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We had to watch the first part of it several times over in school and I don't really understand what the point was. Usually got started in the lesson and then the lesson ended but it would never get finished later.
What, eating vast quantities of fast food every day is bad for you? Of course it is, are you fucking retarded?
It's like all those times people try and claim that Coca-Cola can dissolve teeth and is therefore really bad. Ok, then let's do a control test where you do the same thing with other drinks, including freshly squeezed orange juice, milk, and gin.
Because the thing is I know for a fact that the tooth will dissolve in the orange juice and the milk but not in the gin. So I guess gin is good for you then.
Stupid experiment, stupid conclusion
As someone from the long long ago, it's funny seeing this post. For my generation, this has the same vibe as "of course smoking is bad for you", meanwhile the generation before mine was saturated in tobacco smoke and normalized tobacco culture. Sure, there was always an undercurrent that it was bad, but there wasn't the vehement rejection of it like today.
You could go back further again and do it with something like not wearing seatbelts. The value of seatbelts is obvious now, but it wasn't always part of the zeitgeist.
The same goes for fast food. We knew it wasn't great, but healthy eating awareness was hardly a thing back then, especially compared to what it is today. It is precisely because of things like Supersize Me raising awareness, (even ham-fistedly in retrospect) and changing the culture, that we get to call out that shit as obvious today.
You had to be there. You're welcome.
People fought drunk driving measures, antilock brakes, seatbelts and airbags.
This was exactly my thought; feels similar to people's response to PSAs regarding forest fires: "you had to be told to put out camp fires or check they're fully put out?"
Clearly, history indicates that concepts don't stick unless drilled into "common cultural sense".
Not to defend him, but in the documentary he said that he would say yes every time a McDonald's employee asked him if he wanted a supersize portion.
So at least he was showing how much McDonald's wanted you to eat as much as possible. This lead to McDonald's removing their supersize portions.
My takeaway when I watched it was that it's the fries and drink that are bad for you. He interviewed the eccentric guy who ate Big Macs every day and was skinny/healthy, probably because he never ate fries or drank the sugary drinks.
As opposed to restaurants which still do just drop 2500 calories on the plate and call it a day?
I think one of the reasons he did it was an executive from McDonald's had stated that their food was healthy and someone could eat it everyday for a month without health consequences. His goal was to prove this was an obvious lie. Secondly how many low income people are stuck in a system where this is the only food that is conveniently available and how that is making generations of low-income households sick.
Not sure about the alcoholism - but this wasn't a strict scientific trial so...
Not buying the low income excuse, when I was on low income I would have loved to have enough money to be able to afford fast food every day. If I had been doing that I wouldn't have been able to afford rent.
I don't go to mcdonalds but just looked up their prices. A single "big arch" (wtf is that? first thing on the menu) for £10, about the same as a weeks worth of food with the sort of things I was getting poverty shopping.
You may not know this but when it was made McDonald's was vastly cheaper than it is today. Double cheeseburgers were just a single dollar. It's somewhat difficult to achieve a multi ingredient hot meal for that price with groceries and it requires doing meal prep and reheating. Today's McDonald's is way more expensive which completely invalidates the case for eating it at all outside the breakfast menu (actual eggs).
I am aware of inflation
Not inflation, the price has increased far beyond the inflation rate as McDonald's struggled to stay profitable and adjusted their strategy and posture (mccafe era).
Prices on takeout have gone insane post-covid.
When was this? Because of seriously doubt it cost £10 for a McDonald's meal back in in 2004. That would have been $20USD at a time when you could still get a Big Mac from the dollar menu
It was a few hours ago, poverty shopping would also have been cheaper in 2004.
So back when Super Size me came out, you could easily feed a family of 4 for like $10. Now McDonald's is as much as getting a burger from a sit down restaurant and takes forever because they have transitioned to doing Doordash for whatever reason
I eat more food in a week than 4 people do for a single meal, so the same would apply. Plus buying ingredients to make food would also have been cheaper back then.
Getting people to understand something in concept is pretty easy. I can presently berate you about like 15 things you’re currently doing poorly, but that won’t cause you to drink in my meaning and improve. The US is full of fatties who are draining the healthcare system’s available time.
Putting the onus on people to change, and shaming fast food companies for providing meals that actively detract from the quality of life of everyone in the US, that was the purpose.
But making healthy foods more accessible and easier would have been my pick.
That's mean.
It's also true. Aside from the elderly, I'm the only thin person in the waiting room, every time.
Just like most of the ineffectual berating I’ve encountered.
It's a cheese burger. No worse than any other meal. Bit too salty.
Stop blaming the restaurant because fatties can't control themselves. I'm so tired of you people annoying the crazies into fascism.
The cheeseburger isn't even the problem btw, the fries are way worse for you at McD.
And the bucket of sugar water.
Still just a fry in oil.
What, eating vast quantities of ~~fast~~ food every day is bad for you? Of course it is, are you fucking retarded?
FTFY