On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought.
Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie.
But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. They don't ever actually want anything. They have to videotape everything. An iconoclastic expose of some of our most cherished cultural, political, social, and institutionally cherished errors of fact. All Rights Reserved.