There are three times that swing around every year that piss me off – freezing my ass off in the winter, sweating my ass off in the summertime, and watching big-time restaurant chains try to merchandiseThanksgiving in November.
The way McDonald’s celebrates Thanksgiving is to be open to serve Big Macs for those who can’t roast a turkey, according to the digital food publication Delish.
Thanksgiving isn’t a time to find a quick bite to eat or just to ingest a turkey’s ass – it’s a time for family to come together, mingle and celebrate what we are thankful for every year.
Today, it seems as if big-time fast food chains are coming together to celebrate their revenue and rake in money.
If the dead turkeys can’t take a stand on this, then perhaps it should be us students speaking out on how supersizing meals for cheap to those socially or fiscally unable, is as big a falsehood as high school teen drama shows.
The people we spend Thanksgiving with should be loved, not bought out. People celebrating Thanksgiving should be able to grow their hearts, not their asses.
Not only is eating McDonald’s rumored to be an unhealthy habit, it has been proven through experimentation.
‘Super Size Me’ was a documentary released in 2004 in which Morgan Spurlock, American producer and writer, immersed himself in an experiment, according to an IMDb web page.
In the documentary, Spurlock navigated the complicated world of fast food health consequences such as consuming only McDonald’s for one month straight, according to the same source.
Spurlock died on May 23, 2024 of complications involving cancer at the age of 53, according to the Variety publication web page.
I recall when I was a youth, we would talk about how Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks for what we have. We would celebrate coming together as a family, make turkey projects with our hands at school and look forward to deals on Black Friday.
McDonald’s was originally started by Maurice and Richard McDonald in 1940 before being bought out by Ray Kroc, a business partner who bought the franchise in 1955, according to a Britannica web page.
Apparently, not only is McDonald’s unhealthy, it reported a recent E. coli breakout on Nov. 13 of onions being past their shelf life stored in undisclosed locations.
After ingesting the quarter pounder, McDonald’s famed burger, there were a total of 104 cases, 34 hospitalizations, and one death, according to the same CDC report.
If karma is a bitch, then perhaps all the souls of morbid people cheated by McDonald’s have come back to haunt the current day in the form of Ronald McDonald.
Last time I checked, McDonald’s food is the same when ingested as when it comes out of your rear end.
Kroc, who was obsessed with uplifting the standards of McDonald’s, created ‘exacting standards’ for how each McDonald’s restaurant should be kept, from the spectrum of food preparation to keeping his restaurants clean, according to the same Britannica web page.
What a Kroc of garbage.
I’d say Kroc’s ghost is still alive and kicking, and his ‘exacting standards’ are just another way of saying the entire franchise is still stuck in the past, emphasizing the same shitty standards and trying to wreck the American ideology of Thanksgiving.
Hell, if the CDC can blow the whistle about the E. coli breakout, we as students should be able to reject ‘food’ that has a shelf life older than Kroc himself.
I don’t know much about nostalgia, but I’d rather stuff my hand up a dead bird’s ass than kiss Ronald McDonald’s pathetic, bony and insecure butt.
If McDonald’s is willing to spend money branding the food for a super-sized corporation, don’t let them put their stamp on a day all Americans can celebrate.
Thanksgiving’s purpose is to get together to celebrate what America has gratitude for, not for raking in money.
Though the actual history of Thanksgiving involves the genocide of Indigenous Americans, the holiday has been accepted as an American tradition and the idea that McDonald’s is an option for those who misunderstand the holiday is clouded is a ponzi scheme bigger than the Big Mac.
Let us celebrate the holidays by coming together, holding hands, and standing up for what really makes us American – pride. Let’s break the chains of fast food.
