I like Chik fil a’sunsweetened ice tea and their greasy chicken nuggets. It isnt healthy. Fast food is unhealthy and addictive. Even diners aren’t that healthy. Restaurant food is high on sodium and sugar.
Eating at home is the healthiest and cheapest way to go. Peanut butter and jelly is healthier and faster than fast food. Having set times for meals is healthier too. You will save on medical and hospital bills which can be really expensive.
Where we live, people have died young from poor diets of fast food.
CFA is, for me, a treat every two or three weeks. I share your reservations about fast food. I usually have the chicken sandwich --- no one has ever figured out how to reproduce this, I heard they brine the filets in pickle juice before battering and frying. McDonald's is close but no cigar. You'd think the experts at McDonald's would have deconstructed CFA and figured it out by now.
I discovered that if you will take the CFA fried chicken filet sandwich, cut it up and mix it with a frozen chicken tikka masala dinner --- my CTM of choice is Trader Joe's, just take my word for it, it's
almost restaurant-quality --- and have some basmati rice and a hearty serving of naan (Indian-style flatbread), you've got one good meal there. The fat, the salt, and the fried batter in the CFA filet pairs very well with the CTM sauce. The Cathys really need to consider adding a CTM option, though that might be more of a British thing.
It is really hard to knock the South Asian Indian contribution to American life. Good food, they come to this country and work their butts off, if their hotels aren't exactly the Ritz, no one is forcing you to stay there (franchised Indian-owned hotels, such as some Holiday Inn Express, are just as clean as their "American-owned" counterparts, franchises have uniform standards and frequent inspections), the people are generally well-educated, they speak fluent (if often heavily accented) English, you never hear of crime problems, and they ask for nothing from the government --- though I have heard they get preferential treatment sometimes for small business loans, collecting welfare would be considered by them to be shameful --- aside from the fact that they are overwhelmingly non-Christian, I don't think you could ask for a more desirable POC minority. Put another way, if a young Asian Indian male walks near your car, you don't feel the politically incorrect urge to lock the doors, or I don't, anyway.
(If only the US were 13 percent Asian Indian instead of... I have to wonder what the crime blotter would look like then. Let me be clear that it is only
young black males who are the problem, black females are fine --- some are loud and obnoxious, but not criminal, it is no crime to chatter away on your cell phone in the grocery aisle while sporting glitter-laden "ghetto talons" for nails --- as are older black people of either gender.)
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