Believe or not, there’s a food fight going on! Part of the fight affects us, the consumers,
directly, such that we find ourselves being “beaten” by the fast food
industry. The other part is more
indirect, where one fast food chain is having a food fight with another, and we,
the consumers, are stuck in the middle.
I found myself amused when I came across a
blurb that outlined how fast-food joint employees were warned against eating some
of their employer’s dishes. Comments
included: dirty machines that are rarely cleaned; meats that are left out for
days; recycled meats; and artificial products that are microwaved and then left
in containers for hours. What a
revelation—and sarcasm intended! If thinking
that this might be going on makes you sick, then imagine what will happen if
you actually ingest the goop! Is that
direct enough for you? Ugh, I think I’m
going to barf!
Moving on to the indirect impact that this fight is having
on us, we
find one fast-food conglomerate jabbing at another, making fun of it while
trying to promote their own version of the slop. It pokes fun at the same monotonous menu and
likens some of the dishes to land mines, just waiting for us to “step on them.” They go so far as to portray the clowns as
“evil.” This is all out war!
- B. J. T. Pepin