Tinfoil Chef

They’ve gone and done it again. Specifically I’m talking about the news I saw this morning about the latest health risks associated with fast food. Now, in addition to being the cause of a lot of unnecessary weight gain and heart problems, they’re talking about increased chances of several kinds of cancer if you eat fast food more often than once a week or so.

I guess it’s just too bad for all of the what? Millions? of people that live day to day grabbing burgers for lunch because they’re either just handy, they like ‘em, or they haven’t time (or money!) for anything else. I guess I’m a tad bitter about it because I’m a burger lover from way back and now I have to think twice about it anytime I decide I’d just love a double cheeseburger (<rant>which by the way, our local McDonald’s *STILL* doesn’t have on the dollar menu like every other one in the known universe!</rant>)

I can’t help wondering how the fast food industry is going to respond to this news that is a direct hit on some of their main staple sales items. Seems to me that the various McExecutives are going to have to put down their fancy Mizuno golf gear and sit down for some serious brainstorming and soon. This trend is not something that’s going to go away anytime soon and that is sooner or later going to put a serious cramp in their lifestyles if they don’t come up with an alternative way of doing things that doesn’t get labeled as one or another kind of health risk.