Giving McDonald's eaters calorie guides did not curb bad eating habits

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20. Close to TWO generations have forgotten what "going out to eat" meant/means

People USED to cook and eat at home...MOST of the time.

They would eat at a restaurant for a special occasion, when they were remodeling their kitchens, or when they traveled.

No one CARED about the calories of food they ate at a restaurant, because they did it so rarely. This how people were introduced to different foods from the meals we all ate regularly at home.

People also did not sit around with snacks at the ready, or walk around with a tub-o-soda.

Things like cookies, cakes, pies, chips, soft drinks were relegated to the occasionally (like at picnics) eaten foods. NOW those things are a daily drive-thru staple for too many people.

I was trying to remember when our own kids first ate fast food..Until 1981 we never lived anywhere that had any.. The month before we left Kansas, we got a Dairy Queen, but had no other "branded" fast foods. There were a few hamburger-stand type places, but everything else was a family owned restaurant.

As long as we controlled their transportation, they did not have any fast foods unless we were on the road...And even then we prefer to stop---get out and go to a nice restaurant.

They were all teenagers before they had any access to fast foods.

Many kids today are eating happy meals as soon as they get teeth these days