A Cross-Country Tour of a Fast Food Nation

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  07.21.08 | 11:13 AM ET

imageKrispy Kreme was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pizza Hut and White Castle both began in Wichita, Kansas. Subway kicked off in Bridgeport, Connecticut; Kentucky Fried Chicken in Salt Lake City, Utah; and Hooters in Clearwater, Florida. If you string together all of Walletpop’s 39 listings of fast-food chain birthplaces, you could road trip through the hardened arteries of (mostly) small-town America. You might want to crank up Tom Waits’ Eggs and Sausage for some ambience. (Via Slashfood)

Photo by chleong via Flickr (Creative Commons).

Tags: Food, Road Trips, North America, United States, News and Briefs

Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


3 Comments for A Cross-Country Tour of a Fast Food Nation

Dave 07.21.08 | 6:25 PM ET

The world needs more white castle.  If you don’t agree then come talk to me about it.

Ling 07.22.08 | 1:09 AM ET

Do Buffalo Chicken Wings count? I think that was born at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY.

Dave 07.22.08 | 1:33 PM ET

Hmm, is it a chain restaurant and fast food?

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