Poll: how many mcdonalds do you have a month?

[snowdog]

That's just ridiculous. Chip shop is just as fast as McDonalds. As is any normal shop.

If you want to eat McDonalds, just eat it. You don't need to defend it and come up with silly reasons.

Do you ever go to macdonalds?

They have a stash of warm fries, bigmacs, hamburgers ready at most times, it's a matter of paying and taking, at a snackbar you have to wait for the food to be made. Not to mention the lack of drive troughs, which regardless what you think, is faster than having to go out and inside a shop... Yes there are ways like order your food in advance over the telephone at a takeaway, but maccy d's is simply easier and takes less effort.

Don't get me wrong I love any takeaway or kebab place or Chinese place too and will visit it at any other time when I'm not in a rush, but it's not as easy and quick. I have the situation that I work at 2 branches of tnt post, at 6.45 pm I have 15 minutes to drive the 5 miles from one to the other, I want to eat in those 15 minutes to not be hungry up to 10 pm though, so I go through the mcdrive which is underway.

I eat at a large junkfood branch like maccy d's, BK, or kfc, every day, I also visit normal takeways, snackbars about 4-5 times per week, I know which is faster and easier for me.

 

[Glaucus]

They have a stash of warm fries, bigmacs, hamburgers ready at most times, it's a matter of paying and taking,

You ever been to a chip shop. they have piles of chips, sausages, pasty, pies etc all cooked and ready to go.

Ever been to a shop where sandwiches/crisps/pasties/chocolate bars are conveniently located by teh door and tills.

 

[Berserker]

I have to go out of my way to get one, so I tend not to bother unless I'm doing something else that takes me that way, so I can go with none for several months and then have a splurge (which still only means 2-3).

My problem isn't take-aways. It's all the other **** in my 'diet'. That mostly comes from laziness and excessive comfort eating. Case in point - exercising much more recently but not losing weight.

 

[snowdog]

You ever been to a chip shop. they have piles of chips, sausages, pasty, pies etc all cooked and ready to go.

Yes, 4-5 times per week. Not the ones around here, be it bram ladage, any independant snackbar, a kebab place, a chinese takeway. It's always order, pay, wait 5-10 minutes, eat.

Ever been to a shop where sandwiches/crisps/pasties/chocolate bars are conveniently located by teh door and tills.

It is not as filling and easy to eat and easy to buy as a hot (maccy d) junkfood meal.

Are you honestly saying that in 2-5 minutes, you park your car somewhere near tesco's, grab the food, pay and then eat it all in another 5 minutes while driving ?
If so, then it's not comparable to supermarkets around here, I can't remember the last time it took less than 5 minutes to get something at Albert Heijn or C1000, it's always crowded and parking is hell... Petrol stations on the other hand are a fair bit quicker and would indeed, work like you say supermarkets work, they are however expensive and for the price of a menu, I don't get as much to feel full and it's not as easy to eat.

 

[apeZ]

1 or 2 a year. Horrid, horrid food.

 

[Glaucus]

It is not as filling and easy to eat and easy to buy as a hot (maccy d) junkfood meal.
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How is it easier to eat, that just doesn't make any sense at all.

And yes I can buy a sandwich in under a minute.

Chips shops have everything ready to go.
local chip shop is 3.60 for fish and chips. Or about 1.60ish for sausage and chips. Although you can't eat that in a car.

As for filling and taste that fine, I never said you couldn't like it, just that I don't like the taste and isn't as filling as a large pack of chips which is about 5 times the size and proper chips, not silly thin things.

 

[Biohazard]

Although you can't eat that in a car.

Yes you can.

You open it up, and shove it in yer gob.

 

[snowdog]

How is it easier to eat, that just doesn't make any sense at all.

A cold sandwich is not as filling as a quarter pounder, mchicken, bigmac or big tasty.

And yes I can buy a sandwich in under a minute.

Good service then, I could too at a petrol station, but at a supermarket, no way.

Chips shops have everything ready to go.

I would love to see that here, it would mean I'd visit them far more often.

local chip shop is 3.60 for fish and chips. Or about 1.60ish for sausage and chips. Although you can't eat that in a car.

That is not an issue here I think, the habit is to put cornchicken or a sausage or a frikandel or a croquet or a cheese soufflet on a sarny here and it's usually convenient to eat, but the only time that works for me is if I can order it in advance and if it's quick to pick up without having to park my car, simply stop for a sec, safety lights on, pick up food, drive away all in 1 minute...


Basically, Maccy d's for me is more convinient, or requires less effort.
But I also love the food they sell there, but that's not hard, I love any junkfood.

 

[Glaucus]

Yes you can.

You open it up, and shove it in yer gob.

true, just think of the grease all over the steering wheel, just like McDs

 

[Noel Gallagher]

Probably once a month but it's very rarely that I go - and when I do it's Mcdonalds' Breakfast

 

[Biohazard]

true, just think of the grease all over the steering wheel, just like McDs

wipe hands down trousers.

or ask for napkin.

you can grab napkins at mcd's too.

you can also eat with one hand, therefore cutting down on grease contamination

drive with other?

 

[Biohazard]

I would love to see that here, it would mean I'd visit them far more often.

Wouldn't take long to clog those arteries, however it already sounds like your doing a good job of that!

 

[Kenai]

Any fish and chip shop, you could get chips +sausage/pasty/other and a drink for £3.60.

Any tesco/supermarket/other you can get a sandwich, crisps and drinks for under £3.60, plenty of independent sandwich places that do hot baguettes again for around 3.50 with a drink

All of those options would take at least 45 minutes to get to and then back to town though, which is a huge waste of parking meter time.

Well, that's just for the sandwich option, fish and chip wise there is only one place I would go and that's miles away.

 

[Glaucus]

Your town has none of those things in it where the he'll you work

 

[Kenai]

No, not when i'm in town shopping, there are none of those things, just endless fast food places and overpriced coffee shops.

The nearest supermarket effectively means ending your shopping day and going home again, so not really a practical choice. Same with cheap fish and chips, unless you want to spend a tenner at Harry Ramsdens.

In the city in general there are loads of places but then I am never sat at home and just randomly drive to McDonalds, I eat at home. I only have McDonalds if I am out shopping and get hungry.

 

[Berserker]

And yes I can buy a sandwich in under a minute.

Video evidence required!

Mind you, I can leave my desk, get a sandwich from the local supermarket, and be back at my desk about ten minutes later, and that's without a car (I don't own one). Handy.

 

[AMG]

and if you work there? (bare in mind most restaurants do have a break allowance)

 

[TangoSixteen]

Oh god, I had the following earlier this evening...

1 x Large Big Mac Meal with Coke.
1 x Regular Coke
2 x cheese wedge portions
1 x sour cream dip
1 x plain mcFlurry
1 x Hot Chocolate


It was immense!!

Nothing wrong with say 1 or 2 a month, but thats about it really.

 

[neoboy]

I'm not a fan of the drunken takeaway food (if you can call what they serve for a kebab that), so would usually just rather grab a double cheeseburger or two in there. At least I'll know what it will taste like and it's not bad at £1.29 a pop but other than that would never get anything else in there.

 

[RimBlock]

Getting better.

Used to be BK every lunch time during week days, with two double swiss, large fries and coke. I used to just burn it all off untill I hit around 27 and went from 85Kg (32-34 inch waist) to 106Kg (40 inch waist).

After far too much of that I have cut down to 1 or 2 times a week but am working for a lower count as that is mainly due to lasyness or boredom of just eating veg for tea.

It is a little difficult as my older son will always hassle us for fast food, the little one is a fussy eater and loves fries, my wife also enjoys McDs or KFC and none of them put on weight. There is also an eating out culture here and the only other cheap places are the food courts or coffee shops which serve food which tends not to agree with me .

I will work back down to normal portions (standard meal, no upsize, no quarter pounders / big macs) and then work at getting every one else away as well.

I am now down to around 98Kg and lowering it but it takes a lot of hard work. There is a thread over in sports arena covering the progress and the ups and downs .

On thing I have noticed since limiting my intake is that I was getting very regular piercing headaches behind the right eye that would only go away with rest/sleep. Headache tablets would not work. Since my consumption of McDs has reduced significantly I rarely get them any more. The one time I did slip and fall to be old bad habits they came back again. I presume something in the food is building up and reaches an overload point with XXXX meals over XXXX days and sparks off an attack.

RB