I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.
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Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
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A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
Moser was a great believer in checklists.
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On any given day in the United States about one-quarter of the adult population visits a fast food restaurant.
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A brand offers a feeling of reassurance when its products are always and everywhere the same.
The Snark eventually ran out of fuel and crashed somewhere in the Amazonian rain forests of Brazil.
The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
McMahon predicted that total power in the hands of total evil will equal destruction. The