I was born in 1928 and so I grew up in the depression years of the 1930s and then the 1940s.
Cooking then was commonly done with lard or solid other animal fats. Hamburger places existed, fried their hamburgers and french fries in lard, and the hamburgers were generally bigger and greasier than you get today in most places frequented by children. Why were't we visited with an epidemic of obesity.
But fast food places sell much tastier food. And, at 78, I still find them much better tasting than all the so-called health foods, low-fat foods, and trendy products. So much so that when something is advertised or shows on the label that it is "xx% fat free" or "contains only XX grams of fat," I will usually turn away from it. Too bad, too, because some good-tasting products actually have not been changed at all, but there is no way to tell it from the labeling. I'm not sure, however, what this has to do with communications, except that it more or less shows that at least some advertising is not as effective as the advertisers would like.
Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com