But you’re right. I’m thinking home made pizza and tacos…yum!

Food like substance? Yes. With a purpose worth the using? Also yes.

I’m all for tacos and pizza…unless we’re talking Taco Bell and Domino’s. Fast food versions are definitely food like substances, but the real thing in both cases is just plain brilliant food.

Also, I have to defend tacos and pizza. I’m not sure how you can compare those with packaged donuts and snacks, candy, McAnything, etc…

The bun…..is a lot of bread. It’s white bread. Even if they say it’s whole wheat, it’s all made from refined and processed flower that’s been bleached and deodorized and defatted and demineralized and then pumped full of things that can be a problem (for men specifically, like Iron).
Then, it’s “flavoured” with things like MSG or its myriad other “legal” names.
And then it’s made with margarine and/or shortening (which, any way you slice it, is 100% trans fat, all day, every day, made with rancid vegetable oil).

Yes, its true, there are salad ingredients and there are cold cuts, not bad in themselves (though you can bet they’re not top quality, organic or free range artisanally made sausage that’s been sliced up thinly…which would be the ideal); and you know the salad’s iceberg lettuce and cardboard tomatoes–also not the best); the cheese is not really cheese but what they are legally bound to call a “processed cheese food product”. Another variation on the edible oil products known above as margarine or shortening.

Then there are the dressings, which are slightly more liquefied versions of the above-mentioned edible oil products known as margarines and shortenings, once again “flavoured” with MSG in its variety of other aliases. And, often, sugar. Or worse, aspartame, potassium acesulfate, or Splenda. I think by now everyone knows what dangers these pose on the body, particularly for those with Diabetes I or II.

Look, lots of restaurants make good sandwiches, even hamburgers with real meat and condiments you don’t have to be too terrified of, which can include the use of real (albeit not the best) cheese–but at least it’s stuff they can legally call cheese. They’re just not going to be fast food multinational corporations, or chain restaurants in general. Imagine a fresh bun baked in a real bakery, whole grain (made from real whole grain milled flour, I know these bakeries are out there) filled with things like the kind of albacore or yellow fin tuna you’d by picky about buying, or even real prosciutto or cold cuts (or heck, tofu you’ve marinaded with a vinaigrette you’ve made using real olive oil, real garlic, real pepper/salt/balsamic vinegar/whatever) and good creamy goat cheese or raw milk cheddar or slice buffalo milk mozza and fresh greens with flavour (arugula, baby spinach, etc). They don’t really cost that much more, but they may require you make them yourself or at least sit down to eat them. And not in your car, either.

What is wrong with a subway sandwich? Other than there are better options in terms of taste.

As for beer, I don’t drink it. An very occasional Heineken or microbrew blonde, but Bud has never passed these lips. And it shall stay that way.