brazil has a wealth of traditional, embedded and heralded national cuisine, eaten at every table for generations, such as feijoada, moqueca de peixe, coxinhas, and brigadeiros - on the other hand, it also has a wide array of highly popular fast food joints - bob's is rio's very own burger, hotdog and milkshake restaurant, a very successful franchise that opened its doors in 1952 and has flourished ever since.

beyond bob's, on almost every street corner one can find an array of different eateries, selling the well-loved 'salgados' - delicious pastry-coated chicken, minced meat and cheese snacks that are ideal for speedy consumption.

throughout rio, the increased consumption of fast food, which has coincided with the wide availability of these eateries in the past two decades, is partially a product of modern industrial processing - the traditional snack and mealtime has largely been expanded by western methodologies of production.

rio is now home to a wide array of highly popular fast food joints - guilty pleasure and culinary addiction of cariocas.