Fast food in the United States and Canada Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
iconic fast food items found in restaurant chains in North America
About Fast food in the United States and Canada
"Street food" has been a staple of civilization dating back millennia, to the dawn of cities and personal commerce, but it was only in North America that the mass-produced, quickly prepared meal moved indoors and was refined into the modern, efficient fast food restaurant of today, allowed through theindustrialization of the United States, the rise ofautomobile traveland the colonization of the"Wild West". While it is often scoffed at by health advocates and gourmands on the one hand and by locavores, traditionalists, and promoters of local cuisines on the other, fast food is today often seen asthequintessentially American food. While fast food as a concept — or, indeed, many of its components — are by no means American inventions (French frieswere invented in Belgium, whilehot dogsandhamb
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