Tim Blair

Have one of each to be on the safe side.

Why the hell would anyone go to McDonald's for a salad in the first place?

Am I the only one to notice that the only way you can make healthy food taste like anything other than crap is to slather it in fatty substances? Thought not.

I like McDonalds very much. Sometimes I remind myself to be sad for all the cows who had to die but my car died too and now I have to pay to have the cocksucker towed.

I forget what my point was, but you know. It all evens out.

Mojo: my thoughts exactly. 'Salad' in a Micky D's is the lettuce, onion, pickle and ranch dressing in your Big Mac.

Any half-way decent salad is pretty fatty anyway. There's at least a cupful of olive oil in the vinaigrette, for example; the mayonnaise is basically egg yolks and olive oil (if it's done right and isn't out of a jar). Plus there's the salami, the nicely marbled roast beef, the fried chicken livers, the lovely smelly Dolcelatte or whathaveyou. Because let's face it, what kind of person except a tree-humping weirdo is going to eat leaves and berries without a good portion of dead animal or dairy products to go with it? That would just be wrong.

Hm, do you know *anyone* who goes to McD and orders ONE cheeseburger? Didn't think so. The salads are meal size, the "basic cheeseburger" is, um, well, you need at least three and a bucket of fries to make a meal. Pff.

OH MY GOD THE SALAD HAS FAT!

So fucking what? Fat's not evil. Without it, or something sugary, salad is just fiber and minerals. Like it or not- and lots of people hate it- you have to eat calories to survive. McDonald's is just one more source of calories.

It's not the Big Mac and it's not the supersized fries, it's that plus all the other crap you ate that day that turns you into a lardass.

Andy beat me to it. Comparing a salad to *one* cheeseburger is like saying that a cheeseburger has less fat than a quarter pounder. A cheeseburger patty is (IIRC) .1 pounds before cooking. It has, at any rate, half the fat of a quarter pounder. And people don't probably get a big thing of nice greasy fries with their salad too often, either...