Chuck E. Cheese

[Empire of Narnia]

I haven't seen one of those in years, and wouldn't have known they'd existed if a neighbor of mine didn't end up getting one of their tokens in change. She showed it to me in the hopes of finding out some way to spend it, and was quite disappointed when I identified it. The very idea that someone wouldn't know what an arcade token looks like is shocking and sad, but even worse, whoever gave it to her also apparently thought it was a strangely-stained quarter and didn't read what was printed right on it.

The last time I was in a Chuck E. Cheese, proper arcades were still a thing. This means it was probably the early 90s. At that time, arcades had gone downhill quite a bit from the mid-80s, but even then, any decent dedicated arcade totally pwned that awful chimera of a pizzeria and really-little-kid fun center that pretended, pathetically, to also be an arcade. Its oft-broken, barely working, B-list games were always covered in what seemed to be soda residue mixed with kid germs, their controls were sluggish, and they just sucked in general. The overabundance of loud brats ensured that it was the arcade of last resort, one to visit mainly to say that I hadn't missed checking out any that were in a 20-mile radius.

Once I'd checked it off my list, it was a place to go when I was in that town for something completely different and refused to just drive out without stopping at an arcade and because, lame as it was, it still had enough games to qualify as an arcade (that happened to contain other irrelevant stuff that I never looked at). I always walked by the animatronics rather speedily since I am in the camp that finds them creepy. They were never active when I was there - I came within the last couple of hours of operation in order to miss as many kids as possible, so the shows had always stopped by then.

Thinking about it makes me nostalgic for a real arcade: One with rows upon rows of clean, well-maintained, 25c video games and nothing else except a change machine and an attendant.

My favorite part is the animatronics show.

[Dakini]

You know, fast food doesn't have to be unhealthy or greasy... and some food that's unhealthy and greasy isn't fast food.

I think we have different definitions of fast food.

Fast food is food which can be prepared quickly for customers. As such, relatively healthy items like sandwiches or sushi are fast food while something like meatloaf takes a relatively long time to cook and results in greasy, fatty grossness.

[Ardoki]

I think we have different definitions of fast food.

Fast food is food which can be prepared quickly for customers. As such, relatively healthy items like sandwiches or sushi are fast food while something like meatloaf takes a relatively long time to cook and results in greasy, fatty grossness.

You would classify cereal or toast as fast food as well?

Anyway, a meatloaf should also be classified as fast food according to your definition. As it is prepared incredibly quickly.

[Anshaskia]

Fast food is food which can be prepared quickly for customers. As such, relatively healthy items like sandwiches or sushi are fast food while something like meatloaf takes a relatively long time to cook and results in greasy, fatty grossness.

You would classify cereal or toast as fast food as well?

Anyway, a meatloaf should also be classified as fast food according to your definition. As it is prepared incredibly quickly.

I don't know. It takes over an hour to make a meat loaf. Sushi takes a lot of preparation beforehand, but if you're at a restaurant and you order sushi it doesn't take too long from the time you order it to the time you receive it. I guess it would depend on your definition of fast food, whether you're defining it by the type of restaurant it is served in or defining it by the length of time between ordering and receiving it. I don't know about the exact definition of fast food, so I am by no means an authority on the matter.

[Ardoki]

You would classify cereal or toast as fast food as well?

Anyway, a meatloaf should also be classified as fast food according to your definition. As it is prepared incredibly quickly.

I don't know. It takes over an hour to make a meat loaf. Sushi takes a lot of preparation beforehand, but if you're at a restaurant and you order sushi it doesn't take too long from the time you order it to the time you receive it. I guess it would depend on your definition of fast food, whether you're defining it by the type of restaurant it is served in or defining it by the length of time between ordering and receiving it. I don't know about the exact definition of fast food, so I am by no means an authority on the matter.

If you take into account the average lifespan of a person, meatloaf is made incredibly quickly.

I consider fast food as things like McDonalds, KFC, Hungry Jacks, Red Rooster, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino's, etc.

Why not just go to an actual restaurant or cafe instead is what I think.

[Anshaskia]

I don't know. It takes over an hour to make a meat loaf. Sushi takes a lot of preparation beforehand, but if you're at a restaurant and you order sushi it doesn't take too long from the time you order it to the time you receive it. I guess it would depend on your definition of fast food, whether you're defining it by the type of restaurant it is served in or defining it by the length of time between ordering and receiving it. I don't know about the exact definition of fast food, so I am by no means an authority on the matter.

If you take into account the average lifespan of a person, meatloaf is made incredibly quickly.

I consider fast food as things like McDonalds, KFC, Hungry Jacks, Red Rooster, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino's, etc.

Why not just go to an actual restaurant or cafe instead is what I think.

I'm not saying you shouldn't. I would prefer "real food" over fast food any day (if we are going by your definition of it). I'm just defending Dakini's comment that foods such as sandwiches and sushi could be considered fast food. According to Wikipedia, fast food is "the term given to food that is prepared and served very quickly." The same article also mentions that sushi is a form of fast food.

The point you made about the average lifespan of a person doesn't really matter. If we are defining what is and isn't considered fast food based on a human's average lifespan, then anything made in a slow cooker would also be considered fast food.

[Dakini]

Fast food is food which can be prepared quickly for customers. As such, relatively healthy items like sandwiches or sushi are fast food while something like meatloaf takes a relatively long time to cook and results in greasy, fatty grossness.

You would classify cereal or toast as fast food as well?

Anyway, a meatloaf should also be classified as fast food according to your definition. As it is prepared incredibly quickly.

Not really, that shit bakes for a long-ass time.

[Anshaskia]

You would classify cereal or toast as fast food as well?

Anyway, a meatloaf should also be classified as fast food according to your definition. As it is prepared incredibly quickly.

Not really, that shit bakes for a long-ass time.

And results in greasy, fatty grossness.

[Dakini]

I don't know. It takes over an hour to make a meat loaf. Sushi takes a lot of preparation beforehand, but if you're at a restaurant and you order sushi it doesn't take too long from the time you order it to the time you receive it. I guess it would depend on your definition of fast food, whether you're defining it by the type of restaurant it is served in or defining it by the length of time between ordering and receiving it. I don't know about the exact definition of fast food, so I am by no means an authority on the matter.

If you take into account the average lifespan of a person, meatloaf is made incredibly quickly.

I consider fast food as things like McDonalds, KFC, Hungry Jacks, Red Rooster, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino's, etc.

Why not just go to an actual restaurant or cafe instead is what I think.

Just so you're aware, Subway makes sandwiches.

Also, why go to a restaurant or cafe if you're in a hurry?

Granted, this is also funny because Chuck E. Cheese is sort of a restaurant. It's a restaurant that serves pizza, but it's a sit-in restaurant (as are many Pizza Hut locations, btw). So I'm not sure what you think the difference between fast food and restaurant food is here since you're saying that one is superior to the other, but then using an example of restaurant food as fast food.

[Ardoki]

If you take into account the average lifespan of a person, meatloaf is made incredibly quickly.

I consider fast food as things like McDonalds, KFC, Hungry Jacks, Red Rooster, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino's, etc.

Why not just go to an actual restaurant or cafe instead is what I think.

Just so you're aware, Subway makes sandwiches.

Also, why go to a restaurant or cafe if you're in a hurry?

Granted, this is also funny because Chuck E. Cheese is sort of a restaurant. It's a restaurant that serves pizza, but it's a sit-in restaurant (as are many Pizza Hut locations, btw). So I'm not sure what you think the difference between fast food and restaurant food is here since you're saying that one is superior to the other, but then using an example of restaurant food as fast food.

Fast food is a type of thing which is barely fitting of being associated with the word 'food'. In my opinion.

[Anshaskia]

When I was living in Vietnam, I often ate at this Korean-owned fast food chain called Lotteria. It's strange that after I would eat at that place I wouldn't get that feeling of self-loathing like I do at American fast food chains. I also didn't feel sick afterwards. One time I ate at a Burger King in an airport and felt sick even before I finished my food, ate at Lotteria and I was fine. Those Koreans must be doing something right. Although the Burger King thing could of just been my body rejecting the fast food after I had been living in Vietnam for so long, but I don't suppose that would explain why I had no issues with Lotteria.

[New Skaaneland]

There tends to be different bacterias etc in the food at different places. If your body was used to the Asian flora there might have been a shift already at the airport. It's a place where many people travel through and though they might take a shower they still aren't sterile. Also Burger King are likely to have more imported groceries from further away than a Korean fast food chain would typically have in Vietnam.

[Dakini]

Not really, that shit bakes for a long-ass time.

And results in greasy, fatty grossness.

Yeah. I never knew how gross meatloaf was until I was visiting my parents and my mom made it in a dish that was too big so all the grease leaked out the side of the loaf and just sat there.

[Dakini]

Just so you're aware, Subway makes sandwiches.

Also, why go to a restaurant or cafe if you're in a hurry?

Granted, this is also funny because Chuck E. Cheese is sort of a restaurant. It's a restaurant that serves pizza, but it's a sit-in restaurant (as are many Pizza Hut locations, btw). So I'm not sure what you think the difference between fast food and restaurant food is here since you're saying that one is superior to the other, but then using an example of restaurant food as fast food.

Fast food is a type of thing which is barely fitting of being associated with the word 'food'. In my opinion.

Unfortunately, your definition of fast food is not really much of a definition.

[Anshaskia]

There tends to be different bacterias etc in the food at different places. If your body was used to the Asian flora there might have been a shift already at the airport. It's a place where many people travel through and though they might take a shower they still aren't sterile. Also Burger King are likely to have more imported groceries from further away than a Korean fast food chain would typically have in Vietnam.

I'm trying not to stray too far from the topic of the thread, but I have a question. I'm no health nut, anti-GMO, down with fast food person, but do you think that the ingredients they use in a Korean-owned chain such as Lotteria would be healthier than those used in the US? Taking into account everything: whatever hormones they use, pesticides, the handling of the food, etc. I was in Vietnam, and I wouldn't say the health standards there are good cleanliness-wise (for street food, at least), but I'm talking specifically about the Korean-owned chain itself.

[Ardoki]

Fast food is a type of thing which is barely fitting of being associated with the word 'food'. In my opinion.

Unfortunately, your definition of fast food is not really much of a definition.

You are a McDonalds sympathiser. Such food should not be supported, it kills people.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Unfortunately, your definition of fast food is not really much of a definition.

You are a McDonalds sympathiser. Such food should not be supported, it kills people.

Everything kills people, what's your point?

[Anshaskia]

Unfortunately, your definition of fast food is not really much of a definition.

You are a McDonalds sympathiser. Such food should not be supported, it kills people.

From what I've read, I don't think Dakini really is defending places like McDonald's other than saying that they're alright to eat at if you're in a hurry. They're just saying that the definition of fast food, at least their definition of fast food, is much more broad than what you consider it to be.

[HYDRA-Russian Empire]

On an unrelated note, does anybody want to buy some Chuck E. Cheese stock? I have a lot.

How much are you selling it for?

[Dakini]

Unfortunately, your definition of fast food is not really much of a definition.

You are a McDonalds sympathiser.

Not really, that place doesn't have enough veggie food.

Such food should not be supported, it kills people.

Unhealthy fast food does, healthy fast food does not.

I mean, would it surprise you to learn that fast food is huge in Japan, a country with a 3% obesity rate? Most of the fast food are sushi, sandwiches, onigiri, ramen... things that generally aren't so bad for you.

[Dakini]

You are a McDonalds sympathiser. Such food should not be supported, it kills people.

From what I've read, I don't think Dakini really is defending places like McDonald's other than saying that they're alright to eat at if you're in a hurry. They're just saying that the definition of fast food, at least their definition of fast food, is much more broad than what you consider it to be.

That and some slow foods are super unhealthy too. I'm not sure why Ardoki thinks that a burger from a restaurant has many fewer calories or fats than a burger from McDonald's...

[HYDRA-Russian Empire]

From what I've read, I don't think Dakini really is defending places like McDonald's other than saying that they're alright to eat at if you're in a hurry. They're just saying that the definition of fast food, at least their definition of fast food, is much more broad than what you consider it to be.

That and some slow foods are super unhealthy too. I'm not sure why Ardoki thinks that a burger from a restaurant has many fewer calories or fats than a burger from McDonald's...

McDonalds uses the worst quality meat, and pumps its food full of chemicals. Restaurants (good ones) do not do this. Sure, it is more expensive than McDonalds, but it is much much nicer too!
My children are forbidden to eat fast food from fast food places. Either homecooked food or restaurants.

[Anshaskia]

From what I've read, I don't think Dakini really is defending places like McDonald's other than saying that they're alright to eat at if you're in a hurry. They're just saying that the definition of fast food, at least their definition of fast food, is much more broad than what you consider it to be.

That and some slow foods are super unhealthy too. I'm not sure why Ardoki thinks that a burger from a restaurant has many fewer calories or fats than a burger from McDonald's...

I may be wrong, but is it possible that they're worse for you? Restaurant burgers tend to be larger and have more toppings piled onto them than typical fast food-style burgers. The produce may be fresher though, and the meat healthier. No matter the case, burgers are still fucking delicious.

[Dakini]

That and some slow foods are super unhealthy too. I'm not sure why Ardoki thinks that a burger from a restaurant has many fewer calories or fats than a burger from McDonald's...

McDonalds uses the worst quality meat, and pumps its food full of chemicals. Restaurants (good ones) do not do this. Sure, it is more expensive than McDonalds, but it is much much nicer too!

Still just as many calories and all... maybe more since burgers in restaurants are usually bigger. You're generally lucky to get out of a restaurant with a meal that's under 1000 calories.

My children are forbidden to eat fast food from fast food places. Either homecooked food or restaurants.

That's nice. Doesn't mean that eating at restaurants will be better for them than eating at Subway.

[Dakini]

That and some slow foods are super unhealthy too. I'm not sure why Ardoki thinks that a burger from a restaurant has many fewer calories or fats than a burger from McDonald's...

I may be wrong, but is it possible that they're worse for you? Restaurant burgers tend to be larger and have more toppings piled onto them than typical fast food-style burgers. The produce may be fresher though, and the meat healthier. No matter the case, burgers are still fucking delicious.

I'm not actually sure about healthier meat, but yeah, it really wouldn't surprise me if a burger and fries from a sit-down restaurant had more calories than one from McDonald's.