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The Complicated Legacy of ‘Super Size Me’

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Along with other influential contemporary cultural documents, like Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation in 2001 and Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma in 2006, Super Size Me changed the way many Americans think about fast food by exposing the nefarious underworld that sustains it.

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The Kikkoman Soy Sauce Bottle Is Priceless

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and Pei recently documented the affection he inherited for the brand to win the brand’s Love Unbottled contest. As he told the Japan Times in 2001, “Design to me has always meant making people happy.” During my grandmother’s time, there weren’t a lot of choices available, especially in the Midwest.

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America Loves Gas Station Snacks. Here Are Some of the Finest by Region

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On September 14, 2001, it started selling breakfast pizzas: a light, airy crust with a choice of cheese sauce or sausage gravy in place of the classic tomato sauce, topped with bacon or sausage, scrambled eggs, and mozzarella and cheddar cheese. Susan Stapleton.

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Tyson Built the Plant. Its Meatpackers Built the Community.

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My parents had also moved to Sioux City to work at the plant — then owned by Iowa Beef Processors before Arkansas-based Tyson acquired it in 2001 — but they knew there wasn’t much opportunity for them there. They opened Da Kao in 1994 to have more control over our future.