Definition of "fast food"
fast food
noun
usually uncountable, plural fast foods
A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food.
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In the course of the last decade, it has become the dominant “fast-food” franchise in America—and it is now spreading abroad, carrying its gospel of machine technology wedded to cheap hamburgers wherever it can find a mouth-hold, and converting anyone it can to the glories of junk food
1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Television As An instrument of Terror, page 189
In high schools with open campuses, students leave at lunchtime to buy fast food elsewhere. Since leaving school is unsafe, schools are opting to serve less nutritious foods so the students stay on campus. For example, many schools have invited junk food franchises into their cafeterias, including Subway, Taco Bell, and Domino's.
1999, Carol Silverman Saunders, Safe at School: Awareness and Action for Parents of Kids Grades K-12
Junk food companies spent billions of advertising dollars in 2017 targeting black and Hispanic kids, a new study has revealed. / Television ads for fast food, sugary drinks and fatty or salty snacks are almost exclusively targeted to minority youth, the report, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found.
2019 January 15, Lauren Tousignant, “Junk food ads overwhelmingly target black, Hispanic kids”, in New York Post
Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value.
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