{"id":524,"date":"2017-11-20T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/?p=524"},"modified":"2017-12-13T21:28:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T21:28:30","slug":"1950s-food-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/fysfifties\/1950s-food-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"1950s Food Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Matas Buivydas <\/p>\n

The change in consumption of food over many years has drastically impacted the health of the U.S population, as well as changed the culture of America. There is a possibility that the consumption factor is due to the fluctuation in price level of food. There are many recent studies that have showcased the decrease in real food prices over time, which is a possible main contributor for the rise in obesity. Prices and the value of money has changed overtime, but with the ratio of income to the current prices of fast food in today\u2019s society, it has greatly caused a change in consumption and health. In the 1950\u2019s, many of the major fast food chains had originated or grown more popular. Fast food restaurants enlarged its existence in the culture of the 1950\u2019s, as the demand for quick and cheap food grew without the consideration of health and nutrition. Consumers became busier, needing food quickly at work, or they had wanted to eat quick-made food in front of their newly innovative TV\u2019s. Innovation of new products enhanced the development of fast foods and restaurants, only creating the culture of fast food concrete. <\/p>\n

Fast food chains such as Dunkin Donuts originated in the 1950\u2019s, along with the renowned fast food restaurant, McDonald\u2019s. Although McDonald\u2019s opened in the 1940\u2019s, it began to expand greatly in the late 1950\u2019s, when an entrepreneur named Ray Kroc visited the McDonald’s trying to sell his innovative product. Instead of trying to sell his product, he became invested in the chain, and opened up a franchise that forever changed McDonald\u2019s – ultimately making it the world\u2019s largest fast food restaurant. McDonald\u2019s restaurants had many imitators follow, but none of them \u201ccould match the success of the McDonald\u2019s formula for fast food\u201d (Dunar, Andrew 172).<\/p>\n

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One of the early few Dunkin Donuts chains in the early 1950\u2019s<\/em><\/p><\/div>The culture of fast food started to take off in other different food niches as well. The fast food industry did not only pertain to coffee shops and burgers, but also foods such as pizza and fried chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken opened in 1952, later followed by Pizza Hut and Domino\u2019s in the late 50\u2019s, that still exist and compete with one another in the modern day. This fast food boom had not only created a whole new market for consumers and food production, but also for medical purposes as well later to be realized in the future. Although fast food is cheap and quick, the innocent ignorance of health in relation to the nutrition in these foods rose, causing many of the older generations to have health problems, such as obesity and high cholesterol. This culture carried out into the modern day where even children, teenagers, and young adults are consumed by the fast food market, and also becoming unhealthy, causing much of the population to be obese. Today, many of these fast food restaurants still exist; more are developing today with the highly competitive market of food. The 1950\u2019s greatly influenced the United States culture today, allowing for certain markets and possibilities to open up and flourish, without understanding the built up consequences of health.<\/p>\n

Works Cited<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christian, Rashad, Thomas, Inas. \u201cEconomics & Human Biology – Trends in U.S. Food Prices, 1950\u20132007.\u201d Trends in U.S. Food Prices, 1950\u20132007<\/em>, Elsevier, Mar. 2009, gold.worcester.edu:2086\/science\/article\/pii\/S1570677X08000634<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dunar, Andrew J. America in the Fifties<\/em>. Syracuse University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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