There’s a bit of a thing – I was going to say row, but in truth it’s just something kicked up by one of the tabloid TV channels here – about McDonalds charging more for their ‘meals’ in poorer areas of Sydney.
Really, that’s a surprise, what with McD’s being a business and all that. I thought that’s what businesses did.
But anyway, the to-do is all about hitting poor people where it hurts – in their swelling bellies presumably.
The TV channel reckons poor people have enough on their plates (er, or maybe not...) without Maccas adding to their woes with tuppence more on an ice cream cone.
The TV folks reckon poor people have to eat Big Macs and stuff their faces with McNuggets and McFat because they just can’t afford proper food.
What bollocks. If you cook your own food and choose wisely, and I’m not talking about starving yourself, you can eat very well indeed for much less than it costs to take the car down to McD’s, lever yourself out and fall through the doors into your plastic booth.
There’s the added benefit that if you avoid the fat burgers you’ll probably not need to go to the doctor’s, or ultimately hospital, quite so regularly.
Come on, cook your own food.