Question

Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. At Taco Bell restaurants the food is “assembled,” not prepared. The guacamole isn’t made by workers in the kitchen; it’s made at a factory in Michoacán, Mexico, then frozen and shipped north. The chain’s taco meat arrives frozen and precooked in vacuum-sealed plastic bags. The beans are dehydrated and look like brownish corn flakes. The cooking process is fairly simple. “Everything’s add water,” a Taco Bell employee told me. “Just add hot water.” The Taco Bell employee’s quote supports Schlosser’s argument in this excerpt because it

A. provides personal opinions about the working conditions in fast food restaurants.
B. helps the reader visualize teenagers working in fast food restaurants.
C. provides expert testimony about the nutritional quality of fast food.
D. emphasizes the obsession with consistency and standardization in the fast food industry.

Answer 1

D. emphasizes the obsession with consistency and standardization in the fast food industry.

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Answer 2

D. emphasizes the obsession with consistency and standardization in the fast food industry.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser depicts the reality behind the fast food industry and the process of how our foods that we enjoy really came about. In the above extract, the revelation of the way Taco Bell restaurants function and made it's foods are an eye opener for the readers. With the revelation of the "assembling" of the various ingredients just after they are ordered shows that the people's obsession with the consistency and standardization of the fast food industry has become more important than the quality and freshness of the food provided.