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did Super Size Me changed fast food?
Posted on 9/12/12 at 11:10 pm
Posted on 9/12/12 at 11:10 pm
since 2004 i have noticed many changes to fast food in regard to being more healthy or at least healthier choices. how much of this was due to the movie Super Size Me?
Posted on 9/12/12 at 11:13 pm to cajunatc
I know McDonalds did away with super sizing as a direct result of this documentary
Posted on 9/12/12 at 11:13 pm to cajunatc
Pretty sure the Baconator came out after the doc, so no.
Posted on 9/12/12 at 11:24 pm to cajunatc
Not really, because, while it was well done and contained some good information, the concept at its core made no fricking sense
Posted on 9/12/12 at 11:55 pm to cajunatc
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did Super Size Me changed fast food?
Absolutely. I think it truly opened some people's eyes and made them actually think about what they were putting in their bodies. It definitely helped Subway a ton.
Posted on 9/12/12 at 11:58 pm to wildtigercat93
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the concept at its core made no fricking sense
I wish he'd have just eaten it once a day and continued to workout and do everything else normally to see what kind of effects it had. Of course if you only eat fast food and don't ever move off the couch except to get more fast food you're going to kill yourself.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 12:02 am to Cap Crunch
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I wish he'd have just eaten it once a day and continued to workout and do everything else normally to see what kind of effects it had. Of course if you only eat fast food and don't ever move off the couch except to get more fast food you're going to kill yourself.
Yep. Not to mention he was a die hard Vegitarian before the film. Of course his body rejected that sudden of a change in his diet, thats why he got sick on like the first or second day
Posted on 9/13/12 at 1:42 am to LSUsmartass
quote:hurray for mcdonalds. now they get to say medium or large and charge you even more money.
I know McDonalds did away with super sizing as a direct result of this documentary
Posted on 9/13/12 at 2:22 am to cajunatc
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healthier choices.
yes. theres a push to curb obesity and unhealthyness especially in children the last few years. Hard to do when you take away gym class and the ability to make fun of fat kids.
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since 2004 i have noticed many changes to fast food in regard to being more healthy
Just to be obnoxious.
Since 2004:
Wendy's Triple Baconator:
Burger King new "stack" options:
McDonald's double quarter pounder with cheese.
Sonic's footlong chilli cheese coney:
Posted on 9/13/12 at 5:21 am to cajunatc
i know here in germany fast food is much fresher
Posted on 9/13/12 at 5:41 am to StraightCashHomey21
quote:I was in Skipol (sp?) Airport last week and noticed their McDonalds pretty much ruled. Best damn quarter pounder I have ever had
i know here in germany fast food is much fresher
Posted on 9/13/12 at 5:56 am to TexasTiger05
Documentary was proven tripe and outright lies. No evidence given when he was actually asked to verify independently everything he claimed.
in other words, he made it all up.
Go watch "Fathead" and see actual facts cited independently.
here's what one person had to say
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in other words, he made it all up.
Go watch "Fathead" and see actual facts cited independently.
here's what one person had to say
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As I reported at the time, an independent experiment was later conducted by Soso Whaley in response to ‘Super-Size Me!’. She doubled the duration of the experiment to 60 days, and ate exclusively at McDonald’s. She combined her McDonald’s diet with exercise three times a week, and – like Spurlock – ate everything on the menu including the salads and wraps, burgers and fries. She lost 18 pounds. ‘What?’, I hear you ask. ‘No gratuitous on-screen vomiting? No horrible bloating or weight gain? No nauseous babbling about how “the system is wrong”, “the system is wrong”? No doctors melodramatically telling her that she might die at any moment? What apostasy!
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Posted on 9/13/12 at 7:27 am to CAD703X
Thanks for posting that. Super Size Me is propaganda.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 8:03 am to Breesus
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Since 2004:
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Sonic's footlong chilli cheese coney:
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McDonald's double quarter pounder with cheese.
These have been around LONG before 2004.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 8:12 am to cajunatc
The only thing it changed was the sizes. You ask for a medium and you get a large now. Small is the old medium and supersize is now a large.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 8:21 am to cajunatc
I think it had a minor influence at best. Additions of healthier options at fast food restaurants were done to prepare for/hopefully head-off government lawsuits like the cigarette company lawsuits.
Attorney generals were grumbling about starting lawsuits to get money for state healthcare expenses they said were caused by burgers. So the fast food industry made healthy options available to show people have the option to eat better, healthier food.
Attorney generals were grumbling about starting lawsuits to get money for state healthcare expenses they said were caused by burgers. So the fast food industry made healthy options available to show people have the option to eat better, healthier food.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 8:35 am to cajunatc
Yes especially McDonalds. They are making a huge push for healthier products. A good example is the kids happy meal and all of the healthy options they have rolled out with. Snack wraps, fruit and walnut salads, oatmeal ect
Posted on 9/13/12 at 8:49 am to bubbz
I don't know if it's where I live now, or the fact that I am older, but I feel like the quality of food, particularly at McDonalds, has gone downhill a bunch. I think it may have something to do with the speed which McDonalds likes to showcase, instead of focusing on their quality. So I go to McDonalds almost never now.
Posted on 9/13/12 at 8:54 am to emoney
Kind of related I remember having to watch a documentary similar to Super Size Me. But all it turned out to be was an anti capitalism documentary
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