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Did you know that half a kilogram worth of snails contain the same amount of energy as one Big Mac? Did you also know that each gram of the fabled Beef Wellington, one of the finest dishes in the culinary world, contains more calories and more fat than a single gram of a Big Mac? Still, eating snails or Beef Wellington would make you a gourmand, while eating fast food would make you a glutton with no self-control. Eating fast food is widely considered to be ugly and stupid, but is it really that bad of a choice? Now, if you give me a few minutes, I’ll explain to you why it’s unfair to give fast food a bad name.
Let’s start with the actual expression. Fast food. What does it sound like it is supposed to be? That’s right, it’s supposed to be fast, and it’s supposed to be food. Fast food, such as pizza or McDonald’s, is not supposed to be fine dining or home cooked food, and should therefore not be considered as such, so to complain on the actual dishes is an unacceptable action.
The main issue with fast food, however, seems to be that people today are becoming fatter than ever before in the history of man; and since somebody needs to be blamed, why not pick on fast food? (Pause) The problem people are having is that fast food is cheap, accessible and pretty tasty. (Pause) Now, what did I just say? Cheap, accessible and pretty tasty? Those are not bad abilities for commercial food, are they? Maybe the problem is that fast food is too cheap, too fast and too accessible. People just can’t stop eating it, but is it really the fast food which is to blame? Of course it isn’t. The problem here isn’t with the food;
it’s with the people who can’t control themselves. You can’t place the responsibility of people eating too much on the ones serving the food; the responsibility here is with the customers. It’s like you don’t blame the cigarette companies for someone getting cancer from smoking; the problem is with the smoker.
Let’s try a little thought-experiment. Imagine yourself in an alternate universe where lovely French food would be possible to find in every town, within 20 minutes; and to get your hands on a Big Mac, you would have to wait for at least 2 weeks to even get a table at the McDonald’s-restaurant, and then to get the burger, you’d have to wait for up to an hour. The French food would be cheap and plentiful, while the burgers would be pretty expensive, so the McDonald’s-food would be the “rare” food. People, due to our inhabited laziness, would eat French food like our lives depended on it due to price, accessibility and the taste; and we would still grow fat, despite hardly even touching a Big Mac in our lifetimes. There would no longer be anyone blaming the Big Mac, but the blame would be placed on the fine dining. By this it’s meant that we as humans simply eat too much, and to blame someone for taking advantage of this, that is unfair, seeing how people are taking advantage of us getting sick, us wanting to drive a car, us wanting candy, us wanting a place to live etc., and you know, we just don’t do that because it isn’t right. It’s a matter of demand and supply, which is how our economical society is being structured.
Now that you have been enlightened why it’s unfair to give fast food a bad name, I’m gonna conclude this with a quote from Brian Wansink, a man with over 30 years of experience in food research. “We want variety, convenience, and value, and we get it” – which is exactly what fast food is all about.