Fast food Fast

“I can’t believe it, I’m carrying the weight of two of my child in fat, right now,” my friend said. Indeed, when one puts it that way, measuring that quantity of fat, pointing out that well, here’s 30 pounds of fat and here is your child, also 30 pounds. There’s something visceral about that.

When you are driving in the urban wilderness, what is there to hunt? The most common game is McDonalds, lurking around every corner. Occasionally you’ll stumble upon a doe-eyed Chipotle, or a furry In-n-Out, delectable game in their own right. But these meals are hardly healthy, and it’s almost impossible for our over-specialized traveling busy city on-the-go jet set selves to get a simple healthful meal quickly.

Not that healthy couldn’t be fast. Not at all.

Here’s something I would like to see:

Bob on the Go
A Healthy Fast Food Dining Establishment
(Franchises Available)

M  E  N  U

• Spicy Chicken Vindaloo with Rice and Vegetables
• Blackened Carribean Jerk Chicken Breast with Vegetable Gumbo
• Sausage and Potato soup with Spaetzle noodles
• Garden Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette and Fresh Vegetables
• Baked Potato and Steak Salad
• Spicy Buffalo Chicken Burger

I don’t know.  None of the above items is fried but they are extremely simple to prepare.  I know tastes vary and mine do fall to the spicy side of the spectrum.  When you read the above, fast food doesn’t even enter the mind at all — and that’s true for a big reason:  fast food is fast precisely because it’s fried (with the exception of fast-mex like Chipotle or Baja Fresh).

Far from me to add my moan to the moans of many who … bemoan the fast food world we are in, I declare as of today I refuse to eat any kind of fast food for minimum one year.  This excludes sit-down restaurants that are social events.  (P.S. this includes Chipotle, which my friends know is a toughie for me.)

Come — join me in my fast food fast.