How often do you eat fast food?

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112. So how many cheeseburgers can a person safely eat in your esteemed professional opinion?

None? One per year? Maybe a few more if they're not fast food burgers, but lean free-range organic beef served with locally made organic cheese on organic whole-wheat (or perhaps gluten-free) buns?

Otherwise it's just a "substitute" for food?

You said, and I quote, "Fast food is food substitute, not nourishment." And you talk to me about hyperbole? Not nourishment? Even though nearly all "fast food" provides carbs and protein and fat, some of which contains (even if in small quantities) vitamins and minerals which... um... nourish your body?

It's hardly the best of nourishment in most cases, of course, and it might cause (but usually only with long-term excess) varying ill effects depending on the type of fast food... but still, it is most certainly food, not just a substitute for food, and it is nourishment.

There are still plenty of people on this planet who can't get a hold of enough raw calories to sustain themselves. People starve. It's only with the excess of calories our relative affluence provides us that we can get so snobbish as to call foods that don't fit some idealization of nutritional optimization mere "substitutes" for food.