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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• The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

  Michelle Obama

  Fun, Thinking, Everyday

  "Michelle Obama: Obesity Campaign about Balance". The Associated Press, www.cbsnews.com. February 08, 2011.

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• Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

  Eric Schlosser

  Real, Taste, Cost

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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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• Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price. However, all the artificial flavors and artificial ingredients in some of their products are unacceptable. And it's designed so you can eat fast so you get back to work more quickly. Not good.

  Eric Ripert

  Numbers, People, Evil

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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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• Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.

  Mario Batali

  Smart, Mean, Wings

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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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• If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Needs, Starving, Bites

  "My favourite table". Interview With Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2007.

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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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• 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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• I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

  Star Jones

  Want, Sometimes, Forget

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Would Be, Chickens, Knows

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• If you think fast food is hittin a deer att 65 miles per hr.. you might be a redneck

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Thinking, Might

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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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• I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

  Colonel Sanders

  Funny, Drunk, Entrepreneur

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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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• 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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• 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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