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Article: Finer than fast food A quick meal doesn't mean the same old . . .
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 18, 2001
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Whoever came up with the words "fast food" didn't do any favors
for the business of eating out. The implication here is that we are
getting something less than a best effort. So how good can it be if
we are hit with, say, a sandwich that is moving through some high-
tech fryer-grill-broiler faster than a speeding bullet? Or a bowl of
soup that is so swampy-tasting from sitting on the stove so long you
might have to beat off an alligator with your spoon?
Fast food is not my cup of tea. I am, however, a fan of fast food
that is slower. I call it Slow Fast Food.
How is Slow Fast Food different from fast food? Simply put, if you
can win big bucks by scratching something off the side of a plastic