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fat-assgiant McDonald's Corp. is eliminating the "Super Size" option from its menu as the restaurant chain faces increasing pressure to trim excessive serving sizes that nutritionists say encourage overeating
So they eliminate two of the five size choices, the largest of which was the 7 oz., in favor of three size choices, the largest of which is 6 oz. That's a savings of 60 whole calories! wow. Considering the 6 oz. size has 540 calories, ¼ of the daily total for an active man -- 1/3 my daily target -- that doesn't strike me as anything more momentous than a flimsy excuse for a press release.
They're even coming out with the "adult version of the Happy Meal" [gack] with a salad, overpriced tap water Dasani water and a brightly colored bit of plastic crap "pedometer." yum Sulfide-drenched, elderly lettuce, and a packet of anal-leakage-causing "no fat" Greazy-dressing.
Ok. ludicrous as MackyD's is, and always has been, is there anyone who doesn't know that that crap isn't real food? And that eating it more than every once in a while is gonna make ya fat and undernourished?!? On top of being dyspeptic.
And yet this is only one example of a newandimproved approach to problems recently recognized. It goes like this:
1] problem recognized
2] likely cause identified
3] someone govt or business takes it away from us
4] like children [good little children] being sat in the corner, we accept it without a thought.
It is #4 that is really disturbing me. The do-gooders sue the government into taking away cigarettes and social engineering changes what was once considered a mild irritant into being perceived as "your cigarette is killing my baaaby!!" Science be damned.
Now, we are adjudged too fat and the socially engineered change of perception is encouraging widely publicized, yet factually meaningless moves like decreasing the fries size by 1 whole ounce.
The same thing happened in a NoCal town this election day: "personal fireworks," the kind that people set off in the suburban streets in front of their homes, were made illegal because two numbnutz kids burned down a field and a home last year. 99.99999% of people don't set themselves or their friends on fire, but now no one can have their albeit overpriced, tiny fireworks because of a couple of morons.
Are we so brainwashed into being "good consumers" that we will now accept anything? Accept being talked down to like we're too dim to make our own choices and anticipate and choose our own consequences?
Hey PETA! Wake up! The problem is not that we're eating cattle -- it's that we're becoming cattle ! Docile, cud-chewing consumers.
Dammit! Who do I sue for giving me a brain?!?!?!
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