>Your post talks like I eat fast food all the time. Just
>because I like the stuff doesn't mean that. Get real.
>I normally will buy fast food 3-4 times a year.
>Haven't bought any in 2020 so far.
>
>I rarely get fast food but when I do, I don't
>apologize for it or consider it a retro back to the dark ages.
>It's just a good occasional treat for me.
>
>You even finished your rant with a lecture about learning
>to cook and eating better food. LOL.

From reading your posts it seems that you eat that mystery meat fast
food quite often, all you need is a stack of coupons.