AVI and David Foster were discussing inflation and McDonald's menus at AVI's place. I got to thinking about it. I remember eating those hamburgers as a kid, but I didn't know if they were even still on offer. I don't eat at the place except rarely on a road trip if it's the only option when I stop for gas; but what I remember seeing on offer was Quarter-Pounders and Double Quarter-Pounders with Cheese, Big Macs and specialty burgers of one type or another. Those tiny little hamburgers that used to be the cornerstone of their offerings I don't remember even seeing on the menu.
I looked it up, and they do still offer them if you want one. Depending on the market they're $2.85-$3.99, and 250 calories, 12 grams of protein. The bigger offerings tend to cost more like $7.15-$10.59, but they also offer 580-750 calories. The Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese has 48 grams of protein; the Big Mac 25 grams.
The prices have still gone up more than inflation as calculated by the CPI. The 15 cent burger should cost $1.65, not $3.99.
If you're like me, the main nutritional concern is adequate protein per meal. Your dollar is buying you 3 grams of protein with the little burger. It'll get you 4.5 per buck with the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, or 3.5 grams with the Big Mac. I wouldn't make a habit of eating Double Quarter Pounders, but it's not a terrible bargain: 48 grams of protein is pretty good for a quick meal on the road.
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Only ~50 years ago, you could buy 2 cheeseburgers, a fries, and a Coke for 88 cents.....
My main concern traveling is not nutrition, it is avoiding being poisoned by food facsimiles.
I guess that is a sub set of nutrition....
Fair. I doubt McDonalds is a good bet on that score.
I do sometimes, raven, substitute milk-based protein drinks for meals on the road. I'm not sure if you consider that more or less of a food facsimile.
The Fairlife is my favorite, and the one I get by preference. It's 42 grams of protein for about $5, so 8.4 grams per dollar. It's also a complete protein, meaning that you get all the essential amino acids.
https://fairlife.com/elite-chocolate-protein-shake/
Muscle Milk makes something similar, but it's not purely based on milk.
https://www.musclemilk.com/product/muscle-milk-pro-advanced-nutrition-protein-shake/
Gotta make sure you get milk-based protein and not soy-based, though. Some 'protein shakes' are just soy.
I have not delved into it myself, but have heard that soy mimics estrogen or something like that. So the term soyboy may have some meaning in a biological sense. I do notice that a lot of young men seem to be "soft looking", for lack of a better term. Just compare to the photos of kids from the 1970's, or even the 1940's- their features for the most part were more chiseled, their bodies lean and muscled.
Although I do like soy sauce, not sure what fermenting and fish do to it...
IMO, the closer a food is to it's original "wrapper", the better off one is.
The "wrapper" being pelt, skin, peel, rind, etc.
And I like fat. Real fat like butter, cream, lard, tallow, olive oil, etc- stuff that did not have to be ultra processed just to become merely bio incompatible , and not outright poisonous....
A proper breakfast begins and ends with bacon, which has remarkably little soy in it.
Aside from that, red meat, which has all the vegetable matter necessary, that food having eaten the vegetable matter for me.
For variety of flavor, a tall stack of waffles, each waffle layered with butter and maple syrup.
Eric Hines
Sausage is often better than bacon in many breakfast dishes, but it does make for a good whiskey cheese.
https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2024/03/grims-smoked-whiskey-cheese.html
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