The excerpt of Eric’s Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation: Why Fries Taste Good” explains where the French fry came from and why it is so popular today. This popularity comes from a lucky farmer in the 1920s, John Richard Simplot, who became a potato/ fry manufacturing machine by making good deals with the people and companies he knew. The popularity of the frozen fry happened during J.R’s reign of the farm and potato empire.
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AuthorJust a twenty something trying to make it in this big world. ArchivesDecember 2010 CategoriesAll |
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