- ISBN13: 9780395977897
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Are we what we eat?
To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. That’s a lengthy list of charges, bu… More >>
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Well, this is an interesting book. But I must say…
God Bless the Fast Food Industry! It represents all that is great with this country. If you don’t like fast food maybe you should leave America or are a Communist. Even EUROPEANS love our American fast food, fancy French restaurants are going out of business because the French know a good thing when they see it and can’t get enough Big Macs. Books like this are just wrong they say fast food is unhealthy and evil my brother eats nothing but fast food he’s 39 and healthy as a horse. I think Schlosser must be jealous of fast food success and that’s why he wrote this book. How sad.
You can go ahead and click “Not Helpful” but by doing so you’re admitting that I’m right and it scares you so much that you feel the need to censure me in some way. Go ahead, I am used to attacks by liberal nancy-boys.
Final ratings – 1 out of 5 stars.
Rating: 1 / 5
did anyone else notice that Arby’s is not mentioned at all in this book? Does anyone find that suspicious? It’s not even in the index…
Rating: 5 / 5
because this book is too sickeningly long and boring for anyone to finish.
I did not think an avalanche of facts and observations could be bad until I read this pathetic excuse for a New York Times Bestseller.
Rating: 1 / 5
I usually never eat the fast food, especially MacDonalds because it taste no good. This book expalins not only the process of the production but behind the fast food business scene, which makes this book interesting. Schlosser did lots of reserch to create the fast food business, which made MacDonalds the king of the fast food chain. And for example he explains the secrets of his success such as why the French fris tastes so good, etc.
However he states only the bright side, and not the dark side. For me it is a little sharrow. I wish he had gone deeper.
But after all this book does not convince me to eat at MacDonalds.
Rating: 2 / 5
If you’re expecting to read anti-capitalist diatribes commonly found from the political left, you won’t be disappointed.
For example, the author quotes a sociologist (no doubt yet another of the leftists that infests our nation’s universities) as saying “… the fast food industry [celebrates] a narrow measure of efficiency over every other human value.”
The author himself decries the allegedly “low pay” of the industry. Think about the valuable work experience gained the mostly young workforce gains. I wasn’t underpaid making less than $4 an hour as restaurant worker when I was 17 years old — if I had been, I could have easily found employment elsewhere for more money. Also, nobody forced me to work in a restaurant — it was the best option available to me, and I took it. Best of all, I used the experience there as a foundation to attain bigger and better jobs.
I could go on, but astute readers will get my point. Freedom, capitalism, and individual rights are the American way. You don’t like that? Take this book with you to Cuba or North Korea and enjoy yourself in those anti-capitalist utopias… and tell Comrade Schlosser hello when you arrive.
Rating: 1 / 5