The confluence of fast food and rage

Submitted by Michael on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 12:48

Just want to give a nod to Crop To Cuisine, which I only recently became aware of. A good site for food news, such as this apparent example of fast-food rage. 

I say "apparent" because the case hasn't been adjudicated, even though the subject has been indicted, which begins to lend credence. A few years ago, there was an urban legend about a crazed Chalupa customer committing violence at a Taco Bell drive-thru, but if I recall, it turned out to be promotion-fueled buillshit.

This story holds that a woman who wanted McNuggets was told they were serving only breakfast and she smashed the drive-thru window. I can imagine its being true. For a food addict such as myself, the drive-up window was an anonymous, instant-hit device, and when I needed the hit, I didn't want any crap from anyone. 

I never smashed a window, but I'm sure I was rude many times, and the idea of violence was never far from my processed-food-fueled emotional instability. (I don't blame the food for the instability, but it certainly greased its expressions.)

Speaking at Commonwealth Club

I will be speaking on the topic of food addiction at the Commonwealth Club of California, the oldest public affairs forum in the country, on Feb. 28. I'll be joining a fabulous panel of researchers and clinicians: Nicole Avena of Princeton and the University of Florida, Eric Stice of the Oregon Research Institute, Vera Tarman of Renascent Center of Toronto, abd Elissa Epel and Andrea Garber, both of the University of California at San Francisco. I am very excited to be part of the roster, not to mention to be appearing at such a great institution. Ticket information here; if you come, please stay afterward to say hello.

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