Have you seen the documentary "Supersize Me"?

Yes, years ago. I want to do what he did. The juicing not the burgers.

Changing the food menu in schools? Didn’t Michelle Obama try that and got lambasted?

What juicing? I missed that.

Oh no. Sorry! That was a different docu. My bad.

It was Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.

Oh. Well, I haven’t seen that.

It’s a great follow up docu after watching Supersize Me. One unforgettable info I got from SM was that thing about the McDo French fries.

@Dutchess_III Like you, I found the “experiment” to be silly and pointless. The guy started consuming thousands of greasy, salty calories every day; there was no other possible outcome.

Flawed methadology, and it turns out that Spurlock is an alcoholic, which is far more likely to account for his liver abnormalities at the end of the film.

Yes. I stopped eating french fries from it.

I did not know that @Caravanfan.

Why did you quit eating fries Reddeer?

@Dutchess_lll I only like the McDonald’s French fries while they are fresh and still hot. I saw the movie and pushed me over the edge. I only eat KFC french fries with gravy when looking for fries. Too much salt. I had a fraction of the amount of fries that I normally would have. I still like Western Pizza French fries. I still have pop and won’t quit drinking it. I don’t have combos anymore. Im a steady weight and not gaining any more. I just ordered fries garlic toast and pop for $18.

I think it was a little unfair to McDonald’s. I think McDonald’s eventually got rid of supersize didn’t they? Because of the backlash.

I think it’s good McDonald’s has some healthier sides available now, but I remember reading they still primarily sell burgers and fries.

I really don’t think a McD’s double burger is any worse than any other moderate chain restaurant burger. Go eat in Chili’s or Ruby Tuesday every day their regular serving and watch everyone who does it get fat.

I used to watch his series. The only one I remember is he worked on minimum wage for a month. I think everyone should see that.

You can request that any thing can be made fresh @RedDeerGuy1.

What edge did it push you over Reddeer?

@Dutchess_lll Wanting supersized fries. I still order supersized coke.

So why did you quit eating fries altogether?

@Dutchess_lll They made me feel yucky inside and unsatisfied. I just had fries from Western Pizza. They were a good and cheap meal. My dr. told me to have more salt. So I won’t cut out fries altogether. Just McDonalds and A&W fires. They make me feel ill eating them. McD’s fries have to be eaten first if I order a combo, because they lose their charm after 5 minutes. Even if bought fresh. KFC improved their fries 10 or 20 years ago and I like small amounts of them. I remember my father bringing home KFC and I frowned when I found that he brought a large box. The had to be eaten first or they get yucky reheated in the microwave. If I had my way I would purchase all skin chicken , for taste.

I was told to eat more salt so I just put salt in everything.

@Dutchess_lll I took the opportunity to eat bad food.

Lol!

My English teacher in my senior year of high school showed ‘Supersize Me’ while we were reading parts of ‘Fast Food Nation’ by Eric Schlosser.
It’s an uncomfortable documentary to watch but also farfetched, I mean does anyone really eat fast food EVERY single day?

I almost never eat fast food myself since moving in 2014 where it’s almost 20 minutes to walk to it rather than 2.

I agree it was flawed. But it was addressing obesity first.

What I found oddest about Supersize Me was why he decided to do the experiment. Two girls were suing McD’s for their obesity. They claimed that all they ate was McD’s and it made them fat but McD’s didn’t tell them it would. It made me wonder what our society is coming to? Here’s a law suit against a company for not telling you that what you are doing is foolish. Where is the personal responsibility in all this?

^Our nation has become so litigious, that people don’t have much responsibility for their own actions.

Really, almost anything can be bad for you if you use it too much, or in a way it wasn’t designed for.

Dutch. When you were mentioning the calories in a Big Mac, you didn’t factor in fries, soda, ketchup, or other condiments. Plus, the food is all of the lowest quality one can find. Just saying…

Oh, I agree @seawulf575 and @MrGrimm888. People don’t want to know so it won’t be their fault.

@MrGrimm888 I roughly factored in the “special sauce” as making the biggest possible difference in the two sandwiches, and the one thing could put the Big Mac over the top, but it didn’t. Not according to the McD’s website. The difference was, overall, the Big Mac has less bun.
And when I’m taking 10 seconds to calculate in my head, I’m not going to calculate 10 calories worth of catchup, or ½ calorie in a pickle, or 1/8th of a calorie in shredded lettuce.It would be futile and I’d give up before I starved to death. I round up the calories in the major items (meat, bread, cheese) to take the rest into consideration, and I usually over estimate, which is good.

I understand it won’t work for everyone, but it’s worked for me for 30 years.

It came out when I was in middle school and I know some classes watched it. I never did. I remember thinking it was dumb at the time. Not denying the obesity problem in this country or the unhealthiness of fast food, and maybe it was a wake-up call for some, but to me there isn’t much of a point proven by the unhealthiness of eating nothing but McDonalds and not exercising. It seems obvious. You would get similar results eating nothing but any high-calorie high-fat food, not just fast food. It’s just always seemed “meh” to me.

Agreed. The thing I could think could possibly be taken away from it is how BIG today’s offerings are compared to the original menu of simple, hamburger and fries, just one size. Also, the way it’s suggested you eat them. “You want us to supersize that?” Again, though, no one forces people to say “Yes.”

I actually adopted this technique at our shop. Person would bring a mower in for a problem and I’d ask, “Since you have it here you want us to tune it up?”
95% of the time the answer was “yes,” and that was $0 to $120 extra on the ticket.