This encyclopedia is intended to be the primary balanced source for information about fast food and junk food. It focuses specifically on national fast food franchises and commercial junk food targeted at youth. Junk food is defined as those commercial products, including candy, bakery goods, ice cream, salty snacks, and soft drinks, which have little or no nutritional value but do have plenty of calories, salt, and fats. While not all fast foods are junk foods, most are. Fast foods are ready-to-eat foods served promptly aft er ordering. Some fast foods are high in calories and low in nutritional value, while other fast foods, such as salads, may be low in calories and high in nutritional value.
This encyclopedia is aimed at the general reader and students who are interested in junk food and fast food. The entries in it are listed in alphabetical order. Overview entries, such as those on Fast Food, Chains, and Soda/Soft Drink explain the term, give an overview, and describe its significance. Specific entries, such as those on Snickers, Hires Root Beer, and Coca-Cola, give brief histories of these products and note their significance.
Each entry contains cross-references in bold type to other entries in the encyclopedia and a list of suggested readings at the end. Following the introduction, there is a chronology of key junk food and fast food events and people. At the back of the encyclopedia are a glossary and a resource guide of books, films, and Web sites. This encyclopedia is fully indexed.
Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Entries
- List of Entries by Topic
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Th e Encyclopedia
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Resource Guide
- Index
List of Entries by Topic
- Bakery Goods
- Bakery Snacks
- Chips Ahoy!
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Cinnabon
- Cookies and Crackers
- Doughnuts
- Dunkin’ Donuts
- Famous Amos
- Fortune Cookies
- Girl Scout Cookies
- Hostess
- Keebler
- Krispy Kreme
- Little Debbie
- Moon Pie
- Mrs. Fields Cookies
- Oreos
- Pepperidge Farm
- Pop-Tarts
- Snack Foods
- Twinkies
- Winchell’s Donut House
Beverages
- A&W Root Beer
- Barq’s Root Beer
- Beverages
- Cadbury Schweppes
- Canada Dry Ginger Ale
- Coca-Cola Company
- Cola
- Cola Wars
- Convenience Foods/Drinks
- Diet Soda
- Dr Pepper
- Ginger Ale
- Hires Root Beer
- Kool-Aid
- Mountain Dew
- Moxie
- Orange Crush
- PepsiCo
- Powdered Mixes
- Power and Energy Bars
- Root Beer
- Royal Crown Cola
- Schweppes
- 7-Up
- Slurpee
- Soda/Soft Drink
- Soda Fountains
- Sports Drinks
- Sugars
- Tang
- Vernor’s Ginger Ale
Candy
- Baby Ruth
- Bit-O-Honey
- Butterfinger
- Cadbury
- Cadbury Schweppes
- Candy
- Caramels
- Chanukah Candy
- Chewy Candy
- Chocolate
- Chocolate Confections
- Christmas
- Clark Bar
- Deep-fried Mars Bars and Twinkies
- Easter Candy
- Good & Plenty
- Gross-out Candy
- Gum
- Gummi/Gummy Candy
- Halloween
- Hard Candy
- Hershey’s Chocolate Bar
- Jelly Beans
- Junior Mints
- Junk Foods
- Just Born
- Licorice
- LifeSavers
- Lollipops and Suckers
- M&M’s
- Mars, Inc.
- Mary Jane Candies
- Mike and Ike
- Milk Duds
- Milky Way
- Mounds Bar
- Nestlé
- New England Confectionery Company
- Oh Henry!
- PayDay
- Penny Candy
- PEZ
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
- Ritz Crackers
- Rowntree’s of York
- Seasonal Candy
- Snack Foods
- Snickers
- Sugars
- 3 Musketeers
- Toblerone
- Tootsie Roll
- Valentine’s Day Candies
- Wrigley Co.
- York Peppermint Patties
Companies and Corporations
- Advertising
- American Junk Food /Fast Food in Other
- Countries
- Cadbury
- Cadbury Schweppes
- Charities
- Coca-Cola Company
- Corporate Concentration
- Corporate Sponsorships and Programs in
- Schools
- Frito Bandito
- Frito-Lay
- General Foods Corp.
- General Mills, Inc.
- Hershey Company
- Just Born
- Keebler
- Kellogg Company
- Kraft Foods
- Marriott Corp.
- Mars, Inc.
- McDonald’s
- McLibel
- Nabisco
- Nestlé SA
- New England Confectionery Company
- PepsiCo
- Peter Paul Candy Company
- Ronald McDonald
- Rowntree’s of York
- 7-Eleven
- Unilever
Fast Food
- A&W Root Beer
- AFC Enterprises
- Arby’s
- Arthur Treacher’s
- Blimpie International, Inc.
- Boston Market
- Breakfast Fast Foods
- Burger King
- California Pizza Kitchen
- Carl’s Jr.
- Chicken
- Chicken Delight
- Chicken McNuggets
- Chuck E. Cheese Pizza
- Church’s Chicken
- Cinnabon
- Condiments
- Convenience Foods/Drinks
- Del Taco
- Domino’s Pizza
- Drive-thrus
- Egg Fast Food
- Fast Food Nation
- Fast Food
- Fish and Chips
- Fish as Fast Food
- French Fries
- Fried Chicken
- Frozen Pizza
- Hamburgers
- Happy Meal
- Hardee’s
- Hot Dog
- In-N-Out Burger
- Jack in the Box
- Junk Foods
- Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)
- Ketchup
- Little Caesar’s Pizza
- Long John Silver’s
- McDonald’s
- Menus
- Mexican Food
- Milkshakes, Malts, and Ice Cream Sodas
- Nathan’s Famous
- Onion Rings
- Panda Express
- Pizza
- Pizza Hut
- El Pollo Loco
- Popeyes
- Quiznos Sub
- Regional Fast Foods
- Ronald McDonald
- Roy Rogers
- Sbarro
- Shakey’s Pizza
Sonic
- Subs/Grinders
- Subway
- Taco Bell
- Tombstone Pizza
- Wendy’s International
- Wimpy
- White Castle
- White Tower
- Wienerschnitzel
- Health and Nutrition
- Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH)
- Caff eine
- Carbohydrates
- Cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Dieting
- Escherichia coli
- Fats
- Food Pyramid
- Foodborne Illnesses
- Health Concerns
- Hyperactivity
- Injury
- Mad Cow Disease
- Nutrition
- Nutritional Guidelines
- Obesity
- Salmonella
Ice Cream
- Baskin-Robbins
- Ben & Jerry’s
- Blue Bell
- Breyers
- Carvel Corp.
- Dairy Queen
- Dove Bar
- Dreyer’s/Edy’s Ice Cream
- Drumsticks
- Eskimo Pie
- Fosters Freeze
- Good Humor
- Häagen-Dazs
- Ice Cream
- Klondike Bar
- Popsicle
- Push-ups
- Tastee-Freeze
Issues and Special Topics
- Animal Rights Movement
- Anti-unionization
- Architecture and Design
- Automobiles
- Battle of the Burgers
- Boycotts
- Cereals (Breakfast)
- Collectibles and Americana
- Conformity
- Consumerism
- Controversies
- Convenience Foods/Drinks
- Corporate Sponsorships and Programs in Schools
- Crime
- Disclosure
- Discrimination
- Efficiency
- Elderly
- Employment
- Entrepreneurs
- Environment
- Exploitation
- Exposés
- Factory Farming
- Fair Food
- Fast Food Nation
- Film
- Food Pyramid
- Genetically Modifi ed Organisms (GMOs)
- Globalization
- Hollywood, Movie Tie-ins, Celebrity
- Endorsements
- Iconography
- Lawsuits
- Lobbying
- Mascots, Logos, and Icons
- McDonaldization
- McLibel
- Meatpacking Industry
- Memoirs
- Minimum Wage
- Music
- Neighborhoods
- Newspapers
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Packaging
- Patriotism
- Politics of Junk Food
- Pricing
- Protests
- Radio
- Rules
- Sandwiches
- Schools
- Secret Formulas
- Signage
- Slogans and Jingles
- Sports Sponsorships
- Street Vendors
- Supermarkets
- Supersizing
- Suppliers
- Tater Tots
- Taxing Snack Food
- Teen Hangouts
- Television
- Th eaters
- Tie-ins
- Toys
- Training
- Uniforms
- Urban Blight
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Vegetarianism/Veganism
- Vending Machines
- Violence
- Waste
Organizations
- Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
- Fast Food and Snack Food Associations
- National Confectioners Association
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Slow Food
People
- Hershey, Milton S.
- Ilitch, Mike
- Karcher, Carl N.
- Kroc, Ray
- Mars, Forrest
- Mars, Frank
- Monaghan, Tom
- Redenbacher, Orville
- Sanders, Harland
- Th omas, Dave
- Restaurants and Drive-ins
Automats, Cafeterias, Diners, and Lunchrooms
- Big Boy
- Carhops
- Chains
- Drive-ins
- Franchising
- Locations
- Tricon Global Restaurants
- Yum! Brands, Inc.
Salty and Other Noncandy Snacks
- Beef Jerky
- Bugles
- Cheese-based Snacks
- Cheetos
- Corn Chips
- Cracker jack
- Dips
- Doritos
- Extruded Snacks
- Frito-Lay Corn Chips
- Goldfi sh
- Graham Crackers
- Jell-O
- Mr. Peanut
- Nachos
- Nuts
- Popcorn
- Potato Chips
- Pretzels
- Pringles
- Salt
- Snack Foods
- Sweet Popcorn
Product Details
- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood; 1 edition (August 30, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0313335273
- ISBN-13: 978-0313335273
- Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7 x 1.1 inches
List Price: $85.00