Fast Food Ain't Cheap

**Joan.of.the.Arch** · 03-25-2016, 01:41 PM

I never heard fast food hailed as the ultimate cheap food, nor even the ultimate inexpensive food (in case we wish to make a distinction). What would anyone say is ultimate about it?

Can't we make the same meal at home for less per serving? If so, how could buying it ready-made be the ultimate?

I'll let others speak for the nutrition.

**FLA** · 03-25-2016, 04:50 PM

I never did think of it as cheap because while working, I could stop in a little cafe and have lunch cheaper than McDonald's and certainly healthier.

the only appeal for me was when it was one of those work days and I did not want to cook or order another pizza for the kids, the drive through saved me then. But the kids saw Supersize Me so they were never happy with that option, lol

**disneysteve** · 03-25-2016, 05:00 PM

I've never thought of fast food as cheap. On the rare occasions when I do eat fast food, I'm always shocked by how expensive it is. I have no idea why it is so popular. It is expensive, lousy for you, and most of it tastes pretty awful.

**pflyers85** · 03-26-2016, 12:04 AM

Like the others said, I never thought of fast food as cheap so much as it is convenient. Americans on balance have a penchant for spending more money than they have to for convenience items (fast food, Starbucks, snacks in a vending machine) and for convenience in general (running up balances on credit cards to have consumer goods immediately rather than waiting until the money is saved, leasing cars every 36 months to have a new, shiny toy).

Fast Food Ain't Cheap