What I eat

What don't I eat? Well, lots of things actually. My diet - my van diet, that is - consists mostly of bread and bread-like foods. Crackers, chips, cookies, etc. And apple juice. For some reason I've been drinking a lot of apple juice. Oh, and chicken. A few times I've made it a point to locate and consume some sort of food-like food substance. This has come to mean (mysteriously) chicken. I don't know why.

Unless I do. Chicken feels relatively safe. We're talking fast food here, and fast food can be tricky. I guess the problem is that it sucks, and there are certain foods that, when sucky, suck more than others. Burgers are kind of hit-or-miss. Maybe it's because I eat more burgers than chicken that I'm fussier about them, but it's hard for me to find an acceptable cheeseburger at a fast food restaurant. McDonalds is of course a tragedy. I'm not one for making promises, but I think it highly unlikely that I will ever again consume a McDonalds cheeseburger. Every couple of years I'll do the fries, but that's where I draw the line. Even I have some standards.

Burger King isn't as bad. At least theirs have a pleasant flavor. But still, they're so gross. All slimy and nasty. Just... no. Ditto on Wendys. Those are actually the only fast food burger joints with which I'm familiar. At home, I'm a Tom Wahls fan. I like their crinkle-cut fries, too. Because they're crinkle-cut. And fries, which is all it takes for me. But there's no Tom Wahls here, and I just don't have much faith that I'll somehow blindly fall into a positive fast food burger experience.

I'm not even going to discuss fish.

But chicken... chicken is easy. How bad can it be? I mean, I won't eat KFC, but that's just psychological. When I look at a fast food chicken restaurant I think: Eh... why not? So twice I've eaten at a place called "Bojangles" and two nights ago I went to Chik-fil-A for what I thought was the first time, but my mother says no. She said we used to go in Atlanta when I was a kid. Who knew? (By the way, I've known about Chik-fil-A for a lot of years. I've driven by many hundreds of them on many road trips, I've just never gone in. So fine. But the thing is: I only worked out within the last couple of years that it's meant to be pronounced "chick filet". I never knew. I always wondered, but I never knew. In my head, it sounded like "chick fill uh", and I knew it couldn't be right, but I couldn't think how else to say it. I'm an idiot.) They put pickles on their chicken sandwiches at Chik-fil-A. Did you know this? I thought it strange, but you know me - I like to go with the flow, so I ordered one. A sandwich, I mean, not a pickle (although, as I said, the pickle comes with the sandwich). It was good. I liked it. It was chicken. How bad can it be?

Anyway. Chicken. Fast food chicken has become my nod to healthy eating. I guess that was my point. Pretty gross.

I'm hungry.