November 16 Marks National Fast Food Day — What Will You Be Ordering at the Drive-Thru?
Maybe some tater tots at Sonic with a shake?
Most of us like the occasional fast-food drive-thru for the sake of convenience. Maybe you’d like to celebrate that choice on National Fast Food Day, the unofficial holiday that falls on November 16.
Fast Food Day is a party for the fast food restaurant. People who celebrate this day will be heading for their favorite fast-food drive-thru. They’ll be grabbing a cheeseburger or chicken nuggets for their children. Maybe they’ll be going to their taco stand.
This celebratory day is fairly new and it’s unknown when it first began. If you’re wondering which restaurant was the first one to come up with fast food, it was White Castle which was founded in 1921.
Evidently, 1921 was an important year for fast food, because this is also the year that the drive-in was invented. However, it wasn’t invented by White Castle. It was instead invented by the Pig Stand in Dallas, Texas. And it was started, according to the owners, because ‘people with cars are lazy and they don’t want to get out of them.’ Truer words than that have never been spoken. (Source.)
Then fast-food restaurants came up with the method of a food assembly line to make your meals with some quick…
