The World of Fast Food

In ads and on TV, fast food items look so good. However, the Big Mac, which looks to be about three inches high, is only about two inches high when you get it. After a few bites, the sandwich with all the “special” dressing, wet tomatoes and sagging cheese becomes a dripping mess. Usually you wind up with “special” dressing and everything except the hamburger patty on your shirt or pants.

One time when I drove my sister back from San Bernardino after visiting our brother there, we arrived in Half Moon Bay. We were getting hungry and I asked her if she wanted to go to dinner at a place we had gone to on Hwy 1 south of town and she agreed. When we got there, it was closed and she said she had forgotten it was closed. I asked her if she had something at home. She told me that she had a loaf of bread and some milk. I told her to make a list and I went to the store to get her some food for the next day. By that time I had been driving for around nine hours and I was hungry.

I went into town to Burger King, got a big hamburger, fries and milkshake and took off up the twisting, turning road to Hwy 280 trying to keep with a Porsche. I was trying to drive with one hand while drinking the shake, eating the fries and eating the hamburger. After just a few bites, the hamburger turned to “mush” in my hand, so when I checked in the rear view and no one was behind me, I threw it out of the window. Unfortunately, since I had forgotten it was raining, the window was closed and it dripped down the window, across the door panel and made a big mess which had to clean up the next day. By the time, I got home I had been driving fifteen hours and I was pooped.

Back to fast food. Have you seen what KFC is trying to sell, and, I heard quite successfully? They are using two chicken breasts instead of a bun for their burger. They have named it the “Double Down”. It appears to be a “Tour de Force” of everything a person should not have. Very high in calories, more salt and more fat than the biggest Wendy’s or Burger King. It even has more of these items than three Big Mac’s.

In this day of industrial spying with the “popularity” of the Double Down, McDonald’s have known of the plan from a “mole” in KFC for a while. They are planning a new campaign on a sandwich which will have the two chicken breasts, like the Double Down, between two sesame seed buns. The advertising gurus are now trying for a new name after one of them suggested the name McDoubleDown. Anybody have any suggestions?