DITCH THE DRIVE THROUGH......

History...

Can you imagine having to wait until the fair came to town to buy a hamburger? (That is if you eat fast food) This was reality for the nation before 1921.

This was the year that short order cook Walter Anderson and former reporter Edgar W. “Billy” Ingram teamed up to build the first White Castle Resturant in Wichita, Kansas.

Before this hamburgers were thought of as a low grade food, and only available at fairs and street cars.

The idea of fast food didn’t really “catch on “ immediately, it came with the popularity of the automobile, as people became more mobile and traveled more they desired quicker food on the go.

Let's jump ahead to the 1940s. The original McDonald's is streamlining the food assembly, more of what we see present day in fast food chain restaurants.

The original theory of having only a few menu items was to focus on the quality of the food being produced......times sure have changed.

In 1955 Ray Kroc opened up the first McDonald's chain Resturant in Des Pains, Illinois.

It wasn’t long after that Burger King, and Taco bell started. Wendys came along in 1969. The first drive through was at an In-N-out burger located in California that opened in 1948. There are over 300,000 fast food restaurants in the United States alone. Holy cow right!

Now we know the history, let's see what is happening currently.

Present day...

Recently we were traveling through Bakersfield California on Interstate 99. We stopped for a restroom break at a gas station.

Beside the gas station was an in-n-out burger. I could not believe what I was seeing at this restaurant.

The drive through had two lanes, with three order taking attendants in each lane walking along the cars with their handheld device taking orders. There were at least 30 cars in each lane!?!?!

As well as a full lobby!
This blew me away! Is America really feeding these bags of processed shit to their families!?! Where is the meat coming from that’s in fast food?...

Lets dig in...

In 1999 David Whipple started an experiment to see how many preservatives a McDonald’s Burger had. He started this experiment by accident though.

Lets see how he did it...

He purchased a burger from McDonald's and left it in a jacket pocket, discovering it years later. He then placed his preserved burger in a Big Mac tin where it lives today. 

In 2013 he unveiled this same burger to the world and his experiment.

Would you believe the burger looked the same! Sitting in a jacket pocket and a tin, not refrigerated, and it still looked the same...gross.

Mr Whipple's  McDonald's burger just turned 20 years old...

This should be enough information for anyone to never eat fast food again. Period.

Click here for the link to the entire story: 20 year old McDonald's burger still looks new

Let's find where these ingredients that can last for 14 years with no refrigeration are being sourced from.
Here we go...

A factory located in Germany rolls out 5 million burgers for McDonald’s a day. Yep, I said a day. 90% of OSI’s business is McDonald's burgers.

With a McDonald’s distribution center right next door to the processing facility, McDonald’s ships this mass produced and processed meat worldwide to its chain restaurants.

I am sure there are similar facilities like this one in other countries for each chain of fast food restaurants. Producing 5 million burgers a day for their unhealthy conglomerate.

You are what you eat...ate...

Let's talk about that for a minute. If you are eating a burger from a cow raised on a slaughter farm of 100,000’s of cows, that are pumped full of steroids and grain fed, what do you think you are eating? If you don't care, I suggest you stop reading right now, I wish you the best in your life choices.

Im glad you care and kept reading. The above factory said that they source the beef from all over the globe. All over the globe, how disgusting is that? So much for grass-fed beef.

The documentary super size me made a huge impact on what eating fast food can do to you and your health. Link to documentary: Super size me

After only thirty days of eating McDonald’s Morgan Spurlock the documentary’s director had the fatty liver of an alcoholic, Elevated cholesterol, And increased risk for the following diseases:

1. Obesity

2. Depression

3. Digestive issues

4. Heart disease

5. Stroke

6. Type 2 diabetes

7. Cancer

8. Early death

Holy cow is right!!!

I cannot stress how important nutrition is to your well being. If you have not seen this documentary, please watch it. It will change your outlook on fast food forever.

Mr Spurlock also made a sequel documentary about the big chicken industry, and how most all chicken producers are the same as big beef. Watch it as well if you get a chance. It is titled Super size me 2: Holy Chicken. 

Here is the link to the documentary: Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken

Some say they cannot afford to eat healthy, so they eat fast food.

I have found that if you sit down and look at what you are currently spending eating out for you and your family, versus a healthy grocery list for the week...

...the grocery list will be cheaper by far, and so much better for you and your family. Grass-fed local meats, organic in season vegetables, or even frozen organic vegetables if that

is all that is available. Good fats (organic olive oil, organic pecans, walnuts, etc).
You will have to prepare the good food you buy, and not just unwrap it from the sack though :)

Everyone has a choice of what they choose to consume to fuel their body. Would you put cheap gas in a brand new corvette?

The same applies to your body.

Do you want to be a corvette?......

......or a chevette?

It all starts with what quality of food you are choosing to fuel your body with.

I hope to see a lot of corvettes moving forward :)

Heres to your health...

Cheers!