I know I should have just let it go, but Toddy was sleeping, I was bored, and attempting to multi-task on the goings on here and abroad. This is so innocuous in comparison to what really matters in life, but this was all in response to McDonald’s posting that salad sales make up about 1% of sales.
Huffpost Super User comment that I felt the need to respond to: (name blocked) Just putting this out there, when I go to McDonalds, I go in knowing I am being a fat American, buying fat food that will make me fatter, I am not ashamed of it, nor do I want salads there. McDonalds is for fat people who like tasty food, and for parents whose kids are addicted to the chicken mcnuggets, “as was I when I was a kid.”
Selling salads at McDonalds is just a stupid idea, McDonalds is a fat people club, if you want a healthy salad then go find produce vendors on the streets, markets, or at the flea market, and make your own, GMO free, healthy salads. If you’re going to eat a salad at McDonalds you might as well get something that tatses good, the salads just taste like the color green…
Me:“Says the person who doesn’t eat salads. I love the Grilled Chicken Southwest Salad that they offer. Wendy’s does a Baja Salad that is incredible as well. If you don’t get much time for lunch, and the drive through is your only chance to grab something to go back to the office, I’m thankful that I can grab a salad. So yeah, I’m the 1%, and proud of it.”
Him:I don’t eat them at all on a daily basis, but I hate eaten a few of them. ?
Regardless or not of how many I’ve eaten, making a healthy GMO free salad with fresh market bought produce is lightyears healthier than eating them from McDonalds.
Honestly, if you even knew how to read the nutrition facts on what you eat, you’d know that a salad from Wendys or McDonalds is just as fattening as anything else on the menu. So, why eat some salad when there’s good tasting food on the menu instead? You’re not losing weight, or staying fit by eating a fast-food salad, you’re just being weird and wasting money.
When it comes to salads, please hear me out, “and with all other foods too,” if you have the time, make sure whatever it is you put inside your body is free of genetically modified organisms, (GMO’s). When you cut gmo’s, you will instantly see great changes to your health, which effects will only increase over time the better and better you get.
Me: LOL I’m not going to stop eating salads on your say so. That’s why there are choices on the menu. I do know how to read nutrition, and quite frankly, greasy food just does not agree with me. If I have 5 minutes to make a choice of eating or not eating I’ll take the salad as opposed to being sick within half an hour of eating fried foods. I would be more worried about pink slime chicken, than a 5.00 salad. Each to their own.
Don’t do anything on anybodies say so, but I would suggest you stop eating salads from McDonalds if you’re looking for a nutritional salad, and instead buy produce that is GMO free and make your own healthy salad, which actually has taste.
Who am I kidding, you don’t even know what GMO is.
ROFL You won’t get anywhere in life jumping to conclusions the way you do young man. Not only am I aware of what they are, the “armchair” activists that spent last week protesting at 250 places all over the world. One day you will grow up and realize you don’t have all the answers, nor even know all the questions. The reality is, you think people are weird and wasting their money, because they eat a salad at a fast food place. That is your opinion, you have a right to it, but not a right to try and make me believe it.
Oh, so GMO’s are good? And you are willingly going to defend them, lets go down this path of discussion shall we?
Allow me to prove to you how much of a neckbearded armchair activist I truly am. Unless you’re scared to be outwitted by a nerdy neckbeard 19 year old.
Your move drama queen.
Here’s the deal little man. You made a judgment call about people who eat salads at McD’s I called you out on that. Because you lost face, you decided to go down another path that had nothing to do with it, about GMO’s. I doubt you even understand the entire industry, who they are, and who runs them. So before you throw down, grow up, and educate yourself. I didn’t say they were good, I laugh at armchair activist such as yourself, who jump on a cause, because you read maybe one or two articles about it. Phht. But good luck trying to fight Big Pharma and Agra that is backed by the Government, no matter what your politician of the day is trying to sell you. Enjoy your Big Mac Huckleberry.
Talking to you is like that movie “Idiocracy,” Mike Judge hit that film out of the park, but wasn’t accurate, it’s already beginning to happen.
Let’s rewind. I said if given the choice between being able to eat or not, I chose salad as I simply can not eat greasy food. It makes me sick. So in that aspect it is healthier for me. My only point regarding GMO’s is Monsanto, in particular,like everything in life, isn’t all evil or all good. They (Pharmacia) split the company between Pfizer (Big Pharma) and Monsanto (Big Agra) Need to kill those weeds in your garden? Grab the Roundup – it’s their brand. Modify base items in the food chain? They aren’t the first company to do it, its been going on even before Wonder enriched bread and they saw it helped decrease illness for those lacking vitamin B, and that was back in the 40’s. So along comes Big Agra with the drugs to offset the necessary evil of GMO’s. It’s not that they are doing it, it’s the fact that they want to mask the labeling, and have the money to lobby and fund SuperPACs. The fight we need to fight is about losing our choices, our voices and just letting the government hand us everything. “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have”
It’s good to see we’re on the same page. If I tell a normal person these types of things, or even that NDAA exists, they look at me and either laugh or say little green men…
You don’t know how glad I am to see intelligence, I apologize for anything nasty I might have said earlier.
So at the end of the diatribe, I didn’t bother logging back in. It took me 5 minutes online to see about his Youtube channel stats ( not 1m hits by a long shot and its WoW related) He earned 279.00 is 2012 for ad revenue. I had his real name, no syndicated shows, but I knew every online game he played. I didn’t bother to call him out on it. I read other replies on other posts online, he just needed a gentle smack down. I could have ended it way earlier, by pointing out that the minute you call names, you’ve already lost the argument. He’s 19 and has a lot to learn in life. I’m 49, and I still have room to learn a little more myself. But the main point is not to be apathetic to what goes on outside our little worlds. We are all connected, what happens to one, can happen to all. But for now, I really, really, want a salad.
i was naked when i wrote this 