I do not eat at McD's. I avoid all fast food places, with the strange exception of Taco Bell. I know that I can cook better than the fast food joints, and do so.
But that's where the problem lays, I believe. (Yes, lays is correct, as in the potato chips.) Too many Americans are no longer willing to spend the time cooking their own meals. They think cooking is "difficult," and would rather lazy their way through their lives and eat something cheap and dull.
When der Brucer and I had his son-in-law and crew over to put up the fence for the new dog yard, der B went and got lunch for them. There's a much better than good place close by that makes fantastic sub sandwiches. The s-i-l and crew would have none of it. They wanted McD's, because they knew what they were getting ahead of time. They didn't want to risk having something in their mouths they hadn't had there before.
And that, more than anything else, is what is wrong with food today. It's too easy to get the same exact thing everywhere, because of "standardization."
I say to hell with 'em. I would much rather save my money for a better dinner than waste it on a carbon copy (and carbon dated) lunch.
If anything, these days I rebel at having to cook because "I'm tired of my own cooking," more than for any other reason. I need something different, something to re-stimulate my taste buds. But I know I'm not going to find that sort of taste at a fast food joint.
(Taco Bell is an anomaly I cannot explain. Go fig.)
