And lol at saying fish and chip places are healthier. And dying out. Where f**k do you live because I have 3 in walking distance (all mum and dad stores) and another 6 that would be easy bike ride back when I was in primary school
Sorry I live in the City, so I don't venture out to the burbs much anymore I'm afraid, although I hardly remember that many being around in the eastern suburbs like they used to where I grew up. Most that I can think of have closed down or replaced by trendy takeaways or franchises.
So what you're saying is that there are the old fashioned burger and chips, I loved the old burger with the lot including cheese, bacon, egg, pineapple and beetroot and side order of hot chips, still in existence around where you live?
The last place I knew of that used to do it was in Kogarah that I would go to and get a burger with the lot and chips for $8.60(awesome price) then it closed down about 6-7 years ago now. Haven't had one since.
As for healthiness, it is a damned sight more healthy then any of that franchise crap. You must remember that a burger with the lot is ok bar the cheap cheese slice that they put on it. Also the chips were healthier too when they used to fry then in lard not these carcinogenic and heart attack inducing cheaper vegetable oils. Animal fat isn't an issue when it comes to health. Go look at the latest and real science on this issue and how saturated fat was falsely demonised by the health industry and sugar(in all its forms) and cheap oils were then promoted.
Funny that the worlds population has only gotten fatter every years since the introduction of the food pyramid that they keep promoting no matter how many health kicks people try to get into. Dieting does not work. Abstinence from what we want to eat for most is and will always be a short to medium term measure before they relapse and go crazy eating again. So what type of food did man evolve eating in the first place was it cheap and nasty oils and refined sugar in all its forms or was it animal fat and all sorts of vegetables and a little fruit now and then?
I can tell you you eat animal fat with protein and plenty of fiber in the form of complex carbohydrates and almost all your hunger and cravings go away. Then the odd indulgence doesn't impact your health in any major way. But that is my opinion and I suppose the latest and I think best science on the matter.
If you want to know more look up Ancel Keys, who was a psychologist of all things, who released a doctored and falsified study in the 50's that suggested that countries that consumed less saturated fat were less likely to develop diseases like heart attacks or strokes then countries that consumed more.
The rest as they say is history, but as they also say things are changing one death at a time. The old gate keepers are on the way out, so in about 10-20 years all this(so called new knowledge) and more will be common sense and common place. Don't shoot the messenger.
