What is the point of fast food anymore

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It's an addiction for a lot of people.

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I got a double cheeseburger platter from a BBQ place with 2 sides for $10. Better burger than fast food and I got fries and collards.

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It’s always been this way. The point is convenience. If you want quality food then go to a restaurant that makes good food, not food that comes from a microwave.

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Looks very soupy.

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Don’t forget about the black coffee and coke.

Porto881

"What's the deal with fast food? It isn't fast, and it isn't food!"

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Price of eggs smdh

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But it hasn’t always been that way.

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$17.99 for the 20 pc. In Canada. $10.79 for a 10 pc. I about shit when I immigrated here and realized nuggets were off the table. I can't imagine ordering that and picturing one dollar every time I pop one into my mouth. My wife buys me a ten piece for my birthday every year since I won't buy them myself out of protest. Also, my kid is old enough now to finish her 4 pc. Happy Meal, so I don't get to scavenge for unbeaten morsels like I did before. It's tragic.

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I just hate cooking. I cannot stand it. It takes so much effort and you have to clean all the mess you made (even cleaning as you go sucks). And then you end up with something that may or may not pan out. And if you're trying to meal prep then you have to eat the same meal for the whole week which I hate also.

If this was the only thing you'd ever have to do, fine. But the majority of the rest of our time is spent at work or sleeping. We have few precious hours where these things aren't the case. I hope this doesn't make me sound too much like an asshole, but I'm fortunate enough to purchase things like pre-prepared foods and get takeout a couple of times per week. So I take advantage of that because I don't want to spend my few moments of free time slaving away over a stove or cleaning the mess of pots and pans and cooking utensils.

Another this about cooking when you live alone...a lot of perishable foods can only be bought in somewhat larger quantities and then they go bad before you use them all up. I tried to make a recipe out of a cookbook several months ago and I was frustrated at how many things I had to buy a large thing of when I only needed a very small amount for the recipe. Ended up with a lot of food waste.

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Yes, I fully relate with this as if you spoke from my heart. Agreed on all points, haha

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I don’t mind cooking, I just hate coming up with a dinner plan for the whole week. I’ve begun watching cooking videos on instagram to help motivate me. I do wish there was an alternative to instagram, but so far it’s the best.

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The price has changed far faster than inflation, which is the joke.

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My friend with kids also talks about this. She is like I work so hard to cook and even make it simple for them but they still refuse to eat it half the time lol

Flamekebab

Is there a country that uses the dollar sign that puts it after the number?

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Yes it has. You have rose tinted glasses on.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

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So has literally everything. It’s inflation + price gouging.

Fast food isn’t special here. It’s shit quality food. The price went up just like everything. The food quality has always been shit and always will be.

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None of these problems mean you have to resort to buying fast food though.

You can buy things like crumbed chicken tenders that last over a week in the packaging and take 15 mins to cook in an air fryer. Mix some mayo and hot sauce, steam some veg and you've got a cheaper, healthier meal than most fast food, in about the same time it takes to drive through and order.

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Everybody being mean to you, but I ate at the same Chinese joint all my life. Chicken lo mein special was 6 bucks for most of my life.

I ordered the same special a few weeks ago and it was nearly 20 bucks.

After covid the restaurant went downhill as far as cleanliness goes too. For a couple years you’d call in your order and grab your food from a table blocking the door. They only take cash and they trusted the public to pay and then reach into a basket to collect their change. That meant a lot to me so I ate there pretty often.

Once they opened back up though, I went in and the floors didn’t look like they’d been mopped the whole time. I thought, “maybe people were excited to come back and that’s why it’s so dirty.”

Nope. Still hasn’t been mopped.

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That actually makes up a decent amount of what I eat already. The majority of my diet comes from the frozen food section at the grocery store. I get both the prepackaged dinners and also the precooked meats and "steam in bag" veggies you're talking about. But on days where I don't want that, I get takeout as a treat. Most often, I actually order food delivery instead of fast food, but I get fast food now and then too. I've actually got into the habit of going to the chick fil a near me because it's literally a 5 minute walk and they have a good salad. McDonald's seemed like they stopped selling salads some years back for whatever reason.

One of the points of my previous post is that I don't care about the cost though because I'm fortunate enough to not be scraping by. I don't get this takeout or fast food every day, but it doesn't bother me financially to do it a couple times per week.