On Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:35:58 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:

>Gary wrote:
>
>> songbird wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>
>Oh, I thought it once a month at most. Less then. Either way, even if
>once a month, that's hardly horrible.
>
>He's just whining.

Gary's the big defender of fast food. Don't criticise it or he'll call
you a snob. "Fast food is great!" And then he rarely eats it. Maybe
it's not that wonderful after all. Or maybe, knowing Gary, it's too
expensive.