Junk Food is Irrational

These last two years I have lost quite a bit of weight (about 80 lbs) and totally changed my diet. Junk food I used to really enjoy eating is now unknown to me. I haven't had a Junk food hamburger in a year and haven't tasted a French fry in at least as long. I eat rice and shrimp, rice and chicken, lean beef, fry foods in water instead of oil and could probably go vegetarian or even vegan (for my health, not because animals are " little people in fur coats"). All the greasy sloppy disgusting junk food I used to eat still tastes good but I really don't crave junk food, for the simple reason that it doesn't taste any better than what I eat now. Pizza is no better than roast beef and apples if it's as good. And lean roast beef with apples won't do the things to my machinery that pizza does. Rice and chicken with balsamic vinegar is as good as a high fat cheeseburger ever was. And it makes me strong and healthy instead of sick and weak and scared for my health.

So do these things cost more? Yes and no. Lean beef can cost more than a "flabby paddy" from Mc'killyou but its not that much more. And chicken and rice I doubt costs any more at all. I haven't had any trouble at all paying for my food though I usually have to prepare it my self. Note here that KFC processes tons of nice low fat chicken breast every year.

The problem, is they process them right into dangerous slop by dipping them in a vat of grease and frying the living hell out of them. The chicken breasts are than served to you the public. It would be just as cheap to serve them over a bed of rice with seasoning and maybe some nice chicken broth or gravy but they would probably cover the rice in some kind of gross vegetable oil and ruin it. They might as well fry it in fat.

So what's all this oil and grease business if it doesn't taste any better? That's a good question. The only possible answer I can come up with is that it all started a long time ago when there was no knowledge of nutrition and diet and just became a habit. Now you can't get any thing with out oil and grease poured over it. I ordered rice with mush rooms in a restaurant and it came glistening, looking like Joe Hazelwood had backed over it with the Exxon Valdez . I was pissed off, but what's the point? To the cook, that's how you serve rice and mushrooms, with a yummy splattering of oil. I have often daydream of a "grease free" restaurant where the only grease is what's in the meat or nuts that come to the table. Where you could get a sandwich with lite mayo automatically and your milk would automatically be 2% or maybe a pizza with fat free cheese and lean ground beef or sliced deli style lean beef or turkey (not the "mechanically separated" cheap stuff actual sliced meat). You could get a hamburger with a 96:4 paddy instead of the cheap greasy kind. Vegan dishes would abound with protein from mushrooms and amino acids balanced out with grain / legume combinations. And no "specialty" prices just a reasonable mark up. Any way, it's a thought. Point is the greasy fattening and potentially lethal food we eat is not "Better" it doesn't taste better, it's probably no cheaper so why eat it?