<p>I'm not a fan of fast food and I try to avoid it as much as possible. Perhaps I have fast food twice per month on average. However, I've been very impressed with the quality of the McDonalds food, especially those new angus burgers and southern-style chicken. The beef is very juicy and tasty, the chicken very tender. Don't tell me McDonalds serves very unhealthy food: look at the info about southern-style crispy chicken sandwich:
400 calories (not really enough for a teen like me), 17g fat (good amount), only 3g saturated fat (this is very good), 24g protein (very good amount), no hydrogenated fat
AND it's tasty. I really don't think fast food is so bad after all. But it's absolutely necessary to have variety in your diet.</p>
<p>I had a burger from In-N-Out once. It was disgusting. The beef patty was incredibly thin (we're talking less than 5mm) and they put (lots of) mayonnaise on it. Their food is poo.</p>
<p>McDonald's has a rep of beating the worst fastfood place of all. Why? I have no idea. They seem to have a good variety of food for the healthy eater. I think places like KFC, Carls Jr. (with those nasty six dollar burgers), etc. are much worse because they don't really offer a healthy alternative.</p>
<p>It depends on what your definition of "healthy eater" is...
Some people are unreasonable and don't really understand nutrition at all... they'd look at the Premium Grilled Chicken Classic Sandwich and say "NO! It has 10g of fat," while 10g of chicken fat is healthy and helpful for a normal diet. Others look so much at calorie count, but let me say that the number of calories in a single sandwich is quite low for lunch or dinner for us growing teens (400-600).
I think that most of McDonalds' items aren't very unhealthy at all...</p>
<p>Salads tend to have little nutritional value and many people dump dressing on their salads (which is little more than unhealthy, fatty oil), making them quite unhealthy, actually.</p>
<p>Actually, having a bit of fat (dressing) in your salad is actually good for you. It all comes down to how much dressing you use. If you're gonna dump everything in the packet they give you, then yeah, not very healthy. Besides, I find salads taste real nasty with too much dressing. As for what I get at McD's the rare time I go there, I go for the grilled chicken sandwiches which, even with the mayo, isn't too bad for fastfood. The yogurt parfait is good, too.</p>