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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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[/quote]
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. [/quote]
BTW my mom quit smoking after finding out she was pregnant (so 35 years ago) and is now obsessed with health to a fault. She is basically like your millennial relative, making blanket statements like "No one who eats fried chicken is healthy," and "People who don't exercise for an hour daily are unhealthy." She does not grasp the concept that I can eat something unhealthy for lunch, then something healthy for dinner, and go for a run. I am either a fat slob (which, in her eyes, my brother and I ARE fat slobs because we occasionally drink alcohol and eat dessert) or I am healthy. There is no room for the occasional indulgence. You either eat perfectly all the time or you don't and you'll die at 40.

Now, of course I look at this as my mother is severely disordered in her attitude toward food, judgmental about other people's diets (I was beyond pissed at her for saying what she said to pregnant SIL about the fried chicken), and just generally unpleasant to discuss food with. Do I attribute that to all boomers? No. [/quote]
Your mother sounds utterly miserable to be around. [/quote]

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