Six decades ago, before the proliferation of these fast food restaurants, we had far fewer disgustingly obese Americans. The grandparents and great-grandparents of these porkers had much better sense when it came to nutrition and the need for physical exercise.
Why would people eat the garbage that these fast food places produce? Is it just ignorance, or are they perhaps addicted?
It's sad.
Have you considered it might be the Price?
In 1956, in San Francisco I could buy a New York steak, baked potato, salad and roll for $1.09, for that same $1.09 I could buy 10 hamburgers.
I have no clue what happened to those $1.09 steak houses, or the all you can eat Prime Rib joints, for $2.49, guess no one like them.
“Is it just ignorance, or are they perhaps addicted?”
Both actually. Carbs and sugar in particular are actually addicting in the sense that over-consumption causes a rapid spike and the drop in blood sugar, with the latter triggering premature hunger.
And the ignorance stems from the general degeneration of the intellectual capability of the average citizen in our nation due to government schools, government nannyism, and government propaganda, such as the current food “pyramid” that is politically constructed to be anti-meat and anti-animal protein.