“Making it hard to go on eating fast food in blissful ignorance”: a review of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: “The aim of his
book, developed from articles written for Rolling Stone, is
to force his readers to stop and consider the consequences
of McDonald’s and its ilk having become inescapable features
of the American (and, increasingly, global) landscape — to
contemplate ”the dark side of the all-American meal.”

This sounds kind of frivolous. After all, practically everyone
in the country has at least dabbled in fast food at one time
or another. So what’s the big deal? Readers who have grown
weary of attempts to locate the DNA of the contemporary
American soul within the history of video games or tennis
shoes or whatever might also feel a wave of fatigue when
Schlosser announces his interest in fast food ”as a metaphor.”

But the good news is that
this isn’t a frivolous book at
all.” New York Times via Looka! I previously pointed to Schlosser’s Atlantic article on “the flavor industry”.