lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun 🎶 😋 🍔

For dinner I had a Big Mac and medium fries (I wanted a large but I’m being good).

Oh McDonald’s, you have my heart forever 😍 I just woke up wishing I had more.

Our family discussion was how much McDonald’s we could eat in one sitting if we just threw caution to the wind.

I decided on 3-4 Big Macs and a large fry.

PJ thought he could eat all the food on the table: 3 Big Macs, 2 Quarter Pounders (or if you’re British, 2 Royales w/ Cheese 😉), a 20-piece, and 5 medium fries.

Two of my kids said some ridick number like a hundred hamburgers; and my middle son – who can actually practice restraint while eating, said he could barely make it through his Big Mac meal because he was too full. (What a weakling, amitrite??)

Growing up, we only got fast food once in a loooong while because Lol hated it. If Pa had a say, we’d get it more often because he loves it too – but when it came to dinner, Lol was the boss.

Burger King was like 5 miles away from our house, but she claimed it was “too far.”

And forget about McDonald’s – at 10 miles away, it may as well have been on the moon.

Every night she’d cook us delicious and nutritious meals, and would get so mad because Teara and I would always beg her for fast food (mostly me though.)

She’d make homemade chicken soup from scratch on a regular basis and all we wanted was Lipton Chicken Soup out of the box. We’d eat that dehydrated chunk of broth like it was a candy bar 😂

Yeah I know fast food is terrible for you, and we do limit it, but oh my Lord it’s delicious.

Yeah, my fingers are extra sausagey as I type this because the sodium content I ingested is through the roof; but can I help it if I want to drink special sauce like it’s a milkshake? No.

And yeah, it’s probably not a good thing when Taco Bell sends you personalized emails, but who doesn’t want to enjoy a Chalupa now and then?

*side note: if you never called it a Chapoopa, you’re neither funny nor creative and we probably weren’t friends.

So cut it out with all the “fast food is bad” talk. I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life.