Super Size ME

[Mad78]

I watched the film this week end and frankly. I never thought Mc Donalds food could look so aweful. What do you think?

[Jahled]

Haven't seen the movie, but have of course been bombarded by it's existance left right and centre. The guy appears to be an idiot. I hate all this slate big-business bashing topical now the cold war is over. It's pathetic. McDonalds is a successful provider of easily identifiable food the world over. From New York to London, to Moscow to Cape Town, you know what you are getting, taste-wise. Cool. I can live with that. If I fancy a familier tast next time i'm in Peru, i'll know exactly where to go for a cheap and tasty meal. Only utter spackoids would furnish their diets with it 24/7. I have limited sympathy with over-weight people period (unless of course it's a realistic medical problem) but much less for people who are so daft as to believe eating McDonalds morning, nune, and night, is a healthy diet. Idiots. Let them drop dead. Someone else can organize the fork-lift druck for their coffin, i'll be reading the newspaper and drinking a cup of tea elsewhere without any interest for stupidiety to waft onto my sympathy.

 

But the bottom line I don't need to be reminded about in a standard 'anti-corporate' movie, that appear to be so popular at the moment, is that McDonalds don't advocate eating their product 24/7! So what is this idiot doing to himself. It's boring, it's rubbish, and quite frankly I enjoy a big mac about once every other three weeks or so; for which I am glad they are there to provide me with what is essentially 'a snack.'

 

I hate all this anti-corporate bull! If you are in any doubt go and examine where your pension funds are investing their money, or your parents's as the case may be; you'll find McDonalds are no bigger liers than any other supplier of commerce in the world. It is called business, the product is up to the individual, and limited intelligence is not an excuse for me not being able to enjoy a Big Mac once in a while.

 

If some people are so thick as to eat this stuff 24/7 in the first place, I don't actually associate it with 'skillfull marketing from McDonalds,' but a basic and fundermental absence of any brain-matter, which I will cheerfully wave good buy to anyday of the week.

[Trejiuvanat]

I haven't seen the film, nor do I think I will.

 

I'm not much of a McDonalds fan or fast food for that matter (awful Soy stuff...ugh), it's more expensive and doesn't taste as good as "real" food.

[NIIIC]

I haven't seen the film and am not intending to pay 10 Frs. 2 hours of my time to see some thing we all already know. Yes because it is known since long that McDo isn't the best healthy food. But a lot of people still go and eat there (including ME), which means that there are aware of the so called Danger. Now if a man wants to get stuffed eating just McDo food and get filmed, well then a well se some other stupid movie.

 

That means that i will not see that movie because i already know what it will tell me, but that doesn’t mean that i will not be going to McDo any more.

 

P.S. that movie is like looking at stupid people in stupid realty shows.

[Jahled]

I got carried away so much into my rant I forgot to point out that whilst the physical act of munching a Big Mac is an enjoyable sensation, I know not if I am alone in always needing to drink water afterwards, and feeling slightly...err... sort of ill!

 

The guy actually ate this stuff for an entire month! I reckon it's actually some Japanese gameshow. They like torturing their contestants don't they?

[Mad78]

That one reason i prefer avoiding McDo is because i always get ill afterwards. In the film the first time the guy eats a Super size menu we throws up the hole thing. I guess one reason people get ill is because of the amazing amount of sugar contained in the McDo food.

[Jahled]

It seems then I am not alone.

 

[small=9]Despite thinking the guy is a jerk, one has to almost admire his quest of utter self-torture. God he must have suffered something...[/size]

[Guest Scathane]

It seems you're not providing enough poll options, because I definitely will eat Chicken McNuggets again, I'm not planning on going less often yet I do understand how McDonalds could be bad for your health. The option I'm missing here is: I definitely won't be seeing this movie!

 

First off, McDonalds doesn't have to be unhealthy. You can actually set up a resonably healthy diet at Micky D's, no matter what they say about the salads. The argument is that the salad contains more fat than the Big Mac... Come again?! The salads at McD's in the Netherlands contain nothing but lettuce, cucumber, tomato, cheese/chicken/bacon and dressing. The cheese and chicken in no way hold more fat than a Bic Mac and bacon is known for it's fat percentage. Moreover, you're free to order a salad without the bacon and not use the dressing.

 

Secondly, isn't it a well known fact that too much of anything is good for nothing? Sure you will get obese if you eat too many Big Macs, just as you would if you ate too much meat, bread, eggs, cheese, sugar or drank too much milk. Come on!

 

With regard to only seven of their products containing no sugar, where does it say that McD's is a sugar-free emporium? Moreover, I counted about 50 products on the McD menu. That means that 14% contains no sugar, which, I belive, is a fair score. Go to your average supermarket and see if they match that score; while you're at it, see which of the two has more fattening products in its assortment...

 

Fourthly, what's with educational and parental standards with regard to Spurlock? Didn't he have any parents who told him too many Big Macs were bad for him? That he should eat vergetables as well, that fish oil is goodlier to the body than animal fats, that he should drink an occasional glass of water to a coke? What do we need next? Parental advisory on McD food? Come on!

 

Fifthly, the movie is biased. Why only McDonalds? Why not Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Coca-Cola, Masterfoods, Nestlé, and insert-any-maufacterer-of-fat-or-sugar-containing-products-here company as well?!

 

Lastly, the movie skips certain matters, like daily exercise. Gee, how odd that there are so many with-this-newest-unique-and-never-seen-before-exercise-machine-we-so-blatantly-rip-you-off-with-you-don't-need-more-than-a-one-minute-exercise-a-day commercials around! You do need exercise and, believe me, it's going to be more than a few minutes a day.

 

I eat at McD's about once every two weeks. Adittionally, I consume loads of chips/crisps, chocolate, pizza's, bottles of Coke and what not... I also work out for about one-and-a-half hours four days a week. I don't have a weight problem....

 

Summarizing, then... Add the following option to the poll:

 

Screw this movie

[Evaders99]

I agree with them - Scathane and Jahled said it all. Its a consumer economy - so consumers decide what they want to eat. If its the success of McDonald's, so be it - they haven't broken any laws or made any contract that says they must improve the health of people who eat their food.

[Mad78]

The movie actually does adresse the subject of exercise and foods for school cantines. Personnaly I don't go to McDo so often these days because i don't have the time and because its too expensive compared to the price of a kebab or a sandwich.

[Guest Scathane]

The movie actually does adresse the subject of exercise and foods for school cantines.

Does it address exercise in the sense that Spurlock works out is his movie at the same rate as he does his eating at McD's?

 

 

...thought so...

[the_mask]

You said it all.

 

Scath, the salad's the same in Germany, IIRC, so I think it's a company-wide recipy.

As Jahled said, if you're in another country and dunno how the food is prepared, what's in it, or how to spell it (Tunesia for example, I can't read Arabic writings) you can always count on it, that a McChicken will be made the same way as in the restaurant back home.

For example on our class trip to Poland 10 years ago in school I was glad to have a McD close by (I'm very picky about what to eat as well), because I didn't know if I liked this and that and there were no mobile phones to call my folks and ask them

 

I didn't see this movie, but as Scath already said: I'm not going to see it either. I'm not even sure, that it will be in cinemas in Europe, but suing McD will not solve that guys weight problems. He's just deflecting the truth, that he has to know at least on a subconscious level and he alone has to turn around and do something about it

[NIIIC]

I find it disgraceful to do a film blaming McDo for the weight problem. It is like accusing cigarette producers for the diseases that come from it.

Not to say that they are blameless, but if some one is dumb enough to smoke is self till he gets a cancer, well that that is his own fault.

It is as dumb a accusing a shop for selling the rope with which your husband killed him self. That film is the same thing. Accusing McDo for selling you food that can cause illness if you eat to much of it.

[Mad78]

BTW Mask, the film has come out in Europe.

And they managed to sue the tobacco companies because it was an addictive product. I must admit that its common sense that McDo is not very healthy food and that you must be rather stupid to eat it more that once a week.

[Guest Scathane]

I find it disgraceful to do a film blaming McDo for the weight problem. It is like accusing cigarette producers for the diseases that come from it.

Not to say that they are blameless, but if some one is dumb enough to smoke is self till he gets a cancer, well that that is his own fault.

It is as dumb a accusing a shop for selling the rope with which your husband killed him self. That film is the same thing. Accusing McDo for selling you food that can cause illness if you eat to much of it.

It's even too much to compare McD with cigarette companies... Cigarette companies, for instance, denied using ammonia in their product when the US government asked them whether they deliberately adding it to their product for the purpose of making it more addictive. Add to this that they knew that it enhanced the health damage, and you can safely conclude that this a criminal act and punishable by law in most countries in the world.

 

I believe McD can't be said to do the same thing...