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  • What is the healthiest fast food option in the US?

    From Mike Dippel@999:1/1 to All on Thu Jan 8 21:48:16 2026
    The second one you eat per week.

    While fast food is never optimal, what makes it particularly bad is the frequency. If you
    have fast food once every couple of weeks you are generally fine. Eat the most salty,
    greasy, sugary thing you can get your hands on and enjoy: it will not damage you. That
    is fine.

    The problem with fast food arises when you have it weekly or multiple times a week.

    That is when things get really sketchy, because you eat fatty, greasy, salty, sugary fast
    food multiple times a week instead of eating nutritionally solid, rich and varied food. You
    can afford a nutritionally poor and too calorific meal once or twice a month, sate your
    craving if you are a fan.

    What you can't afford is eating like that too often. So what makes fast food unhealthy is
    the number of times you have it, not the intrinsic properties of one meal.

    Full story: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-healthiest-fast-food-option-in-the-US? no_redirect=1

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  • From Daryl Stout@999:1/14 to Mike Dippel on Tue Jan 27 22:11:57 2026
    Mike,

    The problem with fast food arises when you have it weekly or
    multiple times a week.

    My late brother hated cooking and cleaning, and he'd go out to Hooters
    every day, spending $75 for beer, food, tobacco, etc. What he spent in 4
    days would get me groceries for a whole month.

    Now, I may order once or twice a month from DoorDash, but that's all I
    can afford.

    However, with the recent snow and ice storm, I'm glad I never lost
    power, and have plenty of StarKist Tuna Salad variety packets, and lots
    of Kraft Sweet Honey Barbecue sauce.

    Daryl

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  • From Mike Dippel@999:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Wed Jan 28 22:52:42 2026
    On 1/27/2026 10:17 PM, Daryl Stout wrote to Mike Dippel:

    Mike,

    The problem with fast food arises when you have it weekly or
    multiple times a week.

    My late brother hated cooking and cleaning, and he'd go out to Hooters every day, spending $75 for beer, food, tobacco, etc. What he spent in 4 days would get me groceries for a whole month.

    That was similar to my late brother's diet. He died at age 55.


    Now, I may order once or twice a month from DoorDash, but that's all I
    can afford.

    However, with the recent snow and ice storm, I'm glad I never lost
    power, and have plenty of StarKist Tuna Salad variety packets, and lots
    of Kraft Sweet Honey Barbecue sauce.

    Daryl

    Let's hear it for StarKist tuna and BBQ sauce; two of my favorites! Maybe I'll have you
    over for dinner some night.

    Mike Dippel

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