Except then, you’re eating the crap Amusement parks serve. If you’re 80, and just looking for the door, then I suppose that would be okay.
It’s not all amusement park crap like cotton candy and fried dough. Depending on which one you’re at they have regular restaurant fare like burgers, chicken wings, tacos, deli type sandwiches, etc. It’s probably more salt than you want every day but that’s true of restaurants in general.
Hell, my now closed amusement park had plenty of options that would even have vegetables. Maybe not the healthiest of vegetables, but with choices like chinese beef-with-broccoli and such you could get a varied diet.
yhea, still not the best diet. but still ok.
Yeah, but funnel cakes.
Funeral cakes.
Funerals would be much more lively if there were funnel cakes.
You can also basically permanently live on a cruise ship.
Dead in months for sure.
Years. There was a dude who looked like tanned leather that had drainage lines sawed in, but he had been doing it for twenty some years. Insane.
“Across the street” is still like a half hour between home and food. This seems impractical.
Actually, it’s a win at that age. You get out of the house and can interact with lots of people, that’s something most old people need more of.
Still faster than cooking, too.
plus regular walking is incredibly important.
and most people, (not just elderly) are way too sedentary.
even if the food is the typical amusement park junk food, it’s probably better than being sedentary at home and driving to fas goods
Idea for a nonprofit: subsidized food, but it doesn’t deliver, and you have to walk really far to reach it. Like a restaurant in the middle of the woods where there’s no parking for two miles, at the top of a steep hill, etc.
Goodbye American obesity!
idea for a for profit.
a restaurant (in America businesses must have a minimum amount of parking). but we only have seating, all food comes from a rotating selection of food trucks that will occupy the parking lot, meaning you have to walk there to eat.
There used to be a spot near me that did exactly this. It was awesome.
Walking from the nearest house to Six Flags Magic Mountain takes around at least 50 mins. If you don’t believe me, check on maps.
That’s 50 mins of no shade, water, bathroom, or other pedestrians. If you get a heatstroke, you have few options. You can call an Uber and hope they are willing to illegally pick you up on the highway, pay for emergency services, or hope a good samaritan helps you out.
This isn’t unique to this location, this is just how almost all American amusement parks are. They are located somewhere out of the city for cheaper rent, with the expectation that everyone arrives by car. This is why they are surrounded by highways and have very few walkable paths and entrances on the outside.
I sadly await the future news report that thousands of retirees die from starvation when Six Flags enshittifies and then cancels their meal plan.
there should be laws in place, if you buy a season ticket, they can’t take things away that we’re expected upon purchase.
They’d just not include it in the next season…
that sucks, but acceptable at least.
