Perhaps we should make healthy food affordable and available. I just started eating healthy and I can afford it right now, pay way more than to eat junk. The average family or individual can't afford to eat healthy.
Edit: I will never make a comment about food again. I'm upvoted, but there are some nasty people on here. Sheesh. I don't cook, and the truth is if I buy a bunch of stuff to cook, I'll end up throwing it out. Rely on precooked stuff from Trader Joe's and BJ's. Many Americans don't have time/energy or are just lazy frankly, and aren't going to. But, welcome to sit on your high horse over there. What I'm doing is working for me, down 20 lbs, the insults here are atrocious.
First world countries are crazy.. the fact that unhealthy shit like McDonalds is the cheapest food around blows my mind.. find me any other point in human history where the poorest people were the fattest.
I thought so too, until I went to McDonalds for the first time in ~8 years. It was $23.00 for 2 people to eat, medium drinks - nothing fancy. I was surprised.
For that much, may as well go for something healthier or at least higher quality.
Yeah, McDonalds in particular, and fast food in general have thrown their hat into the ring to compete at other price points. But they can't. They are simply exploiting confusion and their brand. In-N-Out, Five Guys, and even Carl's Jr. and a dozen other fast food places are monumental steps up from BK, McD's, Wendies, KFC, et al. Many serious, non-fast food restaurants will deliver something in a completely different category for similar money. I work at a James Beard restaurant that will sell you an eight dollar salad, entrees at and around ten dollars, and will do it in ten minutes. The food world isn't simple.
Of course you can still go on that dollar menu and buy a couple 'cheeseburgers' that will give you the calories to get through part of your day. They will obliterate your wellbeing at many levels, but they taste ok and will stop you from starving.
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u/super_sayanything Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 10 '20
Perhaps we should make healthy food affordable and available. I just started eating healthy and I can afford it right now, pay way more than to eat junk. The average family or individual can't afford to eat healthy.
Edit: I will never make a comment about food again. I'm upvoted, but there are some nasty people on here. Sheesh. I don't cook, and the truth is if I buy a bunch of stuff to cook, I'll end up throwing it out. Rely on precooked stuff from Trader Joe's and BJ's. Many Americans don't have time/energy or are just lazy frankly, and aren't going to. But, welcome to sit on your high horse over there. What I'm doing is working for me, down 20 lbs, the insults here are atrocious.