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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
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
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
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
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
If someone said, 'You've got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,' I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken. -- Danny Meyer
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
My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place. -- Steve Aoki
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. -- Jeremy Rifkin
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
When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry. -- Dolly Parton
We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together. -- Mehmet Oz
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover. -- Alex Kapranos
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
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn. -- Michael Pollan
In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, 'Look over here! Look over there,' we don't really take the time to sit down and enjoy music - or anything else, for that matter. -- Chris Stapleton
Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it. -- Holly Madison
I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store. -- Eleanor Catton
As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is minimal. It costs money to cart away fat (although now that fat is being turned into energy, it can make money). -- Rose George
I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure. -- Carl Honore
In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
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
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator. -- Paul Hawken
For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy. -- Fergie
I eat fast food all the time. -- Jessica White
Don't run I never liked fast food -- Rachel Caine
My idea of fast food is a mallard. -- Ted Nugent
The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards. -- Rich Hall
I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed. -- Pete Townshend
I don't eat fast food - and neither should you! -- Kendall Schmidt
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.
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
To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. -- George Carlin
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 don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer. -- Paul Henderson
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
Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food. -- Lloyd Kaufman
Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food. -- Nikki Giovanni
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. -- Andrew Weil
If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend. -- Chrissy Teigen
If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food. -- Nicholas Hoult
I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken. -- Giancarlo Esposito
Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England. -- Jerry Brown
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk. -- Jamie Oliver
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports. -- Eric Schlosser
I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor. -- Eva Mendes
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. -- Amber Tamblyn
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. -- Bill Gates
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
I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay. -- Ed Westwick
Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions. -- David Rolf
If you think fast food is hittin a deer att 65 miles per hr.. you might be a redneck -- Jeff Foxworthy
Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
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
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity. -- Naomi Klein
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. -- Joel Salatin
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect. -- Eric Schlosser
If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden. -- Bill de Blasio
I'm boring. I stay home, watch TV, and eat a lot of fast food. That's really exciting, isn't it? -- Robert Pattinson
I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's. -- Amy Childs
I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is. -- Ken Baumann
It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow. -- Bruce Friedrich
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food. -- Douglas Coupland
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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
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. -- Naomi Klein
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
When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet. -- Mike Trout
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
But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around. -- Thomas Keller
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides. -- David Perlmutter
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
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
Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits. -- David Rolf
Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck. -- J. A. Konrath
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations. -- Prince Charles

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