Fast Food Nation 1-50

A Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of an all American Meal is written by an investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States Fast Companies. The story opens up on a mountian hat was converted to a military base in Colorado Springs. The Base is one of the most protected military bases in the world and houses close to 1000 people yet the base has become dependent Fast Food. If a apocalyptic event were to happen and people had to take shelter in this base everyone would die in a week because they would starve because that's hoe dependent our nation has become on fast food. One of the founding fathers of fast food Carl N. Karcher who started Carl's Juniors was a poor farm boy from Ohio who moved to Irvine, California in hopes to find his wealth instead became a car sales man for ten years until he had enough money to buy his own land and opened his own barbique restaurant at first his business took off until many of his costumers went San Bernardino for 15 cent hamburgers 20 cents less than Carl's Drive- in. What he saw there changed the way food was made.