All’s not well in our fast-food nation

OF COURSE, all this worry might count for naught, if we continue in thrall to what Bord Bia terms our “new, on-demand food service culture”. It certainly doesn’t bode well for the obesity crisis.

Earlier this week, the State food body reported that our city centres had reached “saturation point” for quick-serve restaurants, and said delivery-only kitchens were on the way.

Fast-food doyenne McDonald’s stirred the pot by launching its own home delivery service too.

Are we really all too lazy, too busy, too isolated or too demotivated to prepare our own food?

But hey, at least we’re still interested in the process. Apparently a new YouTube phenomenon of ‘Mukbang’ – a mash-up of muok-da (Korean for eating) with bang song (Korean for broadcast) – has brought millions of people the pleasure of watching people preparing food, and then eating it alone, in the privacy of their own homes.