num_pages: 276
description: Most any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industrys largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted characterized as impersonal greedy corporate and worse. But in unexpected ways fast food is also deeply personal and emblematic of a larger than life image of America.With wit and nuance Chandler reveals the complexities of this industry through heartfelt anecdotes and fascinating trivia as well as interviews with fans executives and workers. He traces the industry from its roots in Wichita where White Castle became the first fast food chain in 1921 and successfully branded the hamburger as the official all-American meal to a teenager's 2017 plea for a years supply of Wendys chicken nuggets which united the internet to generate the most viral tweet of all time.Drive-Thru Dreams by Adam Chandler tells an intimate and contemporary story of Americaits humble beginning its innovations and failures its international charisma and its regional identitiesthrough its beloved roadside fare.
language: English
title: Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom
publisher: Flatiron Books