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Article: Chewing the Fat.(Fast food nation: the dark side of the all-American meal)(Review)
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- November 1, 2001
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The misguided beef against fast food
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 356 pages. $25
There is a tightly held, though empirically misguided, belief that no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. This claim can be applied equally to mass-market restaurateurs and high-end authors. The latter routinely hector readers about what we should eat, as if we were the most irresponsible, spoiled tots, and they the most sagacious parents. For a clear window into the mind of such a scold, skip Eric Schlosser's title for his subtitle. Schlosser, a correspondent for ...