Fast Food Blog

Fast food is something that is part of just about all Americans’ lives in some way or another. Even if you don’t eat fast food, there is some relation with you and the restaurants that are on almost every corner of every block in every city of America. As a child fast food wasn’t a BIG part of my life like it is with most kids now. I would have liked it to have been but my family couldn’t afford eating out much. There were six of us in a little tiny house so the little money we did have was spent on more important stuff. It was definitely more of a treat when we did get some fast food. Pizza was the fast food or choice in our household. We could buy a couple larges and spend half the money to feed the family instead of buy six different things and spending twice as much. When we would go somewhere else to get food we always seemed to go to Taco Bell, Wendy’s, or Burger King. They were the closes so that’s why my family would go to those fast food joints. McDonalds wasn’t too far away either but my mom always told me that it was too expensive. I don’t know about anybody else but McDonalds was the crown jewel of fast food places because of how much it cost to go there. We might go there once every couple years as a kid. When we would get fast food, I would get what all kids would and that’s a kid’s meal. At the time I was excited to get fast food. It was so rare to get fast food that I more than welcomed it. At the time, getting a toy with your food was just the coolest thing in the world. Though I don’t think I played with the toy longer than a week.
Now that I am older and have more money you would think I would want fast food all the time but I don’t. I think more about my health so fast food isn’t that important to me. I admit when I was a teenager I ate tons of fast food but that was because I didn’t have it as a kid so I made up for it. I have gone back to having Fast food occasionally again. I have changed what I order now too. Kid’s meals just don’t have the amount of food needed to fill me up anymore so I doubt I would order another. I will have to say that getting a toy in the adult meal still might put a smile on my face. The types of meals I get are ones that aren’t too big. I don’t like a lot of “junk” on my burgers so less is better for me. The places I go have changed too. I like not so nationally known places like The Habbit and The Hat. Still though I prefer a nice home cooked meal over any fast food.