An observation on Burger King

[elfs]

Fast food is decadent. It's carefully tuned to hit the high points of the ape experience of eating-- salt, fat, sugar. Even the bun is optimized to remind your ape self of the pleasure of tearing flesh without much resistance, while the sauce is laced with smoke-flavorings designed to trigger the atavistic memories of meat cooked over a fire. If that's not decadence-- putting all of the pleasures of raw eating into one obscenely dense package, leaving out nothing, what is?

Comments

[urox.livejournal.com]

There's no strawberries in fast food! I want my strawberries! And broccoli!

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

sadly, go to McD's (http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/etc/medialib/aboutMcDonalds/image_library/products/snacks_and_dessert.Par.2020.File.dat/mcdonalds_fruitnyogurt_parfait.jpg)

[urox.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that while apes at nuts, they didn't eat yogurt. ;)

[codeamazon.livejournal.com]

Ugh...I succumbed to a 2for1 chicken offer on a billboard today.

When I hesitated before giving the dogs the mostly untouched sandwiches I realized just how bad they really are.

[latheos.livejournal.com]

As bad as they are, I'm still somewhat enamored of BK's egg-and-cheese croissanwiches. Granted, they're better than most of what's on the menu, but there are better options out there (Noah's eggmits are a guilty pleasure I don't get often enough, as there aren't any Noah's Bagel shops in our immediate vicinity). Heck, even many Subway's have an egg/omelet sandwich that is both tastier and healthier than Burger King (and is available all day, as opposed to only before 11am).

Dammit. Now I'm hungry.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

OG kill whopper with stick!!

*BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM*

pant pant, Og think burger dead now...

(a pickle falls off onto the floor)

AAAAAHHH!!!

*BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM*

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

Eating lingeringly, without worrying about getting back to hunting/gathering or avoiding being eaten. Making it dense and portable makes it trail-food.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have a theory that fast food takes advantage of people at their weakest moment - when they're hungry *now*. As a result, people aren't terribly picky about quality at those moments. An empty stomach being the best seasoning and all that.

[grum]

It seems they also are set up to make people (or at least me) think their hunger is mire of a crisis than it actually is. I've walked in slightly hungry and willing to take bk as the best of bad options and found myself starving before I could get to the register.