By that definition Burger King is food, you can survive on it and gain enough nutritional value to allow you to grow.
Technically, dirt contains some nutritional value. So yeah, you are correct that fast food does contain some nutrition. Eating a diet of strictly potatoes will, technically, allow you to "grow" but like industrial fast food, will come with adverse health consequences. So the question isn't if it technically has some amount of nutritional value but whether it's actually good for you. Does the "food" allow you to maintain life and grow to a degree consistent with the average seems to me to be a reasonable definition.
A diet with a lot of fast food is nutritionally poor and full of many things such as sugar, salt, and saturated fats that cause long-term adverse health consequences. It's been linked to everything from a lower capacity for memory and learning to diabetes, heart disease and of course obesity.
There is simply no way that you can say that fast food is "good" for you or that it should be eaten routinely. Making the clear distinction that fast "food" is not food to the same degree as a healthful diet is one of the best things you can do for community health.
any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth
Fast food in general is neither nutritious nor does it particularly maintain life and growth. Arguably it does the opposite.
Mainly fast food is a profit center for the industrialized food chain. It's designed to maximize the extractable value from cheap raw ingredients through extensive processing and to provide a sustainable revenue stream for large corporations by fucking with your body's natural taste and diet control mechanisms.
If you want good food fast then you are far better making it yourself or if you are not able to do that, finding a taco truck or similar independent vendor who does not rely on highly processed crap disguised as "food". In many parts of the world street vendors are common and personally I want to encourage that as much as possible.
People want to make my comments out to be some kind of elitist blah blah whatever when in fact they are the opposite. My desire is to strongly encourage people to maintain their food independence and health and to stop supporting huge corporations out of convenience and ignorance.
Different people have different challenges. For me ASD is both very challenging at times but also a superpower.
since unemployment is so high.
It's not though. Currently 4.2% which is on the low end of historical averages and what is considered "normal". Not to discount your point but just to counter the ongoing narrative - largely false - about the current economy.
On the one hand as someone with ASD, yeah, I would have loved to have a little more understanding growing up but on the other you do not get a free pass just because you are some flavor of "special". Everyone is special. Everyone is a weird combination of neurotypcial and neurodivergent it's just a matter of degree and how it's all put together. When you say someone is neurotypical... how do you even know?
When you say that something is not your fault because you are neurodivergent did you even try to find a work-around? Did you try to find away to make the other person more comfortable? Did you try to exercise the understanding you demand of others? Or did you just say you don't have to?
As we like to say here in Ummerica: All hat no cattle.
People love violence and extra judicial killings "in the name of justice" as long as it's on TV or the internet and they are nice and safe at home. Guns? Yeah, fun to go pew pew in the backyard or parade around with. But actually get involved or do something like stand up to an authoritarian government? "Ha ha no thanks you first."
You interpret describing cooking as a basic life skill as "looking down on people"? Or did you mean describing fast food as not actual food? Both are very strange to me.
Fast food is junk "food" of low nutritional value at relatively high cost compared with quality food you prepare yourself. Saying this is less than ideal is equivalent to advocating for any healthy practice. It's not elitist or "looking down on someone" it's suggesting it's freakin' easy to take care of yourself and you should.
Hyponatremia is actually a thing. A very bad and dangerous thing.