Where Did Fast Food Come From, and Who Invented It? | History 101

The fast food industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, which is amazing considering it's less than 100 years old. In this exclusive clip from Netflix series History 101, we learn about the origin story of everybody's favourite guilty pleasure food.
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Where Did Junk Food Come From, and Who Invented It? | History 101
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[@TJ-lc3pm]

It's pretty Interesting thanks

[@oldchildhood8646]

Just watched this on Netflix and when I saw this guy throw away a nearly full bag of chips, I had to literally replay that scene as I was so shocked how much we waste

[@marizreniedo4983]

Whats the title on Netflix

[@oldchildhood8646]

@@marizreniedo4983
History 101, or do you mean something different?

[@1Dome]

But, bags of chips are trash, it's better to throw them away.

[@polyrythmical]

In this episode they site fast food as being the major contributor to rising obesity. They make no mention of the FDA allowing processed sugar in cereals and soft drinks. It was processed sugar, especially in cereals and soft drinks (as well in many factory produced baked goods, prepared meals etc.) that mostly presented children with a steady diet of processed sugar on a daily basis. Fast food chains took the brunt of this hit, but that was grossly unfair.

[@sebastianwallin3726]

What really also made an impact was the fact that technological advances allowed for humans to produce far higher yields per hectar in farming. This allowed for the production per unit to decrease and hence the relative prizes of food remained low while disposible incomes all over the world has risen in the last decades.
People have far more money compared to the amounts of food they can get.
This allowed for people to buy more food and hence eat more than they need.
Combined with food being abundant and prices low the manufactorers started having to compete to get you to buy "their" food. This accelerated the competition for making addictive easy food.
Nobody can or will ever have the responsibility about what you do with your health. In many countries and due to very many reasons people are becoming obese.
Maybe there should be made a law called obesity-tax. For every BMI index number you are over the healthy line you have to pay more taxes?
Or you could make taxes on consumer items like fast food. Make any food that contains sugar and meat far more expensive by taxes.

[@InspirationalHouse288]

Memorial and very interesting

[@dhouhagharbi2811]

Very interesting and useful.

[@SusiChannel24]

Thanks I will use it for me presentation

[@Cannibalcorpse182]

This so interesting omg

[@Dr.Frasier_Crane]

2:17 wait sorry but who eats salad with milk?

[@monke9469]

shouldn't it be titled "fast food" not "junk food" ?
Because junk food existed before fast food and although fast food can be called junk food, not all junk food is fast food.

[@starblade4252]

Fast food. Is frozen food then they put the food in the shop they the workers heat it up

[@saxenart]

It is junk

[@hiJackie]

2:15 who the fuckk is ordering a salad with a MILK!

[@greenchilistudioz4537]

I am wondering the same thing, BRUH!!!

[@ghett0maker]

Fax🤣🤣

[@theswiftesttutor9012]

Okay, interesting!!!

[@ChefAnatoly]

Where's the rest of the presentation?

[@conorrio4994]

I'm surprised you guys haven't touched Memes yet in Season 2

[@laxmanpandeysin.4350]

AYUSH

[@henrybird26]

Actually first food started in the time of the Romans according to some of the documentaries that I have viewed.

[@alihasni3792]

Can you share the link of documentries?

[@greenjacob18]

This epsiode offends me of being overweight and also I cry this epsiode to me

[@Mini_Pixels]

):

[@lemondrop8203]

LOL

[@WPRO78]

Hello

[@ghostwriter8351]

He said " and because it was Russia, not everybody knew what was going on. This women thought they were waiting for ice cream"

[@saxenart]

So in the 20’s is where they made the biggest mistake

[@amasulem]

It existed in Roman times.

[@jesseleeward2359]

Did it? Makes sense

[@k-popop]

the down fall of human

[@memesworld9053]

Now y'all know damn well a black person discovered fast foods whitefolks wasn't even cooking in the forties and fifties slaves was doing all the work come on

[@BeansPredi-ch6xk]

Slaves in the fifties???

[@marcus00077]

They seemed more like promoting fast food, than informing us about the topic. Very disappointing.

[@shallowshadow3342]

Early, yaaas

[@ericsilberstein667]

Fast food is the worst. But all animal-based foods are.

[@navisolim]

The narrators voice and accent is so annoying

[@lemondrop8203]

Rude af