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> More and more people eat junk food thanks to food corporations propaganda and lobbying. I think there are simpler explanations. I imagine people like the w
by trgv 9y ago
> More and more people eat junk food thanks to food corporations propaganda and lobbying.
I think there are simpler explanations. I imagine people like the way it tastes plus it's extremely cheap and takes very little time to prepare.
- lawpoop 9y agoDoesn't account for why this would be happening more recently. In the past in Europe, was fast food actually slow, expensive, and not that tasty?
- drewm1980 9y agoYour question assumes the existence of fast food. The closet thing would probably be a bakery or chocolatier, but they don't really compare...
- lawpoop 9y agoSo fast food restaurants came into Europe without a concurrent marketing and advertising push? They just built the restaurants and people came, because it was tasty, fast, and cheap?
- yodsanklai 9y ago> I imagine people like the way it tastes plus it's extremely cheap and takes very little time to prepare. It's true to some extent but not the end of the story. For one thing, water is cheaper and more easily available than sodas. As for marketing: http://fastfoodmarketing.org/fast_food_facts_in_brief.aspx http://fastfoodmarketing.org/fast_food_facts_in_brief.aspx "In 2012, fast food restaurants spent $4.6 billion in total on all advertising, an 8% increase over 2009. For context, the biggest advertiser, McDonald's, spent 2.7 times as much to advertise its products as all fruit, vegetable, bottled water, and milk advertisers combined."