Guy needs to take a McChill pill. Was he really thinking that some local eatery was going to have the advertising budget to be able to afford to give away thousands of a free food product per season?
The guy is having a chit fit over how much worse a McMuffin is over a Chalupa but someone in the comments points out that nutritionally they're the same.
The title is a little misleading. He's not upset about not getting any more chalupas. According to the article he's never eaten a chalupa in his life. He's upset that he won't be able to continue giving chalupa coupons to the homeless. His original cause was a good one, and I applaud the hard work and time he put into the project, but this rant seems way over the top and self indulgent. Sounds like he has a deep seated hatred of all things McDonalds. If you ask the average homeless person, I doubt if many of them would turn down free Egg McMuffin based on it's poor nutritional value - especially given that it's barely worse than a chalupa. So, his rant seems disengenous. But, he was volunteering his time and energy, so he can quit any time he wants for whatever reason he chooses. I was just having a similar conversation with my kids last weekend - about how the unhealthiest food choices are the least expensive. Of course, every fast food place has a dollar menu, and eating at Taco Bell is even cheaper than most other fast food chains. Also, Dominos has been running a carry out special for months of large one topping pizzas at $4.00 each. Contrast that to what I have for lunch 5 days a week: - a very healthy salad from Panera Bread at $7.99. So, for $8.00 you can get two large pizzas and feed 4 or 5 people, or you can get a healthy salad for 1 person. I make enough money I can afford healthy choices. I also buy organic produce and other healthy options at Whole Foods. Their produce is ridiculously expensive, but my total grocery bill is offset by the fact that I don't eat red meat or drink milk or soda (filtered tap water is about a penny a glass). No wonder obesity is an epidemic in this country. Unless you have the time and space to grow your own produce, eating right costs a lot more than eating the shit McDonalds, Taco Bell and Dominos sholvels into the eager mouths of the masses - and it's killing them slowly. My brother is two years older than me. His diet consisted almost entirely of McDonalds and Pizza Hut for over 20 years. He could have afforded to eat better, but he became seduced and addicted to a cheap, unhealthy, convenient fast food diet. He weighed over 350 pounds all through his 40s, had constant lower back pain, had a heart attack two weeks after his 53rd birthday and a quintuple bypass 5 months later. He's now down to 265 and doing much better, but he will never be as healthy as he could have been. I eat right and exercise. I weighed the same on my 50th birthday as my 17th. I'm approaching 53, 6'4", 195 and in excellent health. I get this guy's desire to offer healthy free food to the homeless, but I don't know how practical it is. I'd personally love to see the government tax fast food the same way they tax cigarettes - to help offset the true cost of medical care caused by these unhealthy choices. The tax could be used to subsidize healthy food options for low income families, but I know that would never fly in today's political climate. Let's face it, most folks would rather just keep eating their cheap, but unhealthy Big Macs and pizzas rather then a salad, even if the cost was the same. And those same people would scream about the tax on fast food even if they were the ones receiving the benefit of that tax. This is why I'm not a politician. I'd never get elected running on a healthier America platform. BNM
Problem is, unlike chapulas. McMuffins can't be bought directly after the gAme. They're only sold in the morning.
If I'm on the streets without anything to eat I'd rather have 1,000 calories than a "healthy" 200 calories. I'm pretty sure street kids don't have much of an obesity problem. Funny though.
This will cost McDonalds much, much less free food than it did Taco Bell. So it is cost-effective for McDonalds to pay the Blazers more for the privilege. So new President McGowan made the switch, at the fans' loss, the same as renaming the stadium.
