(The Dark Side of the All American Meal)
I'm sure most of you have read it, but for those who haven't, there's a reason why Fortune Magazine voted it the "Best Business Book of 2001." it details the rise of fast food, from legitimately ran businesses, to multi-billion dollar industries, and goes into great detail of how the fast food industry gets its food.
Here are a few points from the book:
1) if Humans died out, and alien archeologists came by in a few thousand years, they would find nothing but gigantic piles of pizza boxes, McDonald's happy meals, and Burger wrappers.
2) The rate of raw products that come into processing is absolutely staggering. Like, disgusting.
3) The turn overrate for fast food joints is 90 days. (I could be wrong)
4) Fast Food CEO's are mean. Really mean.
You can find the Amazon link to this book
here. Have you read Fast Food Nation? Did it change your perception of American fast food?
(The Dark Side of the All American Meal)
Comments (20)
I read it a few years ago and it reenforced my view of fast food.
I'm pretty sure they'd find the fries and burgers that had been thrown away. Those things are so processed they don't really decompose.
I never eat fast food anyways. It's like pumping poison into your body. Why pay someone (though for a very small $1.49 fee) to slowly kill you?
yess.. fast food is bad. we get it.. but thats what your liver is for right? haha..
as long as its in moderation..
i've heard of it, but i just never got a chance to read it! maybe i'll pick it up next time i go to the bookstore
@acceptence@xanga - I agree. I can't resist my occasional six dollar burger.
@babyblue5201314@xanga - click the link and buy one! you can pick one up for $4~
I demand you read it!!!! or at least, read the wikipedia entry to get a good feel for it.
It made me reconsider eating at fast food places. I think in the past year I have ate at a McDonald's once or twice.
@Yipz - yes sir :] I'll get it when I'm in borders! :D
after reading that, i went vegetarian for 2 months and stopped eating red food dye.
We have this book. It's a good read. But it didn't change my love of fast food for one minute. It made me hungry for McDonald's, actually. However, just to be clear, I only go eat fast food several times a year, when we're traveling and it's faster to feed the family. We eat it so rarely that it's really a treat when we do go.
yes it WILL change the way you think of your daily life. i no longer support most fast food businesses. i didn't think that would happen before i picked up the book. i was just a little interested in how it all started.
@deprivation_now@xanga - haha i told people about that stuff and they didn't believe me
I'm more of a Chickfila/Panda Express person myself. Never had a fast food burger in my life. :P I'll give this book a read though. *off to eBay for a cheap cheap cheap copy*
I'm sick of the whole 'fast food is bad for you fatty bleh bleh bleh' bullshit. Something new please?
More like Fat F&$% Food. LOL
@DeadXTendencies@xanga - It's not bullshit.
I haven't read the book yet. I should. I watched "Supersize Me" in high school, though, and it was pretty interesting.
I've heard of the book but haven't read it. I've seen "Supersize Me" though. It gave me even more of a disdain for McDonald's than I already had.
An excellent read. The whole processed America thing, not to mention all the info on immigrant smuggling. Really opens your eyes...
After reading the book i cut redmeat out of my diet. eventually I became vegetarian but I have no strife against eating farm raised Happy Cows, chickens, which I dont eat because such things are hard to come by for me..But after being a vegetarian for a year now I find meat repulsive.
I read it in college (great book), it made me hate fast food but it didn't stop me from eating it. Then I read it again, watched Super Size Me, and also read Diet for a Small Plannet and The Ethics of What We Eat. After all that I said f--k it, I'm going vegetarian! And I've never felt better. Then, for my husband's birthday, he wanted McD's for breakfast so I bought it for him. Tasted like crap. He doesn't even like fast food anymore, and I thought he'd be the last person to give up his big mac.
@oro_nicolflow@xanga - It's true, after giving up meat, it some how becomes gross at the thought of eating it again.