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Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
I am apparently in a reading frenzy these days. I just knocked off Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser. The book is not all about marijuana, although it would certainly be compelling enough if it was only concerned with that one topic. Instead it’s three essays on the economic monster that is the Black Market in America. The first is on the “drug war”, the second is on migrant workers in California, and the third is about the porn industry. All three are deliciously intriguing and certainly more than enough to convince even the most apathetic reader to actually do something as maniacal as vote.
Schlosser also wrote Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, which was just incredible. I read that one in one sitting. It’s frighteningly enlightening.
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Jack in the Box
On the side of a Jack in the Box bag:
Everything in here tastes amazing.
Except the napkins.
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French Fries Deadly
Great Caesar’s Ghost! This is possibly the worst news ever: Cancer Risk Found in French Fries!
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Dave Eggars
An interesting thought from McSweeney’s:
Maybe Colonel Sanders wasn’t really all that interested in cooking. Maybe everything - the secret blend of herbs and spices, the down-home persona, the hundreds of franchisees - was a cover for the fact that he had a deep, abiding, and pathological hatred of hens.
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Marketing 101
I went to Jack in the Box last night and ordered a Sourdough Combo. (Yes, I wanted a free holiday ball.)
“And can I get a small fry on the side?” … A modest request, right?
“I’m sorry, there is no small. Would you like a medium fry?”
<pause>
“Fine.”
Y’know … it really irks me that almost all of the fast food chains have eliminated the “small”. Am I the only one that doesn’t want a SIXTY-FOUR OUNCE soda? I remember when I could get a “small” order of fries for 79¢. Now I get the same thing, but it’s called a “medium” and it costs $1.09. Do they think that I’m deceived? Man. It’s not like everyone would have stopped buying “smalls” if the price had been raised to $1.09. All they managed to do was insult me.
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