Pretty Soon I'm Going To Eat Alone

Today while eating lunch, I got slapped in the face. All of a sudden it just hit me. And it made me feel ill. 

Out of the 20-some-odd people I work with, I am the only one who refuses to eat fast food. Out of all of us, I appear to be the only one who has any kind of self respect or self control. I mean that strictly on a "I care about what I put into my body" basis, but I'd say that is a pretty important basis. Pretty much the only one that counts.

Every day in the lunch room, I'm surrounded by seemingly intelligent, amicable people. We engage in somewhat interesting conversation, gossip about the goings on at work and, ultimately, discuss our food choices of the day. While I don't really enjoy any of the conversation all that much, the food talk is hands down the worst. It's me against the rest in a verbal food fight about what junk food is the worst and who's eating the best example of the unhealthiest (aka best) lunch. Is it the 7-11 foot-long sandwiches (hey, they're not hamburgers), the Jack In The Box breakfast biscuit (come on, it's breakfast, the most important meal of the day), or perhaps the Wendy's chicken nugget meal (at least it's not McDonald's, PLUS it's chicken!)? Oh the warped and misguided perceptions United States citizens have these days...

Sure it's not a hamburger, but that pre-packaged processed meat and bleached enriched white bread probably has the same caloric intake as one. And you're right, it's breakfast, but it's only an important meal when it's not deep fat fried sausage, eggs & bacon and, sadly, it must be eaten in the morning. And, oh so close but, alas, Wendy's and McDonald's are really no different when it comes to beating the other's nutritional values. They both ship their frozen delicacies by the ton all across the US, fry them up in oil and salt, and sell them to the same customers. As for the misperception of chicken being healthier? Sorry again but it's been found to be more nutritionally devoid than the burgers. 

At least you have the option of getting a large Diet Coke rather than a regular one. At Wendy's that could save you 270 calories. At McDonald's, 310. (But don't get me started on the artificial sweeteners loaded into diet drinks) 

Still, for a million other reasons, truthfully, thank goodness they're not eating McDonald's this time.