• radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    153·
    9 days ago

    Wait 'til you see the child size soda.

    It’s 512 ounces, or roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It’s a real bargain at $1.59.

  • godot@lemmy.world
    107·
    9 days ago

    Between 1975 and 2016, the prevalence of obesity in Europe rose 138%, with a 21% rise between 2006 and 2016. The prevalence of overweight rose by 51% between 1975 and 2016, and by 8% between 2006 and 2016. It is expected that by 2030, over half of Europe will live with obesity – up to 89% in some countries. No Member State is on track to reach the target of halting the rise in obesity by 2025.

    https://www.eufic.org/en/healthy-living/article/europes-obesity-statistics-figures-trends-rates-by-country

    The proliferation of unhealthy eating is a big problem for most of Europe, too. They’re on the same path as the US for mostly the same reasons, just a few steps back.

    That said, if I’m going to be fat, I’d rather it be because of schnitzel the size of a dinner plate or cacio e pepe over a Monster Burger.

    • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      Nothing beats a cheeseburger. Btw, it’s not cheeseburgers making us fat, for the most part. It’s soda, and low quality food products with excess sugar and refined carbs.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    97·
    9 days ago

    I’m currently vacationing in Japan and have slimmed down a lot in just a week of walking, eating smaller healthier meals, and taking the train everywhere. America has a truly fucked standard of living. I don’t want to go back to driving and eating shitty oversized unhealthy meals while also tipping.

    • Railing5132@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 days ago

      Vacationing in Italy was the same - smaller, healthier meals, lots of walking - I felt great and didn’t have the shits once on a 2 week trip. It’s a daily thing at home.

  • XTL@sopuli.xyz
    68·
    9 days ago

    I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    8 days ago

    Anyone who looks at the U.S. and thinks it’s a fucked up country because of the food just isn’t paying attention.

    • psud@aussie.zone
      2·
      6 days ago

      The food stands out. Like Australia has too many fat people too, but our restaurants don’t cater to them like America’s - don’t try to feed everyone a meal suited to a 200kg man trying for 300.

      • macjabeth@lemmy.world
        7·
        8 days ago

        Agreed to both of these points, though as an American I will say there are healthier options, it’s just that they make those cost twice as much as the cheaper, unhealthy options.

        • PancakeBrock@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          7 days ago

          Go to a Mexican restaurant. Fajitas are $25 or more. It’s just vegetables with some meat. I can make that at home for like $3. We don’t eat out much.

        • BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world
          5·
          8 days ago

          I dunno. As the saying goes,“You are what you eat.” And our elected “leader” advocates the leading producer of junk food.

          Maybe if the American populace had actual nutrients in their bodies instead of butter and lard, we’d be able to critically think for once

    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 days ago

      Anyone who (likely) intentionally writes the word “snicker” wrong to include a slur doesn’t think the actual bad stuff in America is bad.

      • hraegsvelmir@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        8 days ago

        Snigger is just a variant form more common in the UK, where snicker is the preferred one in the US. Though I wouldn’t put it past a 4chan user, it’s also a perfectly normal word they may have learned being taught and exposed to UK variants of English.

        • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
          3·
          8 days ago

          That’s so weird, I’ve literally never seen that form used even by people from the UK.

          I guess it’s plausible that they’d just write it like that, I guess.

          The secret third option is that they know that it’s a way of spelling it and prefer to use it because hehe n word.

          • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
            10·
            8 days ago

            I thought, and a quick Google confirms, that it is used in the Harry Potter series a few times. Obviously, you might not have read them, but for people in my cohort, that was likely our largest exposure point to British culture.

    • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      Most of the food comes from fast food along stroads. It is a core part of the problem. The education system is probably the root, but I wouldn’t expect a tourist to understand that.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    49·
    9 days ago

    I’m up in Canada and since the start of the pandemic I’ve stopped going to fast food places. But after things got back to normal, I thought why should I go back to ordering food at McD’s … as I thought of it more, I realized it didn’t make any sense.

    Fast food is basically unnutritious food made by underpaid workers who don’t like their work … the food doesn’t do me any good and its too expensive … I have to trust the underpaid employee didn’t mess up my order … I waste money by degrading my health only to spend more money to try to get back some good health

    I realized it was cheaper in the long run of my life to not eat at these damned places.

      • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
        12·
        9 days ago

        If you’re vegan this applies even more. From what I heard McD only has like 3 vegan options while, in comparison, Burger King had the whole menu available in a vegan form.

        • ZorsithEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          The fries aren’t even vegan at McDonald’s, they use beef products as part of their flavoring

        • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 days ago

          Oddly enough, asides from apple wedges and I think the side salad, the hot apple pie is technically vegan, not that I’d eat anything that came out of one of those kitchens.

      • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        Yeah and a combo at Five Guys is $25 bucks so it’s not like a good cheeseburger is even accessible to most people anymore.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      9 days ago

      Yeah, McDs sucks and I haven’t been in years, but I do go to fast good restaurants that have decent quality and pay workers reasonably, like In-N-Out, Five Guys, etc. We don’t go very often, maybe once or twice per month, so we’re happy paying a little more for better quality.

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Last year, I got to march, and realised I hadn’t had a McDonald’s in over 3 months.

      So I decided to just stop going there.

      I think it was all the price hikes: When it’s £7 for any half decent burger and fries, I might as well be spending a bit more and going to a local place.
      Or getting something better than a burger!

      Or spending the same, and getting slightly better at Wendy’s.

  • Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    32·
    8 days ago

    Big food is kind of a marketing thing in America. Restaurants want to give their customers more " bang for their buck" (or at least appear to), but they don’t want to lower prices. Instead, they increase portions. This has lead to a size arms race where every restaurant wants to claim they have the biggest food in town. This is especially the case for burger joints. It doesn’t matter to the restaurant if customers eat all their food, since they pay for all of it either way. I’m guessing Americans are more culturally susceptible to this marketing tactic, since bigger-is-better is common here, and hence things have been taken further than in other countries.

    This seems to be another case of someone throwing reason out the door for the sake of insulting Americans. There is no way you would be getting “shit eating grins” for ordering a kids meal. And if your large burgers are smaller than a kids meal, you either have very little size variation, or the small would be like a single bite.

    • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      8 days ago

      Yeah, that worker is one of two in the entire restaurant. She has to take your order plus the five behind you, the drive-thru orders, make fries, bag it all up, take your monkey, clean tables, make coffee, refill the ketchup/soda/milkshake/yogurt contraptions with their various bags of sugary goo, restock counters/tables with all the varied plastic and paper geegaws, take out the trash, stock the walk-in, clean the bathrooms somebody sprayed with liquid shit, then count out and get to her other job by 3pm so she can then do it all again tomorrow. She doesn’t give a fuck what anyone orders, it’s just a blur of colors and lower back pain.

      If she makes a face it’s probably the best she can do to fake a smile because you might be a secret shopper who is going to ding her points for not saying, “Welcome to McDonald’s Home of the McFlurry™ now with DoubleStuff™ Oreo™, what can I get started for you today because It Just Tastes Better!!℠” with the proper amount of obsequiousness.

      There’s plenty of reasons to hate the hellscape, no reason for anon to invent some.

  • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    9 days ago

    American burgers are the king of all burgers, bottom line

    That said 2 things I absolutely agree with:

    A burger should be small enough to easily bite. It’s okay if you have to smoosh it down a bit with your hands to do so, but if I have squash it to shit or take it apart or cut it or eat it weird you’ve fucked up such a basic thing

    If you already have ketchup, mustard, mayo, bbq, etc then why do I need “burger sauce”? Your burger sauce is probably just some variation on mayo and ketchup anyway. Thanks for making my burger a sloppy piece of shit akin to eating ribs

    • Mr. Satan@monyet.cc
      5·
      9 days ago

      Ok, serious question, is American fast food different from European? I’ve been to our local McDonalds and the like and the food is fucking atrocious. Tasteless non-identifiable meat patty with some mayo, ketchup, “cheese” and a sorry excuse for a vegetable. I mean it’s just bad. Is American chain food better or are you just delusional?

      • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        6·
        9 days ago

        When I visited US their mcdonalds burgers tasted ± the same as local (eastern europe), that is exactly as you described. What was different is million different options that they asked me and were somewhat aggressive with me being slow. 🫠 Drinks were enormous in size and super cold, air conditionioners set to something like 16 while its 30+ outside everywhere. 😄

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    29·
    8 days ago

    I REALLY wish they would have went to Five Guys.

    Guy 3/5: fills 32 ounce cup with fresh hot, salt slathered fries. Drops cup in a large bag. Takes another full scoop of the fries and throws them in the bag. Easily 4-5 potatoes worth.

    The cup of fries should be 1300 calories, they easily put twice as many in. That’s a daily food intake worth of calories for the side alone.

  • Floey@lemm.ee
    19·
    9 days ago

    As someone who usually eats just once a day (with some supplemental shakes on work days) I love American potions. One of the good things about this country.

    The lack of veg is concerning though. It sucks that the alternative to fried potatoes is usually just a handful of leaves.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      9 days ago

      I just got a Carl’s Jr Star burger for $3 and it had tons of lettuce and tomato. Pretty fantastic and almost healthy (not really). Like a good American, I ate 2, so something like 1k calories.

      • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        A burger with high quality ingredients is not the worst thing you can eat. The worst part about it will be the saturated fat from the red meat.

    • Sightline@lemmy.world
      9·
      9 days ago

      Even if you do get vegetables they’re typically flavorless compared to what you can grow at home.

  • AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com
    19·
    9 days ago

    I wonder what the nutrition is of the average fish and chips meal. That would be a slightly more reasonable comparison, wouldn’t it?

  • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    9 days ago

    the “tiny” burgers like the $5 biggie bag at Wendy’s is the perfect amount of food. jr bacon cheeseburger, small fries, 4 piece nugget, drink.

    THATS normal portion, even if it’s not healthy, not a 1/2 lb double cheeseburger 6 inches in diameter, 3 inches thick and a 32oz bucket of cola.

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      9 days ago

      Where the hell are yall getting burgers at? Every fastfood place near me serves anemic, poorly prepared burgers that are not worth the cost for taste and only rarely worth the time investment when it’s near midnight and I need to absorb the alcohol in my stomach

      • klemptor@startrek.website
        13·
        9 days ago

        I was curious so i just checked. Assuming the drink is water and there’s no dipping sauce or sauces added to the burger, it comes to 760 calories (macros are 44g fat, 63g carbs, 31g protein). That’s definitely more than half of my daily calories, but I’m a middle-aged 5’0" lady. Still, that’s a huge amount of fat, and surprisingly little protein!

        • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          Yes, the fat macro is way out of balance there at over half the caloric intake. It explains why Americans are known for being sedentary. That much of your calories coming from fat has got to make you lethargic. And then the carbs are all refined and high glycemic index, so you are mixing that with insulin spikes and crashes. Not enough protein so their muscles are underfed and fatigued. It all makes sense.