Fast Food Culture

  • MAD

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    Have you succumb to fast food culture?

    People have to work longer and longer to keep up, many as a result are turning to fast food to save time, be it take out, dine in or frozen tv dinners.

    Have you succumb?

    (ps. i know this topic has food in it but its more about the culture than the actual food.)
    December 25th, 2008 at 05:41am
  • Sara

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    I don't believe I have, I am more of a status starbuck drinker though and sadly.
    December 25th, 2008 at 09:19am
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    I'll agree that is kind of sad, they don't deal in fair trade coffee, and as a result promote the oppression of many people overseas. Starbux is part of fast food culture i would say. its a part of people not slowing down to really think about what they are consuming.
    December 25th, 2008 at 03:14pm
  • kafka.

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    Actually didn't starbucks have that campaign about how if you buy a certain brand of coffee you'll be helping people in Ethiopia?
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    I think in all fairness that people get all psycho about fast food attacking our culture are silly.
    It's just food. Really. I like to eat at McDonald's & such because it's cheat, fast and unpretentious. I don't think that eating french fries impacts my IQ nor my cultural identity. I'm sorry I'd rather spend an extra hour or two reading than waste it eating so that I can really "slow down and think about what I'm consuming". -shrug- I don't have all day to eat.
    Eat to live, don't live to eat?

    I dare to say that my cultural identity is not fail enough to be destroyed by my food choices.
    December 25th, 2008 at 04:49pm
  • MAD

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    Well that may be your opinion, but its just one more way that globalization is reducing diversity in the world...

    Not that there is anything wrong with globalization, more just that food culture is a major part on a people's identity.

    You are what you eat.

    Diversity is a good thing and forces which homogenize are evil in my opinion.
    December 25th, 2008 at 06:00pm
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    MAD:
    Well that may be your opinion, but its just one more way that globalization is reducing diversity in the world...

    Not that there is anything wrong with globalization, more just that food culture is a major part on a people's identity.

    You are what you eat.

    Diversity is a good thing and forces which homogenize are evil in my opinion.
    Well what diverse food do you eat?

    I beg to differ, I am not what I eat. I am what I think - I believe my thoughts are more important than my stomach, but that too is just an opinion.

    I live in Romania and I'm so sick and tired of our cultural-rich traditional foods, you wouldn't know. Again and again I don't think my cultural identity lies in a bowl of soup. -_-''
    December 25th, 2008 at 06:16pm
  • fool's paradise

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    I eat fast food if I have to.

    Although, I will admit it... as disgusting, satly, greasy, and god knows what else, I am a tad partial to....McDonald's french fries.
    December 25th, 2008 at 10:07pm
  • The Master

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    I just eat a lot of pick-up-and-go food. I like sushi, sandwiches and stuff. Although, I do love making my own soup because it's freaking gooood and I'm not too bad at making bread.

    But my food culture is mainly a fast food culture on my budget sadly.
    December 26th, 2008 at 12:51am
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    sushi may be quick, but its not really fast food. it has been spreading through the world but not in a way that forces other foods out.

    now as for what foods i eat, i personally endulge in the foods of many cultures, traditional indian curry, roasted duck, grilled baby bockchoi, mushroom risotto, vegan fusion maki rolls, antipasto platter and a grilled bacon, onion cheese melt.

    this was the meal we had today.

    yesterday i made a traditional french bouillabaisse, the day before was a hearty ragou.

    i switch it up A LOT...

    and make a big effort to sample traditional foods of many different cultures, revisiting things that i find particularly delicious.
    December 26th, 2008 at 06:23am
  • serendipity;

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    Guilty Starbucks drinker right here.

    But other than that, I don't really think I have sunk into the quicksand that is fast food culture.
    December 26th, 2008 at 05:37pm
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    is that true what someone said that starbux is finally doing some fair trade coffee? or is it just some specific varieties that they now offer and not their whole line?
    December 26th, 2008 at 05:45pm
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    I don't know whether it's all Fair Trade but there is a lot of it and it's been done for a few years now, but the trend is definately growing.
    December 26th, 2008 at 06:12pm
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    The Doctor:
    but the trend is definately growing.
    God forbid, I wouldn't want fair trade to be a trend. I'd want it to be something people were doing because they actually care.

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    Would Starbucks count as fast food? It's not really food so much as it is coffee and tea, and the little snackie sort of things that accompany them.
    And I love the Tazo Green Iced tea too much to compare it to Micky D's. :tehe:

    Fast food, I would think, counts as whole meals, like burgers and hotdogs and dumplings. That stuff.
    December 26th, 2008 at 06:16pm
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    but the trend is definately growing.
    God forbid, I wouldn't want fair trade to be a trend. I'd want it to be something people were doing because they actually care.
    Do you think that the people who benefit from it actually care if fair trade is a trend or not?
    December 26th, 2008 at 06:29pm
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    kafka.:
    Do you think that the people who benefit from it actually care if fair trade is a trend or not?
    But saying that it's a trend suggests that it won't last forever, as most trends don't. So it being a trend would be a disadvantage. I mean, I doubt that it is a trend, but regardless it being a trend would be a bad thing.
    December 26th, 2008 at 07:20pm
  • The Great Defector.

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    I rarely eat from fast food restraunts. This town doesn't have any major fast food chains.
    December 26th, 2008 at 09:43pm
  • What's in a name?

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    Used to eat fast food because isn’t that what teens do?
    Or maybe that was because it was before teens got as clever as they are these days?
    Anyway, I don’t eat fast food anymore for the simple reason it doesn’t agree with my stomach.
    I never ate it that often and when I cut down I had to stop because then I ate it too seldom so at
    that point my stomach couldn’t handle it. Fast food in great quantities make you sick.
    I believe when your stomach isn’t used to it it will take less to make you sick.
    So I get sick from it and it’s not nutritious or anything, just fills you up with nothing.
    Which means there’s no point for me to eat it. So I don’t.
    December 27th, 2008 at 12:14am
  • veronika

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    MAD:
    sushi may be quick, but its not really fast food. it has been spreading through the world but not in a way that forces other foods out.
    Well, theoretically if you buy sushi ready-made from a sushi place then yeah - it is fast food. You went in, you bought it, you're out again. You didn't make it, someone else made it for you. That's always how I've seen fast food to be. Not necessarily fattening food, just ready-made food, or food that's being prepared for you at a shop.

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    I honestly don't know how some people can eat fast food all the time. It must get expensive. I have friends who work in the City, or at shopping complexes, and they buy their lunch from sandwich shops and cafes every day. At most normal sandwich bars or cafes, a roll or sandwich is usually between $6 - $8 (Australian money, obv.). Plus, there's drinks and coffee throughout the day they consume from cafes and coffee houses (on their breaks).
    And these are the friends who always complain they're broke and can't go out on the weekend because they have no money. Errr....

    I don't think I've succumb to fast food culture. I don't eat out very often because I quite like cooking. I can't stand a lot of the fast food giants such as McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King etc. etc.

    But I do love vegetarian sushi ;)
    Even if it's fast food sushi.
    December 27th, 2008 at 01:50am
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    Just based on the tradition behind crafting sushi and the amount of time it takes to hand prepare each individual piece, its sort of an artisan food by default.
    I am not sure about what kinds of sushi you have there, but here even the little restaurants where you can walk in and just get some, they still make each sushi by hand. The rice is still made in it's time honored way.
    This is the opposite of say mcdonalds where the patties and buns are all factory made.
    December 29th, 2008 at 02:34am
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    Anyway, I don’t eat fast food anymore for the simple reason it doesn’t agree with my stomach.
    I never ate it that often and when I cut down I had to stop because then I ate it too seldom so at
    that point my stomach couldn’t handle it. Fast food in great quantities make you sick.
    I believe when your stomach isn’t used to it it will take less to make you sick.
    So I get sick from it and it’s not nutritious or anything, just fills you up with nothing.
    Which means there’s no point for me to eat it. So I don’t.
    I can't eat mcdonald's. I just can't. I get so sick, it's not even funny. Cry
    December 29th, 2008 at 06:45pm