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blue_lotus13) wrote2005-07-28 03:08 pm
blue_lotus13) wrote2005-07-28 03:08 pm
Degrassi and Super Size Me
I'm feeling nasty today. For some reason, I couldn't fall asleep and only slept for about 4 hours. So now I have a headache and I'm exhausted. My eye is swelling up again, so I guess I'm reacting to something.
However, while flipping through channels, I managed to catch the Degrassi "School's Out" movie, and hear the immortal line, "You were fucking Tessa Campanelli!" That line made a list of greatest moments in Canadian television. I never realized that there was so much Gowan playing during that little movie. Tessa and Joey first get it on to "Moonlight Desires." I was also fascinated by Yick Yu's long hair, and Spike's badly coloured eyebrows.
Last night I watched "Super Size Me". I thought it was absolutely brilliant and really enjoyed the film. I think the message was quite clear and it probably inspired a lot of people to think about the fast food industry. It was actually somewhat painful to watch, as filmmaker Morgan Spurlock does look pretty darn sick and gross at the end of the movie.
I highly recommend watching the special features on the DVD. I watched some of the interviews, and some of the scenes with commentary. Included on the DVD is a little experiment where Morgan attempts to let McFood rot by leaving various burgers and fries in jars. After two and a half months, the fries look exactly the same.
I have several questions for people in Canada-
1. Do schools in Canada have lunch programs? Are there any as subsidized as the ones in the film?
2. I don't recall ever seeing the Super Size items available in Canada. As far as I can recall, the Canadian Super Size was the American large. Or at least, that's what it looked like to me.
As a child, we never ate at McD's. My parents were appalled by it one day when I was six, and we never went back. We did eat at Dairy Queen and Burger King, but not very often. Definitely not more than once a month. In fact, I never ate McDonald's until I worked there when I was 16. Even then, I didn't eat it as much as others, and preferred to bring my own food.
People that worked at McDonald's for a long time were known as "lifers". And if you worked there for a long time, you were at risk for "fry butt", which meant you got a large ass from eating the fries.
McDonald's was my first job and it's there that you really realize how rude people can be. People would cry quite frequently about how rude a customer was to them. Apparently the McD's that I worked at was robbed at one point, years before I worked there, and the crew members were tied up in the freezer. However, this may be an urban legend.
Working at McD's did make you stink. After you worked there, you would smell very bad. One of the worst jobs was being on fries. You would have to stand in a puddle of grease, making fries for several hours. You would stink and be greasy and if you weren't careful, you could burn yourself very easily. The grease on the floor eventually ate through a pair of fake Docs that I had.
Another job that sucked was "buns". If you did this, you would stick buns in a toaster for hours. It was literally one of the most boring things you could do.
The meat at McDonald's is cooked on a grill, then it sits in a little cabinet. Sometimes it stays in the cabinet for a VERY long time. When people ask for a burger, the burger is assembled, then warmed in a little microwave, then sent out.
People would come through the driveway thru, pay and then sometimes forget to pick up their food. This happened more times than you would think.
We used to steal nuggets and french fries and eat them in the drive thru. One time, a girl stole a filet of fish and stuck it down her pants to get it downstairs and eat it. She burned a small square patch on her stomach.
We did have a lot of regular customers, and there are in fact people that do eat there every day. I remember some of the stranger customers, and now that I think about it, I realize that a few of them might have been mentally ill.
Working with some of the other staff people was fun and I had a lot of friends that worked with me, including [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] but all in all, McD's Mcsucked.
However, while flipping through channels, I managed to catch the Degrassi "School's Out" movie, and hear the immortal line, "You were fucking Tessa Campanelli!" That line made a list of greatest moments in Canadian television. I never realized that there was so much Gowan playing during that little movie. Tessa and Joey first get it on to "Moonlight Desires." I was also fascinated by Yick Yu's long hair, and Spike's badly coloured eyebrows.
Last night I watched "Super Size Me". I thought it was absolutely brilliant and really enjoyed the film. I think the message was quite clear and it probably inspired a lot of people to think about the fast food industry. It was actually somewhat painful to watch, as filmmaker Morgan Spurlock does look pretty darn sick and gross at the end of the movie.
I highly recommend watching the special features on the DVD. I watched some of the interviews, and some of the scenes with commentary. Included on the DVD is a little experiment where Morgan attempts to let McFood rot by leaving various burgers and fries in jars. After two and a half months, the fries look exactly the same.
I have several questions for people in Canada-
1. Do schools in Canada have lunch programs? Are there any as subsidized as the ones in the film?
2. I don't recall ever seeing the Super Size items available in Canada. As far as I can recall, the Canadian Super Size was the American large. Or at least, that's what it looked like to me.
As a child, we never ate at McD's. My parents were appalled by it one day when I was six, and we never went back. We did eat at Dairy Queen and Burger King, but not very often. Definitely not more than once a month. In fact, I never ate McDonald's until I worked there when I was 16. Even then, I didn't eat it as much as others, and preferred to bring my own food.
People that worked at McDonald's for a long time were known as "lifers". And if you worked there for a long time, you were at risk for "fry butt", which meant you got a large ass from eating the fries.
McDonald's was my first job and it's there that you really realize how rude people can be. People would cry quite frequently about how rude a customer was to them. Apparently the McD's that I worked at was robbed at one point, years before I worked there, and the crew members were tied up in the freezer. However, this may be an urban legend.
Working at McD's did make you stink. After you worked there, you would smell very bad. One of the worst jobs was being on fries. You would have to stand in a puddle of grease, making fries for several hours. You would stink and be greasy and if you weren't careful, you could burn yourself very easily. The grease on the floor eventually ate through a pair of fake Docs that I had.
Another job that sucked was "buns". If you did this, you would stick buns in a toaster for hours. It was literally one of the most boring things you could do.
The meat at McDonald's is cooked on a grill, then it sits in a little cabinet. Sometimes it stays in the cabinet for a VERY long time. When people ask for a burger, the burger is assembled, then warmed in a little microwave, then sent out.
People would come through the driveway thru, pay and then sometimes forget to pick up their food. This happened more times than you would think.
We used to steal nuggets and french fries and eat them in the drive thru. One time, a girl stole a filet of fish and stuck it down her pants to get it downstairs and eat it. She burned a small square patch on her stomach.
We did have a lot of regular customers, and there are in fact people that do eat there every day. I remember some of the stranger customers, and now that I think about it, I realize that a few of them might have been mentally ill.
Working with some of the other staff people was fun and I had a lot of friends that worked with me, including [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] but all in all, McD's Mcsucked.
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I was usually one of the breakfast openers, so rarely worked much past the initial lunch rush--often on the egg station, though I alternated between that and being muffin toasting/pancake girl--which then turned into bun toasting/grilled chicken cooking once lunch rolled around.
I liked to sneak back to the freezer and steal the pucks of unbaked cookie dough for the fresh cookies we used to bake.
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He also does a "munch cart" at recess that heads out onto the playground so that kids can buy snacks that aren't candy and pop (like yogurt, granola bars, fruit, juice).
I think it's a really excellent program and I wish more schools were able to do something like that.
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Dunno about Canada, but we've never had SuperSize in Australia, and our large size looks puny compared to the US one. I was also horrified by what passed for a chicken salad, which looked like it had half a fried chicken on top of a couple of lettuce leaves - ours have lots of salad and a few slivers of pressed chicken.
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I wish we got his new series in Canada. He's a fascinating dude.
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Also, I never told anyone to "Enjoy their meal", because hey, well, you know.
I'd love to see the show too. He's a pretty likeable guy, seems really down to earth.