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Fast food.
I'm not saying there's exactly "hype" but it seems to have a permanent grasp on the minds of chronic users.
In 2025, with our knowledge of nutrition, people are still denying that it's basically hot candy disguised as food... people are still arguing that it's nutritional enough that is okay to eat.
No, it's the equivalent of cigarettes. Stop eating that shit, recognize it for what it is: addictive poison.
The only appeal of fast food was that it was cheap, but that's not even true nowadays.
Especially outside the US, for some reason Carl's Jr is insanely popular in Mexico yet its expensive and objectively worse than local burger shops.
In the same way that sugar/candy is physically addictive, fast food has been proven to have the same physiological effects. It’s literally an addiction.
Yep, and that's why users go berserk typically when I point out that it's basically hot addictive candy, not food.
Addicts go nuts when you tell them they can't or shouldn't have their medicine.