Junk Food Satire

The Ultimate Guilty Pleasure Tasty, sweet, salty, filling, pleasing… junk food. Junk food is my guiltiest pleasure. I buy my Burger King whopper every Wednesday or I casually have a McDonald’s run on those lazy nights. Those pre-packaged, ready to go meals tastes so much better than my mother’s experimental cooking, which she claims is gourmet. It looks so good, it’s affordable, and it’s impossible to turn down, it’s like a gift from heaven. In all seriousness, would you rather have a plain old salad, over a delectable, gourmet McDonald’s meal? A salad just consists of lettuce, tomatoes and a lot of boring, bland vegetables. But a McDonald’s meal is just indescribably amazing. You got your fries, your burger, and a drink! I could never fit that into my lunch box. Junk food has been consumed more than healthier by the general
population over the last 30 years. Every day I have to listen to my mother bicker on and on about how healthy she used to eat as a kid compared to me. Time, time, time, that’s on everyone’s mind. What is more convenient? Do I have enough time? Junk food or prepared meals are without a doubt more convenient than those home cooked meals, but sometimes making convenience prioritize over health is a very unwise choice.
The packaging on those TV dinners, are in every colour you could imagine, the extravagant print, and those catchy words like “New!” intrigue you to purchase those calorie filled, heart clogging foods. Junk food is a guilty pleasure because everyone is aware of its negative effects on our body. Everyone can generally say that healthier foods are unattractive and cliché. They aren’t as “appetizing” as those deep fried or frozen dinners. But does anyone really know what goes into fast food? Junk food is called “junk” food for a reason. It has no nutritional benefits what so ever. All the junk you consume just causes bloating and weight gain. It makes you feel weaker, and tired. Everyone wants to get the fullest out of life, but consuming these foods are just going to make you weaker and slow you down. Even though mommy’s experimental cooking doesn’t look like those five star restaurant meals, at least you are aware of what is being put into your
meals. It’s true that junk food is cheaper in the sense of quantity, but not quality. You are able to buy a supper for only $3 whereas at home you have to cook larger portions to get your full money’s worth. Sure, you can get a burger for $1.39… but that burger also has 30% percent meat and 70% chemicals, and mechanically separated “parts”. Consuming chemicals and oils that are only harming your body is not worth $1.39. Obesity, high cholesterol, damaged liver or heart disease, this is just the beginning, to the possible outcomes of making junk food a part of our daily diets. Spending a few extra dollars on natural, homemade food is better than slowly depriving your body of its basic needs, instead of consuming chemicals and bad fats. Junk food can be very addictive. We see everyone around us eating it, and once you’ve tried it is very difficult to give up. This in result would end up making spend more money, because you crave for it on a daily basis. The taste and pleasure you get in junk food, is nothing but artificial flavours and chemicals, which is unachievable in a kitchen at home. Don’t get me wrong, junk food is absolutely fine to have once in a while. But once you don’t feel guilty about consuming junk food, and make it a regular pleasure. That’s when you know you have to limit yourself