fast food restaurants

“Do we want to just isolate them and have some gas stations, fast food restaurants down here, or do we want to — and we were thinking about this both with the strategic plan as well as with HandMade — how about making [State Route] 213 from the interchange of I-26 coming into Mars Hill, how about making that the gateway to Madison County?”

Oral History Interview with Raymond Rapp, November 17, 2000. Interview K-0253. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

“There are numerous apparent reasons for this condition: 1. The easy availability of tasty, high-fat, and high-caloric foods and beverages 2. The massive advertising of fast food restaurants 3. The relative lack of exercise fostered by watching television, surfing the net, and playing extraordinarily realistic computer games 4. The stress and accompanying depression that we experience living in times of serious economic and environmental uncertainty”

Simon & Schuster: The Sacred Promise