I’d eat at McD’s and heck, even Chick-fil-A if they bothered to make something to eat for veg*ns.
Chick-fil-a piloted that cauliflower and that was actually pretty good, but I don’t think they kept it.
It might be me, but the “red” options seems to trend toward the Standard American Diet’s most harmful versions of things. That very much tracks with what I noticed while growing up in an extremely red area - there seems to be a lot of male toxicity (among females, too) leading people to think that eating “manly” foods (read: foods that cause diabetes, cancer, and heart disease - it has to involve lots of dead flesh and dairy, because that’s “healthy”, lol) was just what god’s people should be doing, because Jesus, the Bible, the flag, guns, and the Constitution, or something. And no, it doesn’t make any sense - it’s 100% emotionalism of the amgydalites. Allah forbid anyone should eat a vegetable that isn’t deep-fried or is a freedom fry or mashed potatoes…
I don’t need toxic masculinity (or Jesus, guns, or American flags - don’t have any of those in my life) to know steak and bacon and hamburgers are freaking delicious and I want to eat them a lot. I enjoy lots of other things, too. It’s a rare meal I don’t have some kind of meat, but I love crab and fish and chicken as much as red meat.
I suspect the correlation is more that if you can’t have empathy for your fellow humans, you damn sure can’t for animals. And I’ve never known a vegan who wasn’t driven solely by cruelty to animals.
I don’t have anything against vegans, and if the food was tastier than bacon and Ribeyes despite the lack of butter and cheese, I might choose it. But here we are. Maybe vat-grown meat will turn out. I’m not thrilled about how animals are treated, but I’m gonna omnivore.
You’d be suprised at what you can find out there that are better than you’d think
Like for example, I’ve had many oat milk skeptics turn into oat milk enthusiasts
Or if you like cooking, there’s so many great things out there. Ethiopian cuisine for instance has a bunch of traditionally vegan dishes
Just a handful of examples but there’s so much more out there
So the Republicans get a lot of fast food from a lot of places, while the Democrats seem to avoid major chains altogether, and when they do get fast food they go for restaurants that (in my opinion) are the most extremely overpriced and worst value (chipotle, panera).
The Republicans also seem to have a particular fixation in chick fil a, which is not surprising given that they campaign more in the south, CFA is typically a bit cheaper than other fast food, and it’s not maligned by Republicans like it still is by many progressives.
I prefer restaurants and stores without religious flavoring.
Also yeah, I guess I do tend to prefer the overpriced options if I have to eat out: they tend to have the choices that most resemble nutrition. I guess if the purpose is calories per dollar, maybe their value is lower.
I can’t afford fast food anymore. This article must be about the vanishing middle class and above.
I always thought fast food was incredibly expensive, but maybe that’s just me. When I was living hand to mouth during college and shortly after, I found that a big bag of rice and beans (even canned, although dried would have been even cheaper) went a long way in my food budget. Fast food was a luxury I almost never did.
I want to live in a world where people can eat beyond rice and dried beans within their budget.
It’s 2024. Eating a thin mash of bulk grains like you’re a medieval peasant isn’t a plucky story of resilience. It’s the story of a failed economic policy.
In the mid 90’s a whopper was a buck. That’s a bit over $2 today with inflation. I think whoppers are like $7-9 now. Sure compared to rice and beans it was probably expensive back then too, but not what I’d call incredibly.
There was like a 20 year period where they had things like a dollar menu to get people in and it really could be cheap to eat fast food. Those days are gone.
Just curious: what time period was that?
90s through maybe 2010.
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