Quotes about Fast-food

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap. Votes: 2

I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever. Votes: 2

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony! Votes: 2

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. Votes: 2

It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food. Votes: 2

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias. Votes: 2

If someone said, 'You've got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,' I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken. Votes: 2

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger. Votes: 2

My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place. Votes: 2

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. Votes: 2

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices. Votes: 2

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry. Votes: 2

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together. Votes: 2

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover. Votes: 2

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn. Votes: 2

Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour. Votes: 2

Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it. Votes: 2

In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, 'Look over here! Look over there,' we don't really take the time to sit down and enjoy music - or anything else, for that matter. Votes: 2

I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store. Votes: 2

As for restaurants and fast-food places who tip tons of oil down their drains, they are routinely encouraged to use fat traps, but enforcement is minimal. It costs money to cart away fat (although now that fat is being turned into energy, it can make money). Votes: 2

I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure. Votes: 2

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. Votes: 2

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that. Votes: 2

When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator. Votes: 2

For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy. Votes: 2

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food. Votes: 1

I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet. Votes: 1

I eat fast food all the time. Votes: 0

Don't run I never liked fast food Votes: 0

My idea of fast food is a mallard. Votes: 0

The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards. Votes: 0

I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed. Votes: 0

Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza. Votes: 0

I don't go to fast food restaurants anymore. That's out. Votes: 0

For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore. Votes: 0

I don't eat fast food - and neither should you! Votes: 0

I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza. Votes: 0

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. Votes: 0

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, Votes: 0

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television. Votes: 0

I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer. Votes: 0

If you're a cannibal, an Olympic sprinter would be considered fast food. Votes: 0

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages. Votes: 0

America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets. Votes: 0

What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets. Votes: 0

What Ive been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets. Votes: 0

Plastic shoes are to the shoe world what fast food is to fine cuisine. Votes: 0

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, Votes: 0

Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food. Votes: 0

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food. Votes: 0

Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food. Votes: 0

If I'm going to eat fast food, I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend. Votes: 0

I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken. Votes: 0

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. Votes: 0

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk. Votes: 0

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports. Votes: 0

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. Votes: 0

Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England. Votes: 0

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. Votes: 0

I'm not into fad diets; I'm not into depriving. I like fast food, and I like chocolate. Votes: 0

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul. Votes: 0

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor. Votes: 0

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions. Votes: 0

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay. Votes: 0

If you think fast food is hittin a deer att 65 miles per hr.. you might be a redneck Votes: 0

Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG. Votes: 0

Sorry, I don't eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle. Votes: 0

By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity. Votes: 0

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity. Votes: 0

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. Votes: 0

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect. Votes: 0

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden. Votes: 0

I'm boring. I stay home, watch TV, and eat a lot of fast food. That's really exciting, isn't it? Votes: 0

I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's. Votes: 0

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is. Votes: 0

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow. Votes: 0

Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food. Votes: 0

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some. Votes: 0

I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food. Votes: 0

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. Votes: 0

The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil. Votes: 0

When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet. Votes: 0

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast. Votes: 0

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together. Votes: 0

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around. Votes: 0

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees. Votes: 0

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food. Votes: 0

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel. Votes: 0

Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast food. Votes: 0

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum. Votes: 0

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food. Votes: 0

I don't really eat a lot of fast food, ever, but if I had to eat at one fast food restaurant, it'd be In-N-Out. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that. Votes: 0

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food. Votes: 0

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup. Votes: 0

[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same. Votes: 0

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. Votes: 0

I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal. Votes: 0

Studies have found that preparing your own food is usually healthier and less expensive than buying fast food. But most people just don't have the time. Votes: 0

It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches. Votes: 0

It was very interesting [book Fast Food Nation] because all my friends who were in college, [and] this book became almost mandatory for them to read. Votes: 0

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices. Votes: 0

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated. Votes: 0

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. Votes: 0

I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t? Votes: 0

Around every corner lurk greasy Fisherman's Platters that give children nightmares, Naugahyde minute steaks that put tofuburgers in a favorable light and all those ubiquitous fast-food indigestion huts Votes: 0

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure. Votes: 0

This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. Votes: 0

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. Votes: 0

Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides. Votes: 0

The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation. Votes: 0

The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids. Votes: 0

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits. Votes: 0

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck. Votes: 0

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations. Votes: 0

Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately. Votes: 0

I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney. Votes: 0

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everything on the radio is crap...It's fast food for your ears. It doesn't make you think. It isn't even about anything - not anything real. Don't you think music should say something~? Votes: 0

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. Votes: 0

As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that. Votes: 0

Hindu sages say that you should concentrate while eating. But, we don't have time anymore. Fast food is not quick enough for me. I would like super-fast food in the form of pills. Votes: 0

When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years. Votes: 0

Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is. Votes: 0

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians. Votes: 0

I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should. Votes: 0

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards. Votes: 0

Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns. Votes: 0

The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit. Votes: 0

Just off one of the most congested traffic corridors in Los Angeles, tiled with a mosaic of fast-food chains, nail salons, and dollar stores, lies a little green oasis: the Los Angeles Eco-Village (LAEV). Votes: 0

The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15. Votes: 0

I try not to eat too much fast food but still go for hot wings occasionally. As I get older, I have to pay more attention to my diet. My favorite food is jerk pork. Votes: 0

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar. Votes: 0

The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor. Votes: 0

Fast food, fast money, shallow thinking, shallow interpretations. This is now what I deal with everyday. Art was meant to be about freedom, about having the courage to explore what it means to be human. Votes: 0

Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman. Votes: 0