Taking Stock of Fast Food

Published on Friday, April 18, 2008, by MiriamWolf / Edit Post

There are lots of jobs that are inherently dangerous: oil rig roughneck, lumberjack, convenience store clerk. But Keith Siegner, a Wall Street financial analyst has found a way to make research and numbers-crunching life-threatening.

As reported in the New York Post, Siegner, who analyzes quick-serve restaurants—that’s fast food to you and me—is spending a month eating nothing but fast food.

Hmm, I feel we’ve somehow heard this story before ...

Siegner acknowledges his debt to Mr. Spurlock, calling his project “Super Size Keith.” He’s been doing it since the beginning of April, and says he hasn’t gained any weight and his cholesterol and triglycerides haven’t changed. It’s a good way to publicize the fact that the sector he analyzes can provide meals that won’t obese you up—if you’re careful. Unlike Spurlock, who “supersized it” anytime he was suggested to, Siegner is a little more deliberate in his choices.

The Post notes that this was his menu for Monday, April 7: “Egg McMuffin, no cheese, no margarine; small OJ; half of Domino’s hand-tossed pizza with red peppers; 20 oz. Coke; McDonald’s southwest chicken salad, lite sesame ginger dressing and an apple pie.”

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  • Sounds like an interesting experiment, however, as I understand it, the portions at these resturants are out of control. To get proper nutrition (in terms of calories, b/c none of that food has any sort of nutritional value), you'd have to basically order items on the children's menu, and even then you'd need to severly modify them (i.e. "no cheese, no margarine").

    I believe the typical...+READ

    Sounds like an interesting experiment, however, as I understand it, the portions at these resturants are out of control. To get proper nutrition (in terms of calories, b/c none of that food has any sort of nutritional value), you'd have to basically order items on the children's menu, and even then you'd need to severly modify them (i.e. "no cheese, no margarine").

    I believe the typical consumer orders the "pre-packed" meals, like the Big Mac extra value meal (which contains more than 900 calories and nearly 50 grams of fat in the "medium" version) is not going to be healthy if they choose to eat a cosistant diet of fast food, even if they don't "Super Size"-COLLAPSE

  • Morgan Spurlock was a former actor who made more than one attempt at "making it" in Hollywood. He then decided that he would find the most calorie-laden food at the most well known Fast Food establishment and then take every one of their suggestions AND add dessert, even though he never actually wanted these things.

    Granted, he did want fame, and he got some of it.