- Nov 07, 2020
Food Quotes
Food as comfort, hardship, and honest confession.
This collection spans food's range, from the humiliation of accidentally poisoning a dinner guest to a genuine hardship of not having enough money for basic meals or clothes while starting out. For lighter, image-ready food lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.
- McDonald
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually drive through.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning are never properly diagnosed.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fast Food Nation' isn't about my journey into the dark world of fast food and the prison book is not about my journey into the prison world. I'm not using myself as any kind of narrative link.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.
- Basic Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020