Fast Food Impact

                                                        Fast Food Impact

            Looking out the window to my left I’d see the local fast food restaurants as we drove by and begged my mother to stop. Often, we never stopped but on some special occasions such as a student of the month award. We called them “snack prize”. It was just the best feeling the world knowing that I was going to indulge in a custom made double cheeseburger with grilled onions, a side of animal fries and a vanilla shake from In-N-Out. Fast food wasn’t really apart of a family ritual since there was always hearty home cooked meals . My mother, being the great cook that she was, felt like there was no point of buying the same meal that she could prepare in her own home. Fast food was treated as a luxury expense so it wasn’t permitted unless earned. The meals we had at home were often time consuming so our definition of fast food was probably just pizza ordered over the phone and it was still convient because we didn’t have to travel to go get it and we still ate at home together as a family . Whenever I spend the night at a relative’s house I was more subjective to fast food. Eating out wasn’t considered a luxury as it was in my household but more of an “I don’t have time to cook kind of thing” with my Aunt. I didn’t oppose to the fast food there because she wasn’t the best cook. She was the one that typically burned water.

            There were plenty of days in my high school life that consisted of overeating. For breakfast I usually had a whole dozen of glazed donuts, for lunch an entire pizza with the buffalo wings, and dinner was along the lines of a hearty meal consisting of fried chicken with green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, macaroni and cheese, and some cornbread. I was known as the “greedy” friend since I never was the one to share food. Getting older and becoming less active, I decide to start controlling my eating habits. I started off with portion control then worked my way over to healthy foods. So now I tend to eat out every once in a while but with the fast food menus there’s not too much of a nutritional value. So it usually results in a side salad, and a small drink. I feel that fast food is apart of the American culture now because everyone is on the go and all wanting their food “hot N ready”. I personally try to not develop dependency for fast food because all the chemicals and preservative put into it are more harmful for you than the actual food itself. I seen a documentary called Super Size Me and it relatively changed my whole perception of the whole fast food industry.