do you want fries with that?

have you heard about this documentary? i'm pretty sure you've at least heard about - if not yet read - this book.

they are just two of the too many reasons of why i despise fast food, mcdonald's in particular. i have been nowhere near any mcdonalds chains since i read parts of fast food nation around one and a half year ago. if my friends want to go there, i usually says, "i have issues." and they would either try to find somewhere else to eat or goes there anyway, so that at the end i have to watch them eating those yucky food while i refuse to do it and prefer to have a late meal instead elsewhere.

i used to love fast food so much when i was a kid, of course. mcdonalds, kfc, wendy's, you name it. i collected the toys from happy meals, i even had birthday parties in those franchises during my elementary school years. not only that, i hated veggies, and was a hardcore meat-eater that my parents called me a natural-born carnivore. i didn't remember exactly when did i change my eating habit and became a healthy-food seeker, but right now i will almost eat any kind of veggies one would offer, except papaya leaves. ugh.

but believe me, when i said yucky food, i did mean yucky food. i'm not just talking about cholesterol or sugar level and calories now. you don't just keep eating your burger when you know what you're actually eating contains - literally - shit, do you?

some goes to the extreme, and turn into a vegan. i still love to eat meat, but now i become more conspicious and aware. i don't want to be fooled to eat a meat-flavored chunk of junk on any given day. i still eat french fries now and then, although god knows what they are actually made of. and you wonder why they taste so good. they're freedom fries!