Joel Stein on the Globalization of American Fast Food
Time has given Joel Stein a new food column, and his first piece for the magazine is The Hungry American: "After its first lap, globalization gets really interesting. The stuff you invented—in this culinary case, fast-food hamburgers, fried chicken, pizza and doughnuts—gets sent out into the world, is replicated by other countries and then comes back to you all crazied up, like a giant game of telephone. And if you hold that piece of Filipino fried chicken up to your ear and are really quiet, you can hear what the rest of the world thinks about us."
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Beard Papa is a point of contention for Wisconsinites. WE will take French pastry and make it even more unhealthy, thank you very much!
GhaleonQ at 5:31PM on 03/30/07
Actually...Joel Stein makes an interesting point, but it's based on bad facts. Japanese cream puffs aren't American at all. They're technically French! So the puffs don't really tell us all that much about our American selves, or our American culture. Did his mistake bother anyone else besides me? (I just wrote a longer blog post about this: freelancette.com if you're interested...).
freelancette at 3:00PM on 04/11/07