All posts tagged "Fast-Food"

Rick Wilson, conservative pundit and "Never Trumper," offered a warning for President Donald Trump to take steps to turn his health around before it's too late.

On his podcast, "The Elephant in the Room," Wilson addressed Trump directly.

"Mortality comes for us all," Wilson warned. "It's going to come for me, it's going to come for everybody. It's going to come for you, too. They haven't swiftly developed enough miracles in medical science to not make you a guy who ate McDonald's every day for the last 30 years."...

After former President Donald Trump attended the wake for slain New York City police officer Jonathan Diller, he reportedly spent $200 on fast food at a Long Island drive-in.

According to the New York Post, "While headed to his private jet 'en route back to Florida, Trump and his campaign staff traveled westbound on Merrick Road from the funeral home’s South Chapel location to the popular All American Drive-In, Trump’s senior adviser, Daniel Scavino Jr., posted on Facebook."

All American manager Richard Vultaggio revealed to reporters that Trump purchased 18 “double double” cheeseburgers, 10 hot dogs, two quarter-pounder hamburgers with cheese, 20 orders of French fries, and 10 orders of onion rings, along with numerous servings of ketchup and mustard....

Success, in the Western world, means “gaining time,” according to French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard. The faster we do things — work, eat, sleep, read — the more time we “gain.”

Reason links to a new study purporting to show that increased fast food consumption is not linked to poverty. 

People in the thread below---I suppose this was inevitable---were reverting back to the liberal argument that fast food's popularity is mainly a labor issue, as in people work too hard and resort to fast food (against their will, no doubt!) because they have no options. This argument is juiced up by anecdotal evidence of this one woman you knew once who really did save an hour a day eating fast food or that college aged service worker who could only eat a burger during lunch.  These arguments bother me for a couple of reasons. The first is they are throw-your-hands-in-the-air-and-give-up arguments. There's a whiff of making excuses for fast food's grip on America in lieu of trying to understand it so that solutions become evident.  Since we all agree---right?---that policy should be aimed at improving the nutrition of all our citizens (not just those who can afford it), we can agree---right?---that merely biting on the corners of the problem by getting rid of food desserts and perhaps even having government programs to make sure there are workable kitchens in every home aren't enough.  These are good things and will help people who are the percentage of fast food customers who are more desperate than really into the food.