Slow Food
I indulged in a healthy dinner of Macca’s last night, and tried that new Name-It burger among other things. I think I’ve devised a suitably catchy moniker for it - The Not-Particularly-Good BurgerKing-Ripoff Burger. I’m sure my prize is coming any day now. Provided it’s not a lifetime supply of those burgers, I’ll be happy.
It’s quite funny how they blithely sell these burgers that have "50% daily saturated fat intake" written on the box, yet still do their damnedest to market their healthy wholesome image. I’m sure there’s some alternate-reality where having 150-odd% of your recommended daily saturated fat in one meal is considered healthy, but I think Macca’s may have picked the wrong one. Unless they wanted to make a trillion dollars of course, in which case they’ve definitely come to the right place!
Still, at least they put that 2 mouthfuls of lettuce in your Big Mac - that makes up for all the bad stuff, right?
Maybe in the future we’ll have teleportation at our disposal. That’ll be the ultimate - we’ll be able to laze back on our floating couches and have an edible sack of blended Maccas-and-Coke teleported directly into our stomachs. Mmmmm. None of this pesky chewing business.
On the other hand, while fast food’s great, we’re not all in a frantic hurry. I think "slow food" is a niche market yet to be fully explored. Maccas could have McDonalds, McCafe.. and McHangi. You go in and pay for your meal - then they start digging the hole and heating up the rocks…
I’m afraid McHangi would never take off in Australia. Maybe there needs to be regionally adjusted McDonald’s offshoots, like ‘McSpitroast-a-roo-on-a-campfire(basted with VB)’.
Comment by crinos — January 22, 2008 @ 10:48 am
I don’t think I’d go for a McHangi myself - hangi food all tastes the same (i.e. like burnt earth). Stick some dirt in the oven with your food and you’d probably get much the same effect (nope, haven’t tried it - any volunteers?).
I think they’d be missing a marketing opportunity in Australia though, if they didn’t roast up some croc and call it a McDundee. :p
Yes, that was terrible. Thank you.
Comment by Administrator — January 28, 2008 @ 12:09 am