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My idea of fast food is a mallard. -- Ted Nugent
Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food. -- Lloyd Kaufman
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. -- Andrew Weil
Doing this movie [Fast Food Nation] made me realize that our bodies are digesting things that it's not meant to digest. It's pretty bad for you. The cast is [now] very, very aware of where we get our food and what we put in our bodies. -- Wilmer Valderrama
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. -- Amber Tamblyn
It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read. -- Wilmer Valderrama
Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article. -- Eric Schlosser
When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years. -- Jacques Pepin
Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my journey into the prison world. I'm not using myself as any kind of narrative link. -- Eric Schlosser
Don't run I never liked fast food -- Rachel Caine
Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza. -- Luciano De Crescenzo
I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza. -- Trevor Donovan
If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food. -- Nicholas Hoult
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk. -- Jamie Oliver
I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor. -- Eva Mendes
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. -- Bill Gates
Sorry, I don't eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle. -- Keegan Allen
By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity. -- David H. Murdock
If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden. -- Bill de Blasio
When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet. -- Mike Trout
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. -- Naomi Klein
I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food. -- Leah LaBelle
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
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel. -- Anthony Bourdain
If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees. -- Joel Salatin
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
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
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
I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate. -- Ryan Lochte
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
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
Studies have found that preparing your own food is usually healthier and less expensive than buying fast food. But most people just don't have the time. -- Eric Schlosser
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
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
America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better. -- David Chang
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
I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger. -- Jonny Wilkinson
As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that. -- Anthony Bourdain
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
Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns. -- Triple H
Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman. -- Barry Long
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
My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty. -- Kate Walsh
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
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
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us. -- Anthony Bourdain
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse. -- Wale
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
I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album. -- Estelle
It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food. -- Julia Sawalha
I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that. -- Alice Waters
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
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
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option. -- Alison Sweeney
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. -- Willa Cather
Around every corner lurk greasy Fisherman's Platters that give children nightmares, Naugahyde minute steaks that put tofuburgers in a favorable light and all those ubiquitous fast-food indigestion huts -- Bryan Miller
I eat fast food all the time. -- Jessica White
I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed. -- Pete Townshend
The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards. -- Rich Hall
For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore. -- Ted Nugent
I don't go to fast food restaurants anymore. That's out. -- Mike Conley, Jr.
I don't eat fast food - and neither should you! -- Kendall Schmidt
To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. -- George Carlin
I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer. -- Paul Henderson
If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, -- Bill de Blasio
People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television. -- Dean Winters
If you're a cannibal, an Olympic sprinter would be considered fast food. -- Jarod Kintz
I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food. -- Bear Grylls
I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet. -- Jonny Wilkinson
The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages. -- David Rolf
America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets. -- Anthony Bourdain
Plastic shoes are to the shoe world what fast food is to fine cuisine. -- Mimi Pond
What Ive been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets. -- Heather Mills
What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets. -- Heather Mills
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, -- Michael Pollan
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap. -- Alice Waters
I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever. -- Beth Ditto
Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food. -- Nikki Giovanni
I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken. -- Giancarlo Esposito
If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend. -- Chrissy Teigen
I'm not into fad diets; I'm not into depriving. I like fast food, and I like chocolate. -- Alyssa Sutherland
Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul. -- Suzanne Fields
Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England. -- Jerry Brown
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports. -- Eric Schlosser
If you think fast food is hittin a deer att 65 miles per hr.. you might be a redneck -- Jeff Foxworthy
Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions. -- David Rolf
Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay. -- Ed Westwick
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity. -- Naomi Klein
I'm boring. I stay home, watch TV, and eat a lot of fast food. That's really exciting, isn't it? -- Robert Pattinson
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect. -- Eric Schlosser
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. -- Joel Salatin
It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow. -- Bruce Friedrich
I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is. -- Ken Baumann
I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's. -- Amy Childs
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food. -- Douglas Coupland
But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around. -- Thomas Keller
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast. -- Mario Batali
I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together. -- Matt Lanter
The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil. -- Michael Pollan
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Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum. -- Aretha Franklin
Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast food. -- Tosca Reno
I don't really eat a lot of fast food, ever, but if I had to eat at one fast food restaurant, it'd be In-N-Out. -- David Henrie
Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that. -- Jami Attenberg
I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became. -- Eric Schlosser
I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony! -- Fergie
As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup. -- Jose Andres Puerta
[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same. -- Ani DiFranco
It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. -- Nicole Polizzi
It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food. -- Regis Philbin
Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices. -- Thomas Szasz
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t? -- Wilmer Valderrama
This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. -- Ray Kroc
When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure. -- Ryan Lochte
The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation. -- Alice Waters
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids. -- David Rolf
We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. -- Ken Robinson

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