I've found it at "Fast Food Nation" movie synopis. Some kind of Fast Food big company executive must resolve meat contamination in the company chain restaurants, and personally visits slaughterhouses, teeming feedlots and "cookie cutter strip malls," which is what I don't know what is the expression referring to. Any idea?
2007-02-24 01:08:05 · 8 answers · asked by Bushwhacker 2 in Dining Out ➔ Fast Food
It means all malls have basically the same design and the same stores. Pretty soon you could walk down Main Street in any town and will look just like any other main street.
2007-02-24 02:07:58 · answer #1 · answered by crazydave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cookie cutter means that they all strip malls are put up very quickly and all looking alike. When you use a cookie cutter, all the cookies look the same..
2007-02-24 01:13:10 · answer #2 · answered by Felix 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that it's a very simple design that the construction companies use over and over again so that these strip malls all look alike. meaning like a cookie they are cut all alike. Hope this helps you to understand the meaning.
2007-02-24 01:18:26 · answer #3 · answered by nthernlites40 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that these strip malls have the same design, same stores, and they look exactly alike. I have noticed that in the Chicagoland area at several suburban strip malls.
2007-02-24 02:04:17 · answer #4 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means they all look the same, with basically the identical businesses and retailers, wherever you are. Like they are all cut using the same "cookie cutter".
2007-02-24 01:24:21 · answer #5 · answered by Squirrel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think, in the 50's american suburbs where lots of 'homemaker' mothers used to live were often referred to as 'cookie-cutter' neighbourhoods..(I.E: they spent their days wafting about in aprons and big hair humming to themselves and making biscuits)
The malls are those big american shopping centres where they bought said biscuit cutters to make the biscuits with...
strip mall = big shopping centre.
Dunno...-possibly what it means.
(EDIT: felix above may be righter than me on this one.)
2007-02-24 01:16:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They all look alike just like when you stamp out cookie's
2007-02-24 03:20:21 · answer #7 · answered by hdf69 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not sure srry i never really heard it
2007-02-24 01:11:13 · answer #8 · answered by donielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋