Way OT: Chick-Fil-A NOT Coming to the Michigan Union
Chick-Fil-A is finally coming to the Michigan Union! I will not be surprised to see this become the most popular fast food place on campus. This is a victory for all Michigan students. Rejoice!
EDIT: This is certainly a hoax, given the website. :(
I don't know what all the fuss is about with this place..... other than the people who support them for unsavory reasons.
fast food joints! Best food is cooked at home!
Campus obesity rates will be approximately 10% higher. But happiness will likely be at least 20% higher so it works out in the end.
Doesn't Chick Fil-A have more decent healthy choices than most other fast food? Yeah, it's got the fried chicken& swiss cheese w/ bacon sandwich, but it's got grilled chicken and stuff too.
It's healthy in the way that McDonald's is healthy. In a word: no.
Is it "healthy" in the crunchy Whole Foodie cage free organic kombucha marinated quinoa tofu salad sense? No, but in the "don't get fat" sense, you're better off there than at just about any other chain (or non chain restaurant) on campus. Your standard Chipotle burrito or Jimmy Johns sub easily doubles the calories.
low calories does not equal healthy. 500 calories at a time of really bad food is still bad for you.
'low calories does not equal healthy"
In the context of obesity being the health problem in question it does
Most non-fast food joints will be as bad or worse on similar items. Zingermans has far higher quality, more "natural" ingredients, but eating there every day will make you just as fat and diabetic as any Chick-fil-A meal.
Calories, particularly from carbs, are what makes you fat and diabetic. Dietary cholesterol and salt may contribute to heart disease, though this is less universally true than once believed. Most everything else (given reasonable intake of certain necessary vitamins) is basically in the noise as far as overall health is concerned, as long as we're staying in the realm of established science.
Not all calories are created equal, someone eating 3000 good calories is going to be a lot healthier than someone eating 1500 bad calories. Leaner too.
This is simply not accurate
The calorie in/calorie out model is wrong and part of why the majority of our country is fat, that and the demonization of fat and the praise of grains (which is finally going away to some extent). You can eat as much as you want of real food and never get fat, or you can starve yourself with non-fat fake foods and diet sodas (and then inevitably binge because you can only starve yourself for so long) and remain fat or be skinny-fat at best. If the calorie in/calorie out model worked our country wouldnt be so horribly obese. 1 carb of sugar <> 1 carb of broccoli.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Uh, dude, excess calories get converted to fat, so unless the someone eating the 3000 calories (I assume you mean per day) is exercising enough to work them off, then they're not going to end up lean.
works out in the end. Unfortunately it's usually the rear end!
Chick-fil-A is like In-N-Out: a regional favorite that gets people gushing like its manna from heaven. It's not, but it's far superior to the offerings of most fast food chains. It's sort of like a good greasy pizza - terrible, but sometimes you have a craving that no highfalutin' artisanal fare will satisfy.
And views of the corporate head notwithstanding, the people that work there are consistently almost painfully nice. I've gotten better service at Chick-fil-A than at a lot of real restaurants. (Not sure this part applies to a campus location though, as the one at the ASU equivalent of the Union is turrible).
You mean people who support the hermeneutic of continuity?
They love Chick-Fil-A. Hard to understand why there are not more of them in Michigan.
I knew someone who was interested in opening a Chick-fil-a in Michigan and was told by Chick-fil-a (as of ~5 years ago) that they were focused on expanding in California and other western states at that time.
They actually have a page which gives the 10,000-foot view of their growth markets -
http://www.chick-fil-a.com/Licensing/Map#?map=growth
If this is current, Michigan is not a growth market by whatever metrics they employ, but the Northeast, Mountain West, the extreme southeastern US, and the more western half of the Midwest seems to be. Michigan and Indiana sit in some strange Chick-Fil-A deprived (although I think Oakland University has one) void here.
This has to be a hoax, then. Damn it.
Is just okay. It's a chicken sandwich (cooked in peanut oil, by the way, for those with allergies). Sure, they will claim to have invented it, but that doesn't make it the best one on the market.
As a southerner attending U of M, I have been slowly dying without any Chik-fil-A in the general viscinity. This is a major victory. Now if we could only get a Waffle House...
Can you imagine an In N Out on campus???
If we could even get one in the midwest, snag some on a road trip or something. The closest one right now is Texas as In N Out will only operate so far away from their meat processing plants.
I like the Animal burger. They have expanded into DFW metroplex. Who knows maybe in the next several years the Chicago and Detroit markets.
Meh, In N Out is decent, went there quite often when I lived in Cali. But after having a 5 Guys open up practically right next to my house here in the midwest, I can say that i much prefer 5 Guys as my favorite fast food burger place. Not even really close IMHO.
Tony's I-75 Restaurant. It's not a Waffle House but you'll feel right at home.
No to the Waffle House, there are enough late night drunk places around campus without having to add that brown and yellow house of internal discomfort to the mix.
are all simply Waffle House wannabees
Are you referring to their stance on gay marriage, or their unparalleled contribution to animal abuse?
and a little from column B
never been there... but will check it out next time i'm in AA.
Apparently there was a fake sign that went up last Spring about this same topic:
http://www.michigandaily.com/blog/wire/fake-signs-union-cause-stir-abou…
This is going to be huge for football recruiting!
http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/02/02/chick-fil-a-recruit-lineback…
Legit question - is there still a Wendy's in the Union? If not, my world is shattered.
But I guess good for Michigan, though I haven't had one of their sandwiches in years so I'm not sure if they are as good as the fans like to say they are. It feels like a regional chain that people talk up because its local and/or they haven't really tried anything else before.
I haven't been to the Union since school ended last week, but unless something dramatic has happened since then, your world is still intact.
Wendy's is still in the Union ....
Go Blue!
When I wanted Chick-fil-a in college, I drove to Toledo. Probably for the best though, as I would've been obese if it was on campus in my time
Edit: Looks like a prank
The tagline for that site is "Prank your friends by creating a fake news article. Get Started"
Damn it. This is disappointing.
The article says its going in the MUG but that would mean a tenant will be leaving. Ahmo's just got in there, Panda is still there, Wendy's still there, and Subway expanded to take around the corner, squeezing out Pizza Hut.
Maybe Ahmo's is leaving because they felt they didn't get enough traffic like they thought they would, or they're building a completely new counter in the back study room area.
Poor Oakland U., their only claim to fame was having the only CFA in Michigan but is having that taken away from them.
They just rebuilt the whole thing last year. The article is fake.