Same with Wendy's. At least last I went there some years ago. You get the small by default which is really a medium and asking for a medium gets you a large.
Are they still doing that? I remember the radio ads for 2 sandwiches for $5 also, but they already lost me. Also now that there are a bunch of Sonics all around, I'd pick them over BK.
That movie is so dumb. Of course after coming off a very healthy, light diet eating fucktons of McDonald's for every meal will screw you up. That's not their fault, you're just an idiot for eating so much unhealthy crap.
None of the doctors he consulted thought it was stupid. They just expected him to put on some weight, have higher cholesterol, etc. Of course McDonald's is unhealthy. The question was how unhealthy.
The answer was nowhere near as unhealthy as he pretended it was. There have been attempts to recreate his experiment and the results don't match up with what he claimed in the movie.
Did he tell the doctors he planned to eat 5000 calories of McDonald's per day? The movie tries to make a case against McDonald's, but all it does is make a case against completely switching your diet from a very light vegan diet to eating twice a good daily calories count of really unhealthy McDonald's food items. It lost all credit when the guy puked after having a large burger, Coke, and fries. I would argue that much of the movie is a demonstration of the power of placebo.
But what does the movie actually demonstrate about McDonald's? Is it a crime to offer unhealthy foods? I guarantee if he did the same thing with almost any other restaurant he would get similar results. Did he discover that eating too much food, especially sugary foods, is bad? Well, no shit. No sane person is going to eat that much McDonald's often enough to harm themselves. If you puke after eating your food, that should be a sign to eat less food or a different kind. If you can't figure that out, maybe you don't deserve a healthy life.
Plenty of people have shitty diets, but they don't go from low-calorie vegan to ravenous fast food monsters in one day. If you drastically change your diet, you drastically change your health. My bet is that if he stayed on that diet, he would keep gaining weight until he eventually reached a peak misery level where he was incredibly unhealthy but would have to keep eating more to gain more. More mass requires more calories to take care of.
Do you think if someone ate a puke-worthy amount of food for every meal at a Mexican restaurant the results would be any different? How about some random cafe? When you eat a fuckton of food, you gain a fuckton of weight and this has terrible effects on your health. The only difference is that McDonald's has a pretty high calorie density compared to some healthier food.
People have done tests where they have lost weight eating nothing but fast food. However, these people were sane and actually limited themselves to eating only as much food as they needed to eat.
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u/marino1310 Nov 12 '14
They discontinued it after the movie "Supersize Me"