I finally got around to seeing Super Size Me. I loved this movie. It was funny; it made its point rather well and didn't pretend to be anything too serious. Morgan Spurlock does a great job of being the writer, director and star of the show.
I haven't eaten very much fast food this year. I rather suspect I won't be eating much fast food for a good long while. I can't get over the size of the ingredient list for the chicken nuggets.
Seeing this movie reminded me of "the ramen incident." My employer used to provided free ramen noodles. I used to eat them for lunch a lot, sometime three or four times a week. One day as I was walking down the hallway a co-worker, W_____, looked at me and told me something like, "those things will kill you." Once I started thinking of them as "death noodles" they lost a fair amount of their original appeal.
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What's even scarier is to look up all those ingredients in the book, A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives. You can find an ingredient's GRAS status plus summary of toxicology studies and other info that came from the FDA's data bank. I have a 4th edition copy you could borrow if you like, but it's rather out of date. There is also a cosmetics version by the same author which I've been meaning to get. Some of this gets absorbed through the skin and some is even consumed (I've heard that the average woman swallows 4 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime), so you should pay attention to those ingredients too.
BTW, ramen noodles ARE death noodles for those with celiac disease/gluten intolerance.