Posted on 06/11/2006 12:55:28 PM PDT by billorites
So now we lose the Biggies. They are DESTROYING our culture!!!
We shouldn't stand for even that. We should insist they start each of their ads with "Look, you shouldn't even come to our restaurants, you should be eating vegetables, as if you eat here your ass will get huge just before it falls off from cancer--BUT if you DO insist on coming here, we'd like to humbly suggest..."
First they came for the cigarettes, and I didn't care since I don't smoke.
Then they came for the cheeseburgers...
I think it's due more to higher stress levels and a lack of exercise.
Boo. I liked getting the biggie sized fries at Wendy's. This is the only fast food burger joint I ever go to anymore.
I don't care about the ridiculously enormous sized drinks. I could never drink the whole thing anyway. It goes flat by the time I drink about half of it. I'd rather just get a 16oz bottle of coke with the combo meal.
FAttie FUnnies?
Now they serve that square cardboard stuff and call it a burger.
Did they change 'em? They'd always been 100% beef patties stamped out in the stores daily from fresh beef. No longer?
As to the menu change, sounds like simple semantical exercise to me.
I think I should start a fast food chain that actually claims the title of most calorific / sugarific food. Make adds about choice and juicy burgers and watch the cash roll in.
Aside from the attack on choice, there is the fallacy that no one ever orders a large anything to share or save for later. On a long drive, it's nice to have a 44 ounce caffinated beverage to sip on over the course of several hours between stops. And hard to believe as it sounds, some folks actually buy a large fry and share them. Or gets a 12 inch sub for lunch (since it's only a dollar more) and saves half for dinner.
Well, my mother always made me eat everything on my plate, and she didnt exactly cook according to any low-fat cook book.
Where was the FedGov then to protect my health? When will congress step in and outlaw mom's cooking across the nation for the sake of America's children????!!!!!
Look, we've all agreed a Nanny State is a good thing. Don't be surprised when it reaches all the way down to the drive-thru window.
They cook all the juice out of them. They are dry like cardboard.
So, when I order a large Frosty at Wendy's, will I be getting 42 ounces? Or will large still mean different things even inside of Wendy's?
Word...
My guess is that depends upon the store and the time of day. They're not supposed to be doing that. They still use the "dried" burgers to make their chili.
I have always wondered how they come up with those numbers. I mean is it 42 ounces without ice or with ice. because if it is with ice then doesn't that mean its a 21 ounce glass?
Dr. Scratchnsniff: I would like a small soda please.
Clerk: uh, we don't have small.
Dr. Scratchnsniff: Well What do you have?
Clerk: We have large, giant and mondo.
Dr. Scratchnsniff: Well, wouldn't a large be a small then?
Clerk: Uhhh, I'd have to ask my manager.
It's the semantics that drive me crazy. Try ordering a small pizza at Dominos. They only have medium and large, which are as large as a traditional small and medium, respectively, but priced like a traditional medium and large (I only order Dominos with a coupon).
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