You know when you order something from a fast food chain, and you question if the ingredients that make up your order are edible? And yet you eat it anyway?

It is really sad that the condition of actual fast food versus what companies try to show you on TV is laughable to most people. This website documents several different big-name fast food chain products by showing their commercialized, fancy-pants food next to what the product actually looked like. Very interesting and mortifying at the same time. Why do people settle for crap like this? Are people so worried about time and money that they don’t question the safety of the ingredients in their food?

Standards
I think a lot has to do with the actual ingredients being provided to these fast food chains. In Japan, their fast food actually looks like what the commercials show. You don’t feel like you’re going to die after consuming it. Japan’s standards for importing beef from the U.S. is infamously strict, and have actually boycotted US imports of beef multiple times. Are there such standards in the U.S.?

Health Issues
I don’t eat fast food, but many of my friends and family who do always complain about the condition of their food, eat it anyway, then claim that they feel sick or sluggish. I guess when you’re so used to fast food being the answer for a quick-fix meal, you don’t even question it. That’s probably why documentaries such as Fast Food Nation (with a befuddling cameo by Avril “f-ckface” Lavigne) and Super Size Me have become popular lately. They both use health scare tactics that cause a stir–Fast Food Nation shows the actual slaughtering process and the plight of the migrant workers who are forced into the slaughterhouses; Super Size Me documents that health of a fit man after consuming McDonald’s for an entire month, including a vomiting scene barely into the new experiment.  Caaan’t be good.

Mental Issues
Younger generations are growing up with fast food already embedded into their way of life and so think nothing of eating it more than they should. Channels such as Discovery and TLC are jumping all over the obesity documentary bandwagon. They often feature patients who are poor minorities, have a crappy lifestyle, or have just left a gang. Their excessive eating is linked as their way to psychologically combat the sh-t in their lives. Are the rest of the Americans the same? With common phrases such as “comfort food” (read: macaroni and cheese, cookies and milk, meatloaf and mashed potatoes), I’m guessing so.

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