Because of the speedy nature of the fast food industry, you might have totally forgotten about the designs of these ...

By JAN HORGEN, Of The Globe Gazette Aug 16, 2002 Aug 16, 2002 0 ...

So he surveyed 400 U.S. adults to see how often they were exposed to fast-food symbols in the much messier real world, and whether it affected their savings rates.

And that's a measure of how well fast-food symbols, created by marketers within the last 50 years, have come to embed cultural ideologies about efficiency and saving time.