‘Adam Chandler delivers his tribute to junk food with love, zeal, and some humor… Mostly an lover, he narrates his burger-infused stories energetically and persuasively.’ – AudioFile

The program is read by the author.

Most any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams: A Trip Through the Heart of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between junk food and American existence for days gone by about Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom hundred years. The dark underbelly of the industry’s largest players is definitely scrutinized and gutted, characterized as impersonal, greedy, commercial, and worse. But, in unexpected ways, fast food is also deeply personal and emblematic of a more substantial than lifestyle picture of America.

With wit and nuance, Chandler reveals the complexities of this industry through heartfelt anecdotes and fascinating trivia as well as interviews with fans, executives, and workers. He traces the market from its origins in Wichita, where White Castle became the initial fast food chain in 1921 and successfully branded the hamburger as the official all-American meal, to a teenager’s 2017 plea for the year’s way to obtain Wendy’s chicken nuggets, which united the internet to generate the most viral tweet of all time.

Drive-Thru Dreams by Adam Chandler tells an intimate and contemporary story of America-its humble starting, its innovations and failures, its international charisma, and its regional identities-through it is beloved roadside fare.

Compliment for Drive-Thru Dreams:

‘This fun, argumentative, and frequently surprising pop background of American fast food will thrill and educate meals lovers of all speeds.’-Publishers Weekly

‘On the web page, terrific writers learn how to possess their wedding cake (or their Big Mac) and eat it, too. Adam Chandler is normally such a article writer, and Drive-Thru Dreams, his account of the outrageous and inalienable wonderland of American fast food, gives us not only insight and background but a pleasure that’s downright gustatory.’-Vijay Seshadri, Pulitzer Prize being successful author of 3 Sections