Um I'll take the small...
So last night I watched the movie Super Size Me after a home made dinner which wasn't very good for me. (I'm not going to go into it, but needless to say I was experimenting and at the last moment I decided it needed cheese... Don't worry I didn't subject the children to it.)
The movie was really about how big shit is. I mean the sizes of stuff has gone really up. Why do they do that? I mean yes the prices are going up, but the sizes don't really need to. I wonder if they think that because they are making me pay 30 cents more then they need to make the cup bigger. I'm not stupid folks the soda in cup is almost free. The main cost is the CUP. The marginal cost for making a bigger cup is tiny. It's pi*R^2*h (pi-r-square*h) people for the volume of a cylinder. A small increase in the radius of the cup increases the volume quickly. It's the material in the cup. OK so why the fries? I don't know. I guess it has to scale.
You know the fast food companies are stupid on this one. You know a gallon of gas didn't get supersized. The oil companies just charge more and we fucking pay it. Every time. I'm guilty. I admit it. If McDonalds told me ok fucker that small drink is now 2.49 like your gallon of gas i'd go, "OK". Why? Because we're sheep. Another story.
So back to the food. I tell a story about what my diet was like when I was in a state of retirement. When Tammy would be teaching and I'd pick up Samantha from preschool. She'd ask me every time if we could go to McDonalds. She'd look cute and I'd go "OK". It wasn't so much caving as being happy she asked for it because I wanted it too. Sam and I made a game of it. They freaking knew us. They remember us even now. It is a good McDonalds. (oxymoron?)
Lots of times a week we'd drive through. They fucking knew me.
About that time I had a physical. My cholesterol was... um ... high. It wasn't off the chart gonna die high, but it was high. I have another physical scheduled for June so we'll see (yes it's 3 years later) how I'm doing now.
This movie really hit home. The sugar content really surprised me. People know I love coke. I mean the sweet softdrink. It is so sweet.
I'm back to alternating it with water at work. It helped me start to lose weight last time, I just hope this time it will keep me where I am and maybe a little healthier.
I'm getting old. I've degenerated into talking about my health in my blog. When I bring up my trick knee someone slap me, k?
The movie was really about how big shit is. I mean the sizes of stuff has gone really up. Why do they do that? I mean yes the prices are going up, but the sizes don't really need to. I wonder if they think that because they are making me pay 30 cents more then they need to make the cup bigger. I'm not stupid folks the soda in cup is almost free. The main cost is the CUP. The marginal cost for making a bigger cup is tiny. It's pi*R^2*h (pi-r-square*h) people for the volume of a cylinder. A small increase in the radius of the cup increases the volume quickly. It's the material in the cup. OK so why the fries? I don't know. I guess it has to scale.
You know the fast food companies are stupid on this one. You know a gallon of gas didn't get supersized. The oil companies just charge more and we fucking pay it. Every time. I'm guilty. I admit it. If McDonalds told me ok fucker that small drink is now 2.49 like your gallon of gas i'd go, "OK". Why? Because we're sheep. Another story.
So back to the food. I tell a story about what my diet was like when I was in a state of retirement. When Tammy would be teaching and I'd pick up Samantha from preschool. She'd ask me every time if we could go to McDonalds. She'd look cute and I'd go "OK". It wasn't so much caving as being happy she asked for it because I wanted it too. Sam and I made a game of it. They freaking knew us. They remember us even now. It is a good McDonalds. (oxymoron?)
Lots of times a week we'd drive through. They fucking knew me.
About that time I had a physical. My cholesterol was... um ... high. It wasn't off the chart gonna die high, but it was high. I have another physical scheduled for June so we'll see (yes it's 3 years later) how I'm doing now.
This movie really hit home. The sugar content really surprised me. People know I love coke. I mean the sweet softdrink. It is so sweet.
I'm back to alternating it with water at work. It helped me start to lose weight last time, I just hope this time it will keep me where I am and maybe a little healthier.
I'm getting old. I've degenerated into talking about my health in my blog. When I bring up my trick knee someone slap me, k?
posted by J.R. at 8:59 AM
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Do you remember the time we were chillin with the kids, and we went to McDs and wanted to supersize, and the pimplefaced voice over the com was like, "Umm... we don't... uhh... supersize anymore" becuase she knew there was hell to pay. The rest of us just went to Taco Time.
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