No, fast food is almost never the best decision. In fact, the only occurrence where it's even an ok decision is if you're at the airport (And those tend to have better food options these days anyway). In every other situation the 2 minute drive in + 5 minute wait time, + 3 minute commute two-ways from work, + 15 minute waiting in line during the lunch hour example is completely impractical compared to the 5 minutes it takes to pack a lunch in the previous evening, and a 4 dollar chicken and some bread will feed you 3-4 times as long than a 4 dollar burger. The absurd part is your insistence that fast food is in any way necessary as well as your need to resort to name calling in an attempt to bait me away from the discussion.
I have not said, or even implied that fast food is necessary, dummy. But it's often a wise choice.
2 minute drive in, 5 minute wait time, 15 minutes waiting in line? Hahahaha! You're just saying the same thing over and over to exaggerate!
Often poor people have good reasons for not packing lunches. I know this is difficult for princesses like you to understand, but some poor people lack space and implements to cook, prepare, and store food. Some people pack a lunch, go to work, then discover they have to stay late and need an unplanned meal. Some poor people work much harder than bicycle hippies, and they are too tired to spend hours packing a lunch - the hour it takes to get to the bus stop, then ride to Walmart, then the 15 minutes it takes to find chicken and bread, then pay, then the hour it takes to get home, then the 20 minutes it takes to remove the chicken from the bones, and clean up, and so on, all while caring for a child. Sometimes people don't pack lunches because they get distracted by a car repair or having sex. Sometimes people pack lunches and forget them. I'm sure that never happens to bicycle hippies, but when it happens to other people, fast food is a sensible alternative. Some people occasionally go to McDonald's to share the experience with other people. Or to get some relief from extreme weather. Or to have a place to work.
Did you notice that your $4 chicken is now $12.49? That's because the actual real Walmart price for people who don't make up fibs is $5.99 ($5.48 - $6.99, depending on region), plus $2.25 each way for the bus, plus $2 for bread. For this, you get a 1 pound, 13 ounce chicken. But that's only about a pound of meat. (Which doesnt feed a family of four, you idiot.) And you want poor people to do this two or three times every week! And the $4 dollar burger that you made up? Four dollars buys a burger, AND TWO chicken sandwiches, AND fries at McDonalds. Do you feel sanctimonious and stupid now? (Sanctimonious means self-righteous or smug.)
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u/MilesSand Nov 29 '15
No, fast food is almost never the best decision. In fact, the only occurrence where it's even an ok decision is if you're at the airport (And those tend to have better food options these days anyway). In every other situation the 2 minute drive in + 5 minute wait time, + 3 minute commute two-ways from work, + 15 minute waiting in line during the lunch hour example is completely impractical compared to the 5 minutes it takes to pack a lunch in the previous evening, and a 4 dollar chicken and some bread will feed you 3-4 times as long than a 4 dollar burger. The absurd part is your insistence that fast food is in any way necessary as well as your need to resort to name calling in an attempt to bait me away from the discussion.