fast food
(what a surprise)
essentially unrelated: I discovered that my home has seating for 23 people-between sofas and chairs. That's a 7:1 ratio of chairs to inhabitants. (yes, there are 3.285714 inhabitants here). Since I'm the average world person, that means that there are over 45 billion chairs on the planet (think of all of the additional chairs in businesses and it's probably more than double that)! Chairs are the business to be in.
So everyone knows fast food is bad for them, right? But how could it be? It's engineered by people for people. Feeding the masses what they want. Cool. How do you wrong a business for supplying what the people want? And it's edible too! OK, this is just silly. What people seem to want is lots of fat, salt and sugar. Most of the 'deluxe' burgers contain 30+% fat. It's where the flavor comes from. Yum.
A friend of mine worked at Carl's Jr. long ago. Seems that they used to make their french fries with a machine. You drop in this powdered stuff and some water-makes a dough, then shakes back and forth while extruding perfect 'crinkle-cut' fries. Scary. I think some of them places use the same magic dough to make everything from the bags to all food stuffs. Same goo, different shape.
Isn't this a great world we live in.
essentially unrelated: I discovered that my home has seating for 23 people-between sofas and chairs. That's a 7:1 ratio of chairs to inhabitants. (yes, there are 3.285714 inhabitants here). Since I'm the average world person, that means that there are over 45 billion chairs on the planet (think of all of the additional chairs in businesses and it's probably more than double that)! Chairs are the business to be in.
So everyone knows fast food is bad for them, right? But how could it be? It's engineered by people for people. Feeding the masses what they want. Cool. How do you wrong a business for supplying what the people want? And it's edible too! OK, this is just silly. What people seem to want is lots of fat, salt and sugar. Most of the 'deluxe' burgers contain 30+% fat. It's where the flavor comes from. Yum.
A friend of mine worked at Carl's Jr. long ago. Seems that they used to make their french fries with a machine. You drop in this powdered stuff and some water-makes a dough, then shakes back and forth while extruding perfect 'crinkle-cut' fries. Scary. I think some of them places use the same magic dough to make everything from the bags to all food stuffs. Same goo, different shape.
Isn't this a great world we live in.
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