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Thursday, 14 July 2005

SUPER SIZE ME!

What would happen to you if you had a McDonalds diet for 30 days? Ilalabas mo sa pwet si Ronald Mcdonald.

 Have you seen this? It's a docu/reality that seems to up the ante on my disgust to these Americans. And it was done by an American. nyahaha! Morgan (writer/director and star of the docu) launched an atomic gas attack against Mcdonalds. The Golden Arches seem to have a nonchalant knack for turning people into slimy pigs and making funeral parlors a booming business.
 
If orange is the new black then an obese is the new smoker. What? At least for the Americans. A very good idea came to mind--- if we pop smokers for their alleged smoking how do you pop an obese for their alleged eating? Eating then becomes as serious as social responsibility.

I realized so many patriotic and non-patriotic things from that docu:

1. It's good that rice is the superstar of our Filipino diet because if it weren't for that we would have gobbled up the same as Americans do. And our meal does not consist of a hamburger. 

2. On the scheme of all local fastfood restaurants including our local Mcdo, we have 2 sizes for fries/drinks (regular and large/biggie size) But in America they have 4--- regular, medium, large and supersize! And the supersize fries is as tall as a Coke Bottle and as lapad as a Didache journal and the Supersize drink is equal to 1.5 litres. Tignan ko na lang kundi ka maging aparador.

3. In the docu, they had a pictionary experiment on kids. 1 out of 5 kids knew the face of an American hero named George Washington. Nobody knew Jesus Christ. Everybody knew Ronald Mcdonald and 4 knew the Wendy's girl. Alarm! Alarm! If those were Filipino kids and they didn't know Jesus Christ or Jose Rizal, their grandma would have whipped their little asses back to school.

I don't like going to McDonald's because it makes me feel like eating inside a banyo. Ang puti kasi ng tiles. At least sa Jollibee para ka lang kumain sa perya sa dami ng kulay.  Although i eat excessive amounts of chocolate, I don't drink softdrinks. Kapag wala na talaga.

Hay, buti na lang tayo dito sa Asya hindi uso ang mga ganyan. It's a wonder there aren't alarming rates of obesity here in our country despite of our round the clock eating habits. Our fats might have gone somewhere inside and not on our bellies. Delikado yan... Ibang klasing super sizing ang isyu natin.
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