Fast Food Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Sugar, Corporations

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Food, Expression

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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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• 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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• 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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• The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Political, Insulting, Want

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Cheetahs, Antelopes

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.462, Hachette UK

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• Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

  David Rolf

  Wages, Working Conditions, Achieve

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs to society, are much too high. This cheap food, when you add up all the total costs, is much too expensive.

  Eric Schlosser

  Long, Add, Cost

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

  Eric Schlosser

  Favors, Sugar, Taste

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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