Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.(Review) (book review)

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser. Houghton Mifflin, 356 pages, $25.00.

The first thing I did after finishing Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation was to go into the kitchen, slice up some potatoes, and make my own french fries. I sprinkled salt over them, omitted the ketchup, and ate the flies one by one, slowly, savoringly. At the same time, I tried to recall my distant memory of the taste and texture of McDonald's fries, which I haven't eaten for many years. Mine were not as crisp, nor as evenly sized. But they tasted pretty good--even ...

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