So I saw this post around talking about how you "shouldn't trust people who think they're too good for McDonald's" and I couldn't help but think about how true it is.

From an entirely pleasure-based point of view, it's true. A person who wants to perpetuate the idea that they are "too good" to ingest such a petty food as McDonald's is probably someone you don't want to be around. Now, I mentioned the pleasure basis. This means, excluding vegetarians, people with certain sicknesses etc., for the most part, no one is really "too good for McDonald's", and if they say they are, they are lying.

Hear me out. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a science behind smell and taste. Organic chemistry. Organic chemists work with molecules and whatever else to create artificial flavors like "frozen pomegranate banana-cake mint pops!" and aromas like "after the rain while driving on I-95 with the baby in the back". These chemists work to make whatever a certain company pays them to make. It's tested and if it passes taste testing (through the use of a focus group) it makes it to the shelves. These companies obviously conduct studies on what flavors people may prefer and they gauge the possibility of success with various equations and things to ensure success. If it fails, it's an error on the company's fault for not predicting this. But of course you can only do so much.

Anyway, with all of that said, a company that finds say 85% of our target population is likely to enjoy pineberry-flavored yogurt, they have someone make the flavor, use it in their yogurt, and bam, pineberry-flavored yogurt is all over the shelves of your local grocery.

The business minds behind the McDonald's corporation must have conducted a similar study, found that many people would enjoy the Big Mac taste, or McRib taste, engineered the key flavors, and put it out for sale. People like it, it's a hit. But then someone comes along and says it's absolutely disgusting. Are they telling the truth? Current statistics say otherwise. The flavor was engineered BECAUSE people would like it. How do we know this person isn't lying with a false opinion to seem as though they were special in some way?

Can you really trust someone who says they're too good for McDonald's?

Believe me, I know some closet McDonald's lovers.

Thoughts?

I like McDonald's food. Though I do not think that it should be consumed often. You might as well take a cyanide pill for lunch.

I guess I would actually eat Mcdonalds if it actually looked like what it should. Y'know a burger, instead of a shriveled, over cooked slice of meat with a crummy bit of salad and a bread bun that's both simultaneously damp and dry.

Then again, I haven't eaten Mcdonalds after I saw an employee drop a burger on the floor, then pick it up and put it straight in the bun, in not one but two different places.

I have it occasionally. It doesn't taste too bad and is cheap. I am a horrible person for this, I assume.

McDonalds is awful.

Trust me or not, it's your choice. If you're basing your trust in a person on whether or not they like McDonalds, I'd think you're the one I don't want to hang out with.

In before someone doesn't realize this is a joke.

What reason would someone have to lie about that? There's no one food that everyone would like, since "good taste" is subjective.

I enjoy McDonalds every now and then---I love their fries.

They have decent fries, but nothing beats fries that were freshly cut by hand the same day you eat them.

That's true, but I think most people have preconceived notions of what is in good taste and what is not.

As you may see on television, people act certain ways to create certain ideas. Like a woman dressing up to compete with a higher class of women, or a man trying to speak of how much weight he can lift to his friends. They want to create certain personalities for themselves to relay them to other people so people think "Oh, she is so high class." or "Oh, he is so strong and manly." The same goes for trivial things like food.

People who lie about simple likings in taste, like McDonald's aren't people you really want to be around. They act as though they don't like something when they do, simply to keep their image. The McDonald's thing is just an example.

Can't tell if this is serious or some kind of attempt at parody. Poe's law and all. Anyway, most of the food at McDonald's is pretty disgusting- it's not a matter of being "too good" for it, it's just crap food. Also, as an organic chemist I'd ask that you refrain from talking about things of which you have no clue.

Pretty much this.

I don't think I am too good for Mcdonald's, but the thought of eating it makes me want to vomit. I have no idea how I used to eat it as a kid, it grosses me out.

I don't know why I included the organic chemistry thing tbh, this is largely metaphoric.

See my response to Narmy above.

I don't like greasy, unhealthy mincemeat burgers. The inside of a burger should not be gray. Sorry if you distrust me because of that.

I'd say my taste buds are too good for Mc Donalds... whether or not I, as a person, am... is a whole other thing.

I like to eat there on occasion. I usually just get a Mcdouble (Or sugar burgers I like to call them.) to tide me over for a bit til I can make real food.

Jennifer Aniston is too good for McDonalds. She says that eating a Big Mac was like swallowing gasoline. Her body was too used to more refined comestibles to be able to handle the kind of slop that they serve to poor people. We all feel so bad for her. :rolleyes:

i eat McDonald every once in a while, some of their food is pretty good. I find its best consumed with alcohol, and their breakfast helps with hangovers. Also is it just me or did their fries used to taste way better?

So how do you know when someone is lying about that or not? It sounded like you were implying that everyone who doesn't like McDonalds is lying just to seem more refined, but that's obviously not true.

It's not really about someone liking McDonald's or not. It's just symbolic. A bad symbol, I admit.

But the idea is that you can't trust a person who claims to dislike something simply for the sake of saving face.

EDIT: This diluted idea stemmed from the post, and with that I tried to extend the idea and failed at it. But I suppose if someone gets the point it's not that much of a failure. Long story short, people who are based solely on looks and reputation likely aren't the greatest people, due to superficiality. Liking McDonald's or not is such a trivial matter, this is why I found it to make sense at first.

You can take what I'm saying as a "lie" if you want, but I can't stand McDonald's anymore. I would eat it pretty much any time for the longest portion of my life, but now just thinking about it makes me cringe. It became tasteless, bland and so incredibly unhealthy its probably altered my health for the worse for the rest of my life. Honestly, if someone walks into my room and drops in McDonald's, I'll eat it. Not because I actually secretly like it, but because it would be rude for me not to. But I never choose to go to McDonald's anymore, I can't take it.

If you put a Big Mac or McRib next to an actual fresh ground hand formed burger or a shortrib sandwich you will understand what being too good for McD is about. Everyone should be too good for McD, not only because it tastes artificial but because it does nothing for you and is only marginally cheaper than fresh food. All you are really paying for is convenience. Nobody want s to put in the effort to make dinner after work anymore.

As far as basing it only on pleasure, sure, these favors have been scientifically approved for 85% of the population or whatever, but you don't need science to tell you that the vast majority of people like a meat sandwich. That's common [censored] sense.

I think it completely depends on why the person in question doesn't want to eat McDonald's food. For example, the only time I will choke down McDonald's food is when I'm desperately hungry, in a rush, and there are no better options. In most cases (for me), "better options" might even include other fast food joints.

For me there are a handful of good reasons to avoid McDonald's:

• It doesn't taste good to me. Now that I'm no longer in my 20's I've been trying to eat healthier food. My palate has become accustomed to more fresh food and I have a difficult time with the artificial flavors, extreme levels of sugar and salt, etc. that tend to be characteristics of McDonald's food. You can tell me that my preference flies in the face of market research until your face turns blue and it won't change the fact that most McDonald's food tastes bad to me.
• I feel bad after I eat McDonald's food. Again, this is a problem I didn't have when I was a kid, but as an advlt McDonald's food (in addition to food from some other fast food joints) makes me feel slightly ill and tired about 30-60 minutes after I eat it. I have no idea why this happens, but it happens consistently.
• From a purely philosophical standpoint the route that most fast food takes from the time it's produced (at a...farm?) to the time you eat it is pretty unnerving. I won't go into details here, but it's no secret that what you end up eating looks nothing like what was originally harvested from the source plant or animal. That's not necessarily bad, but from what I know about manufacturing it certainly creates a lot of opportunity for the food to end up being exposed to conditions that I'd rather not think about.
• I don't trust ordinarily perishable food that is loaded with enough mystery chemicals to give it the kind of shelf-life a lot of fast food has. The FDA doesn't even do a great job vetting pharmaceuticals, much less food additives. IMO it's better to avoid them when possible.

I wouldn't say that I'm "too good" for McDonald's. I just ate a sandwich from there the other day because it was either that or go hungry for most of the day. I avoid it for the same reasons I avoid eating any other low-quality food (health and flavor), extremely salty or over-sweetened (for my palate) food, and random trash from a dumpster behind a restaurant.

My dad and I went to McDonalds on a trip we recently took, but there are other places (especially the ones near my current location) that I like far better.. we've only eaten at Arbies at least twice before the trip as well. I'd say that some places are good for serving a quick meal, but I like the restaurants around me better not just because the food is great but they also feel me up.. one of them recently closed but there are still plenty of good choices. Unfortunately, with the closure of the one we frequented a lot.. there are only two others within walking distance that I enjoy and one of them is serving as a replacement for the one that closed.

It's not that Mcdonalds food tastes bad, it's the fact that it's bad for you and that's why I only eat it on rare occassions. I'm not "too good" for Mcdonalds, it's too bad for me