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  • From: "jay gee" <jgj23 AT mindspring.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: fast food
  • Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 18:50:55 +0000


Nancy wrote:

>When did it become okay to feed our children fast food
>and take them to an indoor playground at the mall?

As to the first question:

Once women were told, "they deserved a break today,"
the endorsement of fast food and Big Macs was almost
a forgone conclusion (with all due respect to the women
on this list).

With the low prices McDonalds charged in the early days
of their existence, getting kids and their parents into the
habit of eating at Macs was easy. Once those patterns
were established, the kids who grew up thought nothing
of feeding their kids a Big Mac. After all, wasn't it good
enough for them?



As to the second question:

When parents decided the mall was a better place to
take the kids than an outdoor park.

I suspect the habit germinated in the dead of winter
when the mall playgrounds were not covered with
snow...


Jay Gee
not a farmer -- but interested in farming







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