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Fast Food Nation
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| A_M_8 |
| Has anyone read this book? I have to do a paper on it and the book is pretty idsgusting. i dont think ill ever eat mcdonalds again... who has read it? opinions? i need different viewpoints for my paper :D |
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| MezzicanTrancEr |
This guy seems to love mcdonalds...
Man eats 20,000th Big Mac
7/20/2004 10:44 AM
By: Associated Press
FOND DU LAC, Wis. -- He's already hit the record books, but his appetite is still strong.
A man in Fond du Lac, Wis., downed his 20,000th Big Mac yesterday, as a crowd of people watched at a local McDonald's.
Don Gorske first made the Guinness Book of Records for eating a record number of the sandwiches when he hit number 19,000 in March 2003. He also appears in the current hit documentary Super Size Me.
Gorske has been eating Big Macs since 1972 at a rate of at least one a day. He also says he's eaten a Big Mac from every state in the union.
The six-foot Gorske has maintained his weight at around 170 pounds. |
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| jrbuddha |
| Book have anything to do with the movie "Super Size Me"? |
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| Yan |
| Ugh. I'd rather not know how bad what I'm eating is. ;) |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| yeah its an amazing book...highly recommend it to everyone |
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| Arbiter |
I've read parts of it and wasn't too impressed. Schlosser is a classic Nietzschean "wise man," garnering acclaim not through any particular insight but merely by doing a good job of defending already popular prejudices. It's all the same nonsense - either it's the popular notion that it's fast food's fault that we're fat, not the fact that we sit on our asses all day, or it's the tired and largely obsolete (not to mention totally irrational) "Jungle-esque" criticisms of the meat-packing industry and the E. coli bogeyman. And don't forget to include the claim the fast food juggernaut has contributed to American "cultural imperialism" abroad. Why let little facts like that fast food only flourishes abroad because people abroad choose to eat there on a frequent basis rather than choosing to eat at more "traditional" restaurants interfere with your quest to gain personal acclaim by capitalizing on popular but misguided notions?
Schlosser is a talented writer but he isn't a talented thinker. He just jumped on the anti-fast food bandwagon to make himself some quick cash: not too unlike the behaviour of those big bad corporate demons he's so quick to deride. |
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