Meaning of fast food | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Restaurant food that is served quickly, often standardized and pre-prepared.
   uncountable, usually
2. A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food.
   uncountable, usually
3. Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“In the course of the last decade, it has become the dominant “fast-food” franchise in America—and it is now spreading abroad, carrying its gospel of machine technology wedded to cheap hamburgers wherever it can find a mouth-hold, and converting anyone it can to the glories of junk food”

“Everyone loves some junk food some of the time. That's why there are more than 140,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S.”

“In high schools with open campuses, students leave at lunchtime to buy fast food elsewhere. Since leaving school is unsafe, schools are opting to serve less nutritious foods so the students stay on campus. For example, many schools have invited junk food franchises into their cafeterias, including Subway, Taco Bell, and Domino's.”

“Disney even chose to stop licensing its film characters for McDonald’s Happy Meals, citing the link between fast food and childhood obesity.”

“Junk food companies spent billions of advertising dollars in 2017 targeting black and Hispanic kids, a new study has revealed. / Television ads for fast food, sugary drinks and fatty or salty snacks are almost exclusively targeted to minority youth, the report, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found.”

“The best evidence is that Sandals, the fast-food king of island weddings, now markets the term weddingmoons.”

“Guys are good for two things: 1) help when you need to move something heavy, and 2) fast-food sex where you always know what's on the menu and, with a little work, you can supersize it”

“Outside, the drive-in crowd is heading back into the Sturm und Drang of city traffic and a fast-food world”

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