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Monet Ota | Senior Graphic Artist

My thoughts on Raising Cane’s: It’s really mid

By Nicole Lee November 7, 2023
Fried chicken. A topic of hot commodity. It sparks controversies, grandiose emotions, and heated debates. Remember September 2021? Popeye’s versus KFC? People seem to go crazy for the delicacy that lies beneath a shell of crispy battered coating.
Analise Bruno | Senior Graphic Artist

A perfect manual on preparing for 4/20

By Katie Harmon April 20, 2023
You might be wondering — especially if this is your first 4/20 celebration — what should I do to commemorate the occasion? How do you prepare for this magical day? It’s critical to be fully prepared so all you have to do is sit back, relax, and smoke a nice joint with your buds.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: The cost of convenience

By Bailey Salimes November 9, 2021
When it comes to ease of living in the United States, our health — and the earth’s — can often pay the price. Convenience shops, big box stores and drive-thrus seem to etch themselves into our lives as we become too absorbed in the more major matters at hand. 
A McDonald’s hamburger, fries and drink. Fast food chains have been expanding across the country, adding more nutrient-lacking and calorie-dense food into American diets. COURTESY OF MCDONALD’S/ FLICKR

New study shows changes in fast food menus in past 30 years

By Amelia Murray-Cooper March 7, 2019
Fast food chains have expanded across the United States in recent decades, putting more nutrient-lacking and calorie-dense food into American diets. To help explain the nation’s growing dependence on this “junk food,” researchers at Boston University and Tufts University examined how fast food menus have changed over the past 30 years.
EDITORIAL: Food ATMs are the future

EDITORIAL: Food ATMs are the future

By Editors January 27, 2017

Die-hard fast food fans, and even those who only indulge occasionally, are familiar with the process of ordering, waiting for your food and heading to your table with a red tray and soft drink in hand....

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