The fancy French restaurant may use more butter, but they also know about the existence of vegetables that aren’t iceberg lettuce, the most ordinary of tomatoes, and onion. And they use spices more esoteric than salt, some of which have beneficial health effects. And they don’t encourage you to consume your meal with an enormous container of fizzy sugar water.
Frankly, for a lot of people (myself included), I think increasing the portion size by 10% counts for more enjoyment than using more than one kind of tomato or eight kinds of lettuce. It’s reliable in a way that adding other kinds of things isn’t, since the more different things there are, the more likely it is that one of them or some combination will be unpalatable.
Please consider the possibility that some of us actually prefer chain restaurant food to “fancy Xish restaurant” food, bizarre as it may seem to you, if you don’t. :)
I think such a preference is more likely to result from an inadequate sample of fancy food (because some upscale places aren’t at all good enough to justify their cost) and/or sour grapes about its expense, but perhaps some people are well-sampled and find fancy food financially accessible and still don’t think it’s an improvement over McDonald’s. These people, I contend, do not have tastebuds. McDonald’s can ruin chicken fingers.
(For what it’s worth, I virtually never go out to eat at all (on my own dime): when I do, I make a point of getting mostly things that I don’t know how to cook myself, such as sushi.)
Y’know, I plain can’t eat McDonalds myself. But I also can’t tell the difference between low-quality and high-quality chocolate, and my girlfriend can, and she thinks McDonalds is one of the culinary wonders of the world.
I contend that it was because they were working outside their milieu. Chicken McNuggets are already perfect, and so one must feel a tearing at one’s soul to work for McDonalds and invent another chicken dish.
Well, you’re right about the diversity of ingredients. And indeed, the fizzy sugar water is definitely bad. I don’t order it myself, though, because fizzy drinks usually give me heartburn. (I get water or orange juice.)
I just think that a lot of the food served at fast food restaurants isn’t as awful as people assume it to be. At least, I think we can agree that there are things that are a lot worse than a McDonalds hamburger, which, for all its flaws, is still more like actual food than a Twinkie is. ;)
The fancy French restaurant may use more butter, but they also know about the existence of vegetables that aren’t iceberg lettuce, the most ordinary of tomatoes, and onion. And they use spices more esoteric than salt, some of which have beneficial health effects. And they don’t encourage you to consume your meal with an enormous container of fizzy sugar water.
Frankly, for a lot of people (myself included), I think increasing the portion size by 10% counts for more enjoyment than using more than one kind of tomato or eight kinds of lettuce. It’s reliable in a way that adding other kinds of things isn’t, since the more different things there are, the more likely it is that one of them or some combination will be unpalatable.
Please consider the possibility that some of us actually prefer chain restaurant food to “fancy Xish restaurant” food, bizarre as it may seem to you, if you don’t. :)
I think such a preference is more likely to result from an inadequate sample of fancy food (because some upscale places aren’t at all good enough to justify their cost) and/or sour grapes about its expense, but perhaps some people are well-sampled and find fancy food financially accessible and still don’t think it’s an improvement over McDonald’s. These people, I contend, do not have tastebuds. McDonald’s can ruin chicken fingers.
(For what it’s worth, I virtually never go out to eat at all (on my own dime): when I do, I make a point of getting mostly things that I don’t know how to cook myself, such as sushi.)
Y’know, I plain can’t eat McDonalds myself. But I also can’t tell the difference between low-quality and high-quality chocolate, and my girlfriend can, and she thinks McDonalds is one of the culinary wonders of the world.
It takes all sorts.
I contend that it was because they were working outside their milieu. Chicken McNuggets are already perfect, and so one must feel a tearing at one’s soul to work for McDonalds and invent another chicken dish.
Well, you’re right about the diversity of ingredients. And indeed, the fizzy sugar water is definitely bad. I don’t order it myself, though, because fizzy drinks usually give me heartburn. (I get water or orange juice.)
I just think that a lot of the food served at fast food restaurants isn’t as awful as people assume it to be. At least, I think we can agree that there are things that are a lot worse than a McDonalds hamburger, which, for all its flaws, is still more like actual food than a Twinkie is. ;)