In San Bernardino, California, two brothers opened up one of these drive-in restaurants. You drove into the parking lot, a waitress came to take your order, and later she brought the food out to you on a tray complete with metal utensils, glass cups and dishes. In the 1940s, drive-in restaurants were becoming popular, especially around southern California. Near the beginning of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser wants to tell the story of where this cultural revolution started. 60 years ago, there was a greater variety of locally owned restaurants with higher priced food. We simply expect to find identical stores in every plaza, mall, and highway exit in the country.Īnd It’s hard to imagine that it didn’t used to be this way. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music-combined. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. The fast food industry has reshaped America And how has it changed the safety of our food, even what we buy in the supermarket?īy the end, you’ll know more about the food you eat (maybe more than you want to know!) But you will be better informed about how fast food is affecting your own health and the health of our society.ġ.What is the fast food industry doing to jobs?.Why has fast food exploded in growth over the past 50 years?.These are the questions Fast Food Nation explores in fascinating detail: Yet we don’t usually stop to think what fast food is doing to our local community, let alone the world. Many reviewers said they couldn’t put this book down.Īlmost all of us regularly go out to buy fast food, take off the wrapper and enjoy. The bottom line is: he writes about interesting things in an engaging way. He also wrote Reefer Madness which exposed the truth about the black market in America.
He’s best known for writing this book about the fast food industry. Eric Schlosser is an investigative journalist, often writing for magazines like The Atlantic and Rolling Stone.
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