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Deena-
I just checked to see what foods they chose. They were looking at glycogen recovery (only), and it seems that carbohydrate was the main thing. An initial fast food feed of hotcakes, hashbrown and orange juice, and a second feed of a hamburger, fries (small) and coke. These were compared to carbohydrate rich supplements.
Tim(TLB)
I believe that they selected products, e.g. hash browns and orange juice, and, for recovery they found that the results were the same - the sports products weren't providing more of an effect than their nutritional content (which you can mirror to quite a good extent with selected fast food).
No suggestion that typical fast food is as good... until we reach hallowed publications such as the mail online:
"Hooray! You CAN eat fast food after exercise: Burgers and chips are just as good as supplements for workout recovery, study claims"