[SoonerQueen]

Kyle Smith: Liberals say they care about the poor but drive up their cost of living - NYPOST.com

Might not be the perfect food, but they sure are good.

[swake]

Just more programming from Newscorp.

[okie1962]

And why is this in the Oklahoma Thread?

[bchris02]

I like a good McDouble when traveling but that's far from the best food ever invented. I would have to say sushi is the best.

[swake]

It’s patently stupid and inaccurate too. Not to mention insulting to poor people.

A 50 pound bag of rice will make about 80,000 calories for less than $20 or about 4,000 calories per dollar. That’s far more food per dollar then a McDonalds burger.

A 10 pound bag of potatoes has 3520 calories for about 880 calories per dollar
A 5 pound bag of carrots has 880 calories for about $3, not much more than the burger
A dozen large eggs has 852 calories for less than a dollar.
An apple has about 240 calories per pound and generally cost about a dollar a pound
A pound of bananas has 400 calories and costs well under a dollar
Hamburger at about 2.99 a pound has 416 calories per dollar
Chicken breasts are about 256 calories per dollar

This idiot should poll some of the workers at McDonald and see if they would prefer to take a $2 increase in their hourly pay if it means that they would have to pay $1.04 for the burger. Yes, that would be the increase in the cost of the burger if you gave all hourly workers at McDonalds a $2 raise. Fast food restaurants wages run at about 20% of revenue so even if ALL that 20% was spent on workers making $7.35 an hour and you increased them to $9.35 an hour that would be a 27.2% increase in wages or about five cents per burger. You can give them decent healthcare on top of that too and only increase the cost of the burger by less than a total of 10 cents. From 99 cents to $1.09.

The math with pay at Wal-Mart is even worse, increasing all their workers to $12 an hour would cost less than 1% of revenue. Lower cost and more access to healthcare would cost less than that. Wal-mart has millions of employees with hundreds of thousands if not millions of them on welfare and Medicaid. Would you pay $1.31 for that pound of apples instead of $1.29 to provide those workers better lives and get them off of welfare and Medicaid, which your taxes are paying for.

[Cyborgt800]

Come on people! Everyone knows the greatest food in human history is:


B A C O N !

[flyingcat2k]

Unfortunately, over 1 billion Muslims would disagree with you.

I nearby nominate Pizza. In addition to the normal entries (deep dish, thin crust, ect.) you can have it other ways such as gluten free, vegan, bacon lovers, white sauce, pesto sauce, ect. It is available around the word and can meet any dietary and cultural requirement. Kids to elderly will eat some variation of it. Who doesn't love pizza?

[Cnynrat]

Originally Posted by flyingcat2k

Unfortunately, over 1 billion Muslims would disagree with you.

No, no, that's fortunate. Think about what would happen to the price of bacon if there were a billion additional bacon consumers!

[Cyborgt800]

No, no, that's fortunate. Think about what would happen to the price of bacon if there were a billion additional bacon consumers!

RIGHT!

Besides....I really don't care what Muslims think of me....or disagree with!

[justanokie]

Originally Posted by swake

It’s patently stupid and inaccurate too. Not to mention insulting to poor people.

A 50 pound bag of rice will make about 80,000 calories for less than $20 or about 4,000 calories per dollar. That’s far more food per dollar then a McDonalds burger.

A 10 pound bag of potatoes has 3520 calories for about 880 calories per dollar
A 5 pound bag of carrots has 880 calories for about $3, not much more than the burger
A dozen large eggs has 852 calories for less than a dollar.
An apple has about 240 calories per pound and generally cost about a dollar a pound
A pound of bananas has 400 calories and costs well under a dollar
Hamburger at about 2.99 a pound has 416 calories per dollar
Chicken breasts are about 256 calories per dollar

This idiot should poll some of the workers at McDonald and see if they would prefer to take a $2 increase in their hourly pay if it means that they would have to pay $1.04 for the burger. Yes, that would be the increase in the cost of the burger if you gave all hourly workers at McDonalds a $2 raise. Fast food restaurants wages run at about 20% of revenue so even if ALL that 20% was spent on workers making $7.35 an hour and you increased them to $9.35 an hour that would be a 27.2% increase in wages or about five cents per burger. You can give them decent healthcare on top of that too and only increase the cost of the burger by less than a total of 10 cents. From 99 cents to $1.09.

The math with pay at Wal-Mart is even worse, increasing all their workers to $12 an hour would cost less than 1% of revenue. Lower cost and more access to healthcare would cost less than that. Wal-mart has millions of employees with hundreds of thousands if not millions of them on welfare and Medicaid. Would you pay $1.31 for that pound of apples instead of $1.29 to provide those workers better lives and get them off of welfare and Medicaid, which your taxes are paying for.

Nice reading comprehension. It wasn't an argument about the cheapest calories. It was an argument about the most abundunt, nutritious and cheapest calories.

Dubner mischievously built an episode of his highly amusing weekly podcast around the debate. Many huffy back-to-the-earth types wrote in to suggest the alternative meal of boiled lentils. Great idea. Now go open a restaurant called McBoiled Lentils and see how many customers line up.

Same could be said of McBoiled Rice.

As for the rest. How about McDonalds and Walmart just elimante most of their workers and put in robots......

Robots Could Take Over Fast Food Jobs - Careers Articles