5:45 am my alarm goes off. Beep, beep, beep. As I make my way down to the kitchen (to enjoy my favorite meal of the day), I begin to ponder what I will blog about today?
After enjoying my breakfast, I pack my prepared meals (cooked from the night before) into my cooler bag and make my way towards campus. As the bitter air fills my lungs, I am still looking for a subject to blog about. Then in the far distance I see inspiration. It is the golden arches – McDonalds! While I have no intention of ever eating this horrific food, I ran out of coffee this morning and needed my morning java.
As I walked through the McDonalds parking lot I noticed a massive lineup of cars waiting in the drive-threw. Making my way into McDonalds, I approached the cash register and wait behind two other customers. As I waited, the guy in front of me ordered a breakfast combo number 7 (sausage egg and cheese Mcgriddle, hash brown, and beverage). This combo costs just $4.29. Not a bad price for an English muffin, sausage, egg, cheese, hash brown and beverage. And to top it all off, it just so happened to be Buttermilk Biscuit Day. McDonalds for the past two days has been giving away free buttermilk biscuit sandwiches for anyone wishing to sample. This is the conversation that took place at the register. Keep in mind the guy ordering just purchased a breakfast combo #7.
McDonald’s Employee: would you like to try our new buttermilk biscuit sandwich? Their free?”
Customer: Sure!
McDonald’s Employee: Bacon or sausage?
Customer: Sausage :-)
Wow – That’s a lot of food, I thought! The man must have been extremely hungry. He ordered all that food and then a sausage buttermilk biscuit sandwich? It made me think. How was the man completely content ordering a combo number 7, and then all of a sudden (because the food was free), he felt the urge to get an additional sausage buttermilk biscuit sandwich? After eating a breakfast combo number 7, would the man still be hungry?
Reflecting on the situation a few things came to mind. I said yesterday, we know smoking is bad for us. Therefore, most of us choose to reject tobacco. I also said yesterday, poor food choices causes obesity. Obesity causes heart disease, which kills more people each year then smoking. Therefore, eating unhealthy food will increase your chances (just like smoking increases your odds for developing cancer) of developing heart disease. Eating these types of food (fast food) will cause heart disease. So why do we continue to make poor food choices? This again is a complex answer.
Other observations while visiting McDonalds
There was a continuous line of cars in the drive-threw for the entire hour I was in the restaurant.
There was a continuous lineup of people waiting to order food in the restaurant itself.
There were a lot of overweight people working and ordering food
People did not reject the free breakfast sandwich despite ordering what they had intended to order before entering the store. This suggests customers were eating more because it was free, not because they were hungry.
One individual entered the store that normally would never eat McDonalds. This person ate the breakfast sandwich because it was free- You know who you are. Hahaha
Concluding
I could not resist the calculation – Number 7 with a Free sausage buttermilk biscuit :-)
Sausage Mcgriddles sandwich = 420 Calories, 21 grams of fat
Hash Brown = 160 Calories, 10 grams of fat
Sausage Biscuit = 460 Calories, 28 grams of fat
Grand Total = 1040 Calories & 60 Grams of Fat!!!
What a great way to start your morning! I’m sure by 9:00 am, this guy must have been getting the Mc-Sweats, Mc-Migraine, and McTummy-ache. It is no wonder we are in the mist of an obesity epidemic. Look at how we are treating our bodies. All this damage and its not even 9:00 am…
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