Chick-fil-A Ban

SteveH said:
Why is it that Chicken is the only thing you can eat before it's born and after it's dead? I guess it goes both ways!

Fish (caviar) fits that description as well.

Didn't think of that one.

Jeff said:

And really, if the top ingredients being preservatives aren't enough, the stats on a CFA sandwich make a McDonald's hamburger look like health food. I don't understand how anyone feels the convenience of fast food justifies consuming it.

But yeah, it's obvious by their food sourcing that their ethics and value are clearly very selective.

Why not compare a chicken sandwich and a chicken sandwich? Chick-fil-A's has 6 less grams of fat and 70 less calories. McDonald's make Chick-fil-A look like health food. (Although CFA's has more sodium and cholesterol).

Guess you only see what you want to see.

Round and round we go.

Both are horrendously bad for you. You're splitting hairs and missing the point, in my opinion.

DJ the point in this thread was made in the first 5 pages.

CFA is practically health food. I get it now. Preservative filled, industrially produced health food, served with a smile!

Back in a bit... I'm gonna go get some. You won me over.

YAY!!! Someone won!!

I think the Chinese won too. Something like there 54th gold medal in joint diving or synchro jump rope or something like that.

Nonsense.

Everyone knows the Jamaicans are the best at joint diving.

Apples vs Oranges? Both are good for you.
Burgers vs Chicken Sandwiches? Both are not. :)

Something I need to take issue with...

I don't know for sure, largely because I don't care enough to find out.

But on e of the adjectives that has been thrown around a lot with regard to how awful fast food is for you is "preservative-laden."

In fact, many articles I've seen recently that discuss those experiments with McDonalds sandwiches left out for years point out that for the most part, McDonalds makes far less use of preservatives than even the stuff you get in the grocery. And it makes perfect sense. Fast food chains serve food in enormous quantities, quantities so mind bogglingly enormous that controlling product cost means reducing the system dwell time for everything they sell. Product comes into restaurants daily, and gets sold so quickly that about the only preservative most of them use is *freezing*. Adding preservatives to their food is expensive and unnecessary, and is best left to the supermarket prepared foods aisle.

There are lots of things wrong with the way fast food is sourced and prepared, not the least of which it the treatment of supply farms as food factories. But my understanding is that preservatives are really not a significant issue. And for good reason: they add cost and complexity to foods that Are not kept around long enough to need much preserving.

Anyone care to address?

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

The ingredients for fast food are fairly Googleable, and you better believe they're full of preservatives. Chicken McNuggets even list sodium phosphates as a primary ingredient. A Chick-fil-a sandwich has really delicious stuff like MSG and anti-foaming agents. Makes your mouth water, no?

Chick-Fil-A wants to legalize discrimination of humans in my country.
Boo.

Well no one wants to eat a foamy chicken sandwich.

That is a little disturbing. I'm a tad curious as to the purpose of having that in their. What's going to foam...and why?

The anti-foaming agent is not added to the chicken; it is added to the oil it is fried in. All fast-food establishments add this to their oil. If you have eaten french fries from McDonalds, Wendys, etc then you have ingested this chemical.

The frying oil includes dimethylpolysiloxane, a chemical that prevents the oil from foaming after repeated use. Its’ a type of silicone (used in silly putty too) and not considered toxic, according to the World Health Organization.

Mmmm... dimethylpolysiloxane... just saying it makes me hungry. I mean, if it's in Silly Putty, you know it's good.

Ok, so it's an additive to the oil so they can use it longer without having to clean or change it out.

How is that supposed to make me feel better about it?

Well it is "considered" non toxic......though I find it more unnerving that it's considered and not definitive.