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...ratios available. The U.S. Department of Agriculture advises consumers to "choose a diet that provides no more than 30 percent of total calories from fat," and the health-conscious Annenbourgeois could easily fill his or her plate with Nacho Cheese Sauce (7.5 percent) or a large mound of Taco Meat that claimed to contain...
...down poorly performing stores. Under pressure from Papa John's, Pizza Hut spent $50 million last year to roll out what it called Totally New Pizzas, featuring thicker tomato sauce, fresh sliced vegetables and meatier toppings. Meanwhile, Pizza Hut has closed 250 stores since PepsiCo spun it and siblings Taco Bell and KFC into Tricon last year. The new strategy pushed Pizza Hut's same-store sales up a strong 9% in the second quarter, although the company said last week the pace slowed to 4% in the third quarter. "Pizza Hut has generated very strong results since the spin...
...sociology. Not this time. This time I stop at the Romance languages and decide right there to add Spanish A to my course load. Since then--and to my dismay--I've several times expressed a craving for some "real" Mexican food as opposed to "yo quiero Taco Bell." I've also looked at some Mexican literature and got interested in the history...
...increasingly homogenous and media-saturated country, one utterly devoid of places with real individuality. We drove through town after town, always seeing the same thing: a depressed downtown area dotted with closed shops and "For Sale" signs and an area on the outskirts of town where Wal-Mart, Taco Bell and other such stores existed in all their banal, sterilized splendor. There was a stretch in Minnesota and Wisconsin where there were definitely more Pizza Huts than grocery stores...
...about my image of small town America? Perhaps I am a little too naive, a little too romantic in my notion of what the American West should be like. But it seems that it couldn't always have been this homogenous. Yes, Wal-Marts are now ubiquitous, and that Taco Bell chihuahua exhorts people across the nation to eat gorditas, but it wasn't always so. Besides strip malls, chain stores and other such monuments to consumerism, the other factor contributing to the increasing uniformity of America is the combination of cable TV and other forms of media saturation...