Where else did she eat? No way she drove all that way for one hotdog, a medium drink & medium poutine.
I noticed how she didn't even take the time to read the menu & quickly just picked her food without much thought because no one was handing it to her from a drive-thru window.
Chantal hates being seen out in public, especially in connection with food. She knows she's going to get gawked at for being so grossly fat, so she prefers being able to order from the relative seclusion and privacy of the Bingemobile. It's the same desire to not be gawked at that makes her go to deserted parks for her "walks" (seriously, there are much nicer parks in her area than that dull nothing of a non-place out by the airport, but there are other people there, so the airport it is).
Walking up to the window of a place that doesn't have a drive-thru exposes her to scrutiny by other people, which she finds mortifying. You can't tell me she doesn't imagine that everybody else is wondering just how much food Fatty Fatty Boombalatty is going to order for herself--and she's not entirely wrong. She's a fucking sphere, waddling up to buy hypercaloric shitfood, with nobody else in tow, so of course she's ordering only for herself. How much is this massive bitch gonna eat?
And in the face of that kind of shame, and the desire to retreat to the safety of her car, standing there to read a menu and come to the most satisfying decision isn't going to happen. When humans are anxious, they can't process information effectively, and that extends to reading unfamiliar menu boards. So she ordered the easiest, most obvious items, just to be done with it, and in smaller quantities and sizes than she would have felt comfortable ordering from the privacy of her car (where she can also preserve the pretense that she's buying food for multiple people).
But, there was a McDonalds right near there & probably many other places where she's comfortable ordering. Chantal likes big well lit boards filled with food choices, shouting her order through a speaker & holding her arm out a window to grab the bags.
McDonalds' menu is no doubt so familiar to her, she's able to order whatever she craves without any thought at all. Ditto, just about any other fast food chain she frequents. But an indie burger stand? That's just too much brainwork for her to do, even on a good day, much less one when there's a summer crowd staring at her, it's hot as fucking balls, and she hurts just standing there. She doesn't know the menu. She doesn't want to know the menu; she just wants to get back into the air-conditioned refuge of her car, away from people staring at her.
Notice how she doesn't eat out at regular restaurants any more, now that James is no longer buying her lunch (at some chain that offers huge portions) in exchange for rides to the comic book store? I think a similar thing has always been at work. She's visible to other customers, and there are no comforting barriers of car and drive-up window between herself and the waitress--which inhibits her ability to relax and order as much food as she wants. There's no reason she and James couldn't go out to eat, but they haven't done it since they moved in together. Any restaurant food they've eaten was takeout/delivery, ordered online/via an app.
I'm only left to wonder how many chicken nuggets did she eat on the way home?
Brothers, sisters--let us pray for the chickens, as Chantal is back on the rampage. Can I get an amen?
She has given us pootzin (thanks chantal) twice in a week. Her brain is so malnourished and shriveled that she can't even manage to be creative with her food anymore.
If you're going all out, you might as well eat a nice juicy steak, seafood, sushi, quality pasta, risotto, even gourmet grilled cheeses or sandwiches. That would actually make her channel slightly interesting. Hell, there's so much nice food in this world and all this whale can think of is something that my dog wouldn't eat of the floor.
It's been said over and over in this thread: Chantal doesn't want "nice food." She gorges herself on salty, greasy fast food slop because that's all she wants. "Nice food" would be completely lost on her.
