Soul vs. Fast Food Nation

Soul Food: What he seemed to be saying was that the roots of soul food come in the togetherness of family and a symbol of freedom and success even through the harsh times of slavery. They may not have been able to control much, but they did control the cooking. And that cooking was what all their "masters" grew up on. It was a huge role that is numerously undermined.

Fast Food Nation: To me, fast food has roots more in individualism and skin deep satisfaction, rather than a sense of family and togetherness. Fast food is something you swing through and normally get by yourself, then go eat in front of the TV or at school/work. I can't think of a time when I thought of having a fast food meal as a time with family or something I'd like to think I grew up on. I was very happy with the Fast Food Nation excerpts because the author didn't only bash the industry for all its wrong doing, he revealed just how much it is the consumers fault as well and explained why and how exactly we became like this.

Soul food was the heart and sole of a suppressed people, whereas fast food is, and always has been, a cheap and chemically induced alternative to a real meal. At the same time they both reflect a type of American freedom. With fast food, you don't have to cook for yourself; you don't even have to grocery shop; and it's so cheap, it's practically free. Even poor people in America could survive on fast food financially. With soul food, it was a liberating source of power for black people that they raised this nation on.

On the flip side, one way in which they are extremely similar is that the actual ingredients or each diet are not healthy for anyone...