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...but last week I finally managed to watch "Supersize Me", quite an entertaining watch. If you every had any doubts about what visits to MacDonalds do to you, they are all confirmed. After it, I swore an expensive oath on the blood of my forebears to never set foot again in a Mac - to be exempted only for extreme life-and-death necessities.

Not that I'm a junkfood-junkie anyway. After a youth of seeing a visit to MacDonalds or equivalent as something rare and special (probably the best way to start off), I've been phasing out, maximally visiting once a year, just to re-discover that teenage experience when the Mac was a shiny, exciting something. But when that shine wears off and you start tasting the food... MacDonalds can be a phase. I think Europeans have an advantage in this: they've a history with demanding high quality food.

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Mon Feb 6th, 2006 at 07:30:26 PM EST
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Yeah, similar experience here. Check my earlier comment in an older thread.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Feb 7th, 2006 at 04:16:06 AM EST
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The awareness of responding to eating Mac-food (sweaty, bloated feeling) was the crucial thing. I endured the same reactions you described and that already placed me on the edge to stay out of the Mac. Supersize Me just tipped me over. And yes, good to know I'm not the only one.
by Nomad (Bjinse) on Tue Feb 7th, 2006 at 08:09:01 AM EST
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