Blog Entry 16: The Response to "Let Them Eat Fat"

  The assignment "Let Them Eat Fat" excerpted from Greg Critser, in the Haprper's Magazine; it is about fast-food and national restaurants have grown more in the poor inner-city communities.  More and more inner-city consumers would like to buy food in the fast-food and national restaurant, especialy young black kids and poor people.  Most them are poor, and their need for cheap and full meals is increassing.  The fast-food restaurants offer the "surpersize" meals which can satistfy their need.  However, they do not notice well fast- food what they eat is high caloric and protein-poor.  They will be fatter and fatter if they continue to eat the fast-food.  After I read this assignment, I think that it causes this problem because of inner-city people of lacking of money; and their increasing need for cheap and super-size meals.
  The inner-city people who do not have too much money, espacially young kid; they will intend to go to fast-food reastaurants.   People who live in poor inner-city communities would like to go fast-food restaurant, because they do not have too much money; so they do not want to spend much money to buy a meal.  They often prefer cheaper meal as their lunch or dinner.  Especialy the young kids, who do not work and dependent to their parents.  And most parents will not give too much money to young kids as their pocket money.  Therefore, they also will prefer to go to fast-food restaurants.  I know this because I work in the food court in the sunrise mall, and I see many this kinds of similar situation.  I work in a Chinese fast food restaurant.  Many people who live near mall will come here to buy food, but they usually compare the prices of different restaurants first before they buy food.  Most of them will prefer to go to Wendy's not come to our restaurant, because their food is cheaper.  However, even though Wendy's food has higher caloric than ours, they ignore it and continue to buy their food because of the cheaper price.  And also, they like to buy one super-size meal in our restaurant; and then share it.  Therefore, no matter how fat they will be if they eat too much fast food; they also will choose cheaper meal.  The main reason is they lack of money and they do not want to spend much more money on meals.
  The poor people's need for cheaper and super-size meal is increasing so that they would like to buy fast food.  They not only need cheaper meal, but also need super-size meal.  They would like to buy super-size meal in fast-food restaurant, because they statisfy what they want.  They just want to spend less money getting full in their meals.  Most of them do not really care whether enjoy food or not.  For example, I work in a Chinese fast food restaurant in mall that I mentioned above.  Our restaurant decides to make a super-size meal in our dinner special for customers in order to make more profits.  After the decision, more and more customers come to buy our food.  They just need to spend about 6 dollar on the super-size meal, and then they can choose three items of any food as their meal.  Most them like to choose two meats and one side, because it is cheaper and super large.  They ignore that how high corolic two meats are when they eat two meats in one meal everyday.  They just care about whether the price is cheaper and the meal is super. Most them do not consider of  bad results after they eat a surper double meats in a meal.
  Overall, the fast-food and national restaurant chains are popular in nowadays; because their cheaper and super-size food statify the poor people need.  However, they do not really care about whether their food is healthy for constermers or not.  They just care about how much profits they can make in their business.  As customers oursevles, we need to consider if we should care about our healthy in our daily diet or not.  Take attention, please.