Fast Food in a American Culture
What has the fast food industry done to our nation? Fast food has been around for a long time but in the past few years' people have been eating out at these fast food franchises quite. The average American probably eats out at a fast food restaurant four to five times a week (Murphy). People now are getting lazy and are not cooking nutritious meals for their families. Instead those families are going out eating fatty and greasy foods. There are many factors that have caused Americans to eat out such as advertisement. It is obvious that in today's society more heath problems are now arising due to this fast food craze. But first take a look at how fast food became such a popular way of eating and living. Carl N. Karcher is one of the fast food industry's pioneers. His life seemed at once to be a tale by Horatio Alger, a fulfillment of the American dream, and a warning about unintended consequences. At the heart of the story is southern California, whose cities became prototypes for the rest of the nation, whose love of the automobile, which gave people transportation to go out to eat, changed what America looks like and what Americans eat. By the end of 1944, Carl Karcher owned fou
twenty-eighth birthday, Carl's Drive-In Barbeque opened its doors. Once a week, he prepared the "special sauce" for his hamburgers. After World War II, business soared at Carl's Drive-In Barbeque, along with the economy of southern California. The first Carl's Jr. restaurant opened in 1956 (Schlosser, 18). The eating habits of American Kids are widely considered a good example of what other countries must avoid. American children now get about one-quarter of their total vegetable servings in the form of potato chips or French Fries. As survey of children's advertising in the European Union (EU) found that 95 percent of the food ads there encouraged kids to eat foods high in sugar, salt, and fat. The company running the most ads aimed at children are McDonald's A taste for fat developed in childhood is difficult to lose as an adult; it is like a bad habit (Luxenberg). With that when kids eat fast food they will most likely eat it when they are older. When Americans are out on the road they eat at fast food. According to a recent nationwide survey, only 56 percent of Americans try to eat healthy while on summer road trips, but a vast majority (81 percent) does eat fast food. The survey found that 63 percent of those who eat fast food on the road trips do so because it is a quick and easy way to get food. Commodity prices have fallen so low that the fast food industry had greatly increased its portions sizes, without reducing profits, in order to attract customers. The size of the burger had become one of the main selling points. Over the past forty years in the United States, per capita consumption of carbonated soft brinks has more than quadrupled. During the late 1950s the typical soft drink ordered at a fast food restaurant contained about eight ounces of soda; today a "Child" order of Coke at McDonald's is twelve ounces. A "Large" Coke is th
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