MickeyLuv'r
Well-Known Member
2. If pre-meal bread is so important... how come QS doesn't give it to you? When I'm in line waiting to order a turkey leg, they should come around with some bread.
Uh, your post makes no sense.
QS = everything served to you at once. The "Q" stands for quick.
Second, nearly every QS meal has bread/starch. A turkey leg isn't a meal, but I challenge you to find a QS meal that doesn't have any starch. Even entrée salads have tortilla strips or croutons.
As I said earlier, starch is cheap and filling. It expands when mixed with liquid. At first, it actually makes you more hungry; ideally, at the time you are ordering. Later, it makes us feel full and often sleepy.
That's the real reason bread and water are usually free.
Well, that and it is a very ancient custom. Sharing hospitality with guests was considered a sacred duty, in part because the stranger entering your house just might be a deity (or angel) in disguise. Sharing bread and water was a covenant of peace. In many parts of the world, this custom still exists.
Further, the cost of bread is incorporated into the cost of the meal, and well, they are in every meal because starch is cheap and filling. The trifecta of processed foods is starch+fat+sugar/salt.