On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:54:42 GMT, "Jack Schidt®"
> wrote:


>Fast Food, from M-W:
>
>1 : of, relating to, or specializing in food that can be prepared and served
>quickly <a fast-food restaurant>
>2 : designed for ready availability, use, or consumption and with little
>consideration given to quality or significance <fast-food TV programming>
>
>'Fast food' is a newer name for old ideas. A hot dog from a cart is fast
>food. Pizza is fast food and so is Chinese takeout. We didn't have a fancy
>monicker for them then.

To me, fast food means a regional, national, or world-wide chain with
a limited menu of standardized offerings geared to mass tastes and
usually high-fat, high-calorie.