Big Mac vs. Pastie Slapdown
The Prince of Wales is getting to be a royal pain, flitting around the world, wagging his self-important finger, lecturing the commoners on everything from nutrition to the environment. If you will remember, he consumed thousands of pounds of precious aviation fuel to fly into New York, in order to receive an award for his decades of work promoting environmental sustainability and to raise awareness of global warming. As I remember it, the ceremony was postponed due to a blizzard.
Now, according the Telegraph UK, Charles is doing what he can to deny people the right to eat what they want by targeting certain eeeeeeevil foods and the capitalist pigs, who set up shop on the street corners and in the malls to deal the stuff to kids:
As nutritionist Nadine Tayara told him they discourage children from eating fast food, he retorted: “Have you got anywhere with McDonald’s, have you tried getting it banned? That’s the key.”
This guy is truly a useless appendage. I used to have a different opinion of the monarchy and, though it weathered the Diana debacle, this incident cinches it for me… these people need to hit the streets and earn their own bread. As it turns out in the article, his kids love burgers.
I suppose the real insult came with the graphic shown above from the article. It seems that the readers of the Telegraph like Cornish pasties almost as much as we do here in Nevada City and Grass Valley. In order to put MacDonald’s and the Big Mac into perspective, the journalist compared it to Prince Charles’ favorite country fare, the humble pastie, and sullied the reputation of our esteemed meat and potato pastrie. As you can see, the pastie is deadlier than the Mac. Does this mean Prince Chuck is going to begin calling for a boycott of pasties? Well, if he does, he’ll start a second American Revolution right here in Nevada County. They can have my pastie when they pry it from my cold, dead hand.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Those pasties are class.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat, now I’m hungry!
March 1st, 2007 at 5:48 am
Truth be told, I’ll take a pastie over a Big Mac any day and I was genuinely surprised that it was higher in fat, calories and carbs, while lower in fiber and protein… it makes Mac look like a legitimate meal. Either way, I have my right to eat either or neither.
Would that the Prince take on a boycott of something far more destructive… say, marital infidelity… I wonder, why doesn’t he speak out against that and for honesty and integrity?
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:07 am
I have never been a great supporter of the Royal family as you know Bo, the article regarding banning Mac Donalds is a surprise to me as I actually believe the Prince of Wales is a little more savy than that. I had the benfit of a grant as a teenager from the ‘Prince’s Trust’. It supports a wide variety of programmes and his other work is comendable but I’m with you on this.Kids need information, respect and a balanced view on things such as ‘grub’. Banning the corporate giant is nonsense but they should ban the blatantly unethical marketing campaigns that actually target certain demographics. That’s my ‘beef’ with fast food giants/cigarette companies etc. People have the right to eat and consume whatever they like, no-ones business, just level the playing field in the consumer education department.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:08 am
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