FFN Ch. 3& 7

1a. I don't know my very first fast food experience, but the first few I can remember were with my dad and his former co-worker, Mr. Joe.  My dad worked in Towson and had long hours, so my mom would take me to visit.  Mr. Joe was also a family friend, so he usually had a new VHS or something "cool" for my brother and me.  On their break, between rounds of hallway golf, we would walk to McDonalds together.  They'd get their big macs or whatever, and I'd get a kids meal, and hopefully some sort of cheap princess toy.  Now that I'm writing about it, it was quite a lame form of bonding, but it was fun for us.

1b."The typical American now consumes approximately three hamburgers and four orders of french fries every week." "It's also inexpensive and convenient." "Fast food is heavily marketed to children..."

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2. I like how Schlosser fits personal stories in with straight facts. It makes the reading less boring and more impacting.  An example from chapter 3 is the girl, Elisa, who walks to work at McDonalds before there are cars on the usually busy road, and the sun is still sleeping.  She works from then until lunch time, then goes home to rest, then does it all again.  And such is the case with many teens in Colorado Springs.

An example from chapter 7 that's effective to me is in the first paragraph.  The description of Greeley just grosses me out.  I don't really know to describe it other than that.  Yuck. I'd never want to live in the same town as a slaughter house based on that description in the book.

Well, I guess I can't be specific about how I'd use this in my paper, since I don't know what it is yet, but it's a good technique to use in general.  If I were writing something about cold hard facts, I'd want to personalize it s that it might actually keep people's attention.  Most things about just facts are really boring, but on television and stuff, we don't see many shows about just facts, because media knows that we need something with which we can relate.