Being a fellow fast-food fan, I enjoy reading your commentary on cholesterol. However I have to take exception to your column about the virtues of fast food. It may be true in the United States, but it ain't necessarily so here in Venezuela. Yeah, they open late, around 10 in the morning, if they feel like it. Size is relative, too.
Whopper is more like a Whimper here.
The minimum time to get through a drive-through is 20 minutes. Tom Lea, Caracas America has always had the world's best fast food. They came for our Quarter Pounders and Three Mile Island Wings at Hooter's, served by the incomparable Alicia Wong. Write to Ken Hoffman, a k a the Friday Dining Guide Drive-Thru Gourmet, at the Houston Chronicle, P.O. Box 4260, Houston 77210.