What’s curious, though, is how eating at McDonald’s somehow became “political” over the eight years that followed. Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation came out in 2001, and Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me was released in 2004. I interviewed Spurlock for an Esquire column about his movie, and I made it clear that (a) I had once done something vaguely similar to his documentary, and (b) I didn’t think eating at McDonald’s was especially dangerous. I still don’t. But I do think it’s an interesting coincidence that we both thought of trying to prove some larger idea about life through eating fried
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