Wait 'til you see the child size soda.
It’s 512 ounces, or roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It’s a real bargain at $1.59.
Straight from the orphan crushing machine. Delicious
512oz = 15.14L. Literally soda in a size of a child.
Who The fuck is able to drink that much? That’s a fucking bucket just with soda.
What the actual fuck?
Parks and recreation is a tv show. The clip is satire. Real American soda sized are still ridiculously large, but not this exaggerated “child size”.
Ah thanks.
'Tis a SitCom.
Damn, 15L of coke is like 5700 calories. More than double a daily intake only in a fucking soda.
If you drink diet Coke, you could drink about 15-20 of them before you get to the lethal limit of sodium in a grown adult.
So room to grow!
Between 1975 and 2016, the prevalence of obesity in Europe rose 138%, with a 21% rise between 2006 and 2016. The prevalence of overweight rose by 51% between 1975 and 2016, and by 8% between 2006 and 2016. It is expected that by 2030, over half of Europe will live with obesity – up to 89% in some countries. No Member State is on track to reach the target of halting the rise in obesity by 2025.
The proliferation of unhealthy eating is a big problem for most of Europe, too. They’re on the same path as the US for mostly the same reasons, just a few steps back.
That said, if I’m going to be fat, I’d rather it be because of schnitzel the size of a dinner plate or cacio e pepe over a Monster Burger.
That said, if I’m going to be fat, I’d rather it be because of schnitzel the size of a dinner plate or cacio e pepe over a Monster Burger.
Do you actually believe that these numbers are from common people eating quality food?
No. I think it’s for the reasons outlined or suggested in the link I included: increased cost of healthy ingredients, decreased accessibility to the same, people struggling to find time to eat well in the increasingly fast paced world, etc.
My mentioning my personal preference is mostly a concession to nuggets of truth in the 4chan post. It’s also true; there is nothing common about how I would prefer to consume quality food.
The access to fresher ingredients and healthier food cannot be understated. Food is so much more processed in the US, even if you’re mainly cooking at home. Even the “ingredients” you buy at grocery stores are more processed.
That’s not making people fat. People are fat because they eat to much and have sedentary lifestyles. Watch secret eaters on YT, it’s from the UK, but demonstrates how much snacking and sitting most people do.
Yes, being sedentary hurts you. My point wasn’t about weight loss, just that the quality of ingredients and food in Europe is leagues ahead of the US. It is much worse for you nutritionally to eat refined, processed grains than it is to eat whole grains. Not to mention the amount of fresh produce…
hey I’ve been waiting for you
Yeah. Europe is only 10% behind the US in being overweight. 60% compared to 70%. Not much room to talk shit.
visit America
get shot
bystanders start clappingI’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
All you have to do is follow the damn train…
Aw shit, here we go again…
If you think about it, that mission was a red flag about Smoke being a fucking traitor. Fatass couldn’t shoot dudes 2 meters away
Wouldn’t that just make him a busta?
This hurts me
He can’t hurt you if you shoot him first! In fact, that’s how you get his indestructible Sanchez motorcycle…
I’ll take a Double Triple Bossy Deluxe on a raft, 4x4 animal style, extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease; make it cry, burn it, and let it swim.
We serve food here, sir.
And I’m guessing a Florida small ball on the side?
*diet coke
Anyone who looks at the U.S. and thinks it’s a fucked up country because of the food just isn’t paying attention.
It may not be the only issue but it is definitely on the list.
Agreed to both of these points, though as an American I will say there are healthier options, it’s just that they make those cost twice as much as the cheaper, unhealthy options.
Go to a Mexican restaurant. Fajitas are $25 or more. It’s just vegetables with some meat. I can make that at home for like $3. We don’t eat out much.
Agreed. It’s just not where I’d start changing things.
I dunno. As the saying goes,“You are what you eat.” And our elected “leader” advocates the leading producer of junk food.
Maybe if the American populace had actual nutrients in their bodies instead of butter and lard, we’d be able to critically think for once
Maybe that’s why Trump picked RFK. “Hey Bobby, get Mcdonalds using beef tallow for their fries again and you can do whatever you want otherwise.”
Try high fructose corn syrup
Idk why Americans love that stuff so much … I feel everything that has high fructose corn syrup in it istasting the same
Butter and lard aren’t the problems with the American diet.
It’s almost impossible to find anything still made with lard anymore.
I mean that’s probably the problem
The food stands out. Like Australia has too many fat people too, but our restaurants don’t cater to them like America’s - don’t try to feed everyone a meal suited to a 200kg man trying for 300.
Anyone who (likely) intentionally writes the word “snicker” wrong to include a slur doesn’t think the actual bad stuff in America is bad.
Snigger is just a variant form more common in the UK, where snicker is the preferred one in the US. Though I wouldn’t put it past a 4chan user, it’s also a perfectly normal word they may have learned being taught and exposed to UK variants of English.
That’s so weird, I’ve literally never seen that form used even by people from the UK.
I guess it’s plausible that they’d just write it like that, I guess.
The secret third option is that they know that it’s a way of spelling it and prefer to use it because hehe n word.
I thought, and a quick Google confirms, that it is used in the Harry Potter series a few times. Obviously, you might not have read them, but for people in my cohort, that was likely our largest exposure point to British culture.
Most american comment ever
Real
Really waving your ignorance there, bud, not his.
I’m up in Canada and since the start of the pandemic I’ve stopped going to fast food places. But after things got back to normal, I thought why should I go back to ordering food at McD’s … as I thought of it more, I realized it didn’t make any sense.
Fast food is basically unnutritious food made by underpaid workers who don’t like their work … the food doesn’t do me any good and its too expensive … I have to trust the underpaid employee didn’t mess up my order … I waste money by degrading my health only to spend more money to try to get back some good health
I realized it was cheaper in the long run of my life to not eat at these damned places.
mcdonalds is the literal worst burger option though
If you’re vegan this applies even more. From what I heard McD only has like 3 vegan options while, in comparison, Burger King had the whole menu available in a vegan form.
The fries aren’t even vegan at McDonald’s, they use beef products as part of their flavoring
Depends on the country to be clear, although it’s true in the US still for whatever reason.
Yup, some Indians got pretty miffed about that: Maybe even angry.
Oddly enough, asides from apple wedges and I think the side salad, the hot apple pie is technically vegan, not that I’d eat anything that came out of one of those kitchens.
Yeah, McDs sucks and I haven’t been in years, but I do go to fast good restaurants that have decent quality and pay workers reasonably, like In-N-Out, Five Guys, etc. We don’t go very often, maybe once or twice per month, so we’re happy paying a little more for better quality.
How’s the worker pay on Culver’s?
It’s bad. They’re also famous for using child labor. They actively recruit as young of children as legally allowed.
Ah. Damn.
Love Hank Green. :)
And yeah, as someone who tends to look at calories before ordering to get the best value per dollar (more calories per dollar), this makes complete sense to me. Also, I tend to eat out with my whole family (5 of us), so I think more in terms of the total bill than individual orders since we can share fries or whatever. But given Hank’s reaction, this apparently isn’t how most people approach it.
I made a similar decision around 20 years ago.
Last year, I got to march, and realised I hadn’t had a McDonald’s in over 3 months.
So I decided to just stop going there.
I think it was all the price hikes: When it’s £7 for any half decent burger and fries, I might as well be spending a bit more and going to a local place.
Or getting something better than a burger!Or spending the same, and getting slightly better at Wendy’s.
Malnourished european can not handle a real meal.
I REALLY wish they would have went to Five Guys.
Guy 3/5: fills 32 ounce cup with fresh hot, salt slathered fries. Drops cup in a large bag. Takes another full scoop of the fries and throws them in the bag. Easily 4-5 potatoes worth.
The cup of fries should be 1300 calories, they easily put twice as many in. That’s a daily food intake worth of calories for the side alone.
You know what you get in Canada for 25 bucks at Five Guys? Tiny little fries, no peanuts while you wait, and a burger so shitty you want to throw it at those stoned morons.
TIL
I would sure fucking hope I get a few potatoes worth after paying $45 for one burger combo…
a few potatoes worth after paying $45 for one burger combo…
Lol yeah, took the fam there it was $75 for 3 plates of fast food.
Pretty good tho…
American burgers are the king of all burgers, bottom line
That said 2 things I absolutely agree with:
A burger should be small enough to easily bite. It’s okay if you have to smoosh it down a bit with your hands to do so, but if I have squash it to shit or take it apart or cut it or eat it weird you’ve fucked up such a basic thing
If you already have ketchup, mustard, mayo, bbq, etc then why do I need “burger sauce”? Your burger sauce is probably just some variation on mayo and ketchup anyway. Thanks for making my burger a sloppy piece of shit akin to eating ribs
This poster speaks the truth.
Burger sauce can be pretty delicious
Ok, serious question, is American fast food different from European? I’ve been to our local McDonalds and the like and the food is fucking atrocious. Tasteless non-identifiable meat patty with some mayo, ketchup, “cheese” and a sorry excuse for a vegetable. I mean it’s just bad. Is American chain food better or are you just delusional?
I mean, I don’t know an american that would list any fast food as the place that serves the best/their favorite burger.
When I visited US their mcdonalds burgers tasted ± the same as local (eastern europe), that is exactly as you described. What was different is million different options that they asked me and were somewhat aggressive with me being slow. 🫠 Drinks were enormous in size and super cold, air conditionioners set to something like 16 while its 30+ outside everywhere. 😄
Erhm well back in the day fat people were the peak of social hierarchy because they had enough money to buy enough food to be fat, therefore spending $12 on a burger to get fat makes me mega rich
It’s the other way around now, normal people can only afford the ultra-processed slop and nutrient-defficient fruits & veg.
It’s interesting reading responses on this because I’m gathering a lot of Europeans/non-americans think that burgers are always fast food?
When an american thinks of a good burger I think most of us are picturing our favorite bar and grill’s burger, not a chain fast food one.
Are burgers pretty much only at fast food chains in other countries?
Nope. Tons of places make them. I have no clue what these people are on about. Just fake outrage, I guess.
REEEEE NOT EVERYWHERE IS AMERICA REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
“We’ll see” DJT
It would be interesting to have a poll by country about what people think a burger is.
There’s a place I know in Saskatchewan, that makes 3/4 lb burger patties out of good quality chuck, serves them with two pieces of bacon, couple onion onion rings, on two pieces of inch thick garlic texas toast he fries on the griddle in mayonnaise and bacon fat, fancy mustard and some spicy sauce he makes himself. You’ll never have anything like it, I’m pretty sure he’s smoking the hamburger before grinding it. Embarrassing five guys easy for price and quality, and it’s just some guy owns a dive bar with no staff but him.
Damn that sounds good! I love hole in the wall places like that. I miss my old favorite spot in Seattle, 206 Burger Company. It wasn’t the fanciest or super over the top, but they just hit right and they (at least used to) have pretty good prices too.
I’m always interested in polls and stats. But I’m fairly confident that this one would be boring. Just your run of the mill buns, patty and whatever fillings are most popular. Usually a mix of lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, cheese (altho some might see cheese as a cheeseburger thing and think that’s not a burger)
As someone who usually eats just once a day (with some supplemental shakes on work days) I love American potions. One of the good things about this country.
The lack of veg is concerning though. It sucks that the alternative to fried potatoes is usually just a handful of leaves.
I just got a Carl’s Jr Star burger for $3 and it had tons of lettuce and tomato. Pretty fantastic and almost healthy (not really). Like a good American, I ate 2, so something like 1k calories.
Even if you do get vegetables they’re typically flavorless compared to what you can grow at home.
Yeah, because everyone has a yard and free time for gardening…
I don’t even think the stereotypical giant american burger is a thing anymore unless you go to places that specifically market a special large burger. Now a $12 burger is just regular sized. And an $18 “artisanal” burger has a thin disc of meat and is taller than it is wide.
I think the point here is that “regular” for Americans is not the same as “regular” for Europeans.
A European “large drink” in a fastfood restaurant is 500ml. In the US, 473ml is a small one.
I understand that. I was referring to shrinkflation specifically, where the typical regular american size burger is the same as anywhere else now and not like the stereotype before where everything is bigger in the US. I agree it still applies to soda drinks though.
Ragebait, am European, love American Food!
In Europe, the portions are European sized. In the US, they are whale-sized.
In Europe you pay 20€ for a semi decent micro Burger some Hipster slaps together, wearing black Nitrile Gloves thinking his shitty minimalistic “Burger-
ShopArtisery” will become the next big joint.I think both cultures have their issues when it comes to food. Europeans are just more pretentious about it.
America has pretentious, expensive burger joints though, and Europe has fast food. The real battle isn’t “American vs. European”, it’s “the people in power vs the people that aren’t”, in both places. Trying to draw divides like “Europeans are more pretentious about their food” is just a distraction from that.
I don’t know where you live, but either you live in an expensive city, only eat burgers at hipster places, or are memeing. I can still find perfectly good burgers for 12€ in my city and they fill me up. It’s not necessary to get stuffed and roll back home like a US landwhale.
I can still find perfectly good burgers for 12€ in my city and they fill me up.
Where do you live? I’m in The Netherlands and I don’t think a burger/fries combo can be had under €17 at any restaurant in the country, with the exception of American fast food chains (which are kinda trash). I think restaurants in this country are very expensive compared to the average in Europe.
Exaggeration for the sake of the Argument. The US has loads of small restaurants and fusion kitchens with local diversity (soul food). Regarding the amounts I don’t mind to have a “cheat day”. I was at SaltLick BBQ in Texas and I was sad when I was filled up because of how good it was (Brisket!! pecan Nut Pie!!! Spearribs!!!).
While I love me a cheese assortment with fine wine in Europe or similarly awesome food.
It’s just hard to compare fine dining with food you just want to inhale asap.
You compare literal apples to oranges (and are pretentious about it, sry).
Heresy! There must be rivalry between the continents in all things!
Falsified and homosexual. No Yuroopeens allowed
