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« on: July 01, 2025, 04:20:44 PM »
People constantly complain or laugh about the EU but when it comes to food quality, laughing quickly stops. You can't pull this shit here, because it's outright illegal.
Even Mc Donalds serves decent quality food here. In contrast to the US, fast food quality has vastly improved in the past 10 years exactly because of EU regulations.
Still I've always found fast food horrible. Not the taste but the surroundings. My INFP mind can't deal with fast food restaurants. It's absolutely plebejan. Cultureless. I don't need anything fancy but a minimum of comfiness in a restaurant would be nice. Driving somewhere and eating in a car or parking lot? Not with me. I remember in grade (not grad!) school, some pleb kid celebrated his birthday, 7 or 8, in a Mc Donalds. I found the idea horrible. I could not comprehend why anyone would do this. The place was ugly as fast food restaurants go. Tiled walls, bad cold neon lightning eating 'food' out of some paper boxes. I still remember almost 40 years later.
I guess it's socialization. Nobody of my family would go there. My parents and grandparents cooked for themselves or we went to a real old-fashioned restaurant. Nothing expensive but still where you ate real food off a plate with knife and fork.
But even in a decent restaurant where you pay 20-30€ for a meal, the ingredients are not bad but not exactly high-tier. Unless you put 50+ on the table, it's industrial mass slop, often from abroad. If a restaurant cooked from domestic organic ingredients, nobody could pay for that.
Therefore I basically always cook for myself. I rarely eat during the day, I eat in the morning and evening. Just made spaghetti with tupper. Consists of organic minced meat, olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, milk, whole grain noodles, spices. All high quality stuff from the local discounter supermarket. The meat 50% off before they throw it away. Tomatoes also were an offer.
500g minced meat, 50% off: 3€
1kg tomatoes: 2€
100g whole grain noodles: 1€
small stuff like garlic, oil and spices 1€
Even with the enormous rise of food prices, for ~8€ I get 2 full meals of high quality ingredients. With conventional ingredients not from organic farming you could push costs down to something like 6€ or 3€ per meal.
My breakfast is usually something like:
500g organic yogurt, low fat 2€
egg, organic 30ct
fruit: 1€ unless my own
oat flakes, organic: 10ct
linseed: 10ct
ground nuts from garden: free
Tap water is free but some diluted fruit juice doesn't hurt: 50ct per day
Let's round this up to average meal costs of 10€ per day with healthy, mostly organic food. Could you beat that with cheap fast food? Maybe, but your health will suffer greatly.
Even Mc Donalds serves decent quality food here. In contrast to the US, fast food quality has vastly improved in the past 10 years exactly because of EU regulations.
Still I've always found fast food horrible. Not the taste but the surroundings. My INFP mind can't deal with fast food restaurants. It's absolutely plebejan. Cultureless. I don't need anything fancy but a minimum of comfiness in a restaurant would be nice. Driving somewhere and eating in a car or parking lot? Not with me. I remember in grade (not grad!) school, some pleb kid celebrated his birthday, 7 or 8, in a Mc Donalds. I found the idea horrible. I could not comprehend why anyone would do this. The place was ugly as fast food restaurants go. Tiled walls, bad cold neon lightning eating 'food' out of some paper boxes. I still remember almost 40 years later.
I guess it's socialization. Nobody of my family would go there. My parents and grandparents cooked for themselves or we went to a real old-fashioned restaurant. Nothing expensive but still where you ate real food off a plate with knife and fork.
But even in a decent restaurant where you pay 20-30€ for a meal, the ingredients are not bad but not exactly high-tier. Unless you put 50+ on the table, it's industrial mass slop, often from abroad. If a restaurant cooked from domestic organic ingredients, nobody could pay for that.
Therefore I basically always cook for myself. I rarely eat during the day, I eat in the morning and evening. Just made spaghetti with tupper. Consists of organic minced meat, olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, milk, whole grain noodles, spices. All high quality stuff from the local discounter supermarket. The meat 50% off before they throw it away. Tomatoes also were an offer.
500g minced meat, 50% off: 3€
1kg tomatoes: 2€
100g whole grain noodles: 1€
small stuff like garlic, oil and spices 1€
Even with the enormous rise of food prices, for ~8€ I get 2 full meals of high quality ingredients. With conventional ingredients not from organic farming you could push costs down to something like 6€ or 3€ per meal.
My breakfast is usually something like:
500g organic yogurt, low fat 2€
egg, organic 30ct
fruit: 1€ unless my own
oat flakes, organic: 10ct
linseed: 10ct
ground nuts from garden: free
Tap water is free but some diluted fruit juice doesn't hurt: 50ct per day
Let's round this up to average meal costs of 10€ per day with healthy, mostly organic food. Could you beat that with cheap fast food? Maybe, but your health will suffer greatly.
