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Fast Food Conspiracies, Part 1: The Rise of Mass Production

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Whitecastle, the First Fast Food Outlet

The idea of a fast food outlet, the way we understand them to day, i'm in a hurry. My kid won't be quiet, and they only eat one of three things, so i've got a zip in, zip out of this place. A combo meal or set a this is what we think of when we think of modern food. And you'll often hear people call whitecastle the first fast food outlet. It began in wichita, kansas, 19 16 as a bunch of, like, hamburger stalls. They weren't the first people serving hamburgers. But what they were was the first people standardizing absolutely everything, first time in history.

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