American’s like to give fast food chains a bad reputation, but why? Because we like to blame them for the rise in obesity. In all reality fast food is what we American’s love. Obesity is not something to blame the food for; we have to blame ourselves for that. We love the fancy sit-down restaurants just as much as we love food trucks with a C rating if anything we love the cheaper option more. It’s something about the burgers with greasy buns, and steaming hot fries that keeps us coming back. Two “doughboys” Michael Mitchell and Nick Wiger, comedians and co-hosts of the “Doughboy” podcasts, write an essay about their opinion, and the “food snobs” opinions of chain restaurants. Chain restaurants may get a bad reputation from the “food snobs,” but I agree with Mitchell and Wiger, they are
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The amount of Americans eating organic products today has gone “up from 13 percent a decade ago.” They also added for comedic effect that “the number of Americans who regularly eat hummus has jumped 200 percent since 2000.” While that is all good and well, we still love the greasy “divey food trucks with C ratings from the health departments,” since we basically will love anything that will have something to shove in our faces “in exchange for currency,” wrote the doughboys. They wrote that “those elites” dismiss fast food as disgusting or insidious, yet they have a very important role for us in America. More and more people are falling out of the middle-class range every day, so they can’t always afford a nice dinner out. Mitchell and Wiger make sure that we do not dismiss fast food as gross food because at least most of it is good. They also list a fact that “nearly half of all Americans stop in at McDonald’s (and one in every eight U.S. workers has been employed by the fast-food giant).” Fast food places are the best kinds of places to make memories as a child. Just like you hear the elderly claim
The amount of Americans eating organic products today has gone “up from 13 percent a decade ago.” They also added for comedic effect that “the number of Americans who regularly eat hummus has jumped 200 percent since 2000.” While that is all good and well, we still love the greasy “divey food trucks with C ratings from the health departments,” since we basically will love anything that will have something to shove in our faces “in exchange for currency,” wrote the doughboys. They wrote that “those elites” dismiss fast food as disgusting or insidious, yet they have a very important role for us in America. More and more people are falling out of the middle-class range every day, so they can’t always afford a nice dinner out. Mitchell and Wiger make sure that we do not dismiss fast food as gross food because at least most of it is good. They also list a fact that “nearly half of all Americans stop in at McDonald’s (and one in every eight U.S. workers has been employed by the fast-food giant).” Fast food places are the best kinds of places to make memories as a child. Just like you hear the elderly claim