Todd Kliman can't just enjoy the delicious things he smells when he walks out past Shake Shack: "American culture is so artificial and contrived in so many ways, and American business so crass and calculating, that the cynic in me thinks: Do they spray it into the air? Is it bottled and manufactured and then dispensed from a can? They can't possibly have created, from scratch, without chemical assistance, a burger that conjures the smell of the boardwalks of my childhood, can they?" [Washingtonian]
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