• My research is on why fast food is so popular in today’s society. 
• For my creative remix, I plan on making a video experiment.I will compare what $8 can get you at a local supermarket, fast-food chain, and healthy restaurant. I’ll be analyzing 3 factors when comparing the three. The amount of food, time to prepare, and calories. 
• To do this video experiment, I will need to figure out which fast-food chain I’ll be visiting, and what groceries I’ll be buying for the meal. 
• A highly unlikely obstacle I might face is my video editing software rendering the video at 30 FPS instead of 60.

1. Fast food
2. Healthy food access
3. Organic vs non organic

I recommend eating burgers. One of my favorite food items because of the accessibility, taste, and affordability. Nothing beats having juicy fresh meat placed on a bun. Melted cheese to help keep the burger intact. Lettuce and tomatoes to compliment the rich juices pouring out the medium well-cooked meat. Each bite gives off a rush of adrenaline flowing through my veins, the aroma of the burger alone makes my mouth water up. Each bite you take gives off a unique taste. The center of the burger is always the best bite; it’s where all the riches are located. You get the most bang for your buck with a simple burger, you can never go wrong with it.  

I have a deep passion for burgers, even when going to restaurants with friends everyone would order fancy steaks and appealing dishes, but I would go with a simple classic burger. My parents told me when I was younger all I would ask for is burgers. As a kid, I begged my parents all the time to take me down to burger king for a whopper jr. I would continuously cry until they shoved a burger in my mouth. As I got older, my taste buds hated burgers from McDonald’s and burger king. During my lifetime, I probably had thousands of burgers from both fast-food chains. Currently, I enjoy burgers of quality from high-end chains such as shake shack, five guys, and local restaurants around the city. Before the pandemic, after a long day of working on aircraft, I would go to a local restaurant alone and sit at a table alone to enjoy a burger. Some people may view eating at a restaurant alone as kind of weird but, I like to treat myself alone with a burger after a long day of hard work. I go to these local food restaurants near Long island city so much that they just ask me “the same thing?” Sitting down and enjoying the view of the city with a burger is a calming experience. If you ever get a burger, make sure it’s cooked medium-well. If you order a well-done steak or burger, you might as well eat rocks instead, it ruins the flavor and tenderness of the meat. Medium well-cooked burgers are the way to go, it’s not too dry or too raw a perfect combination. 

After basketball practice in middle school, burgers have always saved me in terms of affordability. In 8th grade, I had a seasonal basketball game, but I was on an empty stomach throughout the day and the game was starting in 20 minutes. I had only like $5 in my wallet, so I ran to the closest burger place and got 2 burgers. Nothing much you can really get with a $5 bill, burgers are always lifesavers when it comes to time and efficiency they get the job done. If you committed the sin of never having a burger, I suggest you try one as soon as possible you won’t regret it!  

• One word I looked up from Gabrielle Hamilton’s essay is morose. This word is defined as being sad and gloomy.
• A passage that stuck out to me was ” I said it was important to confront the death of the animal you had the privilege of eating, that it was cowardly to buy cellophane-wrapped packages of boneless, skinless breasts at the grocery store.” This stood out to me because Hamilton is shedding light on awful actions that occur when killing a chicken. When we buy meat from the store, society doesn’t acknowledge the dreadful pain, the animals go through. Hamilton uses very descriptive language to describe the slaughtering of these animals in order to gain sympathy from the readers.
• One discussion question that I would like to raise about this essay is after this experience from Hamilton did they go vegetarian?