Analysis Of Why The Fries Taste Good

I would like to submit my first draft of Project 1: Summary and Response. In this draft I wrote about the article “Why the Fries Taste Good”, by Eric Schlosser. This article describes the life of J. R. Simplot, an entrepreneur who eventually became a billionaire due to his hard work, dedication and innovation, which eventually led him to being the provider of frozen French fries for McDonald’s fast food chain. In this article, the audience is general, but geared mostly towards those who like French fries, McDonald’s fans and critics, food lovers, and those interested in the life and success of J.R. Simplot, as well as farmers, especially potato farmers. This article was written in 2001, but pertains to the life of a man who lived through

Simplot, a man from small town Iowa, made his billions as an eight grade drop-out who went on to pursue potato farming, and eventually revolutionized the way Americans consumed the potato. Throughout his career, Simplot made many tactical business moves, beginning at a young age, which set him up for success in his future. With his ingenuity and strong work ethic, Simplot worked his way to creating and supplying many of the nation’s fast food restaurants, including McDonald’s with their precut, frozen French fries, while working his way to billionaire status. J.R. Simplot is a humble man who made himself successful through his hard work, determination, and humble

Maggart and Simplot combined finances up to purchase an electric potato sorter, and began sorting potatoes for neighbors and friends. Eventually the two split on the business venture and Simplot sold out of the farming business and moved to another town to begin his own business, a potato cellar. “He traveled the Idaho countryside, plugging the rudimentary machine into the nearest available light socket and sorting potatoes for farmers.” Within a decade, Simplot was buying and selling potatoes, and opening warehouses nation-wide, as the largest shipper of potatoes in the West. Eventually this business venture led Simplot to discover a company in California which was making money dehydrating onions. Simplot immediately bought into the idea and created his own plant in October of 1941. A few months later the United States entered World War II, and Simplot’s company began profiting by selling dehydrated onions to the U.S. military forces. This business venture was quite profitable, and Simplot recalls that dehydrated onion powder was “like ‘gold dust’”. By the end of the war, Simplot had accumulated enough money as the one of the leading suppliers of food to the U.S. military that his “Cadwell facility had become the largest Dehydrating plant in the world” . “By the end of World War II, Simplot was growing his own potatoes, fertilizing them with his own phosphate, processing them at