I was reading an article on Time.com that was talking about how much corn is actually in the American diet.  The article was focusing in on fast food restaurants, and on how much meat Americans eat.  The article was based on an interview of Hope Jahren, a researcher at the University of Hawaii.  The article was talking about how the meat in the fast food restaurants was from animals that were fed corn, and they were counting that meat as being part of the corn that we consume.  I thought that was an interesting way to look at it!  But what I found especially interesting was that the last paragraph of the article Jahren spoke of how the people (and the restaurants) who eat in fast food restaurants are miserable and depressing.

To be perfectly honest, I eat fairly often in a fast food restaurant and I cannot say that I’ve ever seen anyone in them that looks unhappy (with the exception sometimes of a really young child who needs a nap.)  And I’ve never felt that the restaurants had any kind of “feeling” other than “happy.”  So I don’t know how or why Jahren felt that the patrons of the restaurants, or the restaurants themselves were miserable or unhappy in any way.  Very strange!