Fast Food Quotes

• My idea of fast food is a mallard.

  Ted Nugent

  Funny, Food, Hunting

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Popcorn is one of the only situations in which you eat the result of an explosion.

  Demetri Martin

  Popcorn, Explosions, Results

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2013

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• Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

  Andrew Weil

  Food, Health, People

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• McDonald's is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl's face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.

  Ray Kroc

  Girl, Mcdonalds, Order

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.139, St. Martin's Griffin

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• If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

  Jamie Oliver

  Design, Support, Junk

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

  Eric Schlosser

  Running, Men, Hamburgers

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000.

  Robert Kenner

  Years, Way, Lasts

  "Food, Inc". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sports, Sarcastic, Cancer

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• In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

  Bill Gates

  Men, Deep Understanding, Culture

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• Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.

  Eric Schlosser

  Attitude, Technology, Thinking

  Eric Schlosser (2002). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, Harper Perennial

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• Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

  Neal Barnard

  Meat Consumption, Hands, Use

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• A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about half of the money used to buy food is spent at restaurants--mainly at fast food restaurants.

  Eric Schlosser

  Home, United States, Meals

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

  Bill Watterson

  Christmas, Xmas, Beer

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Comic strip by Bill Watterson, November 18, 1985 – December 31, 1995.

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• They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

  Willie Aames

  Daughter, Heart, Ice Cream

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• The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

  Eric Schlosser

  Food, Practice, Trying

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 14, 2006.

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• Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

  Mindy Kaling

  Order, Important, Comedy

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• The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Oil

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• Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.

  Eric Schlosser

  Children, People, Marketing

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• One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean, we subsidize high fructose corn syrup. We subsidize hydrogenated corn oil. We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize four crops that are the building blocks of fast food. And you also have to work on access. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Block, Distance, Mean

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• The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.

  Anna Quindlen

  Soccer, Country, Children

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• There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Kitchen, Becoming, Culture

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• For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

  Bobby Flay

  Moderation, Carbs, Kicks

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• Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

  Lois Capps

  Children, School, Cafeteria

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• The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.

  Eric Schlosser

  Mcdonalds, Ethos, Circles

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• I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

  Colonel Sanders

  Funny, Drunk, Entrepreneur

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