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Fat People, McDonald's Nostalgia, and the Imaginary Estranged Daughter Bit

from Father Kump · #48

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3 min

The McDonald's debate continues into a bit about Ray's fictional daughter and a McDonald's stop, plus riffing on value meals and eating at McDonald's abroad in Rome.

In this bit9 moments
  • 23:44Tim on fast food that's worth getting fat for, dismissing mediocre chains.
  • 24:20Shake Shack excites him more than McDonald's, which he's eaten a million times.
  • 24:47McDonald's has become rest stop food, ubiquitous and forgettable.
  • 25:07People eating McDonald's in Rome should be shot in the face instead of eating local food.
  • 25:28Tim on the McDouble and vanilla shake combination, admitting it's not actually good anymore.
  • 25:48The market is shifting toward fast casual; at 2 a.m. you grab whatever's open, not what's trendy.
  • 26:12Estranged daughter bit: driving to Ohio to see her, 200 miles away from the nearest Shake Shack.
  • 26:24She's dead in the car but Tim's hungry, so he stops at McDonald's anyway.
  • 26:38He yells at her corpse to shut up while chain-smoking and twitching in the backseat.
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