We love to blame 'them' for the love handles on our waists, the double chin on our faces and even for us just being fat.
We blame 'them' for trying to lure young children to their door steps, leaving parents to deal with their kids begging and screaming.
And we blame 'them' for our own lack of common sense - one person in the United States went as far suing one of 'them' for failing to put adequate warning signs that their hot coffee might actually be hot.
We are too busy blaming 'them' for our own issues to notice that like everything, they too, have their good sides.
They are McDonalds, KFC, Domino's Pizza and other fast food establishments and they have had put some of the money we have paid them, back into their communities to help the same people that keep pointing their fingers at them in scorn.
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This year alone on McHappy Day, McDonald's helped raise 2.3 million dollars for Ronald McDonald House Charities - a charity that helps ease the financial burden and emotional strain for seriously ill children and their families.
In a recent campaign by pizza giant 'Something For Nothing', Dominoes donated 50 cents to 'Mission Australia's HUSH for Homelessness' campaign; people simply had to become a fan of Domino's on Facebook.
With 105,000 men, women and children homeless, 43 per cent being aged under 25 years, Domino's started the initiative to raise awareness and hopes to donate $10, 000 by getting 20,000 new Facebook fans.
And KFC managed to raise $950,000 in 2008 and tried to reach the one million dollar mark in 2009 to raise money for the 'World Hunger Relief' campaign - raising the shocking fact that every second, a child dies from hunger
However, critics say there is always an ulterior motive to the generousity displayed by such establishments - image and money.
A good public image means big dollars for such companies and even though they donate money, the investment in their image can cost much less than simply focusing on advertising the product.
But I would like to think that for those who are helped in Ronald McDonald Charity houses - or those who get a plate on the table and are fed - how the companies benefit is the last thing on their minds.
A helping hand is better than no helping hand, don't you think?