Fast Food: A Love Story

London has a love-hate relationship with fast food. Public health campaigns and celebrity chefs vilify it and warn it could kill us; yet, as this film shows, we've never had it so good. This programme provides an unadulterated celebration of fast food, showing, with an emphasis on our lunches, how food and eating have evolved since the 1950s. Special emphasis is made on the evolution and importance of supermarkets. As Rob Lyons, author of Panic on a Plate, tells us, supermarkets have enabled more people to be fed more inexpensively, conveniently and well.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• WORLDwrite
• WORLDbytes
• politics
• citizen TV
• news
• Rob Lyons
• Spiked
• Panic on a Plate
• supermarkets
• tesco
• fast food
• mcdonalds
• health campaigns
• obesity
• politics and health
• change4life campaign
• take aways
• burger eating

[jackvincent90]

and we wonder why we all die from cancer one day, this vid is no longer kinda retarded, is hilarious

[jackvincent90]

oh yeah aspartame......mmmm

[jackvincent90]

nasty bird poo, lets use chemicals instead. this vid is kinda retarded

[Vivster68]

You get so used to hearing that fast food and supermarkets are bad you don't realise how much they have advanced our what we can do let alone what we can eat but this short film provides it all. I am so glad I don't have to walk from shop to shop to get my meals then go home and cook cook cook

[Sarahk150]

Wow what a well made refreshing little report – Rob Lyons rocks-makes me hungry for a take away and want to try a giraffe thingy. Excellent point on women’s freedom from domestic toil and contemporary racial thinking expressed through food. More of this please.

[CHECKTHIS331]

This is very interesting, taking the myth off fast food. This is means it can be delicious and health. We have varieties of foods from different parts of the world which can beneficial to our bodies. This is good to know.

[peterson17able]

Thank God we have supermarkets and lots of choice of food compared to the past. Fast food should be a cause for some celebration too. We get told that burgers are junk food but they are really quite nutritious and tasty. I often wonder what some TV chefs are on and oh yes there was the ‘slow food’ movement, how odd. It’s like a question of go back in time or go forward.

[matchboxdisaster]

bollocks.

[robkun]

Fantastic video - concise, well presented and engaging. I especially loved the idea that tomato ketchup is more nutritious than an apple!

[nolslifegren]

Great vid folks ..