Fast food
Definition
Food prepared and served quickly, typically from chain restaurants emphasizing convenience, drive-thru service, and standardized menus like burgers, fries, and sodas.
Mass-produced cuisine prioritizing speed and affordability over nutritional value or gourmet quality, often criticized for its high content of fats, sugars, and preservatives.
Examples
After binge-watching true crime docs all weekend, he celebrated with a fast food feast that could solve any cold case – by clogging arteries.
Her fitness app suggested kale smoothies, but fast food's siren song of nuggets won again, proving willpower is just a suggestion.
Fast food wrappers littered the car like confetti from a drive-thru parade no one invited him to.
He ordered fast food to 'save time,' only to spend 20 minutes debating combo meals like a philosopher at a burger symposium.