University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 28. 1988
Jacque Janssen, arts/features editor
Living
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Living life in the fast-food lanes
By Michael Carolan
Kansan staff writer
You've got a 12:30 class, but, for once, it's above 40 degrees outside, and the sun is shining. Who needs class? Instead, you decide to go for a drive. Your stomach starts to grow, and suddenly, 23rd Street, like a pool in a hot and dusty desert, appears before you.
What's it going to be today? McDonald's? You are there two days ago. Burger King? You had a Whopper with cheese and no tomato there yesterday. Taco Bell? You're sick of Nacho Bell Grandes. Border Bandido? Rax? Taco Grande? Nah. Kurtviek Fried Chicken?
After sorting through the array of colorful, eye-catching billboards that you have driven by at least 10 times a day, you spot Wendy's, inviting you, a bon-appetit hamburger combo, to once again taste the fast-food menu down so well. Usually juicy, sometimes overcooked, sometimes a little cold, yet always somehow the same.
Fast food. It's anywhere and everywhere. It's convenient, good-tasting and fast. It's for the college student who is late for work. It's for the student who is cramming for finals. It's for the student who hates residence-hall food. And it's for the student who opens the refrigerator and says, "There's nothing good to eat in there."
What about when you're out late, have had a few beers
and feel as if you are starving. At least Burger King know that they are hungry. They are open until 3 Friday and Saturday.
How about when you're out shopping, have been standing all day and have a few blocks to go. Some fast-food place has your meal already waiting for you. Even Massachusetts街 boasts a Taco John's.
Lawrence has more than 36 fast-food restaurants, so where do you go?
How about hamburgers? How about fish? How about chicken? They're all fast, convenient and filling. Burger King or Dairy Queen? Is it the Whaler with cheese, the extra mayonnaise or the Bacon Double Cheese burger?
Bob Tapp, Overland Park senior, frequents Burger King for him. He's always in a rush to get work on him.
"Yeah, you can find me munching down at the King," he said. "It's quick, cheap and tastes good."
For some, though, Burger King has a different meaning.
“It's after-party-drunk food, you know, at two in the morning,” says Shari Wilkens, Liberal junior. “Have you seen the lines there at 2 a.m.?”
For the more refined beef palate, there Wendy's, Rax
regular flavors, of course, there's always the salad bar.
the pasta bar, or the Mexican bar. But you can fix those things at home if you have the time.
Fast food for Chris McElhinney, Kansas City, Mo.
sophomore means Arby's
"I eat there about two times a week when I don't like what they're fixing at the house," he said. "Usually, I eat their super roast beef sandwich."
Hardee's, Sonic and Bucky's Drive In also are waiting for you. You can be the Double Chuckie with the No 2 or Bucky's 'Koooook' "Double Chuckie"
Then there's the world famous billions-and-billions-served McDonald's. The greens you want are already in their chef's salad. The greens you want on your burger are already on their McDLT. Big Mac maybe? Quarter Pounder? Of course you have to have your fries and large Coke.
Then there's Mexican food. Taco Bell, Border Bandido,
Taco John's, or Granate? Taco Bell Granale or Super Burrito? With lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions and
Would you prefer hot or mild sauce? With dried beans, beef toastad or Potato Oles? Students flock to get a flavor of the South.
Julie Vaskov, Albuquerque, N.M., junior, loves the Combination Burrito at Taco Bell.
"It's not your ordinary fast food. It's different," she said. "It's convenient, fast and good."
Ann Kohl, dietitian at Watkins Hospital, said. "Fast food has many more calories than you need for any one meal. It is high in saturated fats and high in cholesterol."
She said that fast food tended to be low in fiber but high in starches and had two to three times the amount of carbohydrate.
"Americans love meat and potatoes." Kohl said. "We have an overemphasis on two food groups and an underemphasis on the other two."
But what about Big Macs at McDonald's?
"It's hard to get all your nutritional needs through fast food." Kohl said. "Vitamin A and C, which you find in fruits and vegetables, and calcium, which is in milk, are not a part of the average fast-food diet."
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Marie Cross, associate professor of human development, who teaches a course in health education, said a person could eat fast food if he did it in moderation and with a knowledge of what he was eating.
"If you're tired and just got home from work, sometimes fast food is better because time is a commodity and fast food takes care of that," she said.
By Michael Carolan
Kansan staff writer
The television is on, and your stomach is empty. But there is no food to go in it. It's late, and one wants to go out to bring back some food to go with "Late Night with David Letterman."
You are hungry, though, and you hear distant rumblings from other stomachs in the room. None of the fast food places are open late, and no one really wants to get off the couch. So you call out for a delivery of pizza.
Pizza must be one of the most widely eaten foods in town. Pizza offers an escape from the fast-food hustle and to taste something other than those familiar processed burgers. With mushrooms, mozzarella, buttery crust or anchovies, pizza offers vegetables, cheese, meat and bread, all in one snug and sometimes ooing piece. Nutritious as it may be, there is a price.
"You SEE, I WAS JUST SITTING THERE EATING MY THIRD PIZZA THIS WEEK - AND PoOF!
"It really has nutritional value for students because the four food groups are represented, but they are paying a price for it," says Ann Kohl, dietitian at Watkins Hospital. "It's high in calories and high in fat."
and students are on business.
"When students aren't here, we're not here, at
Pizza is nutritional, but it is eaten so often that it is practically taken for granted.
"It's very competitive," says a manager at Pyramid Pizza, 507 W. 14th St. "You can't open the paper without (seeing) one or two coupons inside."
There's no shortage of pizza joints, though. More than 10 pizzerias compete to roll out pies to meet the students' fancy.
least most of the time," he says. "They make up a major part of the business."
a major part of the business.
So where do students go to get pizza?
So where do students go to get pizza?
If you're eating out or having it delivered and if it's at night or during the day, pizza is right at hand.
Checkers and Pizza Shuttle deliver late at night.
Pizza advertisements bombard the pizza lover with the messages, "we deliver during lunch," "we deliver free," "we deliver free and fast" or "we deliver anywhere in Lawrence."
And pizza coupons dance all over the newspapers, tantalizing people with offers like, "two for the price of one," "one dollar off," "free soft drinks," "two toppings for the price of
one," or "we pile it on." There are pizza wars in law, and students are taught in the com-
Mazzio's, Pizza Shoppe, Pizza Hut, Domino's,
Valentino's and Godfather's offer delelectable pizazs. All have distinct flavors at arvring prices.
And most places, if you're eating out, have salad bars that have every vegetable topped on your pizza and then some.
"Pizza is instant gratification for when I don't want to study but have to," says Michelle Paradis, St. Louis senior. "I definitely have delivered what I must to lazy to go get it myself or
For the bargain pizza lover, there are latenight deliveries.
For not-so-late-nighters, a pizza joint is a good place to get a quick bite of lunch.
"It's cheap, greasy, stick-to-the-bottom-of-the-box pizza," said Patty Jenners, Glenwood, Iowa, senior. "Pizza is good toward the end of the week. You can eat out of food and haven't got to the store yet."
"I'll go to Pizza Hut and get the Personal Supreme," says Allison Schrock, Lawrence junior. "When I'm in a hurry, it's convenient."
Counting Calories
Arby's
Regular Roast Beef 338
Beef and Swiss 488
Swiss King 675
Roast Beef Deluxe 488
Burger King
Double Beef Whopper 863
Onion Rings 263
Whaler w/ cheese 638
Whopper w/ cheese 750
Hardees
Big Roast Beef 488
Chicken Filet 525
Fish Sandwich 525
Ham and Cheese 375
McDonald's
Big Mac 563
Filet-O-Fish 450
French Fries 225
Quarter Pounder w/ cheese 525
Rax
Big Rax 563
B.B.C. 638
Chicken Sandwich 563
Turkey Bacon Club 488
Taco Bell
Bean Burrito 338
Burrito Supreme 450
Taco Supreme 225
Taco Bell Grande 413
Wendy's
Single 450
Chili 225
French Fries 338
Frosty 375
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