Drive Through Please...

So you’re driving down the road and you start to feel those old familiar pangs of hunger. What to do.

It is not so much of a question here in nelson as we only have one true drive through restaurant. The rest of North America is not really the same.
The city of Baldwin Park CA., the home of the first drive through restaurants, has banned the development of any new drive troughs’.
Story here http://tinyurl.com/28ngcal

From John Rogers (AP)

"Amid complaints of obesity and lines of idled cars stretching into neighbourhood streets, this blue-collar town is banning new drive-troughs’ in hopes of shedding its reputation as a haven for convenient, fatty foods."

This has caused quit a stir in this town of 90,000 with 17 drive troughs, and debate.
for some there it is almost a way of life, you get up, the kids a re sick you left late, drive through breakfast, lunch time run a few errands, go to the drive through, stayed late finishing up that report?, grab something on the way home because you too tired to cook.

Do we really need to sit in our cars for everything? Cars were originally a way to get from a to b. faster than horses, they were not our offices, our dining rooms, our local watering hole.

We need a new out look on this.
Hey I am not saying ban drive through, far from it. When I travel, I like my Timmies.
What I am saying is that it should not replace a meal from home. You know how it is. We get up late every morning, run around getting ready for work and find that we have no time for breakfast, so we get in the car, drive down the road and pull into a convenient drive through and grab something to go.
Hey it's only 6 bucks right. Now multiply that by 4 days a week 24 dollars. for less than that and getting up a little earlier, you could have made that English muffin, egg, bacon/sausage thing with orange juice, and still had time to create a lunch with leftovers from last night. You did cook dinner last night right? No? Oh my.
Really it comes down to choices and moderation. If you want to sit in your car, waste gas, and eat what ever comes through that window. So be it.
Hey we all get jammed up some days.
You should think of the drive through like a treat, not a habit.
Now where's the nearest White Castle, I'm hungry.