Fast-food-poisoning isn’t rare. Your symptoms could include nausea, fever, diarrhea, cramps, and dehydration. Fast-food-poisoning is usually caused by unsanitary fast-food kitchens and by improperly cooked food.
I know it’s a surprise to learn that such conditions could occur when most fast-food staffs comprise high-school students and uneducated or ineducable losers just a rung or two above vagrant and/or homeless status.
Beyond the just mentioned level of innate unreliability of fast-food staffs, bear in mind that the employee entrance is usually a revolving door. The staff changes more often than do the uniforms and the hair nets. Whatever positive effects entry-level employees might get from MacTraining are lost as soon as a so-called trained employee leaves. His/her replacement might not be as bright or as dedicated or as motivated as the employee who left for less greasy pastures. The revolving door used by all the teens who work in fast-food restaurants is a constant, chronic problem.
As for long-term employees (they exist, really!), there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with being a fast-food employee; however, when that’s all an employee ever wants to be, then s/he might not be particularly motivated to cross all the t’s or dot all the i’s.
As for the high-school teens preparing fast food, my impression of teens is that their rooms are always messy and that, even with Herculean efforts, their parents can’t motivate them to clean or straighten anything. With their almost universal disregard for orderliness, cleanliness is bound to be the next item sacrificed.
How could anyone suspend disbelief long enough to think that those same teens will follow pesky sanitation and cooking rules during the morning, noon, and evening fast-food rushes? At the least, you’re courting a debilitating bout of the green-apple quickstep every time you eat fast food.
Bear in mind that fast food uses a lot of salt. Not just a little extra—a lot extra; more than three times the daily limit for many fast-food addicts. Salt makes you retain water, so you get bloated and heavier. That’s depressing and, to deal with that depression, you eat more fast food. Nice cycle, don’t you think? Also, too much salt is bad for your cardiovascular system.
Actually, a bout of food poisoning might be the next-best thing to happen to you (deciding to eat sensibly is the best thing). It could scare you enough so that you’d come to your senses; however, if you don’t come to your senses and if you’re not poisoned by the food, you’ll certainly succumb, eventually, to diabetes, hypertension, stroke, high cholesterol, tooth decay, and/or arthritis, to name only a few of the better known coffin nails obesity provides.
Former Meals Now On Wheels
I suppose the upside to losing a limb to diabetes could be that it would hamper your ability to get to a fast-food restaurant as often as you’d like, but it seems like a high price to pay for a self-discipline substitute. Your call. With all the other illnesses you’re going to contract, you’ll be eligible for much, much better parking until you die. It’s not nothing, is it?
