Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001)

This was a reread for me. While the statistics and numbers are deeply outdated by two decades, the information is still valuable as corporations do still endeavor to create the same dangerous homogeny and drive for ever-increasing profits regardless of the human cost. ( )

This was interesting, but not interesting enough, so I stopped.

Read much of this in a class in college, and now that I'm on board with pretty much everything he was saying, I don't feel a huge need to finish it. Preaching to the choir, and all that. ( )

Borrowed this copy from the UHD Library. It is one of 5 copies we ordered given the book is popular, and it is a required reading in some classes.

See my note on the book:
[http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-finally-finished-reading-fast-food.html] ( )

Another widely published nonfiction title that had been on my TBR list for a long time. Most of it is in fact still relevant in 2020, as we learn more about the issues with large-scale meat packing/processing and minimum wage on-call workers. There are also interesting parts about franchising, and about building large vertical companies based on products like potatoes. You'll likely learn at least something about the people behind chain fast food, even if like me you had worked in such a place at one point and thought you had already learned plenty on the job. ( )