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FAST FOOD


What is fast food?
Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served 
very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be 
considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a 
restaurant or store with low quality preparation and served to the 
customer in a packaged form for take-out/take-away. Nearly from its 
inception, fast food has been designed to be eaten "on the go", often 
does not require traditional cutlery, and is eaten as a finger food. 
Common menu items at fast food outlets include fish and chips, 
sandwiches, pitas, hamburgers, fried chicken, French fries, chicken 
nuggets, tacos, pizza, hot dogs, and ice cream, although many fast 
food restaurants offer "slower" foods like chili, mashed potatoes, and 
salads.


Fast Food vs. Healthy Food

Highly accessible Less accessible
Convenient Less convenient
Great tasting Not as good tasting
Promoted heavily Not promoted
Inexpensive More expensive

Fast Foods Healthy Foods


People Who Eat Fast Food

Eat more fat
Eat more saturated fat
Eat fewer fruits and vegetables
Have more body fat


DIFFERENT TYPES OF 
FAST FOOD


There are many kinds of fast food. What will one place have in 
terms of fast food types, depends on what grows there, what of 
ingredients can be obtained and what local people like. Some 
types of fast food:-
 Hot dog : a cooked sausage served in a sliced bun and 

garnished with condiments like mustard, ketchup, onions, 
mayonnaise, relish, cheese, and chili.

 Kebab : pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted or grilled 
on a skewer or spit. I originated in the Middle East.

 French fries : invented by Belgians (surprise!), French fries 
are potatoes cut to short sticks and deep fried. Popular since 
17th or 18th century.


 Hamburger : a type of sandwich that has one or more meat 
patties placed in between two or more sliced buns and 
garnished with condiments.

 Chips : Thinly cut potatoes (very thinly), heavily salted and 
deep fried until crispy. Legend says that they were made for 
the first time by a cook annoyed by his costumer who 
complained that his potatoes were too thick, soft and bland.

 Pizza : a flat-bread baked in oven and topped with tomato 
sauce, cheese and various toppings. Modern pizza is invented 
in Italy and loved around the world.

 Sandwich : a type of food where one type of food is place on 
or between two slices of bread. John Montagu, 4th Earl of 
Sandwich was inventor of this food.


 Taco : Is a filling wrapped in a corn or wheat tortilla (type of 
flat-bread). Filling can be made of different ingredients like 
beef, pork, chicken, seafood, vegetables and cheese.

 Chicken nuggets : made from meat slurry or chicken 
breasts cut to shape, breaded or battered, and then deep 
fried or baked. They were invented in the 1950s by Robert C. 
Baker, a food science professor at Cornell University.

 Onion rings : a snack made of cross-sectional rings of onion 
dipped in batter or bread crumbs and then deep fried. It can 
be also made with onion paste.

 Fish and chips : a fast food dish made of battered fish and 
deep fried chips (this time English “chips” meaning thickly 
cut deep fried potatoes). Can be garnished with vinegar and 
eaten with mushy peas.


 Poutine : a sub-type of French fries originating from Canada. 
It is made of French fries and topped with a light and thin 
chicken, veal, or turkey gravy and cheese curds.

 Cheeseburger : a hamburger with a sliced of melted cheese.
 Falafel : a patty made from ground chickpeas, fava beans, or 

both and then deep fried. It is usually served in pita (slightly 
leavened flatbread baked made from wheat flour) or wrapped 
in a “lafa”.

 Popcorn : a type of corn whose kernel puffs up when heated. 
It is very old fast food (people knew about it 8,000 years ago). 
It can be prepared salted or sweetened and it is still popular 
today.

 Corn on the Cob : cooked ear of freshly sweet corn. Ear is 
picked while the kernels are still soft and cooked in boiling 
water. Kernels are then eaten directly off the cob.


Market
 McDonalds having as many as 123 outlets.
  Domino’s pizza is present in around 274 locations. 
 Pizza hut is also catching up and it has planned to establish 

147 outlets at the end of 2009. 
 Subways have established around145  outlets.
 Nirula’s is established in Delhi and Northern India. However, 

it claims to cater50,000 guests every day. It has future 
expansion plans for more than 50 outlets every year, for next 
three years


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