Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
Meh, not that big a deal, but I am a fan of terrible food not being in places.
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Murky
Deity
Fast food makes a mockery of what food has traditionally meant to people.
Hunting and gathering food used to be a group activity. After the food was hunted and gathered people would sit around the campfires and tell stories to their children. Later when people took up farming, harvest time was a celebration. Up until the invention of the fast-food drive through, having dinner at the family table was a time honored tradition.
Now it's just drive through some pick-up window, get that sub-standard burger or taco and eat it like it means nothing to you.
You know what the best seasoning is? Hunger. It makes everything taste good. Wait until you are hungry then make a good slow-food meal. It will taste a hundred times better than any fast food meal you could buy.
Hunting and gathering food used to be a group activity. After the food was hunted and gathered people would sit around the campfires and tell stories to their children. Later when people took up farming, harvest time was a celebration. Up until the invention of the fast-food drive through, having dinner at the family table was a time honored tradition.
Now it's just drive through some pick-up window, get that sub-standard burger or taco and eat it like it means nothing to you.
You know what the best seasoning is? Hunger. It makes everything taste good. Wait until you are hungry then make a good slow-food meal. It will taste a hundred times better than any fast food meal you could buy.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
^ Not sure if serious...... ^
Not everyone has the luxury of time.
ParkCungHee
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I'm taking Murky's idea to heart.
I'm going to start hunting the local pigeons and gulls and cooking them over a spit in my yard. This will surely lead to better satisfaction with my food, and stronger social bonds with my peers.
I'm going to start hunting the local pigeons and gulls and cooking them over a spit in my yard. This will surely lead to better satisfaction with my food, and stronger social bonds with my peers.
Narz
keeping it real
Maybe it's the world that's weird.
Ironically if you're so stressed & busy you can't stop for 10-20 minutes to cook a proper dinner (and save some for lunch the next day) you really won't have the luxury of time (your life expectancy will probably be curtailed). Same with people who can't find the time to exercise. Why? To chase more money? But in the long run they'll be paying that money back in health care costs.
Not that I don't sympathize with poor bastards who have to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. I suspect there are usually alternatives though, at least in the US. When I query people who I've worked at crap jobs about their pay checks they always talk about bills. Cell phone bills, cable TV bills, car payments, etc. You can do away with or substantially decrease the amount of those bills with different priorities.
Well, I can't speak for all your peers but I'd give you mad props if you did that & posted some pics.
Unless your making mac and cheese or some freezer junk, I've yet to find a proper dinner that takes less than 30 minutes to prepare
And this is coming from someone who eats at home every single day.
Unless your making mac and cheese or some freezer junk, I've yet to find a proper dinner that takes less than 30 minutes to prepare
And this is coming from someone who eats at home every single day.
I hate eating out and eat at home whenever I can. The trick to quick meals is to just plan them out really well. Find meals that share a couple of the same ingredient, do most of your chopping and other prep at once whenever you have time and then put that in some Tupperware for a few days (I've found more than about 3 days it loses flavor significantly) and use as needed. If you stick with mostly using the stove top (and maybe the broiler), and stay away from roasting, nothing should take too long. A lot of curries, stews, pastas and casseroles can be put together extremely fast using this method, and while completely different in taste, many of these share a surprising amount of base ingredients. For one thing, I almost always have containers of chopped carrots, onions and celery in the fridge, as these are useful for so many things.
Then again, I very well might spend an inordinate amount of time just planning out my meals for the week.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
A triumph of the human spirit, human labor, of progress. What has food "traditionally" meant? It meant something precious that was often very hard to come by, something that could be wiped out in a flood or a heat wave or a some kind of terrible infestation. And good food was enjoyed only by the ruling class.
Fast food means abundance. It means that a family can dine out, a luxury, for only a few dollars. It means that men don't need to worry about whether there will be enough to last them through the winter.
You take it for granted. The hungry people you romanticize would not.
Narz
keeping it real
Everything I ever made takes less than 30 minutes to prepare.Unless your making mac and cheese or some freezer junk, I've yet to find a proper dinner that takes less than 30 minutes to prepare
And this is coming from someone who eats at home every single day.
Certain types of rice, quinoa, buckwheat all less than 15 minutes (mix in some canned beans, rip up some swiss chard or kale or broccoli & toss it in, throw on some tomato sauce, add salt, some butter, whateveryoulike). Poach some fish in a pan less than five minutes (throw together a salad & dressing/sauce another five before & another five coinciding with the fish cooking).
Only thing I eat that takes longer is tubers (mostly potato, sweet potato) & my significant o makes those for us on occasion.
Only reason I could ever take more than 30 is if I'm cooking a bunch of different things for a bunch of people & I was it all to look pretty.
I'm pretty simple in my tastes I guess & happy to throw together the same 3 or 4 meals (with slight variation) week after week but most people tend to get the same 3 or 4 things from fast-food restaurants anyway (when I ate at Burger King on the regular when I was younger I always got the exact same thing).
Ok, a key difference I should mention here (I should have mentioned if first if anything). When I mean proper meal, I mean a meal with a course or two (or three!) for my entire family, all 7 of them. If I were to make a meal for just myself, excluding pasta (which takes forever to make for some reason, no idea) it would be a 5 minute thing.
Anyways, straying from the original comment a bit, for people who don't have the luxury of being a 17 year old kid who spends his time at home, fast food can be a godsend, it allows them to satisfy their hunger without digging into their time, or slowing them down. This is specially true if someone won't be able to make it home for dinner, is too far away, etc.
civver_764
Deity
Man there's lots of things to criticize McDonalds for, but convenience isn't one of them.
And neither is the taste, fwiw.
think taco bell opened a few branches over here as well, they all closed but now their back again, i guess they think now that mexican food is getting popular here theyve got a better chance, but im not sure theyll do much better this time, had wendys for a while as well, but they didnt last either
classical_hero
In whom I trust
Unless your making mac and cheese or some freezer junk, I've yet to find a proper dinner that takes less than 30 minutes to prepare
And this is coming from someone who eats at home every single day.
Yo. http://www.jamieoliver.com/jamies-30-minutes-meals/
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
OTOH , I have noticed in Indonesia that go into a packed McDonalds and what are the locals going crazy for ? The fried rice meals ?!? Weird .
And guess what I also saw ? No other than CFC.....Country Fried Chicken
And guess what I also saw ? No other than CFC.....Country Fried Chicken
Rulle_Kebab
Warlord
Claiming you haven't got time to cook is an excuse for the lack of cooking skills I think.
You can prepare a whole weeks food in a few hours. Stock it in the freezer and let it defrost thru the day you are gonna eat it.
You can also make your own burgers quite easily, your own dressings and so on...
Getting rid of Mcdonalds is really really good... not just for you but for everyone else.
Obesity has become the norm because of all that crap.
And it is happening here in Europe as well. Just some 20 years ago people would go to a Mcdonalds once a year, maybe never... now they go two three times a week.
Not only do they kill themselves slowly but they are supporting a fast food chain that doesn't give a damn about the environment and nature.
I think you could cook nice meals for a whole family using just 15-20 minutes a day on average if you managed your time better and it would be healthier(even tho you cooked rather unhealthy foods) and would definately taste better then that cardboard crap the fast food joints serve up!
You can prepare a whole weeks food in a few hours. Stock it in the freezer and let it defrost thru the day you are gonna eat it.
You can also make your own burgers quite easily, your own dressings and so on...
Getting rid of Mcdonalds is really really good... not just for you but for everyone else.
Obesity has become the norm because of all that crap.
And it is happening here in Europe as well. Just some 20 years ago people would go to a Mcdonalds once a year, maybe never... now they go two three times a week.
Not only do they kill themselves slowly but they are supporting a fast food chain that doesn't give a damn about the environment and nature.
I think you could cook nice meals for a whole family using just 15-20 minutes a day on average if you managed your time better and it would be healthier(even tho you cooked rather unhealthy foods) and would definately taste better then that cardboard crap the fast food joints serve up!
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
You haven't been to a British McDonalds, have you?
