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Old 10-06-2013, 06:03 AM
 
Location: Canada
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I admit to enjoying a burger and fries now and then, but only go once a year or so because they are so unhealthy and fattening. I love Red Lobster and Olive Garden but neither are in our town so we only get there once in a while.
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Old 10-06-2013, 06:32 AM
 
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A lot of people do, and I still do every 4-6 months. McDonalds has done so well recently only because of those coffee drinks they've brought in, which attracts youth. I still order 10 piece chicken nuggets with medium french fries and sweet chili sauce. It never gets old. I first had it when I was 2 and a half.
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Old 10-06-2013, 06:43 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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I admit to enjoying a burger and fries now and then, but only go once a year or so because they are so unhealthy and fattening.
I'm fat from healthy, home cooked food.
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Old 10-06-2013, 06:50 AM
 
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I've never been to Olive Garden; ate once at Red Lobster. McD's is not far from me but I haven't been in about four years. No particular reason.

I get my fill of "eating out" when we're at the beach.

From time to time, I enjoy a Sausage Croissant at Burger King, and if I'm eating out, I enjoy Asian, but for the most part, I make my own meals at home.

I'm obviously not the one keeping McD's in the profit column, but they certainly don't miss my patronage.
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Old 10-06-2013, 08:12 AM
 
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Yup. Had a cheeseburger and large fry, a couple days back. Also get their sausage mcmuffin (now with egg whites!) and hash browns a couple times a month.

I dont eat McD's say as much as college and high school, but I like some of their stuff as much as i did when i first tried them years ago. The other difference is that I wont eat as much (either large sandwich/small fry or small sandwich/large fry) and forgo the soda.
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Old 10-06-2013, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Canada
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I'm fat from healthy, home cooked food.
LOL, me too. Not overly fat, but not thin by any means. I LOVE cooking and I LOVE eating, especially foods that aren't low in calories or fat, and hate having to watch what goes in, but if I didn't, I'd easily become obese. I already loathe looking in a mirror or stepping on a scale lol.
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Old 10-06-2013, 08:53 AM
 
Location: Lone Star State to Peach State
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No, but today I will to get 3 bucks off general admission to the tx state fair.
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Old 10-06-2013, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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Other than beverages or fries, nothing else.
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Old 10-06-2013, 02:13 PM
 
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I only eat there if I happen to be with other people and they eat there; then I will get a cheeseburger and Coke. I will never eat those fake-meat-looking chicken nuggets. Blech.

But honestly, the more I see who they hire two work in fast food restaurants, the less I want to eat there. Some of the people are just nasty looking and I don't want to eat anything they have touched. Just found out a young person I know now works at Subway. Won't be going there anymore. I wouldn't want to eat at her house and I'm not going to eat anything she makes at Subway, either.

I would rather pay a little more and eat at a non-fast food place.
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Old 10-06-2013, 03:52 PM
 
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I only eat there if I happen to be with other people and they eat there; then I will get a cheeseburger and Coke. I will never eat those fake-meat-looking chicken nuggets. Blech.

But honestly, the more I see who they hire two work in fast food restaurants, the less I want to eat there. Some of the people are just nasty looking and I don't want to eat anything they have touched. Just found out a young person I know now works at Subway. Won't be going there anymore. I wouldn't want to eat at her house and I'm not going to eat anything she makes at Subway, either.

I would rather pay a little more and eat at a non-fast food place.
Don't ever peek in the kitchen of your favorite non-fast food place in the middle of a busy night. It's a real mess. In the busy hours, things spill and splash and there's no time to wipe everything up. Now, in most good restaurants, at least in the ones I worked in, the kitchen was cleaned up at the end of shift. Dishwasher loaded, surfaces wiped down with bleach solution, floor mopped and it looked like you could perform surgery in there. But at the height of the mayhem, you don't wanna know.
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