FREEWAY: People say
that today's young people like nothing apart from "fast food"; do you
think this is true? and what do you think of fast food?
GORDON:
I don't
have anything against it, really! It's O.K! I mean, you hear people
saying it's all junk
food, but most of the time it tastes good. Though
I wouldn't want to live off it all the time!
DANNY:
Yeah, if you
mean hamburgers and whatever, there's nothing wrong with them. They're
good food! They fill you up; and that's what food's supposed to do,
isn't it? I mean there's meat, vegetables and bread and cheese; as far
as I'm concerned, that's a pretty
balanced diet.
GORDON:
Yeah, hamburgers are all right. I mean, my mum says it's all junk, but frankly
I can't really see what makes it any different from the stuff
she cooks. I mean bread's bread, isn't it, and steak's steak, as far as
I'm concerned.
KATHY:
I tend to agree. Like, personally I'm not all that
keen on
hamburgers - they just make you fat - but if you go to a McDonald's or
somewhere like that, you can get salads and things too....
JO:
Well yes, 'course you can, but that's not the point,
is it? I mean the thing about junk food is that it's all deep frozen,
it's never fresh....
KATHY:
What d'you mean? You can't get deep-frozen salads...
JO: Well maybe not
the salads... but the rest's all deep frozen industrial stuff.
GORDON:
But so's most of the food you get these days...
JO:
It isn't at all! What about all the organic
stuff, and fresh meat and things like that.
GORDON:
Yes, OK... but who says its any better than deep frozen stuff?
DANNY:
It certainly doesn't taste better, and it's much more hassle.
FREEWAY:
Don't you eat fresh food at home then?
DANNY:
Yeah, of course, from time to time; but most of the time my mum does
stuff out of the deep freeze. It's good!
JO:
what sort of stuff?
DANNY:
All sorts of stuff. Pizzas, fish fingers, lasagna, things like that.
JO:
You're not really suggesting that deep frozen pizza's as good as the
real thing, are you?
DANNY:
What d'you mean 'the real thing'? Deep frozen pizza's perfectly real,
and fine by me... once it's been
heated up, I mean!
KATHY:
Anyway, who eats home-made pizza at home anyway? No-one does! D'you?
JO:
No, 'cos I'm a vegetarian!
KATHY:
That doesn't stop you eating pizza, does it?
JO:
It depends what kind of pizza it is, doesn't it? I mean I love a good
vegetarian pizza.
DANNY:
D'you eat cheese then?
JO:
Yes, I'm not vegan.
GORDON:
I think
you've got to be sensible about it really: like as I said, I like
hamburgers, but I wouldn't want to go round eating them every day; and
there's some things that are better than others, obviously. I mean,
look at chicken nuggets f'r instance. People think they're eating meat,
but they're 90% nugget and only 10% meat. I reckon things like that are
a rip off; you're really being conned!
JO:
But it's the same with all junk food, isn't it?
GORDON:
What d'you know about it? You just said you were a veggie!
JO:
Yeah, I am now,
but I didn't use to be! If you want to know, the reason I went
vegetarian is because I got sick of tasteless junk food.
DANNY:
Maybe you ate the wrong stuff! Most of the things I eat are pretty
tasty, to be quite honest!
JO:
Yeah, I'm sure they are! But it's all done with chemicals and
flavourings, isn't it? You never know what you're eating!
DANNY:
So what, it's not poison, is it? You can kill yourself by eating
poisonous mushrooms, can't you, and they're quite natural...
GORDON:
And organic....
JO:
Well look at mad cow disease...
GORDON:
Well that
was an extreme case, wasn't it? An' anyway, how many people have caught
it? About twenty! Probably as many as died from eating bad fruit....
