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unusual facts about fast-food



Alex Schoenbaum

Under Alex Schoenbaum, the Shoney's organization also developed and operated the Captain D's fast food seafood chain, Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken fast-food chain, now part of Mrs. Winner's, and three casual dining chains, The Sailmaker, Pargo's and the Fifth Quarter Steakhouses.

Alfalfa House

Alfalfa House Community Food Cooperative Ltd is a not-for-profit food cooperative based in Enmore, Sydney, Australia.

Amantes e Mortais

Amantes e Mortais (known in English as Fast and Far) is Adelaide Ferreira's second album released in 1989.

Atlantic Crossing

The album was divided into a slow side and a fast side, apparently at the suggestion of Stewart's then-girlfriend, Swedish actress Britt Ekland.

Axelborg

Axelborg is a building on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen, Denmark, home to the Danish Agriculture and Food Council.

Beiyang Fleet

These cruisers were fast (25 knots) and heavily armed, but were not adopted by the Royal Navy because the Admiralty considered them to be "weak in structure".

Canvasback

The species name valisineria comes from the plant Vallisneria americana, whose winter buds and rhizomes are the Canvasback's preferred food during the nonbreeding period.

Carpinus betulus

The leaves provide food for some animals, including Lepidoptera such as the case-bearer moth Coleophora anatipennella.

Casa Blanca, Arizona

Led by Captain Sherod Hunter, the raid destroyed the mill machinery, captured Ammi White and returned the flour and other food to the Pima.

Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers

By the year 2000, Brisbane was fast growing as an alternative for business from Sydney and Melbourne as major international companies such as Virgin Australia, Boeing Australia, Mincom Limited and Billabong (clothing) set up their head offices in Queensland.

Dara O'Rourke

He is also the founder of GoodGuide, an online consumer tool for retrieving information about the supply chain of consumer products such as toys, food, and detergents.

DB Class 10

Up to 1962 they were allocated to Bebra locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk or Bw), before being transferred to Bw Kassel where they worked alongside the DRG Class 01.10s until 20 March 1967 heading fast-stopping and express trains to and from Gießen.

Echelmeyer Ice Stream

The name was changed from Ice Stream F by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2002 to honor Dr. Keith A. Echelmeyer of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who studied the flow of Marie Byrd Land ice streams, 1992–93 and 1994–95, as well as the fast flow of surging glaciers in Alaska and Greenland.

Ethel MacDonald

In the crackdown following the events of May 1937 she assisted the escape of anarchists wanted by the Communist secret police and smuggled into prison letters and food for fellow anarchists held by regional authorities.

Everett Franklin Lindquist

As a result of the fast-growing use of ITBS tests, he developed the first practical optical mark recognition system as a replacement for the electrical mark sense IBM 805 Test Scoring Machine.

FFS2

FFS2, Unix File System, Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS

Food code

The Conference for Food Protection also provides recommendations for FDA Food Code standards.

Food riot

Oxfam added that a one percent increase in the price of food could lead to 16 million more falling below the poverty line.

Food Safari

The series was rested in 2008 after the airing of the third series with a spin-off series, Italian Food Safari, airing in 2010, presented by O'Meara and chef Guy Grossi.

Football Friday

Football Friday is a fast-paced program that covers everything from college football to the National Football League and even high school football.

Fred's Frozen Foods

As of 2002, both brands are operated by Windsor Quality Food Company, LTD, which is ultimately owned by the Hojel and Meinig families through their holding company HM International based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

G.I. Wanna Home

Films like Playing the Ponies, An Ache in Every Stake, Sock-a-Bye Baby, and I Can Hardly Wait are finer examples of Curly preparing food and creating comedy genius with little effort.

Gekido

Gekido (known as Gekido: Urban Fighters in Europe) is a beat 'em up for the PlayStation game console. The game uses a fast paced beat 'em up system, with many bosses and a colorful design in terms of graphics. The game features the music of Fatboy Slim and Apartment 26. Marvel comic book artist Joe Madureira also contributed. A version of Gekido was also released on the Game Boy Color in Europe.

Geranium caespitosum

The Keres use roots crushed into a paste to treat sores, and the whole plant as turkey food.

Gun safety

In 1902, the English politician and game shooting enthusiast Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote some much-quoted verses on gun safety, including many salient points.

Halwa poori

The food originated in northern India mainly in Uttar Pradesh and in modern day Pakistani Punjab and Indian Punjab and usually in Uttar Pradesh and Pakistani Punjab it is eaten as a breakfast on weekends in cities like Lahore, Faisalabad and in many other cities.

Ian Marber

His publication on Supereating published in 2008 by Quadrille, focuses on getting more from your food.

Jell

Gelatin dessert, also known as jelly, a sweet or savoury food gel

Jim Fannon

Fannon is a veteran real estate sales representative with RE/MAX in the St. Catharines area and is the founder of Nature’s Hemp, a local business selling hemp-related food products.

Joan Nathan

She was a co-founder of New York's Ninth Avenue Food Festival under then-Mayor Abraham Beame.

John Widgery, Baron Widgery

He gathered a reputation for being a fast talker, and eventually came to specialise in disputes over rating and town planning, where his methodical approach and self-control were useful attributes.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve

Sedges and other low plants grow in the wetlands providing food and cover for migrating birds.

Laurie Zimmer

After playing the female lead opposite Darwin Joston and Austin Stoker in Assault on Precinct 13, Zimmer appeared (as Laura Fanning) in two 1977 French films: Jean Eustache's Une sale histoire ("A Dirty Story") and Charlotte Szlovak's Slow City, Moving Fast (also known by the French title D'un Jour a L'Autre).

Leafcutter ant

In addition to feeding the fungal garden with foraged food, mainly consisting of leaves, it is protected from Escovopsis by the antibiotic secretions of Actinobacteria (genus Pseudonocardia).

Manihot

Manihot species are used as food plants by the larvae of some species of Lepidoptera including Endoclita sericeus and Hypercompe hambletoni.

Marooning

Selkirk, a sailor with the Dampier expedition, was worried about the unseaworthy condition of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and had argued with the captain until he left him ashore on the island where they had briefly stopped for water and food supplies.

Mexican street food

Other areas in Mexico City noted for their street food are Metro Chilpancingo, Mercado San Juan Arcos de Belen, Calle López in the historic center and the Mercado de Antojitos ("street food market") in Coyoacán.

Meyer's Parrot

Seeds of the various leguminous trees of the African woodlands are especially favoured, providing their staple food in some areas.

Norman Walker

Norman W. Walker (1886–1985), British-American raw food and alternative health advocate

Palm nut

The immature fruits of Arenga pinnata, a canned/bottled food sold commercially in syrup

Paspalum dilatatum

Paspalum dilatatum is a food source for several avian species, including the Long-tailed Widowbird.

Passi, Iloilo

Passi was made the quartermaster depot of United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) for the food of the army that resisted in Bataan through Capiz.

Patricia Schroeder

During the 1995 budget debates, after Democrats claimed that Social Security payments would leave seniors with no choice but to eat dog food, Rush Limbaugh humorously claimed that he was going to get his mother a can opener.

Sputnik 2

If neither had taken place, Russian Mission Control had planned to euthanize Laika with poisoned food, as she would have burned up in the atmosphere during re-entry.

Sunalini Menon

Sunalini Menon has BSc and MSc degrees in food and nutrition from the Women's Christian College, which she attended between 1966 and 1971.

Tannahill

Reay Tannahill, author of Food in History (1973) and other works

Terrance Hanold

Terrance Hanold (1912–1996) was an American attorney, food industry executive, and President of the Pillsbury Company.

Three Bridges L.F.C.

During this time Faye White joined the club at 13 and was fast-tracked into the first team at 14.

Utensil

Eating utensil, a tool for shaping and carrying food to the mouth

Vivartia

Vivartia is the result of the merger of Delta Holding S.A., which included Delta Dairy Products, Goody's, Flocafé and Mechelany foods as well as a dozen other major Greek food and beverages related corporations of the nutritions field, with the snack and bakery business lines of Chipita.


see also

2009 Holiday Bowl

On December 8, 2009, the Holiday Bowl committee announced a marketing campaign with fast food franchise Jack in the Box where Jack Box, the fictional Chairman and CEO of the company and star of its marketing campaigns, would be the Honorary Chairman of the game and the Grand Marshal of the Port of San Diego Big Bay Balloon Parade.

Angelica Page

Supporting roles include Vitka in Amos Kollek's Fast Food Fast Women (2000), Dierdre in the Academy Award-nominated The Contender (2000), Patty opposite John Travolta in Domestic Disturbance (2001), and Roberta in Michael Imperioli's The Hungry Ghosts (2009).

Arby's

Arby's was founded in Boardman, Ohio, in 1964 by Forrest and Leroy Raffel, owners of a restaurant equipment business who believed there was a market opportunity for a fast food franchise based on a food other than hamburgers.

Atlantic City Expressway

Farley Service Plaza, the only service area on the route, has a building containing several fast food restaurants and a gas station.

Banna Avenue

Smaller stores include Just Jeans, Katies, Chain Reaction as well as various fast food outlets and service stations.

Charlie Finn

He has also appeared in the films Gone, But Not Forgotten, Psycho Beach Party, Rolling Kansas, The Dukes of Hazzard and played a small but memorable role as a smart-ass fast-food cashier in Super Troopers.

Chew on This

It is basically, as the title says, "everything you don't want to know about fast food," such as the way chickens die at a slaughterhouse, how meatpacking has become more dangerous than back in the times of the Chicago Stock Yards, cutting approximately 400 cattle an hour, and how the average child sees approximately 40,000 advertisements a year, half of which are for fast food, candy, breakfast cereals, and soda.

Cyber Nations

Certain combinations of resources yield Bonus Resources that can be created from the base or "native" resources, such as Fast Food from Cattle, Pigs, Sugar, and Spices.

Daniel Hsia

The film also stars Eliza Coupe (as Henney's love interest, Amanda Wilson, a relocation specialist), Bill Paxton as a fast food entrepreneur named Donald Cafferty and Alan Ruck as Marcus Groff, a client of Chao's law firm.

Defence Housing Authority, Lahore

DHA, like the rest of Lahore, is overflowing with food lovers and has a lot of variety of foods on offer, from fast food chains such as McDonald's, Hardees, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut to upper-scale restaurants specialising in Pakistani and Western cuisine.

Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America

Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America (usually shortened to Don't Eat This Book) is a book by Morgan Spurlock, a writer and documentary filmmaker known for his work in Super Size Me.

Eyrecourt

Eyrecourt is served by two public houses, a post office, library, village store, garage and fast food outlet, pharmacy, tractor dealer, medical centre, primary school, numerous small enterprises and the Meelick-Eyrecourt GAA club.

Fast Food Rockers

The Fast Food Rockers' version, adapted by Mike Stock, Steve Crosby and Sandy Rass, was the first release of independent record label Better The Devil Records.

Fo Tan

Close to its main entrance in Tai Po Road, the Benjamin Frankfurt Centre provides fast food style food court maintained by Café de Coral, Chinese Style dumplings and noodles maintained by the Maxim's Group and a McCafe.

Gus Fring

Max was murdered by the Juárez Cartel, leading Gus to emigrate to the United States in 1989, where he re-established Los Pollos Hermanos as a chain of fast-food restaurants.

Guy Savoy

In 1955, his parents moved to Bourgoin-Jallieu, a town in Isère, where his father was a gardener and his mother owned a taproom, that she would transform into a fast food and then a reputed restaurant.

Kahuna

Big Kahuna Burger, a fictional chain of Hawaiian-themed fast food restaurants that appears in the movies of Quentin Tarantino

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais

In July 2008, she posed in an advertising campaign for New York Fries, a Canadian franchise fast-food restaurant.

Marrakesh railway station

It contains several shops and fast food restaurants, including a KFC.

Maxwell Street Depot

The Maxwell Street Depot, commonly called "Depot" or "Ghetto Dog" by its regular customers, is a 24-hour fast-food restaurant with locations throughout the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, although the best known branch is found on 31st Street and Canal Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood.

McDonald Brothers

Richard and Maurice McDonald who developed McDonald's fast food and sold golden arches to Ray Kroc, see History of McDonald's

McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure

Based on the McDonald's fast food franchise and four of its corporate mascots from McDonaldland (Ronald McDonald, Hamburglar, Grimace, and Birdie the Early Bird), the game follows the adventures of Ronald McDonald in an attempt to find four pieces of a treasure map, and ultimately, the treasure to which it leads.

Midnapore, Calgary

Midnapore has a mall, the Midnapore Mall, a community centre that it shares with the adjacent community of Sundance, as well as many fast food restaurants including McDonalds, Wendy's, Tim Hortons, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

Mill Park, Victoria

Mill Park is not short of fast food restaurants, with McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, KFC and Domino's Pizza all within proximity of one another.

Moira Crombie

Moira's other son - Blake (Jesse Peach) soon arrived and Moira and Earl's relationship was on the rocks when a fast food shop he bought with no insurance was vandalized.

Nam Sang-mi

Nam Sang-mi was working in a fast food restaurant near Hanyang University, Seoul in the fall of 2001 when someone posted her personal photos on the internet.

Nick Digilio

The Nick Digilio Show can currently be heard on WGN Radio in Chicago (720 AM) where Digilio discusses popular culture, current events, all things Chicago, and other hot topics including why the Flavor Bowl from KFC is the best fast food item ever produced, and the fact that there actually once was vegetable flavored Jell-O.

Old King Clancy

She met "The Frozen Snowshoe" (a famous Canadian wrestler), who showed her his collection of Harvey's Trays (simple orange plastic trays from a fast-food chain), and offered her an "Old King Clancy" (a "Sacramento Turtleneck" with maple syrup).

Paradise Center

A multiplex with 14 halls of the international brand Cinema City International an ice rink and four restaurants with panoramic terraces together with a large fast food area will be there.

Paz Oil Company

Also in 1999, Paz acquired 74 percent of the Israeli fast food chain Burger Ranch.

Perivale tube station

The station also featured in the BBC TV show The Fast Show during a "Fat Sweaty Coppers" sketch, during which the two policemen give chase to a criminal, and after briefly getting stuck in the barriers, "commandeer" a vehicle which turns out to be a fast food van, which they simply open up to order food.

Ronald MacDonald

Ronald McDonald, advertising clown for McDonald's fast-food restaurants

Roxburgh Park, Victoria

A number of popular fast food chain outlets are also positioned within the suburb including McDonalds, KFC, Red Rooster, Pizza Hut, Subway & Hungry Jack's.

Roy Rogers Restaurants

An exception is the Allentown service plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension, which serves its customers in the typical fast-food fashion since it reopened in May 2008 (the entire service plaza had been rebuilt).

Roy Rogers Franchise Company, LLC is a Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States chain of fast food restaurants founded by the Marriott Corporation in 1968 in Falls Church, Virginia.

Simcoe Composite School

To the north, there is a Wendy's and Subway in addition to other fast food restaurants that are no longer served in the cafeteria due to province-wide ban on junk food in public schools.

Southgate, Michigan

The city of Southgate features the Splash Park/Downriver YMCA (also called Southgate Fun & Fitness Centre), as well as the Michigan headquarters for the Sonic Drive-In fast food restaurant chain.

Squire Fridell

From 1984 to 1991, he served as the official "Ronald McDonald" clown character in American television commercials for the McDonald's Corporation chain of fast-food restaurants, and even played the McDonald character in Mac and Me.

Sri Lankan cuisine

Fast food such as hot dogs and hamburgers has arrived in Sri Lanka, with the Globalization of McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut Fast-Food Chains, but these are not usually considered to be short eats.

Swansea City Centre

Apart from the night life venues, The Kingsway has a number of banks, shops, fast food outlets and branch of the YMCA.

The Heads Set: The Eraserheads Box Set

The Heads Set: The Eraserheads Box Set is a box set package by the fast food chain Greenwich for the 90's alternative/rock band Eraserheads.

Tyrrelstown

Other local amenities include two national schools (one under the patronage of Educate Together and a second under the patronage of the Catholic Church ), a creche, a Lidl supermarket, a Superquinn supermarket, a newsagent, a pub, an off-licence, a restaurant, several fast food outlets, a pharmacy, two medical centres, a dental practice, a solicitor's office, a coffee shop, and a hairdresser and barber shop.

Union Mall

It has an easy access from Phahon Yothin MRT Station, an international food court, a myriad of fast food chains, entertainment areas, tutorial schools, a fitness centre, and a supermarket.

Wichita Collegiate School

Wichita Collegiate School chemistry teacher Janice Crowley received the Milken Family Foundation Educator Pathfinder Award for leading her students in investigating a carcinogenic source of breast cancer in area fast food restaurants.

Yourself!Fitness

In a 2006 fitness promotional campaign with the popular fast-food chain McDonald's, purchasers of an "Active Meal" (consisting of a salad and bottled water) could receive one of four Yourself!Fitness DVDs, playable in a standard DVD player, which contains a rigid workout regimen also led by Maya.