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According to a new survey of fast-food lovers, the best hamburger in the nation comes out of In-N-Out Burger, the West Coast chain boasting “quality you can taste.” Wendy’s followed at No. 2 in the Battle of the Burgers, trailed by Burger King, McDonald’s and Whataburger.
Authorities in Texas say a teenage boy fatally shot his father during an argument over a fast-food order, then killed himself.
City officials are putting South Los Angeles on a diet.
In the impoverished neighborhood of South Los Angeles, fast food is the easiest cuisine to find — and that's a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol.
At the "Buns and Guns," the chefs wear military helmets, the food is wrapped in camouflage paper and the advertising slogan is "a sandwich can kill you."
It's been said that hot dogs — like laws — are something you never want to see being made.
The only familiar signs at the McDonald's in this large Asian community are the golden arches, the drive-through and the menu.
Fast-food rivals Yum Brands Inc. and Wendy's International Inc. could savor portions of their end-of-the-year financial reports.
In a town where you can get a slice of pizza or a hot dog on nearly every block, one city councilman wants to limit the number of fast food restaurants as a way to fight obesity.
Parents who visit their children at lunch would be required to eat school food rather than bring the children fast-food lunches under a proposed wellness policy in the Palmyra Area School District.
McDonalds scoops Shame AwardsFast food giant McDonald's has received three servings of shame from parents in the annual children's food marketing awards.
McDonald's pulls out of IcelandMcDonald's is to close its business in Iceland because the country's financial crisis has made it too expensive to operate its franchise. The fast food giant said its three outlets in the country would shut - and that it had no plans to return.
Dateline: 1995 Fast food and nutrition have long been warring factions, but Nelson Lang and John Sotiriadis decided it was high time for a ceasefire.
When my daughter was born in 1968, I had no health insurance and a crappy low paying job, yet I still managed to pay for her hospital birth with cash because the cost was only about $1000 total.
Calorie labeling doesn't curb NYC fast food habitsA rule that requires New York City fast food restaurants to post calorie information on their menu boards has not changed consumer habits in low-income neighborhoods, according to a study published on Tuesday.While half of consumers surveyed said they noticed the labeling, and ab …
France's art lovers and gastronomes are choking: McDonald's restaurant to open at the Louvre Lovers of France's two great symbols of cultural exception – its haute cuisine and fine art – are aghast at plans to open a McDonald's restaurant and McCafé in the Louvre museum next month.
Wrong taco, wrong timeA man was caught in a case of "wrong taco, wrong time" when he tried to rob a fast food joint.
Guilty verdict in 1993 Ill. restaurant slayingsA Chicago jury has found a former handyman guilty in the slayings of seven people inside a suburban fast food restaurant 16 years ago.
Map: How far do American's have to drive for a McDonald's?A fabulous spot by the eagle-eyed folks over at Strange Maps. Stephen Von Worley has plotted the position of every McDonald's in the United States. All 13,000 odd of them.
The End of Overeating Jill Richardson :: Today I posted a piece on the food blog Zester Daily called "Trained to Get Fat." In it, I focused quite a bit on David Kessler's new book The End of Overeating.
Fast-food customer feels better after fork inhaled 2 years ago removed The 50-year-old Wilmington, N.C., resident said he probably inhaled it while gulping a drink from Wendy's. Nice visual - clearly no fun on a dinner date. Honest to god just slow down and chew.
Carl's Jr: When in trouble, blame socialismAndy Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, which owns both Carl's Jr and Hardee's, believes the governments of both California and Oregon are "socialist."
Smashburger to open outlets in Fort Worth - Dallas Business Journal:"Texas is. . . a hub for burger lovers."
Thoughts of this question are borne out of a couple of inspirations. The issue of today's economy notwithstanding, the unemployment rates careening, the job market everywhere or anywhere, all have seeds tossed in to germinate my question.
This morning on NPR it was being discussed that an employee had balled up some of his pubic hair and put it into some food he was either serving or delivering. It was said that we know this type of thing is going on all the time all over, but we choose to ignore it.
Healthy Options Make People Eat UnhealthyHaving the option to order a salad makes people more likely to order the double bacon cheeseburger or the least healthy item on the menu. And the more self control people have, the more likely they'll be influenced to eat unhealthily, according to Psychology Today.
The Fast Food Industry's 7 Most Heinous Concoctions In recent years, in fact, some of America's favorite chains have gone above and beyond the call of duty and concocted thoroughly repellent dishes that make the Double Quarter Pounder look like a celery stick.
The Fast Food Industry's 7 Most Heinous ConcoctionsAlthough the organic movement has certainly started to influence how Americans think about their food, it is still no match for the American fast food industry, which continuously finds creative new ways of piling sugar, salt and fat on a plate and charging customers $4.99 for th …
The KFC Double Down Sandwich Uses Chicken Patties Instead of BunsThe Double Down Sandwich is apparently an actual product at KFC: pepper jack cheese, Swiss cheese, and bacon smothered in the Colonel's Sauce, using two Original Recipe Filets instead of buns.
We call this a really, really big Mac AttackWe don't know what it is about fast food joints. But if you're looking for a fight, you can find one there.
fast food in the wilderness -- The canned cheeseburgerOh -- wonderful news -- now I can actually eat "good" food when I'm camping -- This thing sounds nasty to me but then, I don't like cheese burgers at any time.
15 Horrifying Reasons to Never Let Anyone You Love Near a McDonald'sThe Golden Arches: the ultimate American icon. Super Size Me taught us that fast food culture brings obesity, heart disease, hypertension and a whole slew of other problems.
Good Cooks and Bad MomsCooking dinner, it seems, has gone the way of the washboard. Reading the piece reminded me of a profile of Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown, who warned modern female readers to wait to be taken out to dinner 20 times before cooking for a man at home.
OMG!!!!!! WTF?!?????PETA Unhappy Meals Targeting Kids"McDonald's markets its food to children by packaging it in brightly colored boxes with toys," Lindsay Rajt, a spokeswoman for PETA, tells Slashfood.
How We Became a Society of Gluttonous Junk Food AddictsJunk food is killing us slowly with diabetes, heart disease and cancer. But we can't stop because we're hooked, and the food industry is the pusher.
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