29 Oct 2003 | pb said...

There's got to be room for a "healthy" fast food option. No, healthy and fast-food are not mutually exclusive! Granted it wouldn't satsify the extremists.

29 Oct 2003 | Benjy said...

What I hate are that fast food places either advertise or imply that certain items are healthy, but they either are not that healthy or they have to be ordered in just such a way.
While some of their salads may be a healthier alternative, the McDonalds Crispy Chicken Crispy Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad with the ranch dressing has 660 calories and 51 grams of fat! A Big Mac is "only" 600 calories and 33 grams of fat. People don't like situations where they have to analyze that much data, especially when they are holding up a busy lunchtime line.

What a fast food chain needs to do is come up with some sort of rating system so that people can quickly grasp the relative healthiness of a meal. Kind of like the terrorist alert system...

30 Oct 2003 | Darrel said...

I agree and wonder why we can't come up with healthy fast food in this day and age.

I'm still a sucker for the occasional McD's run...though I've gotten down to a cheesburger + small fries + small yogurt parfait routine.

It's those damn fries I can't resist...

30 Oct 2003 | Matthew Oliphant said...

It's those damn fries I can't resist...

And, of course, it's what they put on the fries that makes it so you can't resist.

Mmmm... MSG... sugar... salt...

The deadly, yet yummy triumvirate.

17 Jan 2004 | Constance said...

At WWDC, I listened to Apple representatives make some excellent points about taking the time to build a 100%-compliant Aqua application, and I think all developers need to look beyond the code and listen to what the folks at Apple have to say