Kind of a taste like coffee or tea. You do it because other people do it and then you can't find that taste and consistency anywhere else. So you go back for more abuse.

I hear the BK dumpster is where families of 4 go these days for the real deals

Onion rings are good, but the burgers are total garbage. Can't believe the prices they charge. It is a last choice for food.

Sorry L-Pink, you didn't factor in the price of the "cooker". I'm still trying to figure out whether that's a person or appliance.

If cooker = wife then obviously my price's are way off :1orglaugh

I heard of buying fresh food is quite expensive in the US...so families need to go to Burger King and stuff?

A myth that lazy people like to perpetuate.

I have created and posted a breakdown as to how an adult male could eat on $20 a week with grocery store healthy foods. Extravagant? Of course not. Healthy, affordable, and good tasting? Yes.

That same adult male could not eat fast food on $20 a week.

I remember, that was a nice breakdown :thumbsup
Too bad only few people would follow along similar lines...

It's not too expensive until you buy organic, but many people live in areas that have no grocery store within a reasonable distance. These areas have been designated as "food deserts" by the USDA who keeps current maps covering the whole country. In these areas there may be numerous fast food restaurants, but no farmers markets, produce stands or even grocery stores. Some people clearly are unaware of this phenomenon which is in itself a shame.

It is in these areas that you are likely to find people actually complaining about the cost of fast food. This is not something that a guy walking to lunch a few times a week from his office would call a big concern.

It's FAR cheaper to buy your food raw and cook it. Now how about some solutions for when you have no available store to buy raw food in.

It is difficult to believe that an area which can support multiple restaurants does not have a single grocery store. It is just against any business logic. impossible to imagine such an area. Well maybe some highway intersection where only few people live, but there are few restaurants for passing car traffic.

I think he is saying is "some people are too dumb to breath and won't stop breeding even though they have no means to provide the most basic needs and support for the children they bring into this world as a parent... but its not their fault and its "shameful" to think otherwise"

Uhmmm... the solution, which should seem pretty fucking obvious is to live where you can provide food for your family and be a decent parent. Not demand the government and society to bring the food to you, no matter how irresponsible you are.

Let's just say that it was true. The majority of the United States population lives in large urban environments, the major cities. The second group lives in smaller cities or close to smaller cities, which have grocery stores. The third group lives in extreme rural areas, that may or may not have "access to food"?

That third group is pretty damn small. These food desserts do not explain how all of these other people in the country, with plenty of access, have the same exact issues.

Listen... its nobodies business. If you want to have 20 kids and live on a mountain top with no food, water or breathable oxygen supply... society is obligated to give it a name like "oxygen insecure families" or do a study on people living in "oxygen deserts" and the nations losers and hippies will then clamor to throw my money at you. You'll be fine no matter how idiotic you are... because according to some... its just not your fault and you are a victim. :)

The families living in rural areas without grocery stores are more than likely decedents of very self-sufficient parents/grandparents. Farmers, with livestock, gardens, canning, etc. The fact the new generation can't take care of themselves is just another example of our lazy society.

Isn't it odd how hard-working people rarely have empathy for the lazy?

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How crazy is that to think about? We are literally talking about people that will not take care of themselves or their children as being victims. Society stopped demanding more from people, we got politically correct, can't judge ... and this is where we ended up.

Oops. Thats very insensitive of you. Please remember to substitute "hard working" with "greedy" next time... so as not to offend those we support with our tax dollars.

I am constantly reminded of the excellent tale of the grasshopper and ants?

It's not hard to find though. http://americannutritionassociation....s-food-deserts

It refers to locations where at least 1/3 of the population according to census live farther than 1 mile from fresh produce and whole foods. 10 miles if it's a rural area. As to why the grocery stores failed and pulled out, that's a good question.

It's the type of location where someone might actually bitch about the cost to feed a family of four at a fast food joint to bring it back around again.

I understand this. I am saying how come those rural areas can support few restaurants and at the same time no grocery store?
From investors point of view - there is X number of people that is needed for grocery store to be viable investment. And there is Y number of people needed for restaurant investment being viable. X is smaller than Y. And you talk not even about single restaurant and 0 grocery store, but about few restaurants and 0 grocery store.
That is just difficult to imagine. I mean if few restaurants are being profitable in that area it certainly means that one grocery store would be profitable as well. Very profitable... Yet nobody invests in a grocery store there for some reason :)

HOLY FUCKING CHRIST!!??!!??!!

They live a whole 1 mile from a super market.

FUCK ME.

For the love of God... someone help these people before they all die.

Look, I already understand what you mean by living far away from grocery stores. I just question how do "few restaurants" are profitable in certain area where not even a single grocery store could be profitable. It does not make any sense.
Ok you have rural area and 50 people living there so no grocery store there. But how come "few restaurants" are there?

I drove over 1 mile the other day in my wheelchair on a severely bumpy and pothole filled sidewalk/street, just to enjoy the sunny day. Forgive me for not feeling sorry for someone that can't walk one mile, twice a month, to stock up on food for? get this? SURVIVAL.

Too hard to walk home with groceries? I can understand that. That's where you make friends or pay someone. If you can pay for that fast food, you can pay somebody $20 every two weeks to provide you with SURVIVAL transportation.

Excluding highway traffic dependent restaurant/fast food locations, rural restaurants tend to be owner operated enterprises. Food suppliers might deliver to him or he makes the 10 mile drive himself. Businesses like his don't survive without a hard work ethic and driving once a week for supplies really isn't that big a deal.

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One whole mile? lol, what a hardship! Where can I donate money for these poor hermits society forgot.

Don't ask me why a grocery store fails in those locations. It's a government study on health and obesity or whatnot. Not hard to find fault with government shit is it.

1 mile :1orglaugh

that's not even 5 min driving distance...
by bike you could get there in <10 mins, drunk and with a flat tire on top of that...
even walking shouldn't take much more than 15 minutes....

I would say these are the people which God himself has forgotten. I mean really... what is the solution? To drive a mile - that takes like 60 seconds? Or... what? Ride a bicycle - that could take up to 5 minutes? Ride with friends? Or... fuck.. walk for 10 minutes to feed your kids? Talk about hardship.

I just imagined explaining this to my grandfather in my head. He cut me off with a disgusted look and punched me in the face.