Fast Food Nation

It turns out that Hardee's, where I'd never eaten before, serves a much better fast food burger than what you get at a McDonald's. They're also the subject of this fascinating/horrifying Portfolio story about the company's efforts to make itself even more unhealthy than the competition, but I stuck to their normal-sized burger, eschewing items like the 1,400 calorie Monster Thickburger.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/fast-food-nation/45160/