Topic: Institutionalized fast food businesses
+cup !J8KdupVDQY — 13.6 years ago #18,620
What the fuck?
+Anonymous B — 13.6 years ago, 7 minutes later[T] [B] #227,056
wut
+Anonymous C — 13.5 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,192
wut
+Icarus !!kwaBAf77h — 13.5 years ago, 5 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,195
Book
FAST FOOD NATION. Schlosser
To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food business has triggered the homogenization of American society. Fast food has unleashed the malling of the american landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, spawned an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad.
That's a lengthy list of charges, but Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser has unearthed a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths
- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood, to the source of one major chain's flavors (the New Jersey Turnpike), to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. He also uncovers fast food's enormous efforts to reel in the youngest, most susceptible consumers even while it hones its institutionalized exploitation of teenagers and minorities. Schlosser then turns a critical eye toward globalization - one of today's hottest topics and a phenomenon launched and fueled by fast food.
Fast Food Nation is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history, likely to transform the way America thinks about the way it eats.
Just saying.
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+Anonymous E — 13.5 years ago, 7 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,196
like Wendys?
yummmm..
·cup !J8KdupVDQY (OP) — 13.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,201
@227,195 (Icarus !!kwaBAf77h)
I have to read that.
·Anonymous E — 13.5 years ago, 4 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,207
@227,195 (Icarus !!kwaBAf77h)
wall o text
+ !ToastR0A6k — 13.5 years ago, 49 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,208
@previous (E)
Conspiracy theory drivel is still drivel.
·Icarus !!kwaBAf77h — 13.5 years ago, 6 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,209
@227,201 (cup !J8KdupVDQY)
It was published around 2000 so a bit dated perhaps but undoubtedly still relevant.
·cup !J8KdupVDQY (OP) — 13.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,211
@227,208 (!ToastR0A6k)
Nothing about this is a "conspiracy theory".
·Icarus !!kwaBAf77h — 13.5 years ago, 23 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,212
@227,208 (!ToastR0A6k)
In 5 words - "You are what you eat."
· !ToastR0A6k — 13.5 years ago, 25 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,215
@227,211 (cup !J8KdupVDQY)
Conspiracy theory drivel is still drivel.
·cup !J8KdupVDQY (OP) — 13.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,217
@previous (!ToastR0A6k)
I don't even understand that stupid statement. Of course conspiracy theory drivel is still drivel. What are you trying to prove?
· !ToastR0A6k — 13.5 years ago, 56 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,218
@previous (cup !J8KdupVDQY)
If you're too dumb to understand a simple sentence you may want to try Hooked on Phonics.
·cup !J8KdupVDQY (OP) — 13.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,221
@previous (!ToastR0A6k)
What I mean is your statement is redundant. It's a blatantly obvious, random and malformed one. Your statement is drivel.
·Icarus !!kwaBAf77h — 13.5 years ago, 29 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,222
@227,217 (cup !J8KdupVDQY)
It means he eats little but fast food as he no longer realises that real food exists. This is the generation that, if, told milk comes from cows, comment "uugggh!!"
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+Omen !!hnQvReR0M — 13.5 years ago, 5 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,622
@previous (Icarus !!kwaBAf77h)
Really? I didn't think anyone was that stupid. If you have no idea what constitutes you diet, you should refrain from eating.
Forever.
+Anonymous H — 13.5 years ago, 21 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,642
@227,195 (Icarus !!kwaBAf77h)
> likely to transform the way america thinks about what it eats
hahahha oh wow. the truth will never have any effect on the way america thinks about anything.
+Anonymous I — 13.5 years ago, 13 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,651
@227,212 (Icarus !!kwaBAf77h)
> In 5 words - "You are what you eat."
clearly then, i'm a cunt
+Anonymous J — 13.5 years ago, 22 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #227,675
@227,196 (E)
fuck off wendyys is garbage.
chick-fil-a however...
·Anonymous E — 13.5 years ago, 12 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[T] [B] #228,130
@previous (J)
stfu....die in a horrible dickfire....ass..
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