How much do I LOVE Mexican food? You know what got me through today? It was simply knowing that, after his allergy shot in Auburn, Tim was going to stop at Connie's, this hole in the wall over by the prison, and bring food home for dinner! I didn't have to think about food, cook it, or pretend to clean it up while actually leaving most of it for Tim. Heaven! And it was going to be Mexican to boot...beans and guacamole and tortillas and salsa...all the good things in life! I cracked a Bud Light with Lime at 5 o'clock and turned on some Jimmy Buffet tunes while awaiting his return home! I fully believe in treating yourself well. You know, there is always all of this stuff on about how Americans eat out too much, but for us, there is NO WHERE TO GO so a treat like this is what is should be, A TREAT!
I made another observation about eating out just recently. We stopped at Burger King on our way to the camp last weekend, just to get some quick food we could eat on the go. We SO rarely go for fast food, and the kids, quite frankly, balk at it, but I, every now and again, can go for a Whopper. Well, I was eating said Whopper, with cheese even, and it just didn't taste as decadant as it used to. Then there were the fries. They just were not as greasy and salty as I remembered. I mentioned it in passing to Tim and he said that they probably changed their recipes to be "healthier." REALLY. I mean, COME ON! Is fast food, in any way, really healthy? I want a menu for those of us that don't eat out all the time and I want FULL FAT FRIES!
Give me my Full Fat Fries, we need more Fruitcakes in this world, and less BAKERS!
(if you got the Jimmy reference, go pour yourself a margarita - you rock!)
"Lite" (ugh, misspelling!) meals, "My Size Meals," whatever—the best way to "be healthy" is to skip the fast food altogether. And I agree with your perception that fast food isn't as good anymore, because either, as you said, they're screwing with the recipes in some sort of misguided attempt to be "healthy" or, I suggest, they're lowering the quality of their ingredients to squeeze out more profit. Sugar? Too expensive, use HFCS; the hoi polloi will perceive it as "goo-ier" anyway, and isn't that always better? Milk? Go with guar gum and other fillers. Etc. ad nauseum.
ReplyDeleteBut the answer to eating and cooking "healthy" isn't crap food that doesn't taste good. Take a look at your ol' Betty Crocker someday and think about how often you "punch up" the butter in the recipe or the salt? Sometimes you've got to use the right amounts of this stuff. It's not all necessarily bad for you, as long as you're not getting a lot of fat and sodium on the side by... going to fast food restaurants.
If only 'Merica would get rational about portion control, it could eat as much fat and salt as it wanted.
...just like the FRENCH always have! So true so true! I NEVER skimp on those things, and, have lost weight, so there's the proverbial proof in the pudding. Yum!
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