Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scoff at theme-park patrons as passive non-participants in plastic fantasy. Obviously, such critics have never been tugged by tireless children through seven-plus hours (the average time spent per park per family) of short rides and long lines, mini-zoos and maxi-queues, live shows, deadly lines, fast food, slow lines, indigestion, blurred vision and pedialgia (sore feet). In fact, the vast majority of the 80 million people who will visit theme parks this year are involved, tireless and eclectic in their pursuit of pleasure...
...Disney World), there is a flat admission fee that enables parents and offspring to sample and resample every major attraction without charge. Remembering the rapacious playlands of the past, where gambling, boozing and whoring were as rife as popcorn and pizza, most theme parks promote soft drinks and fast foods. They dispense a dizzily dyspeptic array of instant edibles from storefronts with names like Yum Yum Palace, Mustard's Last Stand and the Hokey Pokey. Heroic exceptions to the no-brew stand-up eating syndrome are the Busch Gardens, near Williamsburg, Va., and Tampa, Fla. Since both parks...
...leisurely backyard picnic for this hypothetical family-or for the millions of real ones who will take to the nation's highways this summer. They want food fast, and fast food they get. The old poetry of the open road -scenic vistas, empty spaces, serendipity-has been drowned out by a new beat...
...terms vary: fast food, road food, convenience food, service food or (to the distaste of its producers and the grim delight of its detractors) junk food. Whatever it is called, America's infatuation with such fare is nothing new. The hot dog made its debut on these shores over a hundred years ago; a recognizable version of the modern hamburger was unveiled at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. But sophisticated new marketing and advertising techniques, computer technology and entrepreneurial zeal have whetted a nationwide hunger of apparently limitless depths...
...contrast, Father's Six, located on Bow St. next to the cleaner's, is a raunchy, sticky-floored hole designed for people who want to get loaded as fast and as cheaply as possible. If you don't mind being proofed at the door, and fighting your way through a forest of sweaty, drunken bodies to a sticky table where you can drink, listen to blaring bad jukebox music and look at posters advertising specials on the walls, you'll like Father...