Grinding It Out

I have gone kind of library crazy the past few days.

One of the books I just got out is called Grinding It Out and it is the story of Ray Kroc who took over the McDonald's Corporation and made it into what it is today. I am only on the first chapter, but I was quite taken with how he started the book out:

" I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems. It is a simple philosophy. I think it must have been passed along to me in the peasant bones of my Bohemian ancestors. But I like it because it works, and I find that it functions as well for me now that I am a mulitmillionaire as it did when I was selling paper cups for thirty-five dollars a week and playing the piano part-time to support my wife and baby daughter back in the early twenties."

I found the first sentence in particular to be almost ironic. Here is a man who says that we should each be responsible for our own happiness and responsible for our own problems. Yet, so many of us in this country blame McDonalds for making us fat and unhealthy. Is it really their fault? Is it not more my fault if I choose to drive up to their place and order a supersized meal of everything?

I am interested to read this book. It was published in 1977, so before the supersized generation sprung up. I stopped going to any fast food restaurant 6 years ago and I have no plans to start up again. But, I am curious to read the history of McDonalds.

For supper here, it's leftovers. Left over Indian chicken, vegetable biryani and naan bread. All homemade, from scratch, from last night. Yummy tummy!