What could be marginally more interesting is if they did a similar report on the not-so-fast-but-still-franchise restaurants like Kelsey’s, Fire Grill, Red Lobster, Boston Pizza, Madison Steakhouse, etc., that the suburbs are so full of. (And those places are trying to make inroads downtown too.)

Those places present themselves as serving “real” food prepared by proper cooks, etc., but in the end they are (in my experience) not much better than the burger joints. The food is formulaic, the staff indifferent, and the management more interested in the numbers than the cooking.

Fast food just lamer and lamer everyday, so we don’t even think about it anymore. I eat at McDo and such less than 5 times a year. I still like the old greasy spoons but not for the fast food.

If we gave this same portrait to people 50 years ago, people would have freaked out…

Our kids just don’t know about real food. It’s hard for parents to have enough time to cook. It’s also more expensive to cook at home sometimes. Your kids won’t even appreciate it.

it’s all about education again, and food is just another domain showing our laziness.

Good point about the journal’s technique though: exact same method all the time. They could have done all at once. Take an anglo speaking only to apply for jobs in fast food chains!

Anyway, my point is that, again, there’s a newspaper who try to sell us false debates and make-up crisis, when about anything else would be interesting to cover. But hey! It’s a Quebecor media tool, what else did I expect?!