A millennial family member was ranting about eating breakfast at McDonalds being unhealthy

[Anonymous]

McDonalds’ breakfast sausage is so freaking tasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Eating breakfast at McDonalds is not healthy and eating hot dogs at baseball games is not healthy..." Blah Blah Blah

But when I pointed out to her that we have members of our own family (plus many friends of theirs) who are in their 80s who have been eating breakfast at McDonalds and eating hot dogs at baseball games for most of their lives she literally had no answer or reply when I pointed that out to her

On any given morning most McDonalds restaurants are filled with senior citizens on a daily basis.

Now my question to you is have younger become people so involved at staring at their smartphone screens that they do not notice the world around them?

I apologize for any grammatical errors. English is not my 1st language.

What you’re not seeing is all the people who died earlier as a result, in part, of unhealthy diets. Logic is your problem, not English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Eating breakfast at McDonalds is not healthy and eating hot dogs at baseball games is not healthy..." Blah Blah Blah

But when I pointed out to her that we have members of our own family (plus many friends of theirs) who are in their 80s who have been eating breakfast at McDonalds and eating hot dogs at baseball games for most of their lives she literally had no answer or reply when I pointed that out to her

On any given morning most McDonalds restaurants are filled with senior citizens on a daily basis.

Now my question to you is have younger become people so involved at staring at their smartphone screens that they do not notice the world around them?

I apologize for any grammatical errors. English is not my 1st language.

She is correct. Eating at MacDonald's or eating a hot dog once in awhile isn't going to kill you but everyday, it will hasten your demise. See "Supersize Me," a movie about someone who only ate MacDonald's for a month.

[Anonymous]

Is nuance not possible anymore? Multiple things can be true.

1. Op's millennial relative is judgmental and condescending.

2. McDonald's every day is not healthy.

3. McDonald's in moderation is fine.

4. Just because old people did something doesn't make it safe/healthy.

[Anonymous]

My mother who never ever ate fast food and was always trim and fit died of cancer in her early 70s (diagnosed in late 60s).

My dad who has never eaten healthy and routinely eats McDonalds (and smokes!) is trim and in his early 80s.

As long as you aren’t obese (bc obesity does create health issues), your health and lifespan are a crapshoot.

A plain egg McMuffin isn’t any less healthy than any other breakfast. Cereal is probably far more unhealthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alcohol and smoking are 100% worse for your health than the occasional McDonald’s

But smoking weed is ok though, right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alcohol and smoking are 100% worse for your health than the occasional McDonald’s

But smoking weed is ok though, right?

No? Who said that? Smoking anything is bad for you.

[Anonymous]

McDonals is disgusting and should not be consumed regularly. Maybe once a year when no other options. I teach my children this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McDonals is disgusting and should not be consumed regularly. Maybe once a year when no other options. I teach my children this.

pls explain, mother.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McDonals is disgusting and should not be consumed regularly. Maybe once a year when no other options. I teach my children this.

pls explain, mother.

Check your bowels after.

[Anonymous]

I've seen very old people pig out daily at mickeyds and they're stil alive. Probably with the shites after but alive

[Anonymous]

I used to love McDonalds as a kid and in my 20s. I think it's really gross now, with one exception. Their coffee is amazing. But still, I will get an egg mcmuffin on a road trip if necessary. Moderation.

If I retire and my friends hang out at McDonalds, I will be there each day, with my Senior coffee for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a class thing with millennials. More so than it was for other generations. There were always people who looked down on certain kinds of food, including fast food or ball park food, but you'd also find rich people who enjoyed foods like this and no one was freaking out about it. No one has ever advocated for eating all your meals at McDonalds or something, but it used to not be considered poor form to grab a Big Mac now and then or to enjoy a hot dog at a ballgame.

But now there are all these people who think every single bit of food you put in your mouth needs to be both a moral and a political statement. So it needs to be organic, locally sourced, GMO-free, healthy according to current health trends, and preferable from a certain kind of restaurant or store (upscale, very clean, with nice lighting and a neutral color scheme). It's about projecting an image and a philosophy. It used to be that eating at McDonald's meant you were hungry and it was convenient and affordably priced -- no politics. Now it means you support factory farming, work exploitation, climate change, and the destruction of local businesses.

It is exhausting, it's best to simply not speak to people like this.

Amen.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Old people aren’t gorging in McD. They get a black coffee and maybe an egg McMuffin. Or a plain hamburger. They hardly eat. It is social thing more than a meal.

You have to remember that for the first half of their lives they were eating home cooked meals mostly. What you eat when you are young and middle aged is much more important than what you eat at 80

Were they? Convenience foods were very popular when Boomers were young.

Count me in as another millennial who thinks the occasional fast food treat is fine. Meanwhile, my boomer mother had a freakout two weeks ago because pregnant SIL ate fried chicken, which will apparently kill the baby (my mom smoked for the first six weeks while she was pregnant with my brother). It has nothing to do with age.

McDonalds was popular back when they were young.

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Anonymous wrote:McDonalds is incredibly unhealthy. It’s also for poors and otherwise low class folks who surely have many other unhealthy habits. If you eat McDonalds more than once or twice a year after smoking weed, you need to really examine your choices.

Even so, eating McDonalds is nothing from a holistic health perspective compared to being so thoroughly soaked with anxiety that you would worry about this for others and feel the need to preach. Anyone doing that is going to burn out and hit the inpatient mental health circuit by 50. Or die from a stroke/heart attack. (That’s how those fat old bastards at McDonalds live so long, just being carefree smoking cigs and drinking whole milk their entire lives without a hint of concern.)

The senior citizens who frequent the McDonald's are far from being poor. Many are former government employees.