My son would eat Chipotle (sp?) 2 or 3 times a week if I'd let him.

When I have a gig in Seattle, if I'm near Moby's Drive-In - a local fast-food hamburger chain predating McDonald's and pretty much unchanged since founding - I will go and get their Special and a strawberry milkshake if at all possible. So terrible but so good.

I have no financial interest; it's just my post-show ritual. Yum. ^_^

Working at taco bell, theres not really much option. i try to stick with the chicken, corn and romaine lettuce

there's always an option.

i avoid it like the plauge but when i do get fast food, it's from places that are family-owned. maybe 1 in 100 times i'll stop at mcdonalds or burger king. maybe 3 in 100 wendy's. otherwise it's real food, quickly made.

Hmm.. It's really starting to feel like Woot is using these polls for demographic data collection on its users instead of for fun..

You don't eat a lot of fast food when your wife is a dietitian.

fuzzypeaches wrote:My son would eat Chipotle (sp?) 2 or 3 times a week if I'd let him.

Come on, Chipotle isn't fast food! If they don't have a drive thru, they don't count!

GO. WATCH. SUPERSIZE-ME.
}:-P

Love Chick-fil-A!! only bad thing about their sandwich is the sodium count. "Eat mor Chikin"!

Burger King over McDonalds.
BK BROILS doesn't fry like McDonalds. yuck!
Chicken is way better for you than those processed(with what?)burgers.
Zaxby's is good too.

Taco Hell is good once in a while.

Wendy's Berry Almond Chicken salad is pretty good.
If I eat fast food, I get this or a Filet-o-fish at McDonald's. I remove the most of the tarter sauce.

lipophilia wrote:GO. WATCH. SUPERSIZE-ME.
}:-P

Go watch anyone come out of a McDonalds, or Burger King! Do they look happy with the choices they just made?

Used to be once a week now, not at
all, Bad heart, NO salt
mk
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[quote postid="5051261" user="jsvend"]there's always an option.

i avoid it like the plauge but when i do get fast food, it's from places that are family-owned. maybe 1 in 100 times i'll stop at mcdonalds or burger king. maybe 3 in 100 wendy's. otherwise it's real food, quickly made.[/qu

That's a nice looking Bell-curve of responses! Are we sure Woot isn't just rolling dice to populate the "responses"?

U peoplez have to be lying!!! Ya'll know its still fast food even if u sit inside instead of using the drive through right?

fuzzypeaches wrote:My son would eat Chipotle (sp?) 2 or 3 times a week if I'd let him.

Bah humbug, I don't consider Chipotle fast food! It's delicious food... fast!

If im not gunning down McDonalds breakfast in the office errday, you better be damned sure im scarfing 2-3 mchickens with a mcdouble thrown in there coupled with a buy one get one free medium french fry offer.

Gotta stay carb'd up, naw mean?

epicsatyr wrote:Go watch anyone come out of a McDonalds, or Burger King! Do they look happy with the choices they just made?

Yes... Yes they do.

mkottman08 wrote:Hmm.. It's really starting to feel like Woot is using these polls for demographic data collection on its users instead of for fun..

There is no fun on woot anymore.

I prefer slow food. When it runs away it is easier to catch than fast food.

fuzzypeaches wrote:My son would eat Chipotle (sp?) 2 or 3 times a week if I'd let him.

Chipotle might be a heap of calories but it's got a leg up on most "fast food" in that a. you can see the food you're about to eat and b. it didn't come out of a machine. Also, they claim to use natural and not processed foods.

renrutnairbwoot wrote:You don't eat a lot of fast food when your wife is a dietitian.

Same boat here... it's always healthy this, overly complicated that. Fine and dandy except I'm the cook in our house, so I end up going fast food crazy when she and the daughter are out of town.

Newly separated = no incentive to cook most of the time, and sitting in a restaraunt is even more lonely.

All fast food is not equal. A "protein style" hamburger at In-N-Out Burger is only about 300 calories, nutritious and tasty.
It's not where we eat but what we eat that determines our fates.

lipophilia wrote:GO. WATCH. SUPERSIZE-ME.
}:-P

Then watch "Fat Head"

fuzzypeaches wrote:My son would eat Chipotle (sp?) 2 or 3 times a week if I'd let him.

What's wrong with chipotle? Its a roasted vegetable. That's like keeping him from eating green peppers two or three times per week.

I don't like repetition, but eating a smoked pepper dish three times per week could do no harm, and may actually be good for you.

stay away if you can. i got hitched at 38 after a life of fast food and started eating healthy. But...it was too late i developed divertic in my guts.
my shortest piece of advice would be drink (6) 8oz glasses of high quality h20, every day
ok, one more they sell gummie (bear)fiber at walmart/walgreens, take (2) a day. you're welcome woot.

My wife and I eat out at least twice a week, but the only place we go that could really be considered "fast food" would be Chick-Fil-A, and that's maybe once a month. I usually get the original sandwich, but I always opt for the salad instead of fries. As for McDonald's or Burger King type places, maybe once or twice a year if that.

Survey?
I used to have WOOT as my homepage, checking it 'every' day... then it changed. Less 'good' deals. Is that when Amazon bought WOOT? Has WOOT just become another Amazon store?
Wrong survey
I thought the question was, "How often do you visit Woot?"

The idea that fast food is bad is rediculous anyways.

Almost all fast food places have low calorie options.

I count calories religiously. and wendy's is one of the best fast food places for dieting on the go. ultimate chicken grill, grilled chicken wraps (360, 270 calories respectively).

Mcdonalds has the same options.

its the food you eat, not the where you eat.

Clever Woot!

mkottman08 wrote:Hmm.. It's really starting to feel like Woot is using these polls for demographic data collection on its users instead of for fun..

I am type 2 diabetic. That virtually eliminates fast food from my diet. I need to eat low fat, low carb food, and that ain't fast food.
Besides, I rarely eat out, anyway. What I can prepare at home is healthier, tastier and cheaper than anything that can be bought at a fast food joint.

KAZVorpal wrote:What's wrong with chipotle? Its a roasted vegetable. That's like keeping him from eating green peppers two or three times per week.

I don't like repetition, but eating a smoked pepper dish three times per week could do no harm, and may actually be good for you.

Wow, where do you live? Under a rock? I hope you're not being serious...

Bucher8 wrote:If im not gunning down McDonalds breakfast in the office errday, you better be damned sure im scarfing 2-3 mchickens with a mcdouble thrown in there coupled with a buy one get one free medium french fry offer.

Gotta stay carb'd up, naw mean?

It's answers like these that make me cringe at the glutenous nature of people with no self control, and it makes me realize how lucky I am to truly respect my body enough not to put unknown garbage in my mouth.

mkottman08 wrote:Hmm.. It's really starting to feel like Woot is using these polls for demographic data collection on its users instead of for fun..

I have thought the same thing myself ...

mona65 wrote:Burger King over McDonalds.
BK BROILS doesn't fry like McDonalds. yuck!
Chicken is way better for you than those processed(with what?)burgers.
Zaxby's is good too.

Taco Hell is good once in a while.

Actually, I believe McDonald's actually microwaves their burgers now.

Super Size Me is definitely an inaccurate assessment of how "eating" at fast food restaurant affects you, because Spurlock did not eat like a normal person when he was eating there, and, I believe he reduced his exercise. (According to Wikipedia, he ate an equivalent of 9.3 Big Macs a day -- what normal patron of McDonald's does that?)

As has been mentioned, there are healthy eating options at most places. And limiting yourself to "healthy" options at a fast food restaurant is not substantively different from limiting yourself to "healthy" restaurants. I used to eat the Southwest Salad w/Grilled Chicken (~320 calories), no dressing -- although the dressing is "relatively" okay (~100 calories) as far as dressing goes. It was quick and pretty tasty.

Chick-fil-A's Spicy Chicken Cool Wrap (no dressing) was also a "healthy" dinner for me as well (~420 calories). Unfortunately, I stopped eating at C-f-A due to their political practices.

My old Wendy's dinner was a salad + chicken nuggets + chili. I have no idea how healthy that was, but I will note that it costs me just over $3 and I was a poor graduate at the time. The point here is that, fast food is cheap and is one of the major factors in fast food consumption.

Honestly, I feel more (nutritionally) guilty eating at Chipotle than the other fast food restaurants (and my calorie consumption is definitely higher). But boy, is it tasty.

I don't disagree if you prefer Chipotle from a social perspective (fair treatment of animals) -- but I do find a revulsion of modern food processing technologies on nutritional grounds to be a bit, well, neo-Luddite. Processed foods can be good or bad, depending on how it's processed and writing it off completely I think is excessive. For example, I much prefer my pasteurized milk to the non-pasteurized form coming straight from a cow -- forgive me, if I don't like pathogens in my drinks. (Although I much prefer the refrigerator milk in the US to Parmalat... that's just weird). Cooking is a form of food processing as well and (for better or worse) does help us absorb nutrients (and calories) more effectively than raw food.

At the end of the day, it boils down to the same old adage: "Moderation in all things."

I hear Burger King is selling a Bacon Ice Cream Sundae for the summer. Sounds delicious!