Fast Food and Junk Food [2 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat

This fascinating and revealing work examines the incredible power of junk food and fast food—how nostalgic we are about them, the influence of the companies that manufacture or sell them, and their alarming affect on our country's state of health. Americans love to eat. We enjoy everything from home-cooked meals made with traditional family recipes, to eating out at restaurants to sampling different cuisines from around the world. But it's the mass-produced fast food and junk food we consume -- Big Macs, delivery pizza, Coca-Cola, Doritos, M&Ms, and Twinkies -- that have become embedded in every aspect of our common culture. In the last half century, junk food and fast food have come to play an extremely important role in American economic, historical, cultural, and social life. Today, they have a major influence on what Americans eat and how healthy we are (or aren't). Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat tells the intriguing, fun, and incredible stories behind the successes of these commercial food products and documents the numerous health-related, environmental, cultural, and politico-economic issues associated with them. With more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries, this two-volume encyclopedia contains enough listings to allow readers to research a wide range of fascinating topics. The author treats the massive amount of subject material within this reference title in a fair and balanced manner. A secondary focus of this encyclopedia is to chart the spread of some American fast food chains and commercially produced junk foods internationally. - Publisher. Cover Page Advisory Board Title: Fast Food and Junk Food ISBN 978031339393-8 (hardback); 9780313393945 (ebook) Contents List of Entries List of Entries by Topic Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology 1783 1825 1847 1862 1866 1867 1869 1871 1876 1877 1885 1886 1890 1892 1893 1895 1896 1897 1898 1900 1904 1905 1906 1908 1912 1916 1919 1921 1922 1923 1924 1927 1928 1929 1930 1932 1934 1936 1937 1938 1940 1941–1945 1946 1948 1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1969 1971 1972 1975 1976 1977 1978 1980 1981 1985 1986 1988 1990 1992 1993 1997 2002 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 A A&W Addiction Advertising AFC Enterprises Aging American Beverage Association (ABA) Animal Rights Movement Antibiotics Anti-Unionization Arby’s Architecture/Design Arthur Treacher’s Asthma Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Au Bon Pain Auntie Anne’s Australia Automats, Cafeterias, Diners, and Lunchrooms Automobiles B Baby Ruth Bagels Bakery Goods Bans on Junk Food and Fast Food Barbecue Sauce Barq’s Root Beer Baskin-Robbins Battle of the Burgers Beef Beef Jerky Ben & Jerry’s Beverages Big Boy Bit-O-Honey Blimpie International Blood Pressure Blue Bell Creameries Bon Bons Boston Market Bottle Caps Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) Boycotts Brach’s Confections Branding Brazil Breakfast Breyers Brownell, Kelly D. Buffalo Wings Bugles Burger King Burger King Character Burgerville Burrito Butterfinger C Cadbury Cadbury Schweppes Caffeine Cakes California Pizza Kitchen Calories Canada Canada Dry Ginger Ale Cancer Candy Candy Canes Candy Cigarettes Captain D’s Seafood Kitchen Caramels Carbohydrates Carbonation Carhops Carl’s Jr. Cartoon Characters Carvel Corporation Celebrity Endorsements Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Cereals Chains Chanukah Candies Charleston Chew! Checker’s Drive-In Restaurants Cheese Cheese-Flavored Snacks Cheeseburger Laws Cheesy Fries Cheetos Cheez Whiz Chewy Candy Chick-fil-A Chicken Chicken Delight Chicken McNuggets Chicken Wings Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI) China Chinese American Fast Food Chipotle Mexican Grill Chips Ahoy! Chipwich Chocolate Chocolate Beverages Chocolate Chip Cookies Chocolate Confections Cholesterol Christmas Candies Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Church’s Chicken Cinnabon CKE Restaurants Clark Bar Coca-Cola Company Coffee Cola Cola Wars Collectibles and Americana Color Coding ConAgra Foods Condiments Coney Island Dogs Conformity Consumerism Controversies Convenience Foods/Drinks Convenience Stores Cookbooks Cookies Corn Corn Chips Corn Dogs Corporate Accountability International Corporate Charities Corporate Concentration Corporate Response to Criticism Corporate Sponsorships and Programs in Schools Cotton Candy Cracker Jack Crackers Credit Cards Crime Croissants Crows and Dots Cupcakes Curtiss Candy Company D Dairy Queen Danone/Dannon Deep-Fried Deep-Fried Junk Food Del Taco Denny’s Café Depression Depression/Recession Diabetes Diamond Foods Diet Soda Dieting Dips Disclosure Discrimination Domino’s Pizza Doritos Doughnuts/Donuts Dove Bar Dr Pepper Dr Pepper Snapple Group Dreyer’s/Edy’s Ice Cream Drive-Ins Drive-Thrus Drumsticks Dum Dum Pops Dunkin’ Brands Dunkin’ Donuts E Easter Candies Efficiency Eggs Elderly Employment Energy Drinks Entenmann’s Entrepreneurs Environment Eskimo Pie Europe Exercise Exploitation Exposés Extruded Snacks F Facebook Factory Farms Fair Food Fair Trade Falafel Famous Amos Farley’s & Sathers Candy Company Fast Casual Fast Food Fast Food and Snack Food Associations Fast Food Diet Fat, Dietary Ferrero Company Firehouse Subs Fish Fish and Chips Five Guys Burgers and Fries Fizzy Candies FOCUS Brands Food Additives Food Allergies Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Colorings Food Courts Food Labeling Food Stamps Food Trucks Foodborne Illnesses Fortune Cookies Fosters Freeze Franchising French Fries Fried Chicken Frito Bandito Frito-Lay Fritos Froots Fudge G Gelatin General Foods Corporation General Mills Genetically Modified Food Ginger Ale Girl Scout Cookies Globalization Goldfish Goo Goo Clusters Good & Plenty Good Humor Graham Crackers Granola Gross-Out Candy Gum H Häagen-Dazs Halal Halloween Candies Hamburger Hamburger, Expensive Hamburger University Happy Meals Hard Candy Hardee’s Haribo Health Concerns Healthy Fast Food Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation Heart Attack Heath Bar Henry Heide, Inc. Hershey, Milton S. Hershey Company Hershey’s Kisses Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar High-Fructose Corn Syrup Hires Root Beer Hormones Hostess Brands Hot Dog Hypertension I Ice Cream Ice Cream Sandwich Ilitch, Mike Immigrants Impatience and Fast Food In-N-Out Burger India Injury Insects Internet Israel J Jack in the Box Jacobson, Michael F. Jamba Juice Japan Jay Potato Chips Jell-O Jelly Beans Jelly Candies Johnny Rockets Jollibee Foods Jolly Rancher Jordan Almonds Junior Mints Junk Foods Just Born K Karcher, Carl N. Keebler Kellogg Company Kennedy and Crown Fried Chicken Ketchup Kettle Foods KFC Kids’ Meals Kit Kat Klondike Bar Kool-Aid Kosher Kraft Foods Krispy Kreme Kroc, Ray L Lance Latin America Lawsuits Licorice LifeSavers Limited Time Offers Lindt & Sprüengli Little Caesars Pizza Little Debbie Lobbying Locations Lollipops/Suckers Long John Silver’s M M&M’s Mad Cow Disease Mallomars Marketing to Children Marriott Corporation Mars Bar Mars, Forrest Mars, Frank Mars, Inc. Marshmallow Fluff Marshmallows Mary Jane Candies Mascots, Logos, and Icons McCafé McCain Foods McDonaldization McDonald’s “McLibel” Meatpacking Industry Memoirs Menu Labeling Menus Mexican American Food Mexico Middle East Mike and Ike Milk Duds Milkshakes, Malts, and Ice Cream Sodas Milky Way Minimum Wage Mints Miracle Juices Moe’s Southwest Grill Monaghan, Tom Moon Pie Mounds Bar Mountain Dew Movie Theaters Movie Tie-Ins Movies Moxie Mr. Peanut Mrs. Fields Famous Brands Music N Nabisco Nachos Nathan’s Famous National Confectioners Association National Restaurant Association Neighborhoods Nestlé New England Confectionery Company (NECCO) New Zealand Newspapers North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) Nougat Nutrition Nutritional Guidelines Nuts O Obama, Michelle Obesity Obesity Acceptance Movement Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Oh Henry! 100-Calorie Snack Packs Onion Rings Orange Crush Oreos Organic Junk Food P Packaging Pancakes Panda Express Panera Bread Patriotism PayDay Peanut Brittle Peanut Butter Peanuts Peeps Penny Candy People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Pepperidge Farm PepsiCo Perugina Peter Paul Candy Company PEZ Philippines Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) Pie Pillsbury Pixy Stix Pizza Pizza, Frozen Pizza Hut Politics of Junk Food Pollan, Michael Pollo Campero El Pollo Loco Pop Rocks Pop-Tarts Popcorn Popeyes Poppycock Popsicle Pork Pork Rind Post Foods Potato Chips Potatoes Poutine Powdered Mixes Power and Energy Bars Pregnancy and Early Childhood Pret a Manger Pretzels Pricing Pringles Product Placement Protests Pudding Push-Ups Q Qdoba Mexican Grill Quesadillas Quick-Service Restaurants (QSR) Quiznos R Radio Rally’s Razzles Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Redenbacher, Orville Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Refried Beans Regional Fast Foods Religion Rice Cakes Ritz Crackers Ronald McDonald Root Beer Rowntree’s of York Roy Rogers Royal Crown Cola Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity Rules Russia S Salads Salty Junk Foods Saltwater Taffy Sanders, Harland Sandwiches Sara Lee Sbarro Schlosser, Eric School Food Schweppes Seasonal Candy Seattle’s Best Coffee Secret Formulas See’s Candies Service Stations 7-Eleven 7-Up Shakey’s Pizza Signage Slim Jim Slogans/Jingles Slow Food Slurpee Smoothie King Smoothies Snack Foods Snickers Snyder’s-Lance, Inc. Snyder’s of Hanover Social Media Soda/Soft Drinks Soda Fountains Soda Tax Sodium/Salt Sonic South Africa Southeast Asia Spaghetti Tacos SPAM Spangler Candy Company Sports Drinks Sports Sponsorships Spurlock, Morgan Starbucks Stella D’oro Stick Food Street Vendors Stress Strokes Subs/Grinders Subway Sugars/Sweeteners Sun Capital Partners, Inc. SunChips Supermarkets Supersizing Suppliers Sweet Candy Company Sweet Popcorn T Taco Bell Taco Bueno Tacos Taffy Tang Tastee-Freez Tasti D-Lite Tater Tots Taxing Junk Food TCBY Teen Hangouts Television Thomas, Dave 3 Musketeers Tic Tacs Tim Hortons, Inc. Toblerone Toffee Togo’s Tomatoes Tombstone Pizza Tommy’s Tootsie Roll Industries Tostadas Toys Training Transfats Turkey Burgers Twinkie Defense Twinkies Twitter U Uniforms Unilever United Kingdom Urban Blight U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Utz Quality Foods V Valentine’s Day Candies Vanilla Vegetarian/Vegan Vending Machines Vernor’s Ginger Ale Violence W Walmart Walnettos Waste Water Wendy’s Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, Inc. Whataburger Wheat White Castle White Tower Wienerschnitzel Wimpy Winchell’s Donut House Wing Zone Wonka Brand World Health Organization (WHO) Wrigley Co. Y Yogurt Yogurt, Frozen Yoplait York Peppermint Patties YouTube Yum! Brands, Inc. Z Zotz Glossary Selected Bibliography Resource Guide Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z This fascinating and revealing work examines the incredible power of junk food and fast food—how nostalgic we are about them, the influence of the companies that manufacture or sell them, and their alarming effect on our country's state of health.In the last half century, junk food and fast food have come to play an extremely important role in American economic, historical, cultural, and social life. Today, they have a major influence on what Americans eat—and how healthy we are (or aren't). Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat tells the intriguing, fun, and incredible stories behind the successes of these commercial food products and documents the numerous health-related, environmental, cultural, and politico-economic issues associated with them.With more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries, this two-volume encyclopedia contains enough listings to allow readers to research a wide range of fascinating topics. The author treats the massive amount of subject material within this reference title in a fair and balanced manner. A secondary focus of this encyclopedia is to chart the spread of some American fast food chains and commercially produced junk foods internationally. This Fascinating And Revealing Work Examines The Incredible Power Of Junk Food And Fast Food--how Nostalgic We Are About Them, The Influence Of The Companies That Manufacture Or Sell Them, And Their Alarming Affect On Our Country's State Of Health-- V. 1. A-j -- V. 2. K-z. Andrew F. Smith. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 773-785) And Index.