Saturday, June 03, 2006

unrelated

for most of today I have been feeling more than a little well, ill.
As such I have also developed a strong craving for fast food, as I generally do; that desire for salt, easy to bite+chew food, salt, sweet milk-shake, salt, crispy fries, salt and maybe an apple pie, all getting a bit too much for me. This flu, having drained all life and energy from me has resulted in me being more lazy in the cooking stakes than usual and I am fighting every urge to jump in the car and going out to get my fix of unhealthiness.

How-ever, as i sit here, I still find myself actually going through a process of what I would actually like to go and get. The first thought, as always, is to go for the simple and obvious McD, the most known and accesible and consistant of the Three Evils. Only thing is, I can't be certain that they pop into my head first because they are my prefered brand of fast food or simply because they are more easily conjured up in my head because of their advertising campaigns.
Simple fact is, given two burgers side by side, Burger King does do a tastier burger except for some reason, the McD Quarter Pounder has a certain taste, that is it is slightly blander that makes it less characterful and hence easier on the palette and hence easier to eat.
How does that work?

Burger King in my area simply does not make fries that even begins to compare to McD and The McD milkshake is still a sublime creation in my opinion.
The third Evil is of course, That Chicken Shop but as always, night dependent is very hit and miss. I'm sure that they have all sorts of time related throwing away issues (at least i hope they do) but honestly, do you really think that they would ditch chicken that's been in the heater for the past four hours but still looks ok? How many times have you had the craving for the salty, peppery and crispy skin only for it to be a big pile of mushy slop?
In my ill state, my fragile mind cannot handle the disappointment of soggy fried floured chicken skin. Dont even talk about their fries....

Which leads me to the conclusion that in order to fulfill MY needs at this, my time of illness, I really should do the obvious thing which ends up being the one thing that these companies dread; Shop at all three and thus showing my non-loyalty to any of them. Sure it might mean that I am actually a bigger victim to all three but Then again, I would be one customer that all three can count, which on the flip side, means that I am one customer that is more or less un-affiliated to any of them?
Make sense?

or perhaps I am just trying to justify my uncharacteristic urge for junk..... lots of it....

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