[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db51.htm [1]: A fascinating read on the history and current affairs of the topic: "Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health"

It's put up there with the food you will get from other similar joints (KFC, Dominos, Papa Johns etc.)—not a bastion of good eating but nothing particularly inimical.

I think that's more related than "luxury food"

http://www.mcdonaldsindia.net/burgers.aspx

I get a quarter pounder, a side salad, and cup of water. It's a decent, healthy meal.

Especially when the alternative involves a caloric-deficit. While fast food like McDonalds is nutritionally sub-optimal, it cannot be understated how effectively they deliver much-needed calories at an affordable price. Even though this is accomplished with dubious subsidies and ethically-challenged animal farming practices, superior options are few when it comes to filling your belly with a few hard-won dollars.

Yeah... your Egg McMuffin probably has SOME egg in it, but that's about it.

[0] http://static6.uk.businessinsider.com/image/54c920c1dd08950d...

Apparently it is has 1/3 of you daily allowance of sodium as well.

McDonald's, as long as you approach the menu reasonably, is honestly probably one of the better fast food options - not something you should be eating every day, but once every couple of weeks probably isn't going to kill you any faster than anything else you do.

I don't think there's a race-neutral equivalent in American English, but "white trash" captures much of the spirit.

I don't think I've ever seen a hipster rocking the chav look.

This appears to have short term benefits (huge view counts), but surely it turns people off long term and impacts the brand.

They blatantly cannot do this unless they actually implement their real names policy. Which they won’t.

Facebook will probably be replaced with more flexible identity and social graph architecture that's more decentralized.

It's different from McDonald's because humans have to eat, and McDonald's can always pivot or acquire other companies to provide the type of food that's more in vogue, but what Facebook has created is equivalent to a nightclub. When a nightclub loses its reputation it's very hard to recover.

Whether or not we have reached the maturity with social media to make facebook as difficult to unseat as apple, adobe, microsoft, or google remains to be seen. But they will not just evaporate like the wonky myspace of old. Times have changed.

I personally think they have reached that level, and also do not use them because I greatly dislike social media in just about any form. But I am self-aware enough to know I am part of a tiny minority.