An epiphany at McDonald's
Free WiFi that's the main reason I go to McDonald’s but I also eat something there and recently I've decided I want to be healthy. Dr. Wallach says never eat fried food. Now that's just not easily done especially at a fast food place. O.K so I looked at the menu and come across the Chicken Snack Wrap, which you can get grilled or crispy (i.e. fried, now not a valid choose for me) with some flavorful sauces. I like the chipotle-barbacue. So for the past couple of weeks I've been getting hooked on this new “better” habit. So far so good but I do have concern about the tortilla, which we eat way too many of here on the border. At least it seems to be less bread than a bun.
Crisis, confusion, perplexity arise with my order one fine evening Sunday. My CSW is made with ranch dressing instead of my favorite chipotle-barbacue sauce. Oh, the horror of it and the piece of chicken was puny to boot. Up to this time all my previous orders have been delightfully delicious being a satisfying value. Though I am loathe to complain it can't be helped due to the uneatable ranch dressing. I explained the situation to the young manager and he said he'd get me another one. But something got lost in translation as the next CSW was made with ranch dressing still and the meat had been changed to “crispy”. Again I explained the travesty to the manager and he agreeably offered another. Finally, my CSW came out grilled with chipotle-barbacue sauce but by this time I was obsessing. So I mentioned to the manager that I thought the meat portion was small as on other occasions I'd gotten a CSW that was overflowing with big pieces of chicken so that I'd become rather addicted to the CSW and had high expectations. He offered to make me another one and let me have the one with the little pieces of chicken. Nice.
Well, all this nonsense got me to rethinking my choose. Was it really more healthy than what I'd been ordering before? Verification was in order so I asked for a nutrition brochure that McDonald's has on their products. Caloric value for my CSW is 260, which methinks is not too bad but could that be improved I pondered. The manager brought me the make the customer satisfied CSW and I thanked him and then opened it up. It was grilled chicken thank goodness but it had the the ranch dressing, ugh! Well, I just was not going to go back and complain any more so I had to come up with another viable solution. That's when I had my epiphany at McDonald's. I asked for a fork and ate the chicken only and I realized that I could do it this way each time with this order. I remembered a suggestion I heard on the Dr. Wallach show that next time would reduce the caloric value even more. Here's what I'm going to do. I'll order the CSW dry, i.e without any sauce and ask for a fork. I will then also ask for a single serving cup of chipotle-barbacue sauce which I will dip my fork in, to get the taste of my favorite sauce and then eat just the chicken, lettuce and the little bit of cheese leaving the tortilla for the birds.
Agape, Daniel
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