not to be like "can't relate, me I'm immune to propaganda" but this is so not my experience lol? I live near both a mcdonald's and a burger king and I do get them on occasion and when I do it's because I do want the specific experience of a mcdonald's burger or a burger king burger, which are distinct from a good burger. I can make a good burger at home, or I can walk to any of several equally nearby places that serve notionally good (or at least 'real') burgers. if I go to one of these places it's because I am looking for something that exists outside the realm of good and bad.
like if I get a whopper, I am not envisioning some mythical idealized whopper in my mind. I am like "I could go for a very heavily msg-laden burger with a thick slice of tomato in it that's bleeding all over the thing". they hit a certain place in the continuum of possible burgers. it's a place far away from what is aesthetically regarded as ideal for a burger, but sometimes the heart (or the stomach, I guess) wants what it wants. sometimes the soft animal of my body wants a fucking quarter pounder, god damn it.
I gotta be honest. Even this I don't know that I relate to. When I get a mcdonalds burger it's because I don't want to cook or spend more than $5
