We Have No Donuts
The decline & fall of American fast food — killing the planet and everyone’s wallets
We shouldn’t eat fast food. Everyone knows that factory-made, theoretically uniform, ultra-processed foods are bad for them. A growing number know that fast food is also bad for the environment. Many people think that fast food and factory food business models are bad for workers. With ever-escalating prices and sinking quality, it’s hard to say what fast food is good for these days.
Oh! That’s right: shareholder profits.
The Del Taco Debacle
One of our favorite restaurants, Crab & Fin in St. Armands Circle in Sarasota, isn’t fast food. This fine dining establishment has friendly, welcoming bartenders, including one who spent quite a bit of time in Southern California. Whenever we’d go in, he’d mention that construction was proceeding at the new Del Taco in Bradenton. We told him we’d visit whenever it was open, but it seemed like it took forever —
Finally, last August when Bruce was in the hospital waiting for his cervical spine surgery, I visited one of the two Bradenton Del Tacos.
I used to always find Del Taco to be acceptable fast food in a pinch. First, they had several tacos that weren’t totally processed (Tacos Del Carbon…
