Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

by Eric Schlosser | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0060938455 Global Overview for this book
Registered by narfinmagic of Freehold, New Jersey USA on 6/12/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by narfinmagic from Freehold, New Jersey USA on Saturday, June 12, 2004
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Journal Entry 2 by narfinmagic from Freehold, New Jersey USA on Sunday, June 20, 2004
This book gives the reader a candid, and at times disgusting view of the fast food industry and it's impact on many facets of American/ foreign societies. It will make you seriously reconsider eating fast food, processed food or most meat! Thankfully I do not eat at fast food places but I do eat processed/ frozen foods which I may also rethink!

Journal Entry 3 by narfinmagic from Freehold, New Jersey USA on Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Offerred to Busybooklover on the Reverse Relay at Casual Readers Relay site! Hope you enjoy it!

Journal Entry 4 by narfinmagic at Bookrelay in BookRelay.Com, Bookrelay -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Released 19 yrs ago (9/28/2004 UTC) at Bookrelay in BookRelay.Com, Bookrelay -- Controlled Releases

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Going out to BusyBookLover who posted on the Reverse RABCK relay!

Journal Entry 5 by busybooklover on Wednesday, November 17, 2004
I've had this a few weeks! I was updating my wishlsit and I couldn't find it on my shelf (I thought I journalled it!) Thanks so much for granting my wish!!! I read chapter one from a library copy but never was able to finish it.

Released 17 yrs ago (4/23/2006 UTC) at Friend in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA

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Took to meetup - it was taken as a replacement for a wandering book,.. I think. It will make Panera's menu even MORE appetizing I think. ;)


Journal Entry 7 by PokPok at Vista, California USA on Sunday, June 30, 2013
Picking this one up to read. More than a little embarrassed how long I've had it... such is the life of a book collector!!!

Journal Entry 8 by PokPok at Vista, California USA on Saturday, September 21, 2013
5 stars: I didn't particularly like it or dislike it; mixed or no real interest

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From the back cover: Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.

Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey turnpike, where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths--from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought on food production, popular culture and even real estate.

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Quite a lot of grandiose terminology for a book that I found not even remotely shocking. Why does it surprise people that fast food workers aren't paid well? Working long hours? Generally underage? Or that conditions in slaughterhouses are appalling? (Ok, I've read The Jungle). Or that franchises are more likely to go under than independents? (in large part b/c there are no filters--franchises can be within blocks from each other, thus competing against each other).

I did find the first section of the book on the founding of the industry to be interesting. Karl Karcher and the McDonald brothers are covered, as are the founding of In-N-Out and Jack in the Box. I found one tidbit downright fascinating--- that McDonald's holds the most real estate in the world and actually considers itself to be in the real estate business--that by selling hamburgers, the franchisees are able to pay the mortgage.

Not surprising. Not bad. But not surprising, earth shattering, seismic, or any other hyperbolic phrase.

Journal Entry 9 by PokPok at Panera Bread, 401 Vista Village Dr. in Vista, California USA on Monday, April 21, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (4/21/2014 UTC) at Panera Bread, 401 Vista Village Dr. in Vista, California USA

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