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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days agounless they have your order ready when you drive into the parking lot, there’s several dishes I could cook as fast as it takes for you to go pick up a brown bag.
Sure. When you’ve got a stocked fridge and a clean kitchen and a working knowledge of home economics, its can work.
If you said “doesn’t have the energy to cook” I’d get it but time/energy, eh pretty interchangeable.
There’s also the simple addictive quality of high salt, high sugar, high fat foods made to order.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah.
Well, “well-stocked” is kinda subjective, but yes, it’s a valid point. I’m sort of talking about boiling pasta / making rice and you van either have some simple protein like tuna or fishsticks or meatballs with it, or you can take 20 minutes (and you need 10 anyway for the pasta to cook) to make some basic dish to go with it.
Mince, onions, garlic, stock/sauce of your choice. Doesn’t need to be fancy.
Add a few cucumbers/tomatoes to the plate and you’ve made a decently healthy meal in 10/20min.
But like yeah sure I understand the points I just, uh, accustomed to different things. Different isn’t wrong, it’s just different.
Doesn’t going to McD cost quite a lot compared to the amount of nutrition you get? Although they still make it up on calories with so much fat and sugar.
Ugh, I just made myself kebab and fries and haven’t had McD for ages because I can’t really anymore (celiac). I’d love a double QP with cheese and a large strawberry (or pear if available) milkshake.
The longest part of making this was waiting 15 min for the fries to cook in the airfryer.
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Fries in the airfryer, kebab from the freezer, toss it on a pan with some onions and jalapenos. That, fries, tomatoes and a buttload of cucumber mayo and garlic mayo. (But also a bit of this sort of aioli I make, olive oil, habanero loads of garlic cloves and blend with a machine. To me It’s to kebab what wasabi is to sushi)
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Heavy in calories, light in fiber and vitamins and the like. Also, the heavy sugar/salt content dehydrates you, leading to further food cravings. Its trash. Very bad for you for a whole host of reasons. But its a full meal that can go straight into the trash when you’re done. No cooking, no cleaning. You don’t even have to leave your car.
Hey, far be it for me to criticize the kebab shop. Definitely preferable to the crap McDs turns out, and arguably cheaper/faster to get your hands on while somehow being healthier to boot. I don’t think its a coincidence that kebab shops are all over the Houston downtown and underground, while the last McDs pulled out years ago.
Good street food is a blessing. But its also contingent on a dense walkable neighborhood. Far easier to find some good gyros in NYC, LA, or downtown Houston than out in the white boy 'burbs and exurbs.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah McD burgers are weirdly empty for how much they fill you for like 20 minutes.
Oh if only I could trust kebab shops, but it’s kinda hard keeping a kebab shop where you could serve completely gluten free things from (there’s so much flour everywhere cross contamination happens).
Kebab shops are really popular here in Finland and have been for ages. Basically we usually ape what Germany does and they got them a long time ago (culturally that is). Also I think some Turkish people might find Finnish somewhat easy-ish to learn due to some similarities in the languages. Functionally rather. Vowel harmony etc.
So I sometimes get frozen kebab flakes/shavings idn what to call the bits lol. Kebab meat being what it is the frozen flakes aren’t really bad, they’re like shavings from a large roll, but when the roll was frozen, so you just fry them up in a bit of oil.
I agree that kebabs might be a bit healthier. And definitely depends on what kind you take. One with rice and salad, no mayo? Pretty healthy. A doner roll with two different cheeses amd double meat and extra mayo? Eh, less so. :D Fk I want one now.
Goddamn celiacs. Discovered it last year. Had it all my life though prolly.
But yeah it’s definitely very easy. I didn’t cook that much when I drove a taxi for like 12-16 hour days sometimes (not days in a row except for weekends but like 3-4 shifts a week or smth).
I’d honestly just forgotten that conveniences require time. Like sometimes I take 6 hours to cook while enjoying a box of wine. I don’t think I’d really do that if I had less time available lol.
But… meals for McD, especially a family, would be kinda gross here. Maybe its different in the US different taxes idk.