I started reading Fast Food Nation by: Eric Schlosser (Looming Tower was too hard to get through) and I must say...I love it! It's hard to imagine that Americans have had such a large craving for fatty food. I'll admit that I have eaten fast food, but not in a while. I stay away from it for the fact that it really affects the way I dance and run. When I eat fast food I don't feel like doing anything, but sleeping which is a bad thing. I'm joining dace team in college and if I hadn't stopped eating fast food I wouldn't have the energy needed to dance. The book starts off in Anaheim, California with a young man named Carl N. Karcher who's life, as Schlosser describes, "...seems at once to be a tale by Horatio Alger,..." (for those who don't know, Horatio Alger was a famous dime novelist in the late 1800's early 1900's. His books have been the basis for movies like Newseis and musicals like Bowery Boys which played at the Marriott Theater in 2009). Carl, worked hard all of his life, dropping out of school after eight grade and moving to Anaheim, somehow made a name for himself by selling hot dogs out of carts on the street. It's strange to think that Americans wanted to eat food out of carts, but as the cities started to grow and people were on the move they wanted their food to be on the go too. Faster life style meant faster food, thus fast food was born. Carl was at the head of the speedy new food distribution.
That's pretty much what chapter one is about, I'll blog again after I'm done with chapter three. I've gotta say so far I'm giving this book a super sized thumbs up!
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