I want to better verify the actual numbers but the more I think about, the less I think it is off the mark. $2.20 is what every man, woman and child spends on fast food each day, every day (theoretical assumption).
That is a disgusting amount of poison to consume. With this an Common Core, it is going to be quite the world once the youngsters take over.
In fast food war, burgers and subs sink wings and pizza
How much do Americans love their fast food? This much: $254,541,589,000.
That’s the amount the NPD Group says we spend to buy food that’s quickly thrown together and put in a wrapper, then held in one hand and downed in record time with a soda chaser while driving our cars.
This is ‘Merica. That’s how we roll.
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In a land of 316 million people, $254 billion last year works out to $800 for every man, woman and child, or around $2.20 a day, enough to buy you only half a Big Mac.
But you already knew that. You already eat a lot of Big Macs. Your iPhone map app has been instructed to find every Golden Arch within five miles of your GPS position at any given moment.
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McDonald’s is by far the most successful fast food chain in the known universe. QSR magazine said Americans bought more than $35 billion worth of Mickey D’s in 2012, nearly three times more than second place finisher Subway, at $12 billion.
What other fast food joints are succeeding, and which ones still have too much bun and not enough burger, financially speaking? Where does pizza fit in, and when will chicken wings finally get some respect?
Watch the video. But have the TUMS ready.
Original HERE.
The economic recovery is so fantastic that our obese populace can’t afford a Quarter Pounder with cheese anymore.
The 99 Cent Non-Recovery: McDonalds US Sales Post Longest Negative Streak In Over A Decade
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/10/2014 09:00 -0400
Moments ago McDonalds reported its latest monthly comp store sales numbers. Printing at -1.4% for the US, this was a nearly double miss to expectations of a 0.6% decline, and was the 4th consecutive monthly drop in annual sales – the longest such stretch in the past decade and likely longer. Looking at this data, there are two observations: i) Americans, courtesy of record obesity rates, are finally getting serious about their health, and have shunned the infamous 99 cent deep fried meals or ii) courtesy of the Fed’s “Fed’s recovery”, the average American can no longer even afford sub-$1 deep fast food.
There is a third option: that it snowed… In fact it snowed so much, everywhere, and the weather was so harsh around the world, that global store sales declined by 0.3%, far below the modest 0.1% drop expected. Yup. Must have been the snow.
Historians argue over the extent of lead poisoning amongst Romans, with some academics suggesting lead poising played a major role in the decline of the Roman Empire.
The fact the Romans loved their lead isn’t in question. We have plenty of textual and archaeological sources that inform us of the use of lead – as cosmetics, ballistics, sarcophagi, pipes, jewelry, curse tablets, utensils and cooking pots, and wine boiled down in lead pots.
See article — “The first artificial sweetener poisoned lots of Romans” ——- here;
——————-http://io9.com/5877587/the-first-artificial-sweetener-poisoned-lots-of-romans
2,000 years from now archaeologists in a still toxic dump once know as NYC, and they’ll find this;
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It will STILL be FULLY INTACT. The government will fund a 5,000 page study titled “What the fuck were those assholes thinking?”
McDonalds is absolute proof that Americans accept extreme mediocrity. Even crave it.
McDonalds is proof that Americans are total dumbfuk dumbasses.
McDonalds is proof that all the free information on the internet goes mostly unread.
McDonalds is proof that “the message” is far, far more important than the product.
McDonalds is proof that corportions are ultimately evil, that $$$ trumps all.
McDonalds should give every would-be entrepreneur great hope, that no matter how shitty their product, even if it kills people …. it will sell! Just tell people it’s convenient and hire a good bullshit …err, marketing … firm. You’ll be good as gold …. arches.
Haven’t been to Mc D’s for a very long time. We do Subway once a week (Veggie Delight with extra Jalapenos), and that’s it as far as fast food goes.
Are we missing something??
I don’t eat fast food. I also don’t have a car.
Cars+fast food are intimately connected.
I’m sure as hell not going to get on the bus to go get a burger, and then stand out in the rain for half an hour waiting for the bus home.
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Boy accepting the reality that our status of living is going to be dramatically different soon opens your mind to all sorts of other truths.
Truths like these industrial, chemical, food mills, will only survive to poison us if our government decides to totally fund them and force their food upon our poor (or us all, since most of us will be poor).
Else, when our dollar goes down, so will these foreign-chem-food emporiums.
Silver linings all around.
Problem: unsustainable pensions. Solution: fast food.
I’ve been a vegetarian (sometimes vegan) all of my adult life. That alone disqualifies most fast food restaurants. Frankly, I do not eat out much because I hate paying exorbitant prices for low cost veggies.
I truly understand that this lifestyle is not for everyone but I can also tell you that it is hard to be an obese land whale with a diet like mine. Finally, if you really want to slim down but you also want to stuff your face constantly then I’d suggest going vegan. You can’t eat enough vegan food in a day to maintain a mountain of fat.