If there is (almost) no alternative to Fast Food – Diepresse.com
In search of affordable foods, the Americans are still helped by fast food chains. Nobody wants to do it – but where else, given the rising food prices?
I always remember a scene with a slightly broken heart that has to be played in the Innkreis decades ago. There was the first one McDonald‘S-branch opened and a boy wanted to order its lunch there. Obviously, he had taken up all courage to pass the shrill, colorful tablets and the rather bitter Innviertlerin in front of them. When it was his turn to choose his menu, the panic grabbed him. He became silent and ran from the restaurant.
Today, of course, the ordering process has been reduced to the minimum of human interaction. You order internationally on huge tablets, the food in the fast food restaurant appears as by magic. But the story of the boy in Ried remembered a few weeks ago when I felt similar panic. I was-which comes into debt in the unbearable food impression options along the US highways-in a new fast food chain in California. While everyone around me seemed to know what they wanted, I could hardly decipher the advertising board above our heads. I took a heart and ordered as if the Rieder boy was standing next to me.
Every time Europeans visit me in the United States, it sermon. What kind of country this is, without public health insurance and without public transport and with all the homeless. And fast food, Pah! I never see EU-Citizen proud of the regulations that « Brussels » came up with for their food system: it does not make them overweight.
With McDonald’s through childhood
And of course everything is not wrong. What is often not clear to the common European is how much Fast food chains are necessary for survival for the Americans-not just because of their motorway service monopoly. But because for families access to affordable food is often alone in the fast food.
I am always amazed at how many of my American friends tell that they were often given McDonald’s as children. Her childhood took place in the still less health-conscious 1990s-and their youth in the time of the great recession of 2008, which are due to the US government’s new customs rage these days.
In fact, McDonald’s still offers large packages for families with whom you can feed the whole clan for around $ 25. In times like these when snakes form in front of supermarkets, when the eggs are delivered, this seems to be a smart move.
Perfide just that the new Minister of Health, Robert Kennedy, wants to stop exactly the fast food. What should the poorest compatriots eat of? If you should eat cakes, a great Austrian once said.
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