As I've aged, I have been noticing a large number of changes in the fast food industry. They have really been taking steps in the more recent years to make their food more marketable to the non-grossly obese, so that they too can join the ranks of rapidly fattening individuals. The only problem is, to rope in the health nuts, fast food and microwave food has had to start changing up their ingredients to make them more marketable. Don't get me wrong, it's not that they are good for you, but rather that they aren't quite as bad for you as they once were. I'm fine with all of this, but today I opened up a box of Hot Pockets to find the box reading as follows:
"Now with REAL Cheese!"
What was I eating before?! I have been buying Ham and Cheese hot pockets for years now, and you mean to tell me that up until this box, that yellow delicious inside the bread coating wasn't cheese? What the hell was it then?!
Wendy's did something similar to me also. It was around 2003-2004 when they started to advertise their dollar menu, as did most fast food chains. Honestly, I never had much faith that the quality or grade of meat is high when I'm eating at a fast food chain, but I like to know that what I'm eating is actually the meat I'm ordering. For example, Hong Kong had to close down one of its KFC's because the KFC was substituting its chicken meat for rat meat. I ate there a couple times before they closed it down. So obviously, since then, I have always enjoyed knowing my beef is beef, my chicken is chicken, and my fish is fish. Well, when Wendy's started advertising their 5 chicken nuggets for a dollar, it ran with this slogan:
"Now with all genuine chicken meat!"
Again, what the hell?! What was I eating before? It is called a chicken nugget, so I expect it to be a CHICKEN nugget. Why are you telling me now that all the chicken nuggets I had in the past from you, Wendy, are really just anything nuggets. What meat was in there before it was chicken?!
Stupid world and its crazy food groups.
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