Fast food is the term given to many items that can be prepared and served quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, such as TV dinners, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store which is rapidly prepared and served to the customer in a packaged form for take out/take away.Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating, or fast food restaurants (also known as quick service restaurants). Franchise operations which are part of restaurant chains have standardized foodstuffs shipped to each restaurant from central locations.The capital requirements to start a fast-food restaurant are relatively small, particularly in areas with non-existent or poorly enforced health codes. Small, individually-owned fast-food restaurants have become common throughout the world. Fast food restaurants with higher sit-in ratios, where customers can sit and have their orders brought to them, are known as fast casual restaurants.

Guide to Geelong, Victoria. Includes Geelong attractions, festivals, events and History. Also lonks to Geelong Accommodation, food and restaurants.

Here's a list of vegan wines that are available in New Zealand and probably Australia and possibly the rest of the world.

A British reality television program to be filmed in Australia this winter will force fat children to hunt for food with Aborigines. In 'Fat Kids Can't Hunt' 10 fat youngsters will live with Aboriginal tribesmen in Australia for a month. If they do not eat the bush tucker, they go hungry.

A good summary of Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula and the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia. Includes free listings for local businesses and useful accommodation, attraction, food and history links.

Another great review on an Australian travel destination. This article talks about an Australian farm that was developed to find out if food could be grown in Australia for the colonists that were arriving. Great and interesting stuff!