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Fast food news, views and recipes from guardian.co.uk
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Doritos crust pizza – the Guardian reviewPizza with a cheese crust and charred corn chips on top. Could this be the worst pizza ever? Or a snack filled with sublime surprises?
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How ‘Goldilocks’ sparked challenge to fast food giants around the worldEd Helmore: As pay protests spread across the US, strikers are bringing their struggle to Europe. Alvin Major ($7.25 an hour at KFC) saysthis is just the start …
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Diabetes and obesity linked to number of nearby fast-food outlets, study findsResearchers find there are nearly twice as many fast-food outlets within 500 metres of homes in socially deprived areas
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20 best fast food recipes: part 4Delicious recipes that can be ready in minutes including black bean tacos and honey and ricotta pancakes, collected by Observer Food Monthly
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20 best fast food recipes: part 2Delicious dishes that can be ready in minutes, including chicken and pasta from top cooks, compiled by Observer Food Monthly
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Big Macs go cold as young Americans drop McDonald’s for tastier rivalsThe burger chain is facing problems abroad, but nothing as serious as the year-long decline in its huge home market, writes Jennifer Rankin
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'World's first' low-carb burger – is it any good?
Pitched at Atkins freaks, the Grill'd hamburger's floppy, crumbly 'bun' had our six Guardian Australia taste testers wishing they had a bib. But does this burger's piquancy make up for what it lacks in crunch?
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Clamp down on takeaways near schools to stem rise in obesity, says thinktank2020health calls for outlets to be licenced and says limiting their numbers will help schools to support healthy eating
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Dunkin’ Donuts is back in the UK. But is it filling the hole?Arwa Mahdawi: We need a greater exchange of convenience food between the US and UK. You say fluff, we say Marmite. You say cheese in a can, we say what?!
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Hack the menu? No thanks, we’re BritishAmy Ashenden: The new fast-food trend in the US is not taking off in Britain any time soon. Are we just too polite to ask for a customised menu?
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Lies, fear and tragedy: Maria Fernandes and the crisis of part-time workThe death of a Dunkin’ Donuts employee highlights a crisis of how part-time workers lie about their lives and never say no to employers
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The foodie traveller: Rome’s new take on pizza‘Because it’s rooted in traditional Roman flavours and transformed main dishes into quick, portable, affordable snacks, the trapizzino was an immediate hit’
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Employers often reject those who strike or protest: 'I am willing to do whatever it takes to lead a better life'Protesters think minimum wage, healthcare reform and an end to police brutality are worthy of arrest and lost job prospects
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What next for the burger?Thomas Hobbs: High-end fast food is still massively popular, but the figures suggest we may have reached peak burger. Are we ready to switch beef patties for game, ostrich or lamb in the name of variety? And is pulled pork beginning to pall?
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A fishy tale as chip shops are caught selling cheaper speciesFish and chip shop fraudsters routinely selling cheaper species as haddock and cod, reveals nationwide survey by Which?
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Were fast-food workers paid to strike and protest?McDonald’s says protesters were paid to walk off the job, which strikers say is a corruption of the fact that unions pay arrest fines
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S Truett Cathy, founder of restaurant chain Chick-fil-A, dies aged 93Famously conservative US billionaire, who opened his first diner in 1946, did not allow his restaurants to open on Sundays
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Fast food protests: civil disobedience results in hundreds of arrests across US – as it happenedWorkers from large chains staging nationwide walkouts over wage and benefits, as thousands of home healthcare workers join
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Do fast-food strikes actually work?
Analysis Do fast-food strikes actually work?
Evidence shows that the fast-food strikes are working not just to increase wages, but to reinvent unions and bolster long-dwindling membership -
US lags Canada and UK in pay and wages for fast-food workersBurger King’s plans to merge with Tim Hortons show how the stark differences of how workers are treated in the US, UK and Canada
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KFC predicts '2015 will become the year of the pulled chicken'. Seriously?Felicity Cloake: Food purists might turn their noses up at the fast-food chain's latest marketing ploy. But the idea of slow-cooked shredded chicken may not be without precedent
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Fast food workers plan biggest US strike to date over minimum wageWorkers from McDonald’s, Burger King and other chains to hold walkout protest on Thursday as battle to unionise escalates
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Burger King in talks to buy Tim Hortons in tax inversion dealPurchase of doughnut chain would lead to creation of new holding company headquartered in Canada in bid to shave tax bill
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Russia closes McDonald's restaurants for 'sanitary violations'
Consumer watchdog closes four Moscow branches following inspections, in move seen by critics as part of sanctions war
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McDonald’s says it will open eight new fast food outlets in VictoriaMove comes after a sales decline in the region and company’s CEO described the Australian market as weak
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Health expert says McDonald's delivery ‘brings disease right to your home’Professor Mike Daube says the fast food chain’s Australian expansion of home delivery is likely targeting poorer areas
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The chips are down for NHS workersLetters: Perhaps you should ask why food in hospitals is so poor, especially out of hours, or why people overeat or don’t do enough exercise, or why poor people are so much fatter than rich people
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Fast-food workers vote for civil disobedience in pursuit of $15 wageMore than 1,000 workers attend convention near Chicago at which vote for sit-ins and restaurant occupations is passed
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Snack to the future: foraging in Texas for the next big food sensation
Summer food and drink special 2014 Snack to the future: foraging in Texas for the next big food sensation
Anyone for deep-fried avocado? James Hall joins a crack team of trendhunters as they go in search of the next big foodie thing in Texas
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Ana Marie Cox: It took assault rifles at Chipotle, but bad PR may be the fault line to fracture the sane and un-sane, eventually giving America the kind of moderate pro-gun group it needsThe NRA has become self-aware. Will a rational US gun lobby finally prevail?
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Don't look down on those who eat fast food
Kathryn Hughes: Moralists sneer at people who choose McDonald's or KFC. But not all of us have time to cook a Jamie Oliver recipe
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Fructose in Coke, Pepsi and other US sodas - the industry fightback?
Within hours of publication of a study raising concerns about high fructose levels in sodas comes a second and contradictory paper in a separate journal, refuting the claim, with an interesting conflict of interest statement attached
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New evidence on fructose in Coca Cola, Pepsi and other sodas in the US
A new analysis from the University of Southern California finds that sodas in the US are potentially a bigger risk for obesity than assumed, because of the high fructose levels they contain
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Junk food, diets and the f-word: it's time to talk
Sugar is evil, but until recently people said the same of all kinds of fat. Calories and BMI (body mass index) have fallen under suspicion as flawed measurements. Few of us do enough exercise or consume our five portion of fruit and vegetables every day. We don't always eat because we're hungry, but to satisfy other needs – and because we cave in to the sometimes subtle and sometimes strident temptations all around us
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Vale Pie Face, gone to join Australia's other fallen fast food chains