▲ 195 ▼ On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food? (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by Kintarian@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world 114 comments fedilink hide all child comments I get a quarter pounder with cheese, fries and a drink. It costs almost $15. I can go to a cafe where I'm waited on and served decent food for $20.
[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 28 points 2 years ago (1 child) the craving for absolute slop rears its ugly head every once in a while. I blame the ennui permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] thrawn@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago Yep. I love high quality food and spend a lot of time learning to copy from chefs I like. I’m very selective about ingredients (e.g. fish, only so much is flown in daily and accessible to normies), often make my own sauces, and have a pretty large collection of dinnerware and lacquerware for accurate plating. Yet like clockwork, several times a year I will eat multiple McRib patties in a single sitting. That shit has presumably the worst ingredients, the same sauce as every other year slathered inconsistently, and is presented in a cardboard box that has definitely gotten thinner. It is in no way worth anywhere near the price but I do it anyway. Sometimes slop hits the spot. Plus I can’t make my own heavily processed slabs of… whatever those things contain. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago Yep. I love high quality food and spend a lot of time learning to copy from chefs I like. I’m very selective about ingredients (e.g. fish, only so much is flown in daily and accessible to normies), often make my own sauces, and have a pretty large collection of dinnerware and lacquerware for accurate plating. Yet like clockwork, several times a year I will eat multiple McRib patties in a single sitting. That shit has presumably the worst ingredients, the same sauce as every other year slathered inconsistently, and is presented in a cardboard box that has definitely gotten thinner. It is in no way worth anywhere near the price but I do it anyway. Sometimes slop hits the spot. Plus I can’t make my own heavily processed slabs of… whatever those things contain. permalink fedilink source parent