Arrggh!!
I'll postpone my fantasy draft post (which I know you're all waiting for with baited breath) for this doozy: McDonald's is planning to put nutritional information on the packaging for most of its items by early next year. Everywhere I turn nutritional information is staring me in the face!! I try to eat well at least half the time, and it's great to have that information available somewhere, but when I'm craving some macaroni and cheese I really prefer to not have 20 grams of fat and 600 calories emblazoned all over the box so it can guilt me into having a veggie burger instead. Fast food restuarants used to be safe; I didn't know exactly what I was getting, but I knew it wasn't good for me and had it as a treat anyway and I was happy.
When things you wouldn't expect to be bad for you have an obscene amount of fat and calories, that's good to know and keep in the back of your mind. (Like the McDonald's salads or chicken for example...I bet their nutritional info won't be touting that their "healthy" menu additions are worse than the burgers with all the sauces.) But anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that that McDonald's is not good for you and if you eat it all the time your heart, your waistline, or both will explode. Damn you McDonalds. Not only do you tempt me with your deliciously bad food, but now every month or so when I decide to go for it and get a quarter pounder I won't even be able to enjoy it completely because the nutritional information will be taunting me with every bite.
The ironic part is that the attempts by fast food places to be healthy haven't been lucrative at all.
In good fast food news, this study stuck it to stupid Subway by showing that it's not really all that healthy, and worse it tricks people into thinking it's healthy, whereas McDonald's customers at least know they're eating crap.
Update: Charlie Gibson is as disappointed as I am in the nutritional labels. Also, they're not only putting the numbers on, they're using bar graphs to make it that much more clear how much of your daily allowance of X each food is.
When things you wouldn't expect to be bad for you have an obscene amount of fat and calories, that's good to know and keep in the back of your mind. (Like the McDonald's salads or chicken for example...I bet their nutritional info won't be touting that their "healthy" menu additions are worse than the burgers with all the sauces.) But anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that that McDonald's is not good for you and if you eat it all the time your heart, your waistline, or both will explode. Damn you McDonalds. Not only do you tempt me with your deliciously bad food, but now every month or so when I decide to go for it and get a quarter pounder I won't even be able to enjoy it completely because the nutritional information will be taunting me with every bite.
The ironic part is that the attempts by fast food places to be healthy haven't been lucrative at all.
In good fast food news, this study stuck it to stupid Subway by showing that it's not really all that healthy, and worse it tricks people into thinking it's healthy, whereas McDonald's customers at least know they're eating crap.
Update: Charlie Gibson is as disappointed as I am in the nutritional labels. Also, they're not only putting the numbers on, they're using bar graphs to make it that much more clear how much of your daily allowance of X each food is.
posted by Alexis @ 4:10 PM
2 Comments:
At 2:17 PM,
jess said…
I went to McDonald's for lunch today and then spent the rest of my lunch hour catnapping in my car. It was glorious.
side note: attributed to my increasing penchant for spending the first hour of my work day reading news and blogs, I'm now reading your friends' blogs in your sidebar. This makes me feel kind of guiltily stalkerish, and so I thought telling you would make me feel better. But I still feel creepy. Your friends are funny. Except the one guy who said you should get rid of the South or something. Boo.
At 2:39 PM,
Alexis said…
Since everyone under the age of 27 spends the first hour of their day reading blogs, I'm sure they read yours too, don't worry.
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