In Eric Schlosser's novel Fast Food Nation he exploits and examines the real truth about fast food restaurants. He initially begans to briefly speak about how these restaurants come about and the he includes brief decriptions about their founders. In the attempt to exploit them about their "harmful advertising" he discussed the approach these many companies take to reach out to their younger customers. He uses McDonald's as a example advertiser. He says, " McDonald's spends more money advertising and marketing than any other brand. As a result it has replaced Coca-Cola as the world's most famous brand. McDonald's operates more playgorunds than any other private entity in the United States ( introduction : page 4 ) . " This quote alone gives you a general of how these vendors are targeting Americans. In my opinion Schlosser's main focus for this novel is to reveal the naked truth about these vendors.
clarification: In Schlosser's opinion , what do most of the
food resturants have in common ?
application: Did your prior knowledge about fast food restaurants change after reading the first two chunks of Fast Food Nation ?
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All of the restaurants were started by high school dropouts who set out wealth. Also the restaurants flood television and print with advertisements that draw people to their restaurants.
ReplyDeleteYes my prior knowledge about fast food nations changed. I now look at them with less respect and see them now more as a corporation and less as a food company.
ReplyDeletewell all resturants try to appeal mostly to the younger generation. they do this so that they can have life long costumers.
ReplyDeleteyes my prior knowledge did change. i now know how things are done behind their closed doors. i look at them as people that just want my money.
ReplyDeleteHe states thatall of these restaurants were started by people who didn't even finish getting their High School education and how they manipulate kid's and basically have control over America's economy.
ReplyDeleteMy knowledge wasn't really changed, it was just brought to my attention of what I already knew and caused me to actually think about what was really going on.