How often do you eat at McDonalds?

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	I never eat at McDonalds.
	44 (47%)
	About once a year.
	20 (22%)
	Every few months or so.
	13 (14%)
	Every month or so.
	6 (6%)
	Every couple of weeks or so.
	1 (1%)
	Every week or so.
	5 (5%)
	Every few days, give or take.
	4 (4%)
	Every day.
	0 (0%)
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[Cali_Democrat]

1. 3 times a day

breakfast, lunch and dinner.

[Demobrat]

2. Not since I read Fast Food Nation n/t

n/t

[Agschmid]

3. I work rediculous hours...

I have no idea how to eat healthy with what I do. I always am under stress, people at work are always trying to undercut me, and food is my coping mechanism... It's not good.

[Aerows]

10. Once every other month or so

I treat myself to a bacon egg and cheese biscuit with hashbrowns and an unsweetened iced tea at McDonald's before I go grocery shopping. I couldn't eat it every week, or good grief, every day because it has too much grease, but it's a nice treat on occasion. Truthfully, though, Waffle House has the best hashbrowns in existence and I would rather eat there when I have time

[JI7]

101. you need to find another way to deal with the stress first

i think then you will do better with better eating.

[Aerows]

4. I like to grab breakfast from there

once in a while, or maybe a double cheeseburger. I know it's socially awful, but it's convenient, tastes good and cheap.

[jberryhill]

5. Whenever Mr. McDonald invites me for dinner

Mrs. McDonald makes a shepherd's pie to die for.

[Chan790]

6. Only the hot cakes. n/t

[JohnnyLib2]

7. Senior-price coffee on road trips!

[dimbear]

34. When you're way out in the boonies, you know that McDonald's will provide something almost

edible and a reasonably clean restroom. Or you can take your chances with the local greasy spoon.

[RKP5637]

80. Yep, same here. I've driven through some remote places, if I see a McDonald's I

grab a quick sandwich, also, their restrooms are generally clean ... except one I stopped at once, it was like everyone was drugged out or something, no idea what was going on ...

[last1standing]

103. Am I the only one who will drive out of the way to try a greasy spoon?

When I go camping one of my favorite things to do is to try different greasy spoons in rural areas. I've never been so disappointed that I've wished I had driven through a McDonald's instead.

[dimbear]

105. Part of the answer might depend on having the legendary cast iron digestive system,

which I don't.

[Codeine]

8. Last time I ate there was 1989.

I'm not anti-fast food per se, they just don't have anything on the menu for me.

[kestrel91316]

9. Once a year: Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal, large fries and soda.

[solarhydrocan]

11. A country serious about Health Care would treat McDonalds like tobacco users

instead this crap is marketed to children every day of every year.

If it wasn't so sad it would be funny.



I'm supposed to pay more so Junior here can get "Health Care"?

The US has become an insane asylum.

[Keefer]

18. That isn't the kids fault

That's the product of parents giving the little brats whatever they want.

Only partially .

[Vashta Nerada]

20. That poor kid is the result of lazy parenting.

[Lex]

23. So you don't want this kid to have access to "Health Care?"

Wow.

[Union Scribe]

27. Who else would you like to exclude from health care access?

I mean, this is all about saving you a buck right? The elderly cost more than anyone. What, you're supposed to pay more so grandma can live another six months? Cut em all off!

[solarhydrocan]

111. I don't want to exclude anyone from health care

but I don't want to subsidize people eating things that cause health problems. Eat what you want- just don't expect me to then cough up $ to fix that which you did to yourself.

No one here cares a bit when smokers are bashed. Yet here is clearly an obese child with what looks like a coke- acidic carbonated sugar water- and stuffing his mouth with whatever.

Those of us that have taken care of ourselves will not accept paying to subsidize poor eating habits. You don't have a problem with smokers paying more to the almighty insurance companies do you?

For the poster that said he might have a thyroid problem- perhaps eating at McDonalds caused it? In any event, if you have a thyroid problem perhaps it's best to stay away from fast food and carbonated sugar water.

[Sheepshank]

138. how do you feel about subsidizing athletes? Risky behaviors are a choice, right?

concussions, long term brain injury, broken bones, damaged ACL's and joints. Tennis elbow and turned ankles.

What about parents that have passed along a genetic tendency for poor immune system....should we not subsidize their choice to have children and possible pass along the infirmity? how about redheads that burn horribly and are more subject to skin cancer that black people? Red heads chose not to stay indoors 24/7. Should we quit subsidizing Jewish people because of they tend to be more prone to jakob creutzfeldt disease and they chose to have children who may also have the genetic problem? I don't understand where you would draw the line between choice and nature?

[dmr]

142. Thank you.

[NuclearDem]

28. Free Republic's thataway.

For Christ's sake, I'd think you'd want him to have access to a doctor so he could get diet advice and learn healthy eating habits, or maybe get the minimum wage raised to the point where McDonald's isn't one of the only things his family can afford.

[laundry_queen]

73. +1 nt

[solarhydrocan]

112. If people can afford Mickey D's they can afford real food

and doctors aren't the only place to find basic dietary information.

I've had doctors tell me to my face that supplemental vitamins and minerals are useless. How many vitamins and minerals are missing when one eats at McDonalds?

Edit to add: I'm a Jeffersonian Democrat- a real liberal- so I won't be following your advice to go to a right wing warmonger site, but thanks anyway

[NuclearDem]

119. No they can't.

McDonald's is cheap and it deals with hunger pains. Real food isn't cheap.

Also, I didn't know Jeffersonian democracy required a lack of empathy.

[solarhydrocan]

122. at the market yesterday 5 lbs of potatoes were $1.49

McDonalds *IS* cheap and the food causes health problems.

Now that we're all in this insurance thing together you will hear much more about it.

[NuclearDem]

127. Bingo!

I've got shitting on children (well, punching down at least), condescending tone, devoid of empathy (free space), the "my money paying for your habits" meme, and anecdotes in place of hard evidence.

Say hi to JimRob for me!

[indigoth]

130. Sooooooo

You're on a trip somewhere unfamiliar and need to get food. Does that mean you should find the local co-op/farmers market? Five pounds of potatoes huh. And how do you prepare them if you aren't at home? And what if the local market isn't even open when you want to eat?

Really ... Under some very ordinary circumstances, your suggestion of "the market" is virtually impossible.

[Vashta Nerada]

140. Oh come on now

People can get healthier alternatives at the store for a lot cheaper.

It's either they're too damn lazy to make something or they're just too damn lazy.

[RagAss]

36. There's a future Republican Congressman if I ever saw one.

[joesdaughter]

43. FLOTUS is trying

When our First Lady made childhood obesity one of her causes, she received a storm of derision from those who said it was a continuation of "The Nanny State", Bloomberg still gets criticism for his attempt to promote healthy habits ( I am no saying I agree with the big soda ban). But I see nothing in this photo to indicate that these kids don't already have health insurance coverage from their parents' work.

[Logical]

47. For fucks sake. Dramatic much? n-t

[solarhydrocan]

115. Nothing like when smokers are dumped on

[notadmblnd]

56. Wow! I can't believe you had the nerve to say that here.

When people have become so self centered and greedy that one would deny a child health care because they resent having to pay an extra 3 cents in tax. It is insane.


Just what makes you think that your money is going to pay for their health care? Or do you think that because they are fat that they're poor and therefore less human than you? Do you even see those children in that photo as human beings or are they just little piggies to you not deserving to live, let alone have healthcare?

I bet you claim to be pro life too, huh?

[Texasgal]

66. How do you know this kid dosen't have

a medical issue?

My niece was very over weight. not because of junk food but because of a horrible thyroid issue that was just recently diagnosed at the age of 21!

[solarhydrocan]

116. Do you think kids with "medical issues" should stuff their faces with Mickey D's "food"?

People with thyroid issues shouldn't eat at McDonalds.

You don't need a medical degree to figure that out.

[Autumn]

68. Did it ever cross your little mind that child could have a thyroid

issue or some other problem?

[Lex]

85. So? Even if he didn't, he deserves access to health care. nt

[Autumn]

87. Everybody deserves health care.

I responded to this post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3963407

[Lex]

92. I know. But the kid doesn't have to have a thyroid problem

to deserve health care. That was my response. Even if he's just an obese kid (no thyroid problem) he deserves health care.

Everyone does. I agree with you about that.

[Aristus]

69. I'll let the others address the douchebaggery of your reply.

I'll just tell you that public health officials and medical providers credit Massachusetts' state health care system with reducing childhood obesity in that state to one of the lowest in the nation. Largely due to increased access to health and nutrition information.

Massachusetts is a model for the nationwide ACA provisions that are set to go into effect on Jan. 1st.

(BTW, you're paying for that kid's share of national defense, public highways, etc., too. But I noticed you didn't complain about that...)

[solarhydrocan]

118. BTW: "National Defense" is a joke. It's National Offense

and public highways are paid by states, counties and cities except for interstates.

The Massachusetts plan is based on the Heritage Foundation plan which is as Right Wing as you can get.

The health insurance mandate in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is an idea hatched in 1989 by Stuart M. Butler at Heritage in a publication titled "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans".[20] This was also the model for Mitt Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts. [21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_foundation#Policy_influence

I'm called a "Right Winger" because I oppose a Right Wing plan. LOL

[liberal_at_heart]

71. all fat shaming does is show what a$$es people are who do it.

[solarhydrocan]

123. yet shaming smokers is a national past time. Go figure.

[Aristus]

134. People who voluntarily, and at great expense, poison themselves and others?

Yeah. That deserves some shaming.

And unfortunately for your argument, eating is an important and natural impulse for the sustainment of life. Overeating, of course, is very dangerous.

But unlike eating, there is no 'safe' or 'moderate' level of smoking.

Oh, the poor, oppressed downtrodden smokers of the world...

[catrose]

90. 107 posts

coincidence?

[solarhydrocan]

124. The real coincidence is how many people support a right wing health insurance

ripoff

The health insurance mandate in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is an idea hatched in 1989 by Stuart M. Butler at Heritage in a publication titled "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans".[20] This was also the model for Mitt Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts. [21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_foundation#Policy_influence

[Nevernose]

117. You are clearly superior to an obese 8 year old

You must be very proud.

[solarhydrocan]

120. My eating habits *are* clearly superior to many people

including that kid but I haven't complained.

Now that insurance is a community undertaking we all care what everyone else does, don't we?

Do you care that smokers are forced to pay more (lots more) than non smokers?

[roamer65]

125. Americans are fat.

We eat way too much. That is the real problem. Food is our obsession.

[Dash87]

145. I wouldn't say it's an issue of "eating too much." I would say it's more of an issue of what we eat.

Tons of fatty foods, less fruits and vegetables, processed garbage with crap like high-fructose corn syrup in it. If you stuff yourself on a calorie-friendly meal, it's still better than having an artery-clogging meal at McDonalds.

A good portion of the American diet is either fried or processed with obesity-causing ingredients.

[Sheepshank]

136. Right arm...looks like a "fat sleeve". Look at the color and roll at the wrist especially

Enhancing a overt problem doesn't help with honest discussion

[Dash87]

143. He is right in a way -

The US doesn't do much for preventive care, which would cut down on costs. McDonalds is like smoking - it's absolutely horrible for your health, and it's marketed towards kids ("happy meals" with toys for example). You can get cheaper food at the grocery store. I'd say it's more of an issue about food education than cost.

[NightWatcher]

12. I know it's horrible, but damnit sometimes a Quarter LB'er or a Big Mac

and those fries just hit the spot.

I of course feel like shit afterwards.

[HockeyMom]

13. On road trips from Florida to NY a few times a year

At 100 lbs. do I need to worry about it? A coworker once said to me, "Have an extra Big Mac for me." Two? I can barely eat one, minus the fries and soda.

[spanone]

14. once every 10 years....fries

[53tammy]

15. I stopped when they put in a TV with fox news on it!!

Still have the unused coupon for a free meal sent to me after I called corporate and complained.

[csziggy]

41. If the coupon is still good, give it to a homeless person

You don't have to go to a McD and the homeless person gets a meal. Win-Win!

[53tammy]

49. Thought about that as I was posting.

Forgot about it truth be told. Did give a man money for a good sleeping bag when he told me he was having a hard time finding a warm one while shopping at a thrift shop last week

[csziggy]

51. That's how I am about coupons - I forget I have them

If I do carry them and decide I won't use them, I try to leave them on top of the product in the grocery so someone else can use them.

Good for you giving so the man can have a good sleeping bag - he'll need it this winter!

[petronius]

16. A couple times a year - breakfast stops on road trips, usually

I'll buy ice tea or coffee there more frequently, and use it as a restroom stop even more often...

[blkmusclmachine]

17. McYuck, a diet for death (IMHO)

[Vashta Nerada]

19. I never eat there.

Gross.

[Ikonoklast]

21. B'fast, maybe once or twice a month.

Fries, same.

Burgers, never. Gray, nasty...nope.

[rrneck]

22. Six years ago. ntt

[TreasonousBastard]

24. I don't get the self-righteous horror some have...

over the thought of McDonald's. I'd be curious what these people think is a proper restaurant, or what they eat at home.

Some of the stuff is nasty, like glued together chicken scraps turned into strips or little pingpong balls. The burgers, though, are made with just beef, so unless you don't ever eat beef, tomatoes, lettuce, or American cheese-- what's the problem?

Are the salads so horrible? Are they made from plastic vegetables? The fries made from artificial potatoes concocted from toxic waste?

What, specifically, is so horrible about McDonalds? If you just don't like it, so what? Why does it not meeting you personal standards mean it must be so excoriated and those of us who do occasionally eat a burger there are somehow lesser people?

You do realize that this attitude of superiority doesn't look good, don't you?

[Union Scribe]

33. The comedian Jim Gaffigan has a great bit on this;

about how righteous people look down on the McDonald's diners. But, he points out, everyone has their McDonald's. It might not be a big mac, maybe it's some other questionable thing they eat or drink or expose themselves to.

[NuclearDem]

63. I LOVE that bit.

It's all McDonald's!

[sammytko]

37. We had it for lunch every day while on a project at Holloman AFB

At first we were surprised to see McDonalds at an AF base. It is usually Burger King. After a month or so - blech.

So now it is only once a year or so I get a craving for a Big Mac and fries.

[Agschmid]

45. Great post.

[Logical]

48. It is totally annoying. Food snobs on the DU. nt

[csziggy]

50. The last two times I was in a McDonald's I was treated badly

By the employees.

Once, I got a very long line before the time of their breakfast cut off time. By the time I got to the counter, it was after their arbitrary cutoff. The employee behind the counter was extremely rude and unpleasant when she denied me the chance to order breakfast. There was no reason for that - I was prepared for my order based on the time I got in line. I had no watch, they had no clock visible to customers. I did not know what their cutoff time was or what time it actually was. After being awake for 30 hours, I just wanted some quick breakfast and did not want to be insulted. I wasn't rude back, just left with no food.

The next and last time I went was the one I mentioned in my other post in this thread - my sister left her two young sons with us and suggested McD's for their lunch. We were unused to children and unused to McD's so going to McD's during the lunch rush was a very bad idea. The kids were being kids and were not ready to make quick selections. We had no idea how to help the kids pick their meals fast. The people in line behind us just wanted to get their meals quickly and the employee at the counter was impatient and no help. We finally got the kids orders in but when we opened them at the table, they were wrong. The employee was rude and unhelpful about fixing the mistake. By the time we got the orders straightened out, the kids were in tears and my husband and I were completely fed up with McD's.

The two incidents were five years apart. Two different McD's, different employees. No difference in rude, obnoxious attitude. I presume that is part of their training program.

I will never again eat at McD's. I will use their facilities, but my money will not go into their cash registers.

[TreasonousBastard]

72. OK, you wanted them to reopen the breakfast line and restart cooking...

egg McMuffins and pancakes because the line was long. I understand the frustration-- been there many times with similar things. But, if you argued the point with the employee, you were arguing with someone who was paid very little to follow orders not be a corporate PR person. No doubt there was a line getting longer as you were making your point.

And then you admit you were unused to both kids and McD when you made the mistake of hitting the place during the lunch rush. I don't doubt that in either case someone could, or should, have helped you out, but it's entirely your business if these experiences turned you off of the place forever. It does not mean, as some here would say, that they make McDonalds a Satanic invention to ensure our bad nutrition and health and an early grave.

[csziggy]

74. No, I did not argue with the employees

They were throwing out the same breakfast items I wanted to order - I could not see the logic in not letting me have an Egg McMuffin when they had them visible in the back just because an arbitrary time limit had passed. I ordered, the employee was rude in telling me that it was too late. I pointed out that there were still the McMuffins on the warming tray. She told me they were being thrown out and that I had to order something else.. I left. No argument, just a really bad attitude from the employee.

With the kids, I was nice to the employee, but the employee kept yelling at the kids to hurry up and order which did not help them make their choices. I told the employee to let the next person ahead of us, but she YELLED at us that if she did that, we had to go to the end of the line. At that point we did step out of the line, I helped the boys make their choices and sent them to the table with my husband while I waited in line again. When I got back to the front of the line, the employee was again rude, interrupting me and making it difficult to give the order. It didn't help that she got the order wrong and that I had to again wait in line, and get the order re-done.

I said nothing about their bad nutrition or anything of that sort. Overall, my experiences at McDonald's have demonstrated their poor customer service and mediocre food, starting when my grandmother would "treat" us with going to one in the 1950s. No visit to McDonald's has ever been worth the money - except when I've used their restrooms without buying a thing.

[Luminous Animal]

53. What makes you conclude that choosing not to eat at McDonalds makes a person

self-righteous?

Should I force myself to eat something that I think smells and tastes horrible in order to appear humble?

[TreasonousBastard]

70. That's hardly it-- there's no accounting for taste, but...

the self-righteousness comes in when McDonald's and all its customers are considered beneath contempt for no defined reason.

Just not liking it is OK. Demonizing it demands more than just not liking it.

[Luminous Animal]

75. I don't understand the "no defined reason" part of your post...

I see people give specific reasons for not eating there...

Environmental (factory farms, mono-culture, clear cutting of essential forests agribusiness)
Animal rights (CAFO's and caged birds)
Health (it sells largely poor quality, low nutritious, foodstuff)
Low wages and no benefits

What if a person tries to be mindful of those things in his/her every day living? What if he/she raises her children to be mindful of those things?

Does that make a person self-righteous?

McDonalds is no different than any other huge corporation. Profit over people. Profit over the environment.

Choosing to disengage from participating in that sort of system is no more self-rightous than many other environmentally friendly choices that individuals make.

[TreasonousBastard]

78. I don't see much of that, even in this thread. What I do see is...

"yuuck" without much else.

But, if you are so concerned with all of those things, (and it's not a bad thing to be concerned about) just what DO you eat so as not to depend on dreadful corporate food with underpaid help?

It' not so easy to get away from that, unless you grow your own.

[Luminous Animal]

91. I receive a "Farm to Table" box of fruit and vegetables every week...

It is supplied by local farms and that pretty much does it for us. We supplement at the Wednesday farmer's market and shop for staples at the organic workers co-op. The beans and grains that we buy are locally grown. Our bread is from Alvarado Street bakery - another local worker co-op. As is the granola I buy... etc., etc.

We don't eat any four legged animals but we will have cook fish or chicken about once or twice a month. Both locally sourced.

I am lucky to
1) live in Northern California with its abundance of locally farmed food
2) have an abundance of sources to access that locally farmed food

My husband and I (and sometimes our adult daughter) eat at locally owned restaurants that prepare their food from scratch and use primarily organic ingredients.

In San Francisco, it is very easy to eat out in places that do not depend on corporate food and that do not underpay their help. In that respect, I am also lucky.

[Jamaal510]

98. Agreed.

Most of McDonald's food isn't exactly the healthiest overall, but you have a point. One thing about McDonald's is that their food is inexpensive, convenient, and it fills you up. It is fine to eat there in moderation, along with exercise.

[ScreamingMeemie]

106. I don't get the need for polls about it on DU. I like McD's. But then, I don't have problems with

Bud Light, the Olive Garden, chain restaurants in general, etc. Life is too short for me to be pretentious.

[Silent3]

121. +1 n/t

[Coyotl]

25. Did it infrequently for a brief while in life, found it to be bad for health.

Best advice, avoid it and eat fast food from grocery stores instead.

[MoonRiver]

26. NEVER!

[Douglas Carpenter]

29. It is the only "restaurant" in my area that I can enjoy with my dog - by using the drive -through

and my dog loves their strawberry ice cream sundaes

[Auggie]

30. Not any more … the thought makes me ill

[dlwickham]

31. my mom is hooked on their mocha frappes

and I like their mochas and really loving their pumpkin spice lattes

[aroach]

99. Me too

I didn't count my mochas when I answered the poll. After all, I'm drinking them -- not eating them.

[Mz Pip]

32. I said never

But we did stop there on a recent road trip to get coffee. Their coffee is still to friggin hot.

[KittyWampus]

35. Never, the sodium and chemicals make my lips burn for days. No joke.

It has nothing to do with it being "McDonalds" or even meat.

It just gives me an extreme reaction.

[csziggy]

38. It's been at least twenty years since I ate at McDonald's

My sister left her two sons with us to baby sit and recommended we take them to McD's for lunch. Having no experience with young children, we took the easy route and her recommendation.

It was not a pleasant experience for us or for the boys. I'm not sure how long ago that was. My sister's been dead for over twenty years and both boys are in their thirties now.

I have never been back to one since for food. A few times, I've used restrooms at McD's when it was more convenient than other locations. Didn't buy anything any of those times.

[Throd]

39. Only if Carl's Jr., In-n-Out, Jack in the Box, Burger King or Wendy's isn't available.

[kimbutgar]

40. I used to eat at McDonalds 10 years ago occasionally but after seeing the movie

By Morgan Spurlock it ended any reason for me to eat there. I had even got my son on the Autistic spectrum to spurn it but now that he's in a group home they take him and his housemates there once a week. But he told me he has them make him a salad when he gets back to the home. He knows McDonald's is junk food.

[dipsydoodle]

42. I pick up the odd choc milkshake occasionally at a drive in occasionally

Why not ?

[BainsBane]

44. Somewhere between never and once a year.

I refuse to touch the hamburgers, but I have gotten fries on occasion and more rarely a fish filet.

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. Whenever the mood strikes.

[Freddie]

52. It's the only fast food near my work

I don't get much time for lunch and I truly get sick of frozen/nuked food for lunch. Once a week I treat myself to a "happy meal" (small cheeseburger, small fries) or the southern chicken sandwich, which is a clone of Chic Fil A (without the hate) and quite good.

[kickitup]

54. Almost daily . . .

because I like their coffee. I also like their Southwestern Salad. Sometimes I get just a regular cheeseburger and small fries, which is more than enough for me. My husband loves their apple slices.

I'm not a McDonald's hater - so shoot me. I know a franchise owner and, believe it or not, he is not the devil incarnate.

[Go Vols]

55. Sonic or Wendys,

stuff there taste more like food.Its seldom I go to either tho.

[politicat]

57. I can't.

It's triggery for me.

My father loved the great golden teats of America, so every road trip required several stops at the arches until we reached White Castle territory. (no shit, the man planned our itineraries around White Castle.)

Problem 1: I get amazingly car sick. My best bet if I'm not driving is to OD on Dramamine and not wake up for 24 hours. My second best bet is a reasonable amount of Dramamine and consume only cold or cool Coca-Cola for that 24 hours, while listening to music on headphones and keeping eyes closed, with lots of very cold AC blowing as close to on my face as possible.

Problem 2: my father doesn't believe in car sickness, despite the many times I yakked on the seats, paint, or side of the road. He thinks it's all mind over matter. (Despite being a Naval officer, who knows sea-sickness is a real thing.) So at best, I got one Dram.

Problem 3: My father is a fscking asshole. His idea of entertainment while making long road trips is driving aggressively, swerving in the lane, and refused to use the car's AC, claiming it was a drain on mileage. (Bullshit. 4 wheel 65 mph creates FAR more drag, even on 1980s shitboxes. I learned algebra for the entire purpose of proving this when I was 13. Didn't help.) If he'd decided to be pissed with me -- and since I dreaded road trips like a sinner dreads hell, I usually succeeded in pissing him off -- then I wouldn't get Dramamine and he would swerve more. And he would usually pick a fight with my mother, so as to make the experience ALL the more fun. Truly, when I say fscking asshole, I have a deep bench as a standard of comparison.

Problem 4: since my father didn't believe in car sickness, nor in my very real distress, and also believed that children should eat the food put in front of them, I've tasted more of that shit coming up than I care to recall. When he was really feeling sadistic, he would insist I eat an adult sized meal (the big coke was a good thing) on the principle that I needed more food so that I'd get at least a few calories before I yakked. I eventually figured out the bulimic trick of just getting the inevitable over before we were back on the road.

The smell of McD's nauseates me. I've stopped shopping at more places because they either have a D's in the parking lot or attached to the store. I cannot. There is nothing that can make me eat that.

*where was my mother? In this same abusive relationship. So yeah, enabling happened. Some fights were just not worth having, and the fights most not worth having were the ones when we'd all be stuck together in a contained space for a minimum of two weeks.

[easychoice]

58. Does 1990 count?

I thonk it was'90...maybe '88 or '89...

[yuiyoshida]

59. I barely stop by a McDonalds.. but I must admit I do

Like their fish sandwich. But If I have one, its maybe one time in a year. I would rather go elsewhere, for fish and chips.

[treestar]

60. I would never get more than coffee at McDonald's

In extreme cases, where social issues force me there, I get the salad.

[Quantess]

61. Does coffee count?

If so, once a year or so.

[MagnumUK]

62. Twice a month or so.

I especially like the Chicken McNuggets.

[riderinthestorm]

64. More than I'd like during competition season but always get a salad

I keep a bottle of Paul Newman's lite balsamic vinaigrette in the cooler so I'm good to go.

I haven't tried their new wraps but they look ok.

The only other fast food I ever get on the road is a Taco Bell bean burrito which I've also been informed by DU food snobs is another disgusting choice.

[abelenkpe]

65. Ice coffee

On rainy days so the kids can play in the play palace. It doesn't rain often but yeah. Play palace...

[hunter]

67. My kid worked at McDonald's this summer. Jobs were scarce.

I ate there twice.

Kid, now back in University, "gets it."

Similar to my worst job ever... Can you imagine doing this for years???

NO!

And some people have no other options... that sucks.

McDonald's ought to pay a living wage. Every job ought to pay a living wage. Welfare and unemployment ought to pay a living wage.

Less than that sucks.

[JeffHead]

76. More than I care to admit to.

[RKP5637]

77. Only occasionally when cross country driving. I get a plain hamburger and use their restroom. My

preference is Subway.

[SheilaT]

79. It's been about six years or so since I've been to one.

There was a time when I probably ate there a couple of times a week. My diet is a long way from perfection, but I almost never do fast food. I cook a lot of my own stuff, and the more I do the better I'm finding it tastes.

Pizza Hut has done something weird with their sauce or something, because a few months ago all of a sudden their pizzas started tasting terrible to me. So I'm back to making them from scratch. I can't quite figure out how to make the crust the way they do, but eventually I might succeed.

[Retrograde]

81. McDonald's? Haven't been there in decades

I do eat at In-n-Out when I'm in Southern California (defined by me as Arastradero and points south), and I occasionally get a craving for Taco Bell's bean burritos.

[RandySF]

82. We choose Subway

Not perfect by any stretch, but at least a little less unhealthy.

[Duckhunter935]

83. 5-6 times a day

supersize is good

[Kablooie]

84. I gotta say I like their sausage burrito for breakfast.

It's the perfect size with the hot sauce.

[txwhitedove]

86. It's the kids' fault. You should have heard the shout "MINIONS" when we saw McD had those toys! Our

elementary school even had McTeacher night as a fund raiser.

[polly7]

88. When I first left home and headed for the big city with no job

and very little money I survived on two Big Mac's a day for months, until I could find my own apartment, and cook. I still crave them, but don't eat fast food much at all, so once a year is about it for me.

[Spirochete]

89. Every time I go on a date

with Charlize Theron, we always go there. Other than that, i never go near the place...

[ileus]

93. I never eat Mcdonalds and I don't own a TV.

[sakabatou]

94. Never

The meat isn't kosher anyway.

[FarCenter]

95. Only when traveling.

[Jamaal510]

96. I always eat Micky D's on greyhound trips

to-and-from Humboldt County. I would eat there more often, but I have no car, and Arcata only has 1 McDonald's (which is way across town from where I stay).

[ribrepin]

97. I get coffee there everyday - coffee @ work sucks

I might have lunch there once or twice a year

[JI7]

100. i would eat there more if they served Breakfast all day

i'm always too late for breakfast.

[doc03]

102. Go there for coffee a good bit just to use the

internet. Once a every week or two I get an egg Mc muffin. The last time I ate a hamburger there I felt sick before I got out of the parking lot and was up all night running to the bathroom. That was about 6 months ago.

[beveeheart]

104. Only buy the $1.00 cokes.

[ZombieHorde]

107. I have not eaten there in a while,

but if they sold Egg McMuffins all day, I would eat there much more often. I love those things, but they stop selling them around 10:30am or so.

[David__77]

108. Sometimes daily, sometimes a couple times a week.

It just depends. I get grilled chicken salad with fat free vinegrette - pretty good. Oh, and soft serve.

[MADem]

109. I never seek it out, but I'll bet I wind up there maybe once a year.

And odds are, it would be breakfast, when I happened to be on the road.

They have good coffee there, I will say--better than Starbucks.

[sir pball]

110. Once or twice a week, out of practicality.

I have a 24-hour one that's less than a block away and right next to my subway stop; I usually get home around midnight so there's not much else open besides the deli (which makes excellent sandwiches, but ya gotta have some variety) and frankly the last thing I want to do after working in a kitchen for nine or ten hours is turn on a friggin' stove. Some nights I'll have some Real Food leftovers from dinner service, but some nights, well, I love me some McNuggets. Feel free to throw up in your mouth at the thought if that's your thing.

Got my checkup last week and I'm all-round far healthier than the average even...sometimes cheap and convenient isn't all bad.

[quinnox]

113. too much lately, because it is very convenient (location) to me when I am doing my daily activities

in the area I am at the time.

I should not be eating there as much, have to resist this easy temptation.

[X_Digger]

114. I grab a breakfast biscuit via drive-thru a couple times a week. n/t

[dembotoz]

126. love the senior coffee and the dollar menu AND the wifi

less than 3 bucks and i can work thru lunch

[Walk away]

128. If you're from Bergen County New Jersey it WHITE MANNA!!!

#t=174

[madrchsod]

129. the only thing that i can eat are the fries

my digestive track can not handle any mcd`s fried food

[ScreamingMeemie]

132. The McD's on the corner from me still makes an amaaaaaazing Sausage McMuffin with Egg.

I treat myself once a week after morning drop off.

[mikeysnot]

133. Bought a cup of coffee

five years ago so my son could play in the play area while my chick shopped.

Other than that. Never.

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[Kali]

135. closest one is about 20 miles either direction, so maybe once a month or so

especially on the way home from a trip - makes a fast meal after a long drive and you can feed hungry hordes for cheap off the dollar menu. (they just love when you order 20 dollar items and nothing else )

Unlike many in this thread, I LIKE the regular food on occasion, but fast food breakfasts?

instead of the being too late for breakfast, my gripe is not serving burgers early enough. Jack in the Box is better for us no-breakfast junk food addicts.

[LWolf]

137. Does coffee count?

Food? Rarely.

Coffee? A couple of times a month.

[Hippo_Tron]

139. When I lived in the boonies I'd go for a yogurt parfait and unsweetened iced coffee every day

Sometimes I'd treat myself to a hashbrown. Though if I wanted something greasy and delicious there was a gas station across the street that made WAY better sausage biscuits than McDonalds.

[Iggo]

141. Every month or so. Why?

[DonCoquixote]

144. to the people that want to treat fat like crack

Tell me how come the french eat cream/butter/foiegras/cheese and chainsmoke cigs that make ours look like candy, and have less heart attacks than we do?

Fat is not a panacea that you can kill to make Americans svelte. the rpoblem is a LIFESTYLE that is too fast, and does not allow you to walk and eat a damned meal!

[dionysus]

146. only at thruway rest stops

[Recursion]

147. I like the McAloo Tikki. I miss the biscuits

Biscuits, in the American sense, are things that nobody outside of the US seems to understand very well...