My grandmother invited us to her birthday celebration at a restaurant and my wife quipped that ah restaurant junk food. Funny. She’s right.
This evening I went to the SM Mall of Asia and I observed people eating at restaurants and yes, they are eating junk food.
It is all a matter of perspective. We’ve been in the healthy side for too long we dread the thought of having to suffer a toxic meal every time we are invited to a celebration or have to go on business.
Our food bill has skyrocketed because we buy organic, wild, fresh food. But our restaurant budget is zero. Our western MD budget is also zero. Our vitamins and supplements budget is also zero.
Back to restaurants, I used to help run them. During those times I knew nothing about real health. All I knew is that recipes needed ingredients. And that the important thing is the food tastes great, fabulous, wonderful. Was the food healthy? I never thought about that question. Was the food profitable? That was important. How about wastes in the kitchen? That was important too. Spoilage was important. The less spoilage the better. So a restaurant needed to buy ingredients that had a long shelf life.
I also helped run a convenience store and shelf life was also an issue. Slowly but surely, those items with short shelf lives were eased out as they were unprofitable.
So you see folks, restaurant operators are in the business for profits. The more profitable a menu item, the more they want to push that. It just turns out that restaurant operators are not health aware people. If they were, they wouldn’t be in the restaurant business. Hell, they wouldn’t want to eat in restaurants in the first place!
So when we get caught in a restaurant, we hopefully choose the least poisonous item. At the end of the day, we still get to drink our reliable colon cleanse herbal, Doctor Tam’s Miracle Tea. Gets rid of the crap fast and easy.