fast food
food, as hamburgers, pizza, or fried chicken, that is prepared in quantity by a standardized method and can be dispensed quickly at inexpensive restaurants for eating there or elsewhere.
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of or specializing in fast food.
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How to use fast food in a sentence
Given that Popeyes created a sensation when its chicken sandwich came out, it’s no wonder some fast food chains are already trying to compete with the new flounder option.
Popeyes Is Hoping for Another Hit With Its New Cajun Flounder Sandwich | Jaya Saxena | February 10, 2021 | EaterLanding somewhere between promotional menu item and endorsement deal, the celebrity fast food order is somehow neither.
Celebrities have always done endorsements. Now they sell their fast food orders. | Jameson Rich | February 5, 2021 | VoxOn any given day, 36 percent of American adults eat fast food, according to a 2018 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
They’ve done an incredible job creating not just propaganda but the marketing efforts with the American flag and the fast food and the movies, that has sort of shaped the image of America all across the world.
More and more traditional food companies have launched plant-based meat brands, more and more fast food and casual dining restaurants have added menu options, and major players in the field have raised a lot of money.
Impossible Foods’ plant-based meat just got closer to the price of regular meat | Kelsey Piper | February 2, 2021 | Vox
And if people find themselves dissatisfied with how often they turn to fast food, Bacon says to try things like batch cooking.
fast food and personified death: not exactly Hallmark material.
America’s Fastest Growing Death Holiday Is From Mexico | Michael Schulson | November 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEspecially in the U.S., where fast food restaurants are abundant and two-thirds of people are overweight or obese.
Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Becomes an Obsession | DailyBurn | October 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was hungry, so he brought along a fast food burger and soda to the studio.
The Secrets of ‘Pulp Fiction’: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Movie on Its 20th Anniversary | Marlow Stern | October 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBig Kahuna Burger is a fictional chain of Hawaiian-themed fast food burger joints out in Los Angeles dreamed up by Tarantino.
The Secrets of ‘Pulp Fiction’: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Movie on Its 20th Anniversary | Marlow Stern | October 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOut of the dense formations of endless fast food chains, Simon's novelties were to titillate the jaded restaurant goer.
The Land of Look Behind | Paul Cameron Brown"And perhaps it mightn't," said Tembarom, eating "break-fast-food" with a cheerful appetite.
T. Tembarom | Frances Hodgson Burnett
British Dictionary definitions for fast food
food that requires little preparation before being served
(of a restaurant, café, etc) serving such food
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