Not really about fasting per se but it must be related.
Ever since I started fasting like 6 years ago I’m finding McDs food just tastes like garbage. Before that I must’ve gone to McDs 4 times a week, at least. I was addicted to their fries in particular (like for 30 years). Since I started fasting, every couple of months I’d get a craving for McDonalds (must be a brainwash thing) and I am ALWAYS disappointed and I end up throwing the whole meal out after a couple of bites. The fries and the nuggets taste like cardboard. The hamburgers tastes like the paper it’s wrapped in.
I don’t think it’s a fast food thing either because I still eat the hell out of In n’ Out, Jack In The Box and Taco Bell. It’s just McDonalds that is absolutely unpalatable. I just hit the drive thru an hour ago and got a 10-pc McNuggets combo and I threw it away after eating like one nugget and a few fries.
Anybody else having this experience?
Yep
McDonalds took out all the stuff that made their food worth eating, in the name of being healthy. The thing is, that’s all they had. It was the bad stuff that made them successful. Now they aren’t good tasting and they still aren’t healthy. They should have just owned it.
Also if you eat healthy, your tastebuds change and then there is no appealing aspect to McDonald’s.
I don’t know about “cardboard” specifically, but I have a similar tendency to try Jack in the Box occasionally. I always used to love their food. After getting back on track with fasting/no sugar, fast food just doesn’t taste good. It’s like I can taste all the sugar and oil in everything! It’s way too much!
I also tried a frozen burrito from the supermarket, after going a long time without any processed food. I always thought of the burrito as a somewhat bland, but filling food. After fasting… it was almost too spicy. It wasn’t even a spicy food! Just way too much artificial flavor. It’s funny how our tastes change :)
I don’t eat at McDonalds - haven’t regularly since I was a kid. I do eat at Wendy’s when I want fast food, and it’s fine.
Now after years of not eating Twinkies or HoHos or any of those pre-packaged treats, I had one a couple months ago and they were awful. I’m not sure if it was my brain being reset from their taste, or if they’ve changed their flavor, but my god they were bad.
McDonald’s has been brainwashing kids for decades, so, unless you’re older than 60, if you grew up in the United States, then yes, you are brainwashed. The memories of school field trips and happy meals, fun times with your friends and family are all buried deep in your subconscious. Every time you get that craving you need to make a conscious effort to remind yourself that McDonald’s is garbage and you don’t need or want it.