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Although I do a pretty good job of balancing good eating/working out, I still can't resist the occasional stop at a fast food joint. Specifically, I love myself some Burger Kaing sausage biscuits. I stop at BK at least 1-2 times each ...
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Although I do a pretty good job of balancing good eating/working out, I still can't resist the occasional stop at a fast food joint. Specifically, I love myself some Burger Kaing sausage biscuits. I stop at BK at least 1-2 times each week after dropping off my son on the way to work and mutter my order of "One sausage biscuit and a cup of water" into the speaker. It's sorta comical that the (prolly not 100% legal) woman who is always working the window seems to be annoyed that I always order the same thing.
Sorry, I didn't realize asking people to do their job was such an inconvenience. If I keep getting those eye rolls every morning, I'm calling La Migra your district manager, "Patty".
Anyways, if I could avoid this evil woman and still get my sausage biscuit fix, I definitely would. And thanks to the suits at BK, I just might get my chance. Take that, "Patty".
Forget the hassles of drive-thru service. Believe it or not, Burger King is giving customers an even more convenient way to get their fast-food fix?home delivery.
The Home of the Whopper has been testing delivery service at several of its restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area and plans to expand the trial to include more locations over the next week, according to a company statement. The fast-food chain has been providing this service internationally for years in Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
The company didn?t release a timeline as to when (or if) the service will be available nationwide. The four stores currently offering the option deliver within a 10-minute radius. Customers pay a $2 delivery fee, and all orders must meet an $8 to $10 minimum, the statement said.
For those concerned about the quality of the food suffering during the delivery process, Burger King said it has developed new packaging technology, including thermal bags to keep food "hot and fresh." The service will be available to any home or office, so long as there is a physical address, and orders can be placed by phone or online.
Several McDonald's restaurants deliver to businesses-only throughout Manhattan, but the company has no plans to expand the service further at this time, a company spokesperson said. Wendy's restaurants do not offer delivery at the time, according to a spokesperson.
Predictably, the food police are assailing this idea as just another example of how fast food restaurants contribute to this country's obesity problem, and claim that BK's decision to deliver will just make it even easier for fatties to indulge.
Let's face it, it's not like getting yourself in a car and driving to Burger King is gonna burn many more calories that walking to your door to meet the delivery guy. In fact, I'm willing to bet people are likely to consume less food via home delivery because they're far less likely to make an emotionally fueled decision on what to eat by avoiding all those colorful signs on the restaurant menu.
Likewise, it's not like BK is doing anything new here. Pizza and Chinese joints have been delivering for years. And need I remind you, pizza and Chinese food are hardly the dinner of champions. Burger King is simply seeing an opportunity and providing it. If you were gonna eat BK anyhow, this just makes it a bit easier to do so.
Question: Ashy or Classy?!? Is BK's Delivery service promoting obesity or simply providing a much needed service to hungry couch potatoes?!?
What I wouldn't do for some take-out Indian food right about now. The one place that deliverd in my area closed. :( Best samosas, dosas and palak paneer on the planet!
Funny coincidence. My boss goes up to me today and says "Want a hamburger? I got one from McDonald's I don't need." Being foolish and devoid of sufficient willpower, I thanked her and took it, knowing I'd be kicking myself for it a few hours later, which of course I am.
I probably wander into a McDonald's about four times a year, if even that. Because every time I stuff something of theirs down my throat, I regret it. I just feel lousy afterwards. I can't even put my finger on exactly how I feel lousy, I just do. Those few moments of sodium celebration on my tongue aren't worth it. Don't know exactly what chemicals are interacting with what parts of my bloodstream and my brain, but the results aren't Ronald McDonald would smile about.
All I can say is, that girl must have genetics of STEEL. It's a miracle she doesn't look on the outside like the train wreck she surely is on the inside.
In other countries there is fast food delivery and no real obesity issues (ex: Korea has fast food delivery for McDonalds and Subway. It's actually a 24 hour delivery service). Asian countries are all about customer service. If someone will pay, they will do it.
I say Classy if it helps business, because it's no different than Dominos, Pizza Hut, hoagie shops, etc. that already deliver. People just need to learn self restraint and balance, that's not the companies job.
Very Classy if it makes money. BK is not making people fat. People are doing that on their own. You can't step on french fries to make you fat. You can't sit on them. You can't look at them. You have to EAT them. And that is all controlled by.....YOU.
Perhaps it controlled by "you", but how come there is not an even distribution of obese people throughout this country and other industrialized nations? One would think there would be if it were a simple matter of choice. Furthermore, the food industry knows what it is doing when it comes to getting people addicted to food. It's no accident that fast food contains a high amount of sugar and fat. Even the soft, low fiber content and relative mushiness of fast processed food makes it easy to eat, you don't have to chew it like you would an apple. Plus you eat very little fast food and get huge amounts of calories. A whopper has 600+ calories, try getting that many calories by eating fruit. You would be so stuffed, you would explode.
There is no obesity problem just as there is no alcohol problem in The US. The diet and exercise industries need a reason to exist, so they partner up with paternalistic doctors and dinkleberries like Bloomberg to create a crisis.
We also keep better records than ever and have more people survive childhood. How do we know what the real incidence of diabetes was in 1870?
Even ignoring the data, it's common sense. Our lives are super convenient compared to our ancestors of even a mere century ago. In 1912, in the dead of winter, most of us wouldn't be enjoying central heating while playing Angry Birds, we'd be out in the forest chopping firewood. Barring the elite, who were a small group, people had to physically work very hard to survive. Those calories got burned up quick. Every morning lumberjacks used to stuff down their gullets what every cardiologist nowadays would consider a suicide diet. Those guys actually burned it all off, unlike your standard office worker today.
If you need to go out in the dead of winter to chop your wood, something has gone very wrong. That's Autumn work! By January it's too damned late.
NO BUDDY. There is an obesity problem in the US just maybe not in your neck of the woods. Down here in GA.......OH it's a problem fa sho.
Amen. We like to eat rich anyway. We never had weight issues in my family but lord knows 'the sugar' and hypertension were our norms.
My great-granny who lived to 108, used to say all the time that the food was different. It was not lost on me that she maintained a garden (actually all my grands and greats did) and didn't eat a lot of meat. "Chile, you don't know what they're doing to make those animals so big".
Man, you can just look at photographs to see it's worse now than it was. This is really not disputable - the rate of obesity in the USA is higher than it once was.
50 yrs ago was 1960, hard to believe we didn't keep records or good ones. If we didn't track or couldn't track people's weight, which seems simple I guess can't trust any data 50+ yrs.
Processing methods strip the nutrients out of foods. Whys do you think everything is "enriched"? White four and sugar are two of the deadliest substances known to man. Years ago people grew things in their own gardens, in rich soil that wasn't stripped of the nutrients due to pollution. That's why iodine was added to salt. People simply weren't getting enough of it due to enviornmental destruction. I have a thyroid problem. Most persons witha thyroid issue are deficient in iodine. That's why I take Lugol's Iodine everyday in addtion to my meds. My levels have been in check every since I started, I feel better, have more energy and my metabolism is better. Of course my physician didn't give me this information, I had to research it myself.
Yes, it indeed IS verifiably worse. And you don't need to go back 100 years or even 50 years. There is plenty of data showing that the past 30 years have seen obesity rates skyrocket. (While it isn't the whole story, it is certaily not a coincidence that this coincides with the ascendancy of high fructose corn syrup as a replacement for cane sugar. Both are bad for you, of course, but corn syrup is worse because the body breaks it down even less effectively.)
I too think people are bigger now. Still I am skeptical of the BMI calculator. In order for it NOT to measure you as overweight you would need to be built like Chris Rock. Any reasonable amount of muscle mass will put you over. So while people have gotten bigger I think our measuring techniques may be a bit extreme.
I had complained to my doctor about BMI and how according to that number I'm overweight. She said BMI never takes into account people who tend to have higher bone density and muscle mass.
Ehh. Yes there are some outliers for whom BMI is not accurate. But for most of us it probably is. Combine BMI with waist measurement and body fat pct and chances are it's telling the truth. Whether we want to hear it or not is a different story.
Is there or are we just getting better at measuring it? Also, twenty years is an almost infinitesimal sample priod for a species that's been around as long as we have.
It's worse by almost any standard or measurement we use. Part of the problem is the diet that we have today but it's also that we (Americans) have so many labor saving devices at work and elsewhere.
People are biologically predestined to want sweet and/or salty foods. It's just that portion sizes have become too large, fewer people make meals at home and we aren't doing the work.
It's one thing to eat a large breakfast, solid lunch and big dinner (with second helpings) if you're also lifting car engines or plowing farms all day long. Completely different situation if the most exercise you get at work is punching the elevator button.
Just try an article of clothing about 20+ years older than the clothes you purchase today in your size on at a vintage store. I guarantee you it will be cut smaller and more narrow than anything of the same size you have in your closet right now.
I agree with ABs point that carry-out spots deliver worse food. Plus, they aren't sit down places. So the idea of receiving food that way outside of a pizza or chinese joint is a bit weird to some folk.
The only take-out that I cannot feature is Ethiopian cause of the bread and general messiness. It's delcious as all get out, but not exactly deliverable.
Ethiopian is probably a terrible first date option, especially if the other person is a germaphobe. I have been to two different Ethiopian restaurants in two different states (CT, MO) with my wife. Why is it that the owners are always genuinely surprised to see African-Americans?
well the mcdonalds around the corner from my apartment been delivered so this is nothing new to me. people are fat-a**es so they'll indulge anyhow they see fit. its still ashy tho.
I'd call it classy in that I don't frequently eat fast food, but wouldn't mind that option of home delivery (one of those 'bout time clever ideas). A "very" occasional Whopper w/ fries won't hurt. My town closed the nearest BK and opened up a Chinese restaurant, so the closest ones are in a congested area (terrible traffic planning to boot) and on the other end of "sprawl-ville" . They also closed the nearest KFC (again, "sprawl-ville" congestion) and opened a Krispy Kreme...WTF?!
I probably wouldn't use the service, but why not? Have you tasted that delicious California Whopper with the guacamole, bacon, and swiss cheese? Sure, eating one makes me feel extremely guilty and it's probably really bad for me, but it's soooo tasty! I'd be tempted to call and get one of those delivered.
NYC used to have McDonalds' delivery in a few areas. I never understood it. You can get a solid slice or a good dog on most corners. You can get gryos, kebabs, burgers, lettuce wraps, egg rolls, and virtually anything else; yet, you want McDonalds?
"Let's face it, it's not like getting yourself in a car and driving to Burger King is gonna burn many more calories that walking to your door to meet the delivery guy."
Look at the in-progress but nearly complete death of the video store. That's a huge one. NetFlix may offer more, but it also deprives us of (A. the necessity of going OUT, (B. the necessity of actually interacting with other human beings, however briefly, and (C. the importance of a shared experience---however prosaic---be it with friends or family, as the bunch of you browse, read, argue, and compromise.
The Internet has made almost any piece of information we can possibly need on the spur of the moment available to us in an instant, which is utterly awesome, but it has also greatly lessened the need for us to get off our ass and get to the goddamn freakin' library, another task that necessitates interaction with other human beings. (and fosters, however small, a sense of accomplishment upon finding the information you had to do at least a BIT of work to look for).
So here you have fast food---and not just any fast food, BURGER fast food, the most lethal kind there is----jumping on the "let's keep their ass on the couch" bandwagon. My verdict? C'est PIZEN! Pizen pizen pizen!
We're overconveniencing ourselves to death. Yeesh. At the rate we're going, someone's going to invent a way for us to pee electronically, and I'm only sorta joking when I say that.
Why do you have to be picking on Netflix again, Marbles? :-) If there were no Netflix, I really would be out of the loop movie-wise. There is no chance I'd be going to the video store what with groceries to be bought and library books to check out and fruit and veggies to wash and cup up and cook and make broth and dishes to do and stairs to the apartment to climb and miles to run, phew, it makes me tired thinking about it. People are only over-convenienced if they decide to be.
Can I call it Assy (compromising between ashy and classy)? I'm biased, though. I don't dig the fast food thing. It's just so not healthy. On the other hand, though, I'm surprised this option hasn't been explored by fast food joints before now. Some likka stores deliver too, right? *shrug* Some will use it 'wisely', others not so much.
Although I do a pretty good job of balancing good eating/working out, I still can't resist the occasional stop at a fast food joint. Specifically, I love myself some Burger Kaing sausage biscuits. I stop at BK at least 1-2 times each week after dropping off my son on the way to work and mutter my order of "One sausage biscuit and a cup of water" into the speaker. It's sorta comical that the (prolly not 100% legal) woman who is always working the window seems to be annoyed that I always order the same thing.
Sorry, I didn't realize asking people to do their job was such an inconvenience. If I keep getting those eye rolls every morning, I'm calling La Migra your district manager, "Patty".
Anyways, if I could avoid this evil woman and still get my sausage biscuit fix, I definitely would. And thanks to the suits at BK, I just might get my chance. Take that, "Patty".
Forget the hassles of drive-thru service. Believe it or not, Burger King is giving customers an even more convenient way to get their fast-food fix?home delivery.
The Home of the Whopper has been testing delivery service at several of its restaurants in the Washington, D.C. area and plans to expand the trial to include more locations over the next week, according to a company statement. The fast-food chain has been providing this service internationally for years in Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
The company didn?t release a timeline as to when (or if) the service will be available nationwide. The four stores currently offering the option deliver within a 10-minute radius. Customers pay a $2 delivery fee, and all orders must meet an $8 to $10 minimum, the statement said.
For those concerned about the quality of the food suffering during the delivery process, Burger King said it has developed new packaging technology, including thermal bags to keep food "hot and fresh." The service will be available to any home or office, so long as there is a physical address, and orders can be placed by phone or online.
Several McDonald's restaurants deliver to businesses-only throughout Manhattan, but the company has no plans to expand the service further at this time, a company spokesperson said. Wendy's restaurants do not offer delivery at the time, according to a spokesperson.
Predictably, the food police are assailing this idea as just another example of how fast food restaurants contribute to this country's obesity problem, and claim that BK's decision to deliver will just make it even easier for fatties to indulge.
Let's face it, it's not like getting yourself in a car and driving to Burger King is gonna burn many more calories that walking to your door to meet the delivery guy. In fact, I'm willing to bet people are likely to consume less food via home delivery because they're far less likely to make an emotionally fueled decision on what to eat by avoiding all those colorful signs on the restaurant menu.
Likewise, it's not like BK is doing anything new here. Pizza and Chinese joints have been delivering for years. And need I remind you, pizza and Chinese food are hardly the dinner of champions. Burger King is simply seeing an opportunity and providing it. If you were gonna eat BK anyhow, this just makes it a bit easier to do so.
Question: Ashy or Classy?!? Is BK's Delivery service promoting obesity or simply providing a much needed service to hungry couch potatoes?!?
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I'm waiting for an explanation as to how what you've cited is completely different and not the same thing at all. We'll see if one comes.
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