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Re: McDonald's drive through?
Posted: 25 Aug 2011, 12:54pm
by wirral_cyclist
Jonty wrote:Hungry Horse and McDonald's? - am I in the right forum?
A Hungry Horse will purvey beer and finer wines than the food offerings might lead you to believe, so fear not.
McD have decent coffee and are warm and dry and have decent toilets - all essentials for cyclists (and you don't actually have to have the coffee
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Re: McDonald's drive through?
Posted: 25 Aug 2011, 6:18pm
by Vorpal
McD's have the additional advantage of being open longer hours than the more pleasant tea room and pub stops.
Re: McDonald's drive through?
Posted: 25 Aug 2011, 9:03pm
by Euskadi
There are huge factories with thousands of cows which never see the light of day at one end and a meat packaging plant at the other.
Was the chicken that laid you egg free-range? Did the pig which produced the pork have enough room or was in able to root around in a field?
Such is the emphasis on economics that large parts of the States are simply given over to large-scale industrialised food production. The countryside is not countryside as we know it; there are few trees, hedgerows or interesting villages.
Much of the products of the industry go into standardised fast-food with limited variety.
I suspect that the emphasis on quantity and not quality is one of the reasons for high levels of obesity.
IMO we in the UK are "middle way" between large-scale industrialised food production in the US and smaller more sustainable agriculture in say France which produces very high quality food of great variety.
IMHO we should go more for quality, pay more for it and spend less on other things, and on average eat less.
The mind-set which treats food like a standard commodity and is articulated by comments like "look how much I got for so little money" is simply unfortunate IMHO.
Couldn't agree more, you speak for me too Jonty!
Re: McDonald's drive through?
Posted: 26 Aug 2011, 11:14am
by Jonty
I introduced gourmet cycling into Leicestershire.
Sometime ago the Daily Telegraph ran a "3 course lunch for £5" promotion for a number of years. My cycling companion collected the vouchers. You could go onto the internet and choose which eatery you wished to patronize from a list.
Some of the places were very up-market including Stapleford Hall (look it up). You simply rang up, give your coupon details, agreed a time and turned up to have a high-quality nosh.
Being charming and well-mannered we always pointed out that we were cyclists and, I'm pleased to say, we were always made welcome.
Among the lunches were poached and smoked salmon, crevettes, venison and pheasant.
At Stapleford Hall we made the mistake of ordering a pot of tea afterwards which cost us more than the meal!
Happy memories.
Much better than McDonalds or the Happy Chicken Nuggets Eatery or whatever it's called.
jonty
Re: McDonald's drive through?
Posted: 26 Aug 2011, 11:23am
by gilesjuk
We are going towards factory farming though, the costs of keeping animals outside is more due to the fields, insurance, fencing and so on.
Costs are being driven down by the supermarkets and the farmers are responding by cheapening production.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 10107.html
Re: McDonald's drive through?
Posted: 26 Aug 2011, 11:39am
by Jonty
gilesjuk wrote:We are going towards factory farming though, the costs of keeping animals outside is more due to the fields, insurance, fencing and so on.
Costs are being driven down by the supermarkets and the farmers are responding by cheapening production.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 10107.html
The farmers and supermarkets are simply responding to what they perceive the public wants: cheap food.
We, the consumers can stop it if we have the awareness and the will.
I certainly won't be buying any of the food produced by such establishments.
jonty
Re: McDonald's drive through?
Posted: 27 Aug 2011, 3:33pm
by ersakus
only occasion was when it was pouring like hell on a long ride and I could not lock my bike. They did not comment and served the burger I asked for (through drive thru). The girl might have felt sorry for me perhaps!
Re: McDonald's drive through?
Posted: 8 Sep 2011, 6:02pm
by djaustin
Been through on the kiddyback tandem a few times. It used to be halfway around on a nice loop. Never had a problem.