That’s easy...
Brian leaned back, as if he were about to deliver a statement of great importance.
... you start with Taco Bell’s Fries Supreme. Then you take some McNuggets from McDonald’s, and wrap those in the skin from Popeye’s Chicken. Top that off with a fried panzarotti from Pizza Hut, and you’re good to go.
I nodded.
Another person chimed in;
The baked potato from Wendy's, a loaded burger from Harvey's, a McFlurry from McDonalds...
And we went on like that.
The rest of the people around the table jumped in with their own fast food ‘dream meals’. Everyone had an opinion. The burgers from Harvey’s... the original, mid-90s ‘soggy’ fries from KFC... someone even mentioned those inedible ARBY’s roast beef sandwiches as a favourite! (... which of course earned the person a quizzical look from everyone else in the room.) I remember watching a late night Arby’s commercial a few years ago, advertising a five roast beef sandwiches for five dollars sale.
Five for five dollars...?
My buddy Chris observed.
Meat should not be that cheap.
Anyhow, the next several minutes were spent discussing what our fast food 'dream meals' would be... ah, a more innocent time, when fast food brought feelings of yearning, instead of indigestition.
Movies and books like Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me have demonized the fast food industry over the past few years, and with good reason. American obesity rates over the past few decades have gone through the roof. Childhood obesity in China, virtually unknown before fast food, have created a generation of ‘chubby little Buddha’s.’
Some have alluded that the proliferation of single-parent families, which don’t have the time to make nutritious, home-cooked meals are to blame for the phenomenon. Some point to marketing campaigns that target children. Others blame poor nutrition education.
But lost in all this hoopla is the single most important thing.
This stuff is delicous.
My personal fast-food dream meal?
1. Double Whopper, heavy tomato
2. KFC Chicken with sweet & sour sauce
3. McDonalds Fries, with Taco Bell's Fries Supreme toppings on top of that, with KFC poutine on top of that.
I think I felt my heart skip a beat. Either that or I need a by-pass.
Anyway, what are you fast-food dream meals?
I still salivate when thinking of KFC's fries and gravy on a cold winter's day...ah...memories of highschool.
havent tried it yet but those KFC bowls look "im going to die after eating this" good. and thats a very very good good.
keeping in mind that i'm a nutritionist working in community health....
my 'dream meal' would be:
1. taco bell fries supreme (using new york fries)
2. harvey's double bacon cheese burger
3. kfc popcorn chicken
4. mcdonald's egg and sausage mcmuffin
5. mcdonald's caremel sunday
and i guess as a responsible health worker in my profession i'm obligated to recommend that you eat this kind of meal no more than once a year.. or as your last meal. speaking of which that could be an interesting next topic.. what would your last meal be? would it be your 'fast-food dream meal'?
I've always ordered a quarter-pounder meal from McDonalds. I'm thinking of eating one right now.