What iron lungs? Eating chicken nuggets doesn't mean you get polio Sifu. In fact some studies have found that nuggets will reduce the incident of developing polio. Of course that might be why people hate them since vaccines are of course evil just like chicken nuggets.At least a playground encourages exercise which is what children need. More then scaring them about thing, they should be taught to go outside and be active.
I've never before heard that eating this ...
... will reduce the incidence of polio - I wonder exactly what component is responsible for that action?
As for the playgrounds, I just think it odd that they feed colorful, tasty crap to children and then think that they're balancing out their sins by giving the kids a fiberglass tube to crawl through.
What? Me! Contray! Why I never. Seriously though, how do you think I feel when I think about all the old people I have to support because of all the mistakes they may or may not have made? Except wait I don't think that because I don't begrudge people knowing full well that as a nation we are all in this together. The programs and whatnot we have in place are there to catch ourselves and others in the event of misforture.
Yes, and when those programs are looted like the Great Brinks Robbery by your friendly neighborhood politicians you're stuck with paying the bills all over again.
But wait! That's not all! So many elderly people have to make the daily decision of food vs. health care - gee, what happened to this great system of ours? To put on top of all that, caring for someone with MY tax dollars that has purposely led a life of excess, of not caring about the quantity or quality of the food they've ingested, while I go to great lengths to eat healthy and take care of my body?
Hardly equitable.
I'm really sorry that people have gotten to the point where they feel like those programs are worthless unless they are directly benefiting from them. I also think it strange that you would assume that chicken nuggets makes for a fat kid. What you never ate them? You were always the most health conscious individual? I doubt it, but hey keep tossing out your homegrown propaganda.
Of course I've eaten them - I raised two boys. But I ate them sparingly, a nibble here or there to make the kids happy. I would never offer them as a dinner to anyone, yet I see that happening all the time. We severely limited how many times they could eat there and WHAT they could eat; as a result they are both in excellent shape. Not so the little lard-balls that eat there morning, noon and night because their parents (if there ARE two of them) are too busy slacking-off somewhere to cook a
real meal for them.
You think the taxpayer's should support that kind of parenting?
And yes, the food at your typical McDonald's (I'm picking on them because they are the most known, but others are just as bad) is calorie-laden garbage with, for example, a Chicken McNugget having 56% corn or corn-derived product in it, along with butane (the stuff that goes in your lighter) as a preservative and more dyes and flavors than you could shake a chicken-leg at. That pink stuff coming out of the extruder above is your Chicken McNugget before it's colored, shaped and cooked.
Yummy!
I make a taco soup sometimes and serve it over fritos. It's great comfort food. No, not terribly healthy, but we don't have it all the time.
