Fast food, the Glossary
Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service.[1]
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212 relations: A&W Root Beer, Anatidae, Ancient Rome, Asian cuisine, Bahrain, Bento, Bifana, Blue plaque, Breadcrumbs, Break (work), Burger King, Car, Cardiovascular disease, Carhop, Chain store, Cheeseburger, Chicken, Chicken nugget, Chili con carne, Chocolate bar, Coast, Colorectal cancer, Consumerism, Convenience store, Croquette, Cucumber, Cuisine, Curry, Custard tart, Cutlery, Dahi vada, Dartmouth College, Deep frying, Deep-fried Mars bar, Dinner, Domino's, Doner kebab, Doughnut, Drive-through, East Asia, Eel as food, Eric Schlosser, Espetada, Europe, Falafel, Fast food in China, Fast Food Nation, Fast Food Song, Fast-food restaurant, Filling station, ... Expand index (162 more) »
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A&W Root Beer
A&W Root Beer is an American brand of root beer that was founded in 1919 by Roy W. Allen – A&W root beer's official history and primarily available in the United States and Canada.
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Anatidae
The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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Asian cuisine
Asian encompasses several significant regional kontol styles: Central Asian, East Asian, North Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and West Asian.
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Bahrain
Bahrain (Two Seas, locally), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia.
Bento
A is the Japanese iteration of a single-portion take-out or home-packed meal, often for lunch.
Bifana
Bifana is a classic Portuguese sandwich eaten all across the country.
Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.
Breadcrumbs (also known as breading) consist of crumbled bread of various dryness, sometimes with seasonings added, used for breading or crumbing foods, topping casseroles, stuffing poultry, thickening stews, adding inexpensive bulk to soups, meatloaves and similar foods, and making a crisp and crunchy covering for fried foods, especially breaded cutlets like tonkatsu and schnitzel.
Break (work)
A break at work (or work-break) is a period of time during a shift in which an employee is allowed to take time off from their job.
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Burger King
Burger King Corporation (BK, stylized in all caps) is an American multinational chain of hamburger fast food restaurants.
Car
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels.
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Carhop
A carhop is a waiter or waitress who brings fast food to people in their cars at drive-in restaurants.
Chain store
A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices.
Cheeseburger
A cheeseburger is a hamburger with a slice of melted cheese on top of the meat patty, added near the end of the cooking time.
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Chicken
The chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets or for cockfighting. Chickens are common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion, and an annual production of more than 50 billion birds.
Chicken nugget
A chicken nugget is a food product consisting of a small piece of deboned chicken meat that is breaded or battered, then deep-fried or baked. Fast food and chicken nugget are convenience foods.
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Chili con carne
Chili con carne is a spicy stew of Mexican origin containing chili peppers (sometimes in the form of chili powder), meat (usually beef), tomatoes, and often pinto beans or kidney beans.
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Chocolate bar
A chocolate bar is a confection containing chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers. Fast food and chocolate bar are convenience foods.
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Coast
A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
Colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).
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Consumerism
Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays of status.
Convenience store
A convenience store, convenience shop, bodega, corner store or corner shop is a small retail store that stocks a range of everyday items such as tea, coffee, groceries, fruits, vegetables, snacks, confectionery, soft drinks, ice creams, tobacco products, lottery tickets, over-the-counter drugs, toiletries, newspapers and magazines.
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Croquette
A croquette is a deep-fried roll originating in French cuisine, consisting of a thick binder combined with a filling, which is then breaded. Fast food and croquette are types of food.
Cucumber
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables.
Cuisine
A cuisine is a style of cooking characterized by distinctive ingredients, techniques and dishes, and usually associated with a specific culture or geographic region.
Curry
Curry is a dish with a sauce or gravy seasoned with spices, mainly associated with South Asian cuisine.
Custard tart
Custard tarts or flan pâtissier/parisien are a baked pastry consisting of an outer pastry crust filled with egg custard.
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Cutlery
Cutlery (also referred to as silverware, flatware, or tableware) includes any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in Western culture.
Dahi vada
Dahi vada is a type of chaat (snack) originating from the Indian subcontinent.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Deep frying
Deep frying (also referred to as deep fat frying) is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot fat, traditionally lard but today most commonly oil, as opposed to the shallow frying used in conventional frying done in a frying pan.
Deep-fried Mars bar
A deep-fried Mars bar (also known as a battered Mars bar) is a Mars-brand chocolate bar covered in batter then deep fried in oil.
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Dinner
Dinner usually refers to what is in many Western cultures the biggest and most formal meal of the day.
Domino's
Domino's Pizza, Inc., commonly referred to as Domino's, is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960.
Doner kebab
Doner kebab (döner or döner kebap), also spelled as döner kebab, is a dish of Turkish origin made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie.
Doughnut
A doughnut or donut is a type of pastry made from leavened fried dough. Fast food and doughnut are types of food.
Drive-through
A drive-through or drive-thru (a sensational spelling of the word through), is a type of take-out service provided by a business that allows customers to purchase products without leaving their cars.
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East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Eel as food
Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from to. Fast food and Eel as food are types of food.
Eric Schlosser
Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and author known for his investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).
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Espetada
Espetada (also known as espetinho, especially in Brazil) is the Portuguese term used for the technique of cooking food on skewers, and for the dishes prepared that way.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Falafel
Falafel (فلافل) is a deep-fried ball or patty-shaped fritter of Egyptian origin, featuring in Middle Eastern cuisine, particularly Levantine cuisines, and is made from broad beans, ground chickpeas, or both.
Fast food in China
Western-style fast food in mainland China is a fairly recent phenomenon, with Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) establishing its first Beijing restaurant in November 1987.
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Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is a 2001 book by Eric Schlosser.
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Fast Food Song
"Fast Food Song" is a song made famous by British-based band Fast Food Rockers, although it existed long before they recorded it, as a popular children's playground song.
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Fast-food restaurant
A fast-food restaurant, also known as a quick-service restaurant (QSR) within the industry, is a specific type of restaurant that serves fast-food cuisine and has minimal table service.
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Filling station
A filling station (also known as a gas station or petrol station) is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles.
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Finger food
Finger foods are small, individual portions of food that are eaten out of hand.
Fish and chips
Fish and chips is a hot dish consisting of fried fish in batter, served with chips.
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Fish as food
Many species of fish are caught by humans and consumed as food in virtually all regions around the world. Fast food and fish as food are types of food.
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Fishing trawler
A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.
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Flatbread
A flatbread is bread made usually with flour; water, milk, yogurt, or other liquid; and salt, and then thoroughly rolled into flattened dough.
Food group
A food group is a collection of foods that share similar nutritional properties or biological classifications.
Food industry
The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population.
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Food marketing toward children
The United States food and beverage industry has increased the amount of advertising that intensively and aggressively targets children through multiple channels.
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Food processing
Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms.
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Food truck
A food truck is a large motorized vehicle (such as a van or multi-stop truck) or trailer equipped to store, transport, cook, prepare, serve, and/or sell food.
Francesinha
Francesinha (meaning little French woman) is a Portuguese sandwich, originally from Porto, made with layers of toasted bread and assorted hot meats such as roast, steak, wet-cured ham, linguiça, or chipolata over which sliced cheese is melted by the ladling of a near-boiling tomato-and-beer sauce called.
Francesinha poveira
Francesinha poveira, or simply francesinha regionally, is a fast food dish from Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal.
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Franchising
Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an organization as a strategy for business expansion.
French fries
French fries (North American English & British English), and chips (British and other national varieties), finger chips (Indian English), french-fried potatoes, or simply fries are batonnet or allumette-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium or France.
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Fried chicken
Fried chicken, also called Southern fried chicken, is a dish consisting of chicken pieces that have been coated with seasoned flour or batter and pan-fried, deep fried, pressure fried, or air fried.
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Frikandel
A (plural) is a traditional snack originating from the Netherlands, a sort of minced-meat sausage, of which the modern version was developed after World War II.
Fritessaus
Fritessaus or frietsaus ("fries sauce") is a Dutch accompaniment to French fries, served popularly nationwide.
Frozen food
Freezing food preserves it from the time it is prepared to the time it is eaten. Fast food and Frozen food are convenience foods.
Frozen meal
A frozen meal (also called TV dinner in Canada and US), prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal (UK), frozen dinner, and microwave meal is ultra-processed food portioned for an individual. Fast food and frozen meal are American inventions and convenience foods.
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is the graduate medical school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire provides press release distribution services globally, with substantial operations in North America and Europe.
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Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.
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Green laver
Green laver, known as aonori (アオノリ; 青海苔) in Japan, sea cabbage (海白菜) or hutai (滸苔) in China, and parae (파래) in Korean, is a type of edible green seaweed, including species from the genera Monostroma and Ulva (Ulva prolifera, Ulva pertusa, Ulva intestinalis).
Ground meat
Ground meat, called mince or minced meat outside North America, is meat finely chopped by a meat grinder or a chopping knife.
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Guiseley
Guiseley is a town in metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Hamburger
A hamburger, or simply a burger, is a dish consisting of fillings—usually a patty of ground meat, typically beef—placed inside a sliced bun or bread roll.
Harry Ramsden's
Harry Ramsden's is a fast food restaurant chain based in the United Kingdom which offers fish and chips and assorted themed dishes.
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Hawker (trade)
A hawker is a vendor of merchandise that can be easily transported; the term is roughly synonymous with costermonger or peddler.
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Historic England
Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Hot dog
A hot dog is a dish consisting of a grilled, steamed, or boiled sausage served in the slit of a partially sliced bun.
Hot dog cart
A hot dog cart is a specialized mobile food stand for preparing and selling street food, specifically hot dogs, to passersby.
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Howard Johnson's
Howard Johnson by Wyndham, or more commonly known as Howard Johnson's, is an American hotel brand with over 200 hotels in 15 countries.
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Human resource management
Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the effective and efficient management of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain a competitive advantage.
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Hypercholesterolemia
Hypercholesterolemia, also called high cholesterol, is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood.
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Ice cream
Ice cream is a frozen dessert typically made from milk or cream that has been flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit, such as strawberries or peaches. Fast food and Ice cream are types of food.
Insula (Roman city)
The Latin word insula (insulae) was used in Roman cities to mean either a city block in a city plan (i.e. a building area surrounded by four streets) or later a type of apartment building that occupied such a city block specifically in Rome and nearby Ostia.
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JAMA Pediatrics
JAMA Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association.
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Jeddah
Jeddah, alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda (جِدَّة|Jidda), is a port city in Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia, located along the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz region.
Junk food
"Junk food" is a term used to describe food that is high in calories from macronutrients such as sugar and/or fat, and possibly sodium, making it hyperpalatable, but with insufficient dietary fiber, protein, or micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals.
Kansas
Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Karen Glanz
Karen Glanz (born October 20, 1953) is an American behavioral epidemiologist.
Kebab shop
A kebab shop is a quick service food establishment specialising in various fast food and street food dishes, primarily doner kebab and related sandwiches, including falafel.
Ketchup
Ketchup or catsup is a table condiment with a sweet and sour flavor.
KFC
KFC Corporation, doing business as KFC (also commonly referred to by its historical name Kentucky Fried Chicken), is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken.
Kiosk
Historically, a kiosk was a small garden pavilion open on some or all sides common in Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and in the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century onward.
Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
List of fast food restaurant chains
This is a list of notable current and former fast food restaurant chains, as distinct from fast casual restaurants (see List of casual dining restaurant chains), coffeehouses (see List of coffeehouse chains), ice cream parlors (see List of ice cream parlor chains), and pizzerias (see List of pizza chains).
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List of pizza chains
This list of pizza chains includes notable pizzerias and pizza chains.
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List of restaurant terminology
This is a list of restaurant terminology. Fast food and list of restaurant terminology are restaurant terminology.
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Lists of foods
This is a categorically organized list of foods.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American molecular biologist, nutritionist, and public health advocate.
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Market share is the percentage of the total revenue or sales in a market that a company's business makes up.
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Mashed potato
Mashed potato or mashed potatoes (American, Canadian and Australian English), colloquially known as mash (British English), is a dish made by mashing boiled or steamed potatoes, usually with added milk, butter, salt and pepper.
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Mass production
Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.
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Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise, colloquially referred to as "mayo", is a thick, cold, and creamy sauce commonly used on sandwiches, hamburgers, composed salads, and French fries.
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.
Meat
Meat is animal tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Fast food and Meat are types of food.
In a restaurant, the menu is a list of food and beverages offered to customers and the prices. Fast food and menu are restaurant terminology.
Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of at least three of the following five medical conditions: abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high serum triglycerides, and low serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL).
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Michelle Mello
Michelle Marie Mello is an American empirical health law scholar.
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Microwave oven
A microwave oven or simply microwave is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range. Fast food and microwave oven are American inventions.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Mood disorder
A mood disorder, also known as an affective disorder, is any of a group of conditions of mental and behavioral disorder where a disturbance in the person's mood is the main underlying feature.
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Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
Nando's
Nando's is a South African multinational fast casual chain that specialises in Portuguese flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken.
National Center for Health Statistics
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is a U.S. government agency that provides statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the public health of the American people.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Noodle
Noodles are a type of food made from unleavened dough which is either rolled flat and cut, stretched, or extruded, into long strips or strings.
Nori
Nori is a dried edible seaweed used in Japanese cuisine, usually made from species of the red algae genus Pyropia, including P. yezoensis and P. tenera.
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Obesity
Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.
Oldham
Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, it lies amongst the Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale, and northeast of Manchester.
Onion
An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.
Onion ring
Onion rings (also called French-fried onion rings) is a form of appetizer or side dish in British and American cuisine.
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.
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Oyster
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.
Packaging waste
Packaging waste, the part of the waste that consists of packaging and packaging material, is a major part of the total global waste, and the major part of the packaging waste consists of single-use plastic food packaging, a hallmark of throwaway culture.
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Pancake
A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter, and then cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan. Fast food and pancake are types of food.
Panic Nation
Panic Nation: Unpicking the Myths We're Told About Food and Health, also published as Panic Nation: Exposing the Myths We're Told About Food and Health, is a nonfiction book by Stanley Feldman and Vincent Marks.
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Panipuri
Pani puri is a deep-fried breaded hollow spherical shell, about in diameter, filled with a combination of finely diced potato, onion, peas, and chickpea.
Papa John's
Papa John's International, Inc., d/b/a Papa Johns, is an American pizza restaurant chain.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Pasty
A pasty is a British baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, South West England, but has spread all over the British Isles, and elsewhere through the Cornish diaspora.
Peanut sauce
Peanut sauce, satay sauce (saté sauce), bumbu kacang, sambal kacang, or pecel is an Indonesian sauce made from ground roasted or fried peanuts, widely used in Indonesian cuisine and many other dishes throughout the world.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Piccalilli
Piccalilli, or mustard pickle, is a British interpretation of South Asian pickles, a relish of chopped and pickled vegetables and spices.
Pie
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Fast food and pie are types of food.
Pilgrim
A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place.
Piri piri
Piri piri, often hyphenated or as one word, and with variant spellings peri-peri or pili pili, is a cultivar of Capsicum frutescens from the malagueta pepper.
Pita
Pita (pita or) or pitta (British English) is a family of yeast-leavened round flatbreads baked from wheat flour, common in the Mediterranean, Levant, and neighboring areas.
Pizza
Pizza is an Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven. Fast food and Pizza are convenience foods and types of food.
Pizza delivery
Pizza delivery is a service in which a pizzeria or pizza chain delivers a pizza to a customer.
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Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut, LLC is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas by Dan and Frank Carney.
Pizza Margherita
Pizza Margherita or Margherita pizza is a typical Neapolitan pizza, roundish in shape with a raised edge (the cornicione) and garnished with hand-crushed peeled tomatoes, mozzarella (buffalo mozzarella or fior di latte), fresh basil leaves, and extra virgin olive oil.
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Popina
The popina (popinae) was an ancient Roman wine bar, where a limited menu of simple foods (olives, bread, stews) and selection of wines of varying quality were available.
Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.
Price elasticity of demand
A good's price elasticity of demand (E_d, PED) is a measure of how sensitive the quantity demanded is to its price.
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Ragout
Ragout (ragoût) is a main dish stew.
Restaurant
A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Fast food and restaurant are restaurant terminology.
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Rice
Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Fast food and Rice are types of food.
Rice vinegar
Rice vinegar is a vinegar made from rice wine in East Asia (China, Japan and Korea), as well as in Vietnam in Southeast Asia.
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Roller skates
Roller skates are shoes or bindings that fit onto shoes that are worn to enable the wearer to roll along on wheels.
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Rotisserie
Rotisserie, also known as spit-roasting, is a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit – a long, solid rod used to hold food while it is being cooked over a fire in a fireplace or over a campfire, or roasted in an oven.
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health, formerly named the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, is a non-profit research and public policy organization that promotes solutions to food insecurity, poor diet quality, and weight bias.
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Salad
A salad is a dish consisting of mixed ingredients, frequently vegetables.
Sandwich
A sandwich is a dish typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. Fast food and sandwich are types of food.
Saturated fat
A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all single bonds between the carbon atoms.
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Sausage
A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Fast food and sausage are types of food.
Sbarro
Sbarro, LLC is an American fast food restaurant that specializes in New York–style pizza sold by the slice and other Italian-American cuisine.
Seafood
Seafood is the culinary name for food that comes from any form of sea life, prominently including fish and shellfish.
Self-service
Self-service is the practice of serving oneself, usually when making purchases.
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Shawarma
Shawarma (شاورما) is a Middle Eastern dish that originated in the Levant region of the Arab world during the Ottoman Empire, consisting of meat that is cut into thin slices, stacked in an inverted cone, and roasted on a slow-turning vertical spit.
Shellfish
Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.
Shish kebab
Shish kebab or shish kebap is a popular meal of skewered and grilled cubes of meat.
Shrine
A shrine (scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a sacred space dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of respect, wherein they are venerated or worshipped.
Signage
Signage is the design or use of signs and symbols to communicate a message.
Skewer
A skewer is a thin metal or wood stick used to hold pieces of food together.
Slow Food
Slow Food is an organization that promotes local food and traditional cooking.
Smorgasbord
Smörgåsbord (directly translates to "sandwich-table") is a buffet-style meal of Swedish origin.
Snack
A snack is a small portion of food generally eaten between meals. Fast food and snack are convenience foods.
Soft drink
A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is any water-based flavored drink, usually but not necessarily carbonated, and typically including added sweetener. Fast food and soft drink are convenience foods.
South Los Angeles
South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying mostly within the city limits of Los Angeles, south of downtown.
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Street food
Street food is food sold by a hawker or vendor on a street or at another public place, such as a market, fair, or park. Fast food and street food are convenience foods.
Street theatre
Street theatre is a form of theatrical performance and presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific paying audience.
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Submarine sandwich
A submarine sandwich, commonly known as a sub, hoagie (Philadelphia metropolitan area and Western Pennsylvania English), hero (New York City English), Italian (Maine English), grinder (New England English, Fulton County, NY), wedge (Westchester, NY), or a spuckie (Boston English) is a type of American cold or hot sandwich made from a cylindrical bread roll split lengthwise and filled with meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments.
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Subway (restaurant)
Subway IP LLC, doing business as Subway, is an American multinational fast food restaurant franchise that specializes in submarine sandwiches (subs) and wraps.
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Super Size Me
Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker.
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Sushi
is a Japanese dish of prepared, usually with some sugar and salt, plus a variety of, such as vegetables, and any meat, but most commonly seafood (often raw but can be cooked). Fast food and Sushi are types of food.
Szczecin
Szczecin (Stettin; Stettin; Sedinum or Stetinum) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland.
Szczecin pasztecik
Szczecin pasztecik,, is a Polish variety of pastry, a machine-produced deep-fried yeast dough stuffed with a meat or vegetarian filling, served in specialised bars as a fast food.
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Taco
A taco is a traditional Mexican dish consisting of a small hand-sized corn- or wheat-based tortilla topped with a filling.
Taco Bell
Taco Bell Corp. is an American multinational chain of fast food restaurants founded in 1962 by Glen Bell (1923–2010) in Downey, California.
Tagalog language
Tagalog (Baybayin) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
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Take-out
Take-out or takeout is a prepared meal or other food items, purchased at a restaurant or fast food outlet with the intent to eat elsewhere. Fast food and take-out are restaurant terminology.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Turkey meat
Turkey meat, commonly referred to as just turkey, is the meat from turkeys, typically domesticated turkeys, but also wild turkeys. Fast food and turkey meat are types of food.
Ultra-processed food
An ultra-processed food (UPF) (also referred to as predigested food) is an industrially formulated edible substance derived from natural food or synthesized from other organic compounds.
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Vada pav
Vada pav, alternatively spelt wada pao, is a vegetarian fast food dish native to the Indian state of Maharashtra. The dish consists of a deep fried potato dumpling placed inside a bread bun (pav) sliced almost in half through the middle. It is generally accompanied with one or more chutneys and a green chili pepper.
Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Wafer
A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes.
Waffle
A waffle is a dish made from leavened batter or dough that is cooked between two plates that are patterned to give a characteristic size, shape, and surface impression.
Wage
A wage is payment made by an employer to an employee for work done in a specific period of time.
West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
Western pattern diet
The Western pattern diet is a modern dietary pattern that is generally characterized by high intakes of pre-packaged foods, refined grains, red meat, processed meat, high-sugar drinks, candy and sweets, fried foods, industrially produced animal products, butter and other high-fat dairy products, eggs, potatoes, corn (and high-fructose corn syrup), and low intakes of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, pasture-raised animal products, fish, nuts, and seeds.
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Westside (Los Angeles County)
The Los Angeles Westside is an urban region in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Wharf
A wharf (or wharfs), quay (also), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
White Castle (restaurant)
White Castle is an American regional hamburger restaurant chain with about 345 locations across 13 states, with its greatest presence in the Midwest and New York metropolitan area.
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Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County.
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Wienerwald (restaurant)
Wienerwald GmbH is a German chain of franchised fast food restaurants, specializing in chicken – especially hendl (a type of roast chicken), schnitzel, and other similar products.
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Working class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
Convenience foods
- All-dressed
- Bouillon cube
- Camping food
- Candy
- Cheese curd
- Chicken fingers
- Chicken nugget
- Chocolate bar
- Coconut milk powder
- Convenience food
- Corn chip
- Diet soda
- Eggo
- Fast food
- Frozen food
- Frozen meal
- Frozen noodles
- Frozen vegetables
- Fugazza
- Granola
- Jerky
- Ketchup chip
- List of potato chip brands
- List of snack foods
- Macaroni and cheese
- Peanut
- Pizza
- Pop-Tarts
- Popcorn chicken
- Potato chip
- Pretzel
- Processed cheese
- SPC Australia
- Snack
- Soft drink
- SpaghettiOs
- Steak-umm
- Street food
- Take and bake pizzeria
- Toaster Strudel
- Tortilla chip
- Velveeta Shells & Cheese
- Wonut
- Yogurt
Roman cuisine
- Abbacchio
- Ancient Roman cuisine
- Ancient Rome and wine
- Apicius
- Baking in ancient Rome
- Choke pear (plant)
- Conditum
- European edible dormouse
- Fast food
- Food in ancient Rome
- French toast
- Game pie
- Garum
- Grape syrup
- Jusselle
- Lucanica
- Lupin bean
- Meatloaf
- Moretum
- Mulsum (drink)
- Oxygala
- Pecorino romano
- Placenta cake
- Posca
- Puls (food)
- Silphium
- Simit
- Tetrapharmacum
- Tracta (dough)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food
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