Fastfood.

[tp4tissue]

Tp4 has had to eat industrial pseudo-food-analogs here and there these few months.

You can feel it,  when the greasy stuff goes in,  it totally impedes one's Ki-flow. An overwhelming lethargy and mind fog comes postprandial. 

When Tp4's just pounding white rice + veggies, System reboots, and immediately the energy level and mental tranquility returns.

This stuff must be toxic, some chem-trails lvl additives.

[noisyturtle]

The prices nowadays do not = affordability and convience any more

Fast food has completely lost sight of the reason it exists in the first place. Something cheap and fast.

Every time I go to get a burger+fries+shake it winds up costing around $30-40 and I usually wait about 15-20 minutes for it.

I'm eating it less and less, which is good for me, as I only get fast food about half a dozen times a year now. It's just not worth it anymore. There is zero value to be had.
Usually Five Guys every other month just to satisfy that specific craving. If I am broke and in a hurry, I am better off grabbing a prepared meal and drink from a grocery store for 1/5 the price of a fast food lunch.

[tp4tissue]

@ dat Chinm'rican restaurant w/ 5 other peeps this morning. Everyone else is doing keto,  Tp4 ordered himself 6 bowls of white rice and a little bit of sweet-sour eggplant.

Happy 2 report, Tp4 is the thinnest-fattie at the table. Got some stares, got the standard, you're gonna get diabetus comment, but one can see in their eyes, they're re-evaluating "meat".

Rice p0wer   

[tp4tissue]

The prices nowadays do not = affordability and convience any more

If Tp4 weren't on expense account, there's no way Tp4 could afforz ne restaurant.

Even BurgerKing is $40 for 2 people.  Last week, a dumplings restaurant cost $50 per person, Tp4 still can't believe it.

[fohat.digs]

Eating out, drinks (alcoholic or not) are the profit center. Years ago I began drinking only water while eating, and I prefer it that way regardless of money.

Tipping is also obscene and outrageous. I waited tables when I was in school and enjoyed getting tips, but the concept is perverse and unnecessary.

[TomahawkLabs]

The biggest issue I see with the current format of restaurants is the profit collectors of the establishments do not work in the restaurant in any meaningful capacity. We allow for our local money to be sent to Johnny Entrepreneur rather than Dave from Dave's Pizza. Who lives and works in the restaurant they own.

The idea of "passive income" is inherently flawed. The idea that anyone should be able to extract the profits from the fruits of other's labor without also contributing to the goal themselves is akin to theft. This idea that people should not have to work and they should just own business and get people to do their work for them so they can be lazy and gluttonous.

Shop local. Find out who owns the businesses where you shop and pick establishments that don't just export your money to a random millionaire who sees a restaurant as a series of numbers on a spreadsheet. The people, the service, the food do not matter so long as there is profit to be had.

[chyros]

Only ever get fast food when I'm with friends or something, never on my own. It's convenient but absurdly expensive, I can eat a week off the money for the cost of one pizza.

[noisyturtle]

Tp4 ordered himself 6 bowls of white rice
Rice p0wer   

Casually eating 6 bowls of rice is a patented tp4 power move

[tp4tissue]

Tp4 ordered himself 6 bowls of white rice
Rice p0wer   

Casually eating 6 bowls of rice is a patented tp4 power move

Nobody can pound rice like Tp4, Nobody.

[tp4tissue]

Only ever get fast food when I'm with friends or something, never on my own. It's convenient but absurdly expensive, I can eat a week off the money for the cost of one pizza.

They raised prices across the board accepting lower volume, but that's snapping back, so expect some price drops.

That said, the situation just puts into perspective, if anything under capitalism, "makes" a profit,  someone is getting screwed/ overcharged.

Profit is theft.

[Evolurkeeb]

The prices nowadays do not = affordability and convience any more

Fast food has completely lost sight of the reason it exists in the first place. Something cheap and fast.

Every time I go to get a burger+fries+shake it winds up costing around $30-40 and I usually wait about 15-20 minutes for it.

I'm eating it less and less, which is good for me, as I only get fast food about half a dozen times a year now. It's just not worth it anymore. There is zero value to be had.
Usually Five Guys every other month just to satisfy that specific craving. If I am broke and in a hurry, I am better off grabbing a prepared meal and drink from a grocery store for 1/5 the price of a fast food lunch.

God, can't believe that takes 30-40$

[Sniping]

agreed with everyone else the prices of fast food chains have gotten out of hand, at least out in the US. I feel like the prices have caught up to more gourmet local spots and chains and it never ends up being cheap

[tp4tissue]

agreed with everyone else the prices of fast food chains have gotten out of hand, at least out in the US. I feel like the prices have caught up to more gourmet local spots and chains and it never ends up being cheap

Tp4 thinks gourmet is a shallow gloss at best. Even if we believe they've put in the time, what they've refined is not ideology, rather they've refined a means of hijacking.

[noisyturtle]

agreed with everyone else the prices of fast food chains have gotten out of hand, at least out in the US. I feel like the prices have caught up to more gourmet local spots and chains and it never ends up being cheap

Tp4 thinks gourmet is a shallow gloss at best. Even if we believe they've put in the time, what they've refined is not ideology, rather they've refined a means of hijacking.

It is the preparer's experience, quality of ingredients, and mastery of preparation. I've had top notch meals that were prepped super fast, and some that were extremely cheap, but the quality of the final product speaks for itself. Otherwise I'd just drink meal replacement shakes that look and taste like blended cardboard for every meal.

[tp4tissue]

It is critical that we redefine -progress, the current scheme of decision making assures our extinction.

[tp4tissue]

Seems like LA is 10 Mexico restŕurants per square mile??

[noisyturtle]

Curious, what is everyone nominee for the WORST fast food chain?

Personally it is hands down Subway for me. Bottom tier ingredients that have been sitting out all day, the soda machine is always flat like it is a running gag for the entire franchise, they brag about the bread but it is some of the worst bread imaginable. But weirdly they do usually have very friendly staff working there. Subway is emergency only, zero other options for me.

Runner up would be Burger King, probably 8/10 times the food is straight disgusting and gives me the runs. But sometimes you find a really good one and the Whopper is amazing with crisp veggies and juicy patty. But most times you see vomit drying in the kids area and and get food poising.

[fohat.digs]

sometimes you find a really good one

I think that this is true with about all of them. The ones that do brisk business you have a better chance of getting fresh ingredients.

[tp4tissue]

Subway isn't that bad, if the stuff hasn't been properly refrigerated/ refreshed, you can see it wilting. If the spinach/ spring mix is stiff, and "green", most of that stuff should be fine.

Subway is a great place for veggie peeps, because you can make anything taste awesome with their sauces, though most of the sauces might contain milk powder or something.


The worst fast food, is the tiny sushi places spaced between 5 massage parlors.  If you notice a string of cheap motels, and inter-spaced with 5 different massage parlors, you know this is an asian gang place, and those are not massage parlors.

Anyway, back to the sushi, it's just awful, and EXTREMELY-RISKY.  You will almost certainly come down with something. They also use really cheap farmed salmon, it's gross. Salmon is gross in general, but the farmed stuff is inedible.

[chyros]

Worst is easily KFC. Tried it once, was unbelievably disappointed. Half the chicken was soggy, the other half rock hard, very little flavour, and on top of that it was EXPENSIVE, holy ****.

Best fast food by a mile is McD strawberry milkshake. Not an expert on the subject, though, I very rarely eat fast food.

[Findecanor]

Subway is a great place for veggie peeps, because you can make anything taste awesome with their sauces, though most of the sauces might contain milk powder or something.

As a vegetarian, I am not happy with the "server" (?) handling someone else's meat and then my veggies with their gloved hands. Use utensils FFS!

I once ordered a sandwich only because I was alone in the shop and had seen the server put on a fresh pair of gloves. Right then, another customer walked in and ordered a sandwich with meat on it, which the server went on to make before mine. I should have complained instead of paying for it before throwing it away.

[fohat.digs]

Worst is easily KFC.

KFC is an ideal example. Years ago, it was easily the best fried chicken, and pretty consistent.

In recent decades (and it has probably been at least 3-4 years since I have even been there) it is rare to be able to get a good product there. Since the turn of the millenium, their track record was about 1 good experience out of 4 at best, but on the rare occasion that you got a proper fresh batch it was still excellent.

And yes, the price has gone up, but not as radically as the quality has gone down.

https://www.mashed.com/219214/the-real-reason-colonel-sanders-regretted-selling-kfc/