A Day In Sunday My Mom Thinks McDonald's Is A Fine Dining
The first time my mom tasted Mcdonald's...
This Sunday, I decided to treat my mom to something she has never tried her entire lives. It’s a breakfast meal from Mcdonald. For many of you, this is probably something quite the usual and something pretty cheap to buy. It's a different story with the way my mom thinks. Mcdonald is something expensive and something she would never buy unless it’s somebody treat. So, I grew up never eating this until I lived on my own and Mcdonald’s is like my kitchen at one point.
You can never go wrong with their scrambled egg and Mcmuffin. I don’t care about anything else in their menu and rarely eat their chicken options or others. All I care about is their scrambled egg and the Mcmuffin. So, that’s what I wanted my mom to try and according to her, it’s too expensive and the portion is too small.
I even have to try to hide the receipt from her because she would be shocked by how much our breakfast was costing us 😀but maybe she did a good thing as a mother back in the day because all these fast foods aren’t really good for us. Though I can see another side of the story as I ended up growing up as someone who once had Mcdonalds excessively as soon as I was nearing the source and it was something readily available.
After breakfast, I went to a cafe to get my coffee and listen to the usual Sunday sermon. I skipped for two weeks cause I guess I wasn’t in the right mind and was busy at one point too. This Sunday topic offers quite an intriguing topic on evil and morality. The pastor has a frame of work I’ve really never heard before and that’s why I like him. He was able to make sense of the two worlds, two polarities that his audience including myself grew up in. Physically and culturally we live in the east but through our education we are influenced by pretty much of the western thoughts and ideas. Philosophically, they differ and to make sense of the two, is another set of challenging work. It’s as if you can’t connect the two but rather build different bridges. He’s one of the few I heard who can make sense of the two after having lived in two different parts and that shows in the way he delivered his sermons.
During the sermon one of the quotes that spoke to me the most is this by Thomas Harris. The pastor connects it to the idea that evil doesn’t always happen because one is broken home, etc along the lines of the western thoughts. The same way in eastern culture where evil doesn’t always happen because of spirits or occultist practices. I couldn’t worded it better but basically that was along the line.
“Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.”― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lamb
Another thing that I was making notes on in my small notebook is that basically sin is complex. We can’t really reduce them to just two polars. One of the things that I also like about this pastor is how not only he’s gospel centered but also has quite an understanding of philosophy. Typically, sermons are just all about good stuff. It shouldn’t be like that and something I really avoid. As someone who used to explore this historically and even exploring the alternatives within this faith alone, he was refreshing, and adding something to my knowledge.
Not the best of my handwriting 😆 but that’ll do.
Anyway Sunday ends when it’s time for baking!
I made an edible cup filled with affogatoand that’s going to be the last of my baking shenanigans. I’ve baked quite a bit of things and I am sure my sugar levels are up too 😂 rather than doing it throughout the week, from next week and on, I’ll make it something that fits for Sunday. It should make its own series, like Sunday Bake or something.
That was my Sunday, how was yours?
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Mothers and their conservative thoughts on saving money instead of spending it on fast food. Smart move on hiding the receipt, if not, you would have done some explaining.
🤣 She found out and well she keeps yapping about how much expensive it was
Oops!!! You are in for a long one. Or do what I do, try to make her laugh and change the topic asap.
I feel like sharing with you a story. Months away from turning 21, I moved to Arizona to follow an uncle who offered me a high paying job. He promised I could make $300 a day or something like that. Keep in mind, we are talking about 24 years ago, so that was amazing money.
Anyways, the day I got there, the company I was to work for fired half the staff, and cut back on payments in massive amounts. Next thing you know, my uncle, his friend and me are sharing less than 50 dollars a day, and still having to pay gas, food, etc.
After a few months of this horrible life. My uncle leaves to Mexico (to see his family). Predicting the water in the well was drying up, I applied to work for the clown.
I worked for Mcdonalds corporate for 5, almost six years. Made it all the way up to Regional Trainer. But, and this why I'm sharing. Eating that food for that long messed me up big time. I went from being in good shape, to almost 300 lbs in that time.
In 2009 I'm literally dying. My brother rushes me to the hospital, because I can't even talk, the pain is that strong. In ER, I begin to die, literally die. The Doctors notice my skin color turning yellow. My Gall Bladder had ruptured. They give me morphine.
I'm high at this point, super high (morphine is magical), and I'm feeling friendly. I'm convinced I'm going to die, but I look up and I see this cute Dr Lady checking on me, as they are getting ready to operate on me. I ask her "Why am I dying, why did my gall bladder explode?" - she looks at me directly in the eyes... she says...
"You know that crap they serve at McDonald's? That's why..."
I fell asleep....
Woke up 12 hours later barely able to move an arm, they had to flush out my insides, the bile had spread everywhere and if they didn't flush me out, through my belly button (they deformed it) I would have died for sure.
As you can imagine... I don't touch the stuff anymore.
That's pretty scary experience and as much as that stuff is bad for us, their branding over here is something premium and I always find it funny 🤣 that in their origin, it's crap food. The thing is, where I am living, we never have this chain until early of this year, so the excitement of people all around is still all-time-high and my mom got curious too.
I've moved here about a year ago and without Starbucks or Mcdonalds around at first it sucked. We barely have any chains around here but later I learned to deal with it until Mcd comes back again hahaha and make it a lot more accessible to me again. It felt like detox for me and I guess, I am now less reliant on it.
Suppose, my mom was right all along not to feed us that stuff, it's scary how that could really affect our health.
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How sweet of you to get your mom something she’s never tried before!
I think it’s one of our dreams as their children to treat them to something nice too.
It really feels good, doesn’t it?
I giggled at the part where you hid the receipt HAHAHA
I do that all the time whenever I treat my family to GrabFood or take them somewhere new. They’d feel so guilty if they knew how much it cost 😂
I also don’t like sermons that focus only on the good stuff or only on the bad.
I recently attended a Sunday Mass where the priest got a bit political. Not many preachers do that, so I was kind of amused.
I treat my mom a lot for a long time now 😂 somehow I never thought about Mcdonald until recently. I got her addicted to Starbucks too and now whenever we travel, she always asks for it. I guess, it's asian mom stuff when they always complain about how expensive things are and how we could be better use it for something else 🤣
Honestly, I was never into community or church and prefer to do it on my own. I guess I just found the right one lately and I am really lucky for that. I didn't grew up christian but I found my way there. So, it's been pretty interesting journey.
Well, your handwriting is a lot better than mine Cem. there are times that I find it difficult to read my own writing, and shock with how bad it is. I am not a clever person as a doctor, but my handwriting is just a mess.
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Your kitchen is your mother's fine dining. Both of you just see things differently, especially the price range. haha I bet she would spend the money on other things than the breakfast at McDonals.
She already told me about how that money was better spent on something else haha. So, yeah she definitely sees this thing differently. Usually, I just need her to get used to certain things. At first she thought starbucks was too expensive and when it becomes normality, she wouldn't really bother much about it hehe
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@macchiata , hiding the receipt is such a Filipino kid thing to do 😆 I’ve done that too! Our moms just love reminding us about how many 'real meals' we could’ve cooked with that money 😂
I agree with your mother hehehe, especially in the small ration, but I love that you have taken her, so she could live the experience and say with propriety what she thought.
I have a hard time getting a pastor who is open minded, who really sees both sides of the coin. It's not all bad and it's not all good. @macchiata 🤗
I heard a lot such cases. It's challenging to actually find pastor that's open minded and see both ways. So, I was lucky to have found him :)
I also take this opportunity to congratulate you for giving your mom a new experience, those moments are the best in life.😉😊
I havent tasted Mcdonald before but i heard its amazing. i like the idea of you dedicating your sunday just for baking and sermon, some folks actually use babeque for thier sundays. me i just sit around all day taking care of the kids and engaging on hive
once in a while taste Mac Donalds is fine.
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I've been meaning to treat my parents but I haven't gotten around to it since I have been a little busy these days. I envy you got your Sunday to do that. It was really cute hiding the receipt to your mom, it showed you cared about her feelings and reactions about it, but you weren't good at hiding, though 😂
It's really a very luxurious place, very nice to sit and relax with family ❤️🙏
It’s amazing how something as simple as a McDonald's breakfast can be seen as a luxury for your mom. I love how you took her out of her comfort zone and shared a part of your life with her, It must have been such a fun and meaningful experience!😍
I loved reading this! So sweet of you to treat your mom to something new. I get how parents see McDonald’s as a big deal. That sermon sounds interesting too, especially the part about mixing eastern and western views, and the affogato in an edible cup? That’s very cool. I’m excited to see more of your Sunday bakes.