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November 17, 2006
Fast Food Nation
I had seen the book cover in passing, it's pretty hard to miss with it's French fry cover, but I never actually read the book itself. Jamison's mom mentioned the movie last weekend and I hadn't heard anything about it, but since then I've seen things about it everywhere!
The fact that fast food is bad for you is no secret. And we all (or most of us anyway) do eat it from time to time, some more than others. We here at Daffodil Lane average once every week or so. When Jamison and I first met that number was much greater and as time passes it's slowly diminishing, because quite frankly fast food sucks!! If I'm going to spend money on food I want something that at least tastes decent, but that's a rant for another time.
In short just because something is "easy" doesn't make it good. This movie is being lauded as a smack in your face in terms of what is actually in your fast food, as if we didn't get enough of a smack with Super Size Me! The thing to remember is these companies don't care if your healthy or not, all they care about is the almighty dollar!
Anyway, it looks to be interesting. Go see it!
Posted by Dianne at November 17, 2006 8:23 AM
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i hate to admit it, for the sake of convenience on the road to somewhere fast in 60 seconds, we eat fast food, once or twice a week.
Posted by: gorillabuns at November 17, 2006 9:42 AM
We do every other week or so. It used to be more often, but after I saw Super Size Me and having struggled with my weight all my life I wanted to make sure Alexis didn't have that issue. It is so easy just to pop in and pick something up. That's what is so horrible about the whole thing. They make it too easy to give in to the temptation.
Posted by: Dianne at November 17, 2006 12:32 PM
just saw the movie version of Fast Food Nation, it's an impactful flick to say the least... earlier today i passed up a sausage mcmuffin because of it. Evidently it is worth passing up fast food for more than health reasons.
Posted by: patrick at March 19, 2008 5:33 PM