This paper is one of the last ones that I wrote and demonstrates how I was able to develop a voice in my writing throughout the course. In this paper my personal voice comes through a lot, through the sarcasm and the descriptions. I think I could improve some of my points. I think it is evident which of the sins I had researched more than the others. I am proud of this piece because one of my goals was to learn how to bring my voice through in my writing and I think this piece shows that I have accomplished this. I worked hard on the research for this piece and I think in the end this is a piece I could imagine seeing on theonion.com
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Fast Food
Everyone loves a good burger once in a while, and as many Americans become more and more accustomed to the idea of drive through windows and cheap food many of us seem to willingly oversee the sins the fast food chains are blatantly committing. As we all know no one should praise a sinner so before you spend that dollar on some deep fried death sentence consider these seven deadly sins you are only encouraging with your purchase.
Sloth- Let’s start off with sloth because everyone knows that lazy ass hole that spends his days doing absolutely nothing. Enter the breakfast burger brought to you by yours truly, Carl Jrs. Combine a fried egg, bacon, hash brown nuggets, cheese, ketchup, and a hamburger patty and slap that entire intestinal horror on a sesame-seed bun. How lazy do you have to be before it is too much of a hassle to eat your hash brown nuggets separately from the same action that pushes your burger/egg/bacon sandwich?
Gluttony- Where to start? After much consideration there was only one good example among the many to adequately take this category home, KFC’s Double Down Chicken Sandwich. Using two pieces of fried chicken instead of bread to make a sandwich? Who thinks of this crap? Has the fast food market really run out of ideas or are we that eager to indulge in both chicken fingers and the burger that we so desperately need it combined into one?
Lust- While few find it attractive to be 300 pounds and obese, the fast food companies have still made it a point to touch every man’s most important parts. For example, the BK Super Seven Incher ad that features a woman with a disturbingly close resemblance to a blow-up doll about to down, well… a Super Seven Incher. The ad’s sexual imagery is so amateurishly blatant they might as well have written “Hey, see what we did with the phallic sandwich and the girl here?” in bold letters along the bottom. Oh wait… they did. They added “It’ll BLOW your mind away” beneath it. Do they really think we missed it with the picture? And the name. Really? Didn’t the uncontrollable giggling at the sandwich naming meeting tip you off that maybe you should go in another direction?
Wrath- almost everyone has seen Morgan Spurlock’s documentary about food excess: Super Size Me and sure that sparked some anger, but as if it’s not bad enough much of fast food marketing encourages lousy eating habits, but you have to wonder what marketing genius gave the thumbs up to the new non-alcoholic Burger King Mimosa (orange juice and Sprite). It’s probably a genius idea to have your child drinking Mimosa’s at the age of 5 because that won’t cause any problems in the future. And when parents were in an uproar they calmed everyone’s anger with a simple fix, including it as an option with your breakfast sandwich.
Greed- The whole fast food world is made up of greedy people. Greedy people that want your money to greedy people that want to eat a lot and not have to pay for it. Fast food companies profit off of the greed in people. They enable people to over eat with things like the dollar menu and other specials where for four dollars you can have your heart attack, diabetes and premature death all at once.
Envy- When was the last time you dined at a McDonalds’s and didn’t see the creepy clown grinning at you, with his super red lips and his thin figure? You know he never ate one of those burgers, not with that body he isn’t. He just stands around and encourages all the little kids to not only fear clowns, but to take chicken fingers from creepy old men too. It wasn’t long before Burger King was feeling a little jealous of McDonald’s success with mascots that they decided to introduce their own creepy man into the picture, The King. I’m not sure about you fast food folks, but if I woke up to a King in my bed with a breakfast sandwich my first instinct would not be to casually thank him and eat it. Not to mention the ads where he is standing outside the house playing music in some sort of Romeo and Juliet spin off. Really America? Really?
Pride- Take the KFC Frak Pack. Whether you are a recent Battlestar Gallactica fan or not it doesn’t take a genius to know the word “Frak” on BG basically translates to “Fuck.” They didn’t really try to hide it. Both start and end the same. If that’s not bad enough KFC comes out with their Frak Pack Sweepstakes, which logically then translates to “The KFC Fuck Pack.” KFC isn’t the only company who arrogantly assumes they have their greasy little fingers on the pulse of what is cool, but was the Sweepstakes a necessary addition?
So the next time you are enjoying your heart attack on a bun remember nobody likes a sinner.
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