06-30-2009, 10:37 AM
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I am an Alien from space
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Originally Posted by viki
I cook nearly every meal, but I think fast food is less expensive than eating at home, especially in poverty stricken areas.
I'm talking about the simple stuff: burgers, fries, tacos. I'd say it costs $1.50 to make a burger at home figuring in meat, bread, cheese, lettuce, tomato, condiments and you can buy one for a buck.
Besides that, the poorer an area is, the less access there is to grocery stores. If you have to shop at 7-11 for all the ingredients, that burger will cost you way more than $1.50 even.
People do have choices and I don't believe McDonalds is evil or anything like that. However, fast food does contribute to obesity one way or another and I think the lower your class level is, the harder you get hit.
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true, but if you buy the meant and other stuff you can make way more than one burger. Plus, $1.50 for a burger at a McDonalds here does not get you much of a "meal". More like a small snack. A double big mac over here costs $5.19 +tax and that's alone.. No drink.. No fries.. So that's 1 burger when you can spent a little more to buy the meat and the buns (you more than likely already have the condiments at home) and make many burgers. So saying that fast food is cheaper than cooking at home is not entirely true.
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