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fast-food

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fast food
n.
Inexpensive food, such as hamburgers and fried chicken, prepared and served quickly.
fast-food (fstfd) adj.
Translations
fast-food:
fast-food chain
n → Fast-Food-Kette f, → Fastfoodkette f, → Schnellimbisskette f
fast-food joint
n (US) → Fast-Food-Restaurant nt → or -Laden m (inf)
fast-food outlet
n → Fast-Food-Lokal nt, → Schnellimbiss m
fast-food place, fast-food restaurant
n → Fast-Food-Restaurant nt → or -Laden m (inf) → Schnellimbiss m


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The book is short a few of the gorier horrors of its predecessor, but still tells a compelling tale of agribusiness and its environmental devastation; the mammoth political and economic leverage of the fast-food industry; and the health havoc this industry wreaks.
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The impact of McDonald's on the way we live today would be hard to overstate," wrote Schlosser in Fast Food Nation, his persuasive expose of the far-reaching negative effects of the fast-food industry, published for adults in 2001.
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