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I do. I love Burger King, and because of that, I want to see that their numbers are good so that they might come to my country and perhaps even to my town.

Do you want fries with that?

Fixed :D

Or perhaps their newest addition, cheesy tots.  Mmmm.....cheese tots.

Where do you live that Burger King is not there?

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Dear Vik

Can't you get a girlfriend and invite her over for spaghetti or pizza or something? At least your attention would be turned to something moderately useful like procreation or self satisfaction.

All games will come. All games will go. As will we. Dust in the wind and whatnot.

Personally, I enjoy hiding the salami far more then hiding the numbers. We can generally tell when a game is not profitable because the studio closes. Given the veracity of the presumptions presented here, I think it is probably best to wait for the press release.

Don't you? Ok. Well I have my dreams too...

Burger King isn't all that common outside of the USA Calantus.

In my city for example there are three McDonalds and the one Burger King went broke once and is close to it again. Fast Food equals McDonalds around here. There are 162 McDonalds and 24 Burger King in Austria. 145 McDonalds and 17 Burger Kings in Switzerland, 1035 Mc Donalds and ONE Burger King in France, etc.

Worldwide, McDonalds outmatches them three to one. Which is a pity, because I like that actual burgers better at Burger King.

Where are you getting the numbers? Just curious. Hungry Jacks is an Australian franchise of Burger King or something and their burgers are the same so we have more "Burger King" than just those labeled as such. Don't ask me why we have both Burger King and Hungry Jacks. o_O

In Finland. It's weird. I could take a few hours' cruise to Stockholm, Sweden or Tallinn, Estonia, both also EU nations, both with Burger Kings. So why is my country being neglected?

I remember being in London in 1991 and Oxford Street had more BK than Mac. That's when I fell in love with the whopper.

Sadly, in Italy we have about 500 MacDonalds and about 2 (two) Burger King in the whole country. Roma itself got its first BK only 5 years ago, and a second one just opened last month, while we have about 20 MacDonalds since the late 80s.

I got the numbers from Wikipedia and doublechecked the Austrian numbers with the Austrian Burger King and McDonalds websites to validate the veracity of the numbers (always a good idea with Wikipedia).

Yes, I am bored at work. Don't tell my boss!  :-D


Edit: Worldwide numbers (from the official websites)

Mc Donalds:  30000 in 119 countries
Burger King:  over 11100 in 65 countries

Interestingly wikipedia says there used to be a Burger King in Finland in the 1980s, looks like you missed out by a couple decades there tkinnun0. :P

I'm generally pretty meh about the whole McDonalds political-angst thing.  I tend to detest the anti-capitalist, G8-rioting types, so I'd happily eat at McDonalds just to spite that sort, if Mickey-D made anything approaching a real burger.

A McDonalds in Birmingham is fine, because the entire city is a shithole.  But I hate finding McDonalds in Italy, because they are far more likely to be garishly fucking-up beautiful sites.  You'll be happily wandering through a Ravenna, gazing through a rennaisance piazza towards the 5th-century mausoleum housing the remains of emperors, sitting beside the awe-inspiring Basilica of San Vitale, second only to the Hagia Sophia itself in buildings I've seen.  And hey, look!  The golden fucking arches!  I'd have laughed in delight to see the place torched.

Plus, I prefer Burger King.  And KFC actually gives you real, unprocessed, non-reconstituted meat.

PS Burger chains are more interesting than the OP.

Needless to say, Burger Kings Taxi to Victory is over now. They will never outsell McDonalds and are therefore a failure.

Ontopic again!  :evil:

McDonald's damages to Roma were the first reasons why I hated it when they opened in Piazza di Spagna ages ago. Plus, it sucks compared to BK.

You remembered me that I fell in love with KFC too when I was in London, and guess what... there's no KFC in Italy. At all (that I know of). How's KFC TAXI (don't forget the caps) to victory going, based on that?

Everytime I go into a KFC it seems to be empty but I hear people are still eating there so it must still be going.  If it's open then it must still be making a profit.

Haven't heard if SOE are going to buy it yet though.

Good point.  once they've bought all those ingredients up front the cost of making the food drops dramatically, so it's worthwhile just running it with as few servers as it takes to keep the customers happy.

Servers.  See what i did there?

Burger King has had a bunch of different owners over the last 10 years. That has probably been a factor in its expansion pattern.

Burger King would actually look better than most MMO fast food chains than it really performs with the NA/EU centric numbers figures of the chartards.

The pulled out of Japan entirely in the 1990s and are just now attempting a return to that market.

All I have to say is that BK > McD's.  Although I hate their fries.  Ever since they changed to their current fries back in the late 90s, I have hated their fries. But hey, cheesy tots aren't half bad.  Also, onion rings.

They're franchise operations. Some people buy franchises but suck at running them. So when you see the whole "returning" thing in a country that they "pulled out" from, it probably just means that somebody else from that country is giving a franchise a shot. It may say Burger King like the last one, but its basically just like a different UO shard.

Quite right.  And look, Falconeer: franchising opportunities for Italy are available here (http://www.franchising.com/kfc/).  It's not right that Malta has one but not Italy...

BTW can someone den the MMO sub-numbers stuff at the beginning of this thread and let us discuss burger sub numbers in peace?

Nice. Now I know where to invest my debts.

I think we need Lum's opinion on which Burger joint he would have preferred to have at the end of his taxi to victory.

LOL Popeyes n00bs.

If you have a McDonald's and Burger King near each other, you can get McDonald's fries and a Whopper at almost the same time, then go make sweet, sweet love to them behind the K-Mart.  I mean, eat them.  Slowly.

I find the lack of Wendy's discussion disturbing.

Does Wendy's sell anything edible?

Frostees and Chili.

I will give you chili.

I don't understand why burger king can't get fries right, it pisses me off.  They should just do what New York Fries does, get some potatoes, wash them, run them through a slicer, boil them in quality oil, done.  They would crush McDonald's because the Whopper is a vastly superior burger to both the Big Mac and the Quarter Pounder.

Like Haemish said they make good chili.  I also like their chicken nuggets more than McDonald's.  The spicy chicken sandwich is also nice.

I almost missed this newly important discussion because the thread name has some misleading LOTRO nonsense in it.

I rather like the Wendy's fries.  They're light years better than the McDs or the BK fries.

Their chili, not so much. Other people love it, but I guess I just prefer my own recipe to their stuff. I do like that they make it fresh every day, and I'll eat it from time to time, but I prefer my own.

Wendy's also has a pretty decent selection for people who don't eat meat -- which is a serious consideration for me seeing as how my wife is a vegetaryan and all.

I love Popeye's.

BK does have the best onion rings though.  (Outside of some place in Massachussetts I've never heard of.)

Jack in the Crack done right is awesome.  Although I'm convinced the super ghetto SF location is a rarity.  Also Wendy's and Carl's Jr are > BK/McD on every level are you kidding me?

Although my Wendy's experience is all at Ohio locations, there are none in the Bay Area.

The only good thing about McD is a $1 chicken sandwhich is gr8 if you force them to halve the mayo and add a slice of cheese.  Otherwise they are total crap.

Also Sonics.  Which sadly is fucking unpossible to get to.  Whenever we are in Vegas or Skino we make sure to stop at the Sonics.  Love that place.

Why all the Wendy's hate? They sure as fuck make better burgers than Mickey D's. Their fries are great as well, but it took me a couple times and they just got better and better. I might be biased because at the University Hospital I work at, it was the only fast food nearby...

In-N-Out burger...the one time I tried them when I was in Cali...some good stuff right there.

I think its due to the Dread Burger days, when a few miners choked on their Wendy meal. People never got over that.

I find it funny that the Burger King fries suck worldwide. Thats true globalization.

Starting to think some of you have not actually eaten a Whopper.

Junior
Bacon
Cheeseburger... $.99

How can you not love Wendy's with that argument!

And, to the Sonic Fan... yes it is great, we had one come in 2 minutes from our house.  I believe I have gained weight as a direct result.

If you want to stray from the strict Burger King discussion that HRose started, I will agree that Sonic is super.  Peppermint milkshakes, carhops, and any place that sells chili dogs gets my vote.  Like Dairy Queen.

You know what I hold against Wendy's?  NO VANILLA.

God I love thread title edits.

I'm in bizarro world.  My friends and I like Burger King's fries but hate their burgers.

They have vanilla frosties now...at least here.

Spicy Chicken sandwich + frosty is excellent.

Dipping fries in a frosty is also nice.

I love how one can buy 3 4-piece nuggets from the McD dollar menu while the 10-piece is $4.19.  I feel like I am making money.

Hmmm!

The Whoper Jr. is far superior and costs the same as your Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger.

ETA -- Sonic pisses me off because I miss those places. We get their damn ads up here all the time and the closest location is downstate....like a multi-hour drive away. I am still tempted to make a Sunday car trip out of it.

Same with me.

But fuck are their breakfasts good.

Wendy's burgers >>>> BK > McD

I actually like the Big Mac but the composition of The Whopper is what I think of when I think of a burger. I can't even remember what McDonald's Whopper imitation is called but it sucks in comparison. Wendy's, however, doesn't use precooked frozen microwaved (okay probably convection oven reheated) patties and hence they actually taste like meat and are far far superior. Back when I was a Mac head I used to treat myself to Wendy's every year on my annual pilgrimage to the City since there weren't any Wendy's back then on the Peninsula.

McDonald's fries are still the best, though.

I miss whoppers. :cry:

You are all wrong.

(http://www.burgerville.com/images/home_page_logo_no_tagline.jpg)

Oh, they probably don't have one near you.  Shame, really.

You know that old Jack in the Box commercial where they are showing a focus group and some of them want Jack in the Box to leave out the bun? Order one like that :D

I don't like Wendy's fries, they are too thick for my tastes. I also don't like their burgers much, especially the shitty lettuce they use. But they are worlds better than McD's burgers, which are total shit. Burger King's Double Cheeseburger is good, since they add almost no veggies to the burger to start so you don't have to ask them to take anything off except pickles. BK's fries are better now, since they reverted to the old formula, but still not as good as McD's.

I like Sonic, but not for their burgers, which are average. Their chicken finger basket is excellent, as are their tater tots and when you really want well-deserved indigestion, chilli frito pie. Their coneys and chili-slathered hot dogs are good, as are their speciality burgers such as adding chili to a burger.

Backyard Burger still has the best burgers, though.

Well if we are talking about burger places to try that you probably don't have one near you, if you are in Michigan look for Halo Burger.

I've never seen a person eat one and not go..."damn, that was a good burger."

Been about 10 years since I was near one of these places, but I probably would have agreed back then at least.

We don't have Burger King either. I can walk to THREE McDonalds(es?) in 5 minutes from my office and we don't have Burger King. And I fucking love the whooper. What's up with that?

We do have KFC though, so suck it Italy!

I have two in-and-out doubles otw to my work as I speak.  For once Cali doesn't get the total shaft in the American food dept!  Holla!

fuckit

I'm getting in and out on the way home. I feel like shit, but those burgers are AWESOME.

Think it was the Big Xtra or something, Burger King also had the Big King which was a Big Mac rip off.  Those both sucked.  I forgot about Wendy's fries, those are pretty good too.

I don't know of half the burger joints you guys are talking about, that's probably for the best.

If you're talking local burger joints then I have to say that Milo's in Birmingham, AL has a damn tasty burger.

http://www.miloshamburgers.com/

The problem with Burger King is production quality and [perceived] cleanliness.  I don't think I've ever seen a whopper that didn't look like it was sat on before I got it.  The bun is always squished, the wrapping looks like crap, and even the bags seem cheap and low rent.  The insides of those places never look clean, either. 

This is how I imagine the workers there:
(http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/barth.jpg)



McDonald's tastes like shit, but  you don't feel like you're going to catch ecoli when you go there.

Hell, that's the main reason I like them.  They are so sloppy that you can almost drink them.

Milo's, those are good.  I lived behind a Milo's for a while.  Not as good as Backyard Burgers.  If I smell a Backyard Burgers while driving, I often swerve around while trying to locate it.

We don't have the In-N-Outs... well played.

I'd like to think that by being right in the middle of Southern California, I have a pretty good selection.

I have the usual suspects (Burger King, Wendy's, McDonalds) - also, we have the West Coast specific chains (In 'n Out, Tommy's).

And holy shit, Tommy's burgers are awesome, if you're a chili fan. They make their chili with steer meat, and it is thick and awesome.

One thing I'm sad about though, and that is there used to be a Fatburger near here, but they closed down.

For straight up burger quality at a fast food-esque restaurant, you cannot beat Fatburger. Holy shit, they are amazing.

Yeah, imagine my disappointment when in 1993 I found KFC in Budapest. Suck it Italy.

Milo's is one of the few things I miss about Alabama…

I'm a fan of Whataburger myself.

Whataburger has good burgers and fries while warm.  Unfortunately they seem to cool off faster than an icecube in Hell [Michigan] during winter.

It's not the same.  I've tried.

For me, too.  McDonald's still has the best fries of that style.  Popeye's fries, if crisp, are awesome though.

I can't eat Sonic burgers (well, above and beyond dietary restrictions).  When I was little my neighbor's daughter babysat me and forced me to eat the entire gigantic thing before I could have dessert.  I wasn't physically capable of it as it was about twice my normal meal size.  Somehow that imprinted on my brain forever.

The waffle cut fries at Jack in the Box pwn all.

ALL.

Uh... I don't know what the Jack in the Box fries are like where you live, but we just have Curly Fries.

I seem to remember there being some waffle cut fries at Jack in the Box long ago, but they were exact duplicates of the ones they sell at Carl's Jr. (Hardee's for you east coasters)

(six dollar burger for the win)

I MEANT CARL'S JR.

FUCK.

I ALWAYS CONFUSE THOSE.

GODDAMN FAST FOOD JOINTS.

So, basically, they own so hard that you can't recall where you got 'em?

Damn, those must be good.  Roofie fries.

I like the waffle fries at Chik-fil-a, which may or may not reach outside the Southeast U.S., but I am guessing not.  For fried potatoes, I still have to go with McDonalds.

This Milo's talk has me again wondering what is in that sauce.

Agreed Chik-fil-a fries are good, second only to McDonald's. (they have Chik-fil-a in Oklahoma but pretty much only in mall foodcourts which bugs my coworker from Georgia.)

I believe there are a couple Sonics out in the southwest suburbs, but it is probably faster to drive down to the one here in Champaign than to drive to wayne's world.

There are no Wendy's here anymore. 3 former wendy's buildings, all with their signs and all. The franchisee went out of business a couple years ago and the places have been sitting empty since. I really have a craving for a Frosty too. :(

I don't mind the new fangled "breaded" fries at BK. But their burgers knock the socks off anything McDonald's sells, and the once every 3 years Italian Chicken Sandwich is stellar.

Fuck, I forgot Whataburger. Yeah, they have burgers on par with BK, though of a different type, and really good fries. They do cool quickly.

Hardees has some nice burgers, especially their Frisco burger. That shit is GREASY AS FUCK, though, worse than most fast food I know. I mean, like grab extra fucking napkins greasy. And their cinny buns are women's sexual organs  in reverse, they look great but taste pretty terrible.

Arby's Curly Fries are pretty damn good, as are the Jamocha shakes.  That's about all I can eat from the place.

 :heart: Wendy's, but only for specific items like the oriental salad, the double or the "Old Time" burger whose name currently escapes me. Plus I live in Ohio/ N. Ky.  Anyplace outside of here I've had it has been crappy.

BK Whoppers are fan-fucking-tastic.. toss some bacon on there and it's pure love.  As EE points out, however, the places are like cesspits inside.. they don't have a strong-enough corporate culture to enforce the rigid cleaning regimin that McD's has.

McD's I used to think was great, but as I'm getting older even the fries are starting to taste like ashes in my mouth.  I only eat there when forced to these days.


I've got the same problem. They advertise all over the place here, but there's only ONE Sonic in the area, and it's a good 1 1/2 hour drive from me.  What. The Fuck.  They're good, but they're not "drag the family on a car ride" good.

I only recently had Jack-In-The-Box for the first time.  We were passing through Nashville on the way to my grandfather's funeral and I stopped to give it a try.  Holy Fucking Burger Jesus.. the Ultimate Cheeseburger (or whatever it's actual name was) and Oreo milkshake were like a calorie orgasm.  I've been craving another for almost  2 months now.

I also find it funny some of you like Wendy's chili, but not their burgers.


I thought you'd always been gay...

I will never eat at Jack In the Box.

Just too dangerous. Every time I see one all I can think of is "E Coli!" and my stomach cramps in fear. Irrational, I know, but that is what happens.

Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips is another place I just can't go to, though that is because I actually got sick from eating at one as a kid.

Since I brought up the seafood....Long John Silver's = yum. Best ones are the ones in the dual-chain setup with A&W cause you can get the root beer in a mug along with your meal+hush puppies.

I'd normally agree, but the ads + my wife's never having had it (and they have grilled cheese so yay for her) + my college nostalgia for the stuff = car trip ahoy for me, I think.

ETA -- I am shocked nobody has mentioned White Castle yet (or its bastard step-child, Crystal).  Also, Dick's in Seattle is pretty darn good for late night drunken grease burgers. Also, it's hilarious when your very homophobic roommate says stuff like, "Man I could really go for some Dick's right now."

I hate you all.

Things I miss the most in Korea:  Taco Bell, Long John Silvers, and the Arby's Beef and Cheddar with Cheddar Curly Fries and a Jamocha Shake.

~sigh~

And the funny thing is, I've met plenty of Koreans who LOVE Taco Bell.  The run-for-the-border fuckers need to expand to SE Asia already.

The last time I went to Wendy's was over a year ago. I had to return my sandwich twice as it was screwed up and had to wait along with other customers who also were protesting their fouled up orders. The manager kept apologizing profusely how the sandwich maker couldn't read English and thus the order takers were required to reiterate the verbal sandwich orders to her, to which she couldn't keep straight — how genius is it to have a system with monitors, photo button touchpads, and displayed orders when the workers can't read English.

The last time I went to McDonalds, it was months ago, and in the drivethru, I had to pull up and order from the window because they weren't taking orders from where the microphone and menu were located. But the speaker worked to tell me to pull up, however. And after getting order and asking for tartar sauce, the clerk handed me packets of ketchup. I reiterated request for tartar sauce, and this time he gave me barbecue sauce. Again, I asked, and asked for him to consult somebody else. End result, shrugging of shoulders and total ignorance to the existence of tartar sauce (not that I even like tartar sauce, it was part of family order). And the order was messed up too…

In & Out Burger, in contrast, is fresh, clean, and has never fouled up my order… …and the burgers are pretty tasty… …ask for "Animal Style"…

I hate Wendy's and Sonic. So much :(

Wendy's fries are horrible and never cooked to completion. Sonic is just trash. Poopy trash.

So you skip Taco Bell and Subway for the same reasons, right?  Also, don't eat beef from the market for fear of mad cow.  :-D

Naum.. just learn to speak Spanish.  It's going to be the official language in 20 years anywho, rite?  :-D

It has to just have the right amount of crispiness, though. I'm actually fond of Wendy's fries.

I don't know why everyone rants and raves over how good the fries at In N Out are, because I think they're kinda... meh.

The only reason I eat them at all is because you can get a side of thousand island which makes them a bit more palatable.

This thread is on a TAXI to victory.

The Whopper clearly dominates in the "flagship burger" category. However, I think I'm missing the "fry gene" because they all taste the fucking same to me, I never get it when people say one place's fries are better than anothers.

Long John's chicken strips are like deep-fried crack.  I'll cut a motherfucker before I let them touch my leftover fryer scraps. 

Already can… …problem is, the order system implemented there is in English… …wonder if it is easy as selecting "Espanol" on the setup screen…?

In and Out's fries are crisp, salty, starchy, fresh awesome.

the fries at in-n-out are a huge 'meh' to me.

But I tell you, the burgers are the best fast food burger I've ever had.

2x2 animal style all the way.  So freakin awesome.

I don't eat taco bell because it tastes horrible and makes my intestines into a bomb.

I love the hippies who bitch about American capitalists soiling their beautiful nation with McDonald's and shit, like they were put there at gunpoint.  Meanwhile their countrymen are busy scarfing down the millions of Big Macs required to keep them there.

Five Guys has really tasty peanut-oil fries and really, really tasty burgers (also, La Gallina (a vegetarian) tells me, good grilled cheese).  I believe they started in the VA suburbs of DC, but they've been spreading.  I saw one in Pittsburgh when I went to visit my brother recently.  If you live close to one, check it out.  http://www.fiveguys.com/store_locator.aspx

They just opened one a couple blocks from my apartment, and I swear I've gained 10 lbs already.

Fuck that burger horsehit. Panda Express FTW!!!  :hello_kitty:

We have a place here in Chicago (right across from teh Midway Games offices, actually) that does rendered duck fat fries on Fridays and Saturdays.  The guy does hot dogs, not burgers, but he also makes the best damn sausages in town. If you're ever in Chicago, I highly advise going to this place for lunch -- just be prepared to spend about 30 minutes waiting in line.  Every minute is worth it.  Linky (http://www.hotdougs.com/).

I loved Long John Silver's, but guess what food I ate to discover I was celiac?  Their batter is really bad for me it turns out.

For this plus the yet unspoken Long John Silver crack:   :rimshot:

We're too classy for a Long John Silver's joke. Well, WUA might not be.

This thread has gone beyond taxiing - it's taken off and is now way above my head.  All this time and I thought there were only two types of burger chain.  Oh, and Wimpy which is the smelly old uncle in the corner who just won't die.

Does anyone else miss the Dagwood burger at A&W? I sure do.

What a burger. If there is none near you, check it out when you can. What a burger it is what a burger should be. It is like camel soup, Do not knock it until you have tyred it.

I like What-A-Burger, but I gotta say, In-And-Out is amazing. Also, shockingly good burger - Del Taco. Don't know if they have them out east, I don't remember any, but fuck, for a taco joint they make an amazing burger.

The default fries at In-N-Out suck big time. I go across the street to McDonald's to get their fries instead. However apparently there's some super sekrit "double cooked" fries or something (double fried fries?) that are better.

Red Robin, surprisingly, has really good fries if you like really thick ones.

No Del Tacos in Ohio.. maybe farther east.  Some chains just like to skip over the Midwest, it seems.

I like that nobody's mentioned the abomination that is a 3-way or -god forbid- a 4-way.  Good palettes.


The local one is kind of hit-or-miss.  If you're there on a busy evening and they're churning the fries out like mad, they suck.  For some reason they taste better closer to room temperature than straight-out-of-the-grease hot.

Best burgers anywhere are from Tommy's in LA bar none.

Double chili cheese FTW

Scrambled, smothered , covered, cubed, and chucked? Waffle house is a cuisine unto its self. You nearly gotta drive an 18 wheeler to even begin to decider it, I like eating there in the morning just to watch the cooks. Its a show I tell you.

Sorry. 3 way and 4 way is a reference to Cincy chili. It is the only American chili with cocoa powder in the respie, You would have to suck on a grease gun to get it richer than that.

Hard Times Cafe does good 4-way cinci. If only they were outside of the MD, VA, NC area.

This I know... or were you responding to someone else I missed?


3-way and 4-ways are nasty, disgusting methods for ruining perfectly good spaghetti and ground beef.  Bleh.

We have a place here that does 5-way chili, but that's chili with beans, onions, cheese, and something else on pasta. 

I dig the chili + pasta combo, it's quite the awesome.

Also, I add cold coffee to my chili to kinda create that smoky/mole kinda taste.  Cocoa power almost sounds worth trying.

Is this turning into a chili taxi to victory thread now?

Then can we do BBQ taxi to victory after that?

/food rant on
I am not a native of Cleveland
This is my food rant
1) French Fries. In Cleveland potatoes are cut into french fry demented then dipped into to cold  grease and cooked for to short of a time. Raw greasy slimy potatoes. The only decent potatoes are at McDonald's.
 
PASTA. These people cook pasta like a German would cook noodles. I have went to the Fancy MEDERTRAINEN RESTRAUNT DOWN TOWN AND ORDERED A PLATE OF SPEGGITI FOR $30. AND THEY OVER COOKED THE PASTA. They do not know any better.

Cleveland is hell. Really, you should know better.

I've never seen any of these crazy places in NJ. You guys are spoiled.

They don't call it "The Mistake By the Lake" for no reason :D

There is a little Italy here where you can get pasta done well, but its a small place. It is a strange city. Jewels exist here and there in a morass of mederactosory.

Now that's a $10 word. Can you break a 50?

Dictionary says that word ain't worth a dime.

Also, a restaurant on the base here in Seoul claimed to have a Carolina BBQ sandwich.  I got desperate enough to try it.

I am still legally allowed to kill them for trying to call it Carolina BBQ, right?

OK, here's my thing.  I actually don't like fries most of the time.  I make an exception for McDonald's, but their food is generally blah so I don't eat there often.  What I do in most places is just order two burgers.  If it's McDonalds, I order two quarter-pounders; at BK I will order two Whoppers.  Once I ordered two Whoppers and a fish sandwich, and I was kinda groaning that afternoon since I had to push a bunch of racked servers around a warehouse.

Crystal (the southern White Castle), I think they have fries but I don't give a shit.  I just get 12 Crystals to go.  Someone in the office saw me eating this dozen-sack and calculated that it was around 2000 calories.  In my defense, I waited 30-45 minutes to eat the last three.

Taco Bell is in its own arena.  I used to work there, which would normally mean I don't eat there anymore, but I'm addicted to Taco Bell.  I know the meat isn't real.  I know how things are made.  I now work for their mortal enemy.  Don't care.  I love me some Taco Bell.

Is anyone else fascinated by the combination fast-food places like me?  There's a Taco Bell Pizza Hut in my town.  Couple weeks ago I ate from a Taco Bell Captain D's.  Before I moved, we had a Taco Bell KFC.

There's a prototype Arby's in Short Pump in the West End of Richmond, VA. It's at Broad Street and... Short Pump I think. Heh. Anyway, it's like the Jaguar F-Type prototype. It shouldn't exist. It has plasma screens, a one-off burrito place inside called Barbacoa and plasma screens. They serve wine and bring your food to your table. It's like Arby's won the fast food war and Richmond was the setting for Demolition Man.

I live in a town which, while not huge, is kind of a border town for the district so while there's not too many people living here it gets a lot of traffic. I guess the fast food joints slowly figured this out because they're staggered all over the place. As long as I can remember we've had a Pizza Hut and KFC, but both of these were on different blocks in the main/market street. Then McDonalds came in further down the road about 10 minutes away, obviously to better catch the traffic moving through town rather than the intown traffic. Red Rooster (roast chicken joint, do you guys get them?) opened up opposite the Pizza Hut. Hungry Jacks openned up next to the McDonalds. Finally Subway openned up a location across from the KFC a year or so ago. Actually none of the fast food places are in one of those fast food blocks because even the McD and HJs are seperated by a car dealership (and an annoyingly long road filled with speed humps, bastards).

I bet there's a correlation between how planned the building/expansion of a town happens to be and how dense the fast food restaurants are. Our expansion just happened, but the less organic towns you always see 3-5 fast food joints all together and often with a petrol station as well.

Well.

You see that in the middle of NOWHERE in America. Not because of expansion, but because blazed college kids need to stock up for the next 200 mile leg on their way to Burning Man to hear bands they'll never hear of that should never have been given instruments.

I'd rather get a $5 pizza from Little Caesars than a burger and fries from any fast food joint.  I'll still be eating that fucker the next day.

I lived off the $5 pizza from Little Caesars for good hunk of my college career, when ever money was low.

When I was going to college I had cereal for breakfast, Taco Bell for lunch ($1.27 meal) and worked at Domino's where I finished up my eating that day.

Ah, the good (?) ole days.

Was Wimpy's just a UK thing?  We still have a couple of Wimpy's (they're burger bars) in the UK, usually as concessions in bowling alleys.  They are truly awful.  I don't eat McD's, but I am well aware that, while confronted with the task of forcing down a Wimpy burger, a Big Mac seems an unattainable delicacy on a par with ambrosia itself.

Having lived both places, Cincinnati is worse.  There aren't any 'jewels' here at all. In fact, the lone 5-star restaurant closed its doors recently, and won't be opening again.   

Also, I blame the spaghetti you describe on the large Eastern European population in the city.   Were the fries you were describing from Mr. Hero?

If you are Mil, head to Kunsan AB or Osan AB.  They both have Taco Bells.

Freddy's Steakburger

Don't know where this chain started, but they got one down the street from me and inspired by this thread, last evening, I wolfed down a double steakburger minus the mustard - they come with onions & pickles too… …needle thin french fries and according to the retro flyers posted all over the joint, world famous custard… …not too bad, better than McDonalds or Jack in the Crack or other fast food joints, but still a bit heavy on the greasy side…

And Wendys if run by competent and conscientious staff, can serve up decent burgers, though I have to vote down on the fries… …trouble is, as with all these quick chow distribution installations is that they are staffed by crackheads, meth additcts, illiterates, or just plain morons. Except for In&Out, which seems to be manned with pasty pimpled preppy peppy teenies. And the adverstised starting pay there posted was like $10 per hour, but I don't know what the going rate is for fast food labor these days — but their work force looks diametrically different than the competition…

Though I never noticed they printed bible verses on the cup and burger wrappers (http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/inandout.asp), according to a workmate, it's a crazy Mormon deal, but I couldn't find any evidence that the owners were Mormons, being started in L.A., and not even having a spot in Utah until recently…

And from Wikipedia, the entire Secret menu…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger

X by Y
    X meat patties and Y slices of cheese (for example, a 3 by 3 or a 2 by 4)
Triple Meat
    Three meat patties without cheese.
Animal Style
    A mustard cooked beef patty served on a bun with pickles, lettuce, tomatoes, extra spread and grilled onions.
Animal Style Fries
    Fries with cheese, spread, and grilled onions.
Double Meat
    Two meat patties without cheese.
Extra Everything
    Adds extra spread, tomato, lettuce, and onions (regular or grilled).
Flying Dutchman
    Two meat patties, two slices of melted cheese and nothing else.
Fries "Light"
    Almost raw fries that are cooked for less time.
Fries "Well"
    Fries that are cooked longer to be extra crisp.
Fries with cheese
    Fries with two slices of melted cheese placed on top.
Grilled Cheese
    Two slices of melted cheese, tomato, lettuce and spread on a bun, with no meat. There is also a Grilled Cheese Animal Style (grilled onions are added).
Neopolitan Shake
    All three shake flavors (strawberry, vanilla and chocolate) combined in one shake.
Protein Style
    Instead of a bun, the burger is wrapped in lettuce. In addition to burgers, a protein style Grilled Cheese is available.
Veggie Burger
    A burger without the meat and cheese.

More than anyone cares to know about In-n-Out, I know…

I  :heart: Schild

Richmond seems like the setting for Demolition Man for so, so many reasons.

If it ain't Culvers, it's likely crap custard.

Well, now that this thread is about something important, I'll jump in.

Arby's sells puke on a bun.
McD's has two worthwhile things - Flurrys are 1/2 the price of Blizzards, and fresh McDonalds fries are still the best out there.
The Golden Arches are an eyesore
KFC tastes great, but I can feel the grease throughout my intestines for days
Wendy's - burgers are meh, fries suck, but I can get a baked potato and thier chicken strips are quite good
Burger King - good onion rings, acceptable burgers

Favorite Burger of all time: A&W Double Teen

What most of you are missing out on: The White Spot Triple O Burger

People keep talking about BK's onion rings.  Really, they are mediocre at best.

Checkers double double is much better than most people give credit for and are often 2 for $2.  But I'll eat a Wendy's double if there are no Checkers around, which there aren't in Boston.

Popeye's is the king of fried chicken as far as I'm concerned, plus their biscuits are better and the red beans and rice is the best side available at any fast food joint.  Oddly enough there is a Popeye's in Boston (near Fenway, in Kenmore Sq) which is a surprise to me because Popeye's has always been a southern thing to me.

Yeah red beans and rice and Gamestop (only true local ccg/wargame shoppe) are really the only reasons to ever be caught on Divisdero (big street in SF)...

Well that and one of the better pot clubs and some pretty neat bars.

I do love Popeye's, however my anus does not.  This is odd considering I occasionally eat habanero and KFC has little effect on me.

I liked Richmond however I admit I have only been there maybe three times.  I stayed in the Jefferson and ate at the Greywolf Grill, which is the best mongolian bbq place I have set foot in.

Chik-fil-a has been run by competent staff every time I have been in one.  They don't print Bible verses on their paper goods, but they are closed on Sunday.

I'm guessing none of you have seen Fast Food Nation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460792/).

I particularly liked the slaughterhouse scene at the end. It was amazing how quickly that machine can rip the skin off a cow. Some ingenuity went into that.

Fast Food Nation was, in both book and (utterly disappointing rubbish from a talented director) film forms, a fuss about nothing very much.

The idea that McD's, or any other burger joint, is somehow qualitatively worse than any other form of mass food production is nonsense.  Plenty of us have worked in the sector as students or whatever, and I've seen someone urinate into an ice-cream mixing machine while it was running.  I've seen someone simulate sex with a doughnut.  I've seen someone stick half a cucumber down his pants, serve customers in all his simulate glory for a while, then take it out when he got bored and happily sell it.  These were just small food producers that could pass for "gourmet" in the right market.  Of course, I know plenty of tales frmo friends, but they might be exaggerated: those I saw for myself.

Low-paid catering sectors running on tight margins with crappy, repetitive work done by bored, restless people end up with horror stories.  McDonald's and the rest attract cameras, that's the difference.  And non-industrialised meat production would horrify people, too, if they saw it for real.  If you've lived on a farm and seen a pig slaughtered - and pigs are smart, smart beasts, as intelligent as any dog but unlucky enough not to be cute - you know that all meat has its price.

I read six pages of burger threads and figured I'd give my two cents about 'em.

Been to San Francisco once for a week. In and Out burgers are where it's at; it's a shame there aren't any in Florida, but the old people here only like Bob Evans and Shoney's anyway.
Arby's has really good reuben sandwiches. Seriously. Absolutely worth the six bucks or whatever it is for their sandwich.
Hardee's burgers are a hell of a lot better ever since they changed their menu. I think someone said they are so greasy you need double napkins, but Christ man, don't you remember their old stuff? It was like shit on a bun.
Sonic is really good too, only because I can get a bacon/egg/cheese toaster sandwich with tater tots at 11:00 PM EST. Fuck yeah.

Order of Fry Favoritism:
1) Checkers. Why the hell hasn't anyone written Checkers on this thread yet? I think the menu is synonymous with Rally's, but good Jesus, their fries are the best things ever. Hot, spicy and greasy. They will probably lead me to a heart attack at 30.
2) Arby's. Curly fries are good, and well seasoned.
3) McDonald's. Classic goodness. Everyone has had these at least once in his/her life. And if you haven't, you just aren't living.
4) Sonic's Fries. Nice and crispy.

By the way, the reason why BK/Wendy's has substitute items for their fries at drive-throughs is because they SUCK. They suck royal amounts of shit out of assholes. We're talking tubgirl shit here. They really are that bad.

No.  Pigs are unlucky enough to taste like bacon. 

The whole premise of Fast Food Nation is stupid. There is a reason there are nutrition labels on things. If you exceed your caloric intake, you will inevitably gain weight. Duh? How the fuck the American public goes, "Oh? Yeah? Wow! McDonalds is at fault for fat kids! makes me want to leave the country.

The whole horror story thing? I am a butcher in college and where I work serves many different minorities. Specifically, ones that aren't supposed to touch either beef or pork. Note that on multiple occasions I have seen people soak their knives in the blood of said unholy animal before presenting food to said minority.

Being a butcher is cool though. Yes, slaughtering animals isn't the glorious part of the job, but it's really good pay for not a lot of work. Plus I work in state-mandated air-conditioning at 55F. I <3 cold.

It's because they're not carnivores. Name a carnivore that the majority of Westerners eat, I can't think of a single one that isn't a fish. Personally I'm just waiting for the killing of vegitarians to be declared legal before I have one on a bun with a slice of cheese and some onion. I think it could really take off if given the chance.

Generally most anatomy is the same as far as butchers are concerned. Pork, Beef, Lamb... all look the same when you butcher them. Not sure how a human chuck roast would look like, but I bet I could do an inside/eye/bottom round. They're all the same because generally leg muscles on animals (including humans) have the same makeup.

 :rock_hard:

Are people here confusing Fast Food Nation with Supersize Me?  When I read Fast Food Nation, I didn't get the impression from it that Fast Food chains were any worse than grocery stores.  In fact I seem to recall a section pointing out that one of the main motivating factors behind stricter quality controls for rendering plants was McDonalds and other fast food chains. 

The book actually seemed pretty even handed to me.

I think I may have done that. I vaguely skimmed Fast Food Nation in high school, but when I made the comment about Kids+McD=Fat Kids, I was referencing Super Size Me. Sorry about the confusion.

We have a Milos in Mobile.

The burgers are ass, their fries are shit.


That Sauce. . . Too damn sweet. And tea that's sweeter than McCallisters, which I always though was tea colored liguid sugar.

I hope it's a franchise problem and not your lack of taste.

Only commies, retards, and Auburn fans hate Milos.

 :-D

I don't think it was the language barrier. Dave Thomas was a great guy, but his franchisees run their shops like shit. When I have a bad experience at the drive-thru with slow or idiotic orders, it's generally at a Wendy's. They just have this culture of retardation that seems to infect everyone that works there. I can't explain it.

I think we go to the same Wendys.

Ok actually here they're fine. In the DC burbs they were a horror.

I actually like Arbys more than anything. Odd fact, that strange sort of not beefy flavor their roast beef has is a lot like horsemeat.

desk at home
I think I am not retarded, if only just.

Some of the cows we're talking about on  these burgers are smarter than most Auburn fans I know.

Oh wait. I'd rather watch MLS and the Gold Cup than the NBA finals. I guess that makes me a commie.

There ya go. All is right with the world :)

desk at home
I think I am not retarded, if only just.

Some of the cows we're talking about on  these burgers are smarter than most Auburn fans I know.

Oh wait. I'd rather watch MLS and the Gold Cup than the NBA finals. I guess that makes me a commie.

There ya go. All is right with the world :)
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Go Gators?

I lol'd.

Good stuff.

To continue the derail:  52 more days to kick off

That's because the NBA Finals have been boring. Too little Lebron, too much Tony the Gnome and pensive Eva Longoria shots.

1.  More love for Jack in the Box.  Fucking curley fries, overpriced but good sourdough burger and the ultimates which are heartattack inducing awesome.

2.  For all my Bay Area people, plz make sure you have been to Grubsteak at least once (Post & Polk or thereabouts) its open till like 4am, serves one terrible and one solid portugese beer and will put a fried egg on a good burger for not too much money.  Mostly though its open to 4am, which is the win.

3.  Wendy's is only good in Ohio.  One of the most awesome things about it is square patties stack hella well.  A four or five layer burger is totally edible with one hand.

4.  Carl's Jr. deserves more love imo, criss cut fries as I mentioned before but also some of their junky burgers w/ artificial bacon and giant onion rings on them are winners too.  Westerns or somesuch.  Does anyone else have Carl's Jr/Green Burrito locations?

5.  Sonics frozen juice'ish drinks...

6.  Thanks to whoever posted the in-and-out secret orders I didn't know all of those.  I've heard animal style several times but didn't know most of those others.

Mal Moore is coming to town next Tuesday to speak to our Alumni group. I'm going largely for the free mug from the local 'Bama bar, appropriately named The Houndstooth.  (Is the 'Tooth still there in Tuscaloosa or did it get obliterated in the Great Strip Purge?)

I'm probably gonna take the f13 folks to the Heart Attack Grill (http://www.heartattackgrill.com/) here in Phoenix. I need to make sure one of their locations still does fried eggs though.

To say the least, the location I used to go to used to be one of the best burgers I'd ever eaten, til they changed some equipment. That was a dark day.

Yeah, their sourdough burgers are awesome. I don't know whether they've introduced it up there or not, but they have the new Sirloin burgers, where you pick your cheese and onions. Really tasty burgers, they have this interesting herb mayo on it.


Yeah, pretty much every Carl's Jr. here in the greater Los Angeles area is a Carl's + Green Burrito. I can't say I've ever had any of the Green Burrito stuff, though it does look quite tasty.


Flying Dutchman are awesome. You can also order fries animal style!

TGI Friday's had the best burgers I've ever had. Max & Erma's come close.

As for ye olde fast food I have limited choice since I now live in the frozen tundra that is Alaska. The Wendy's up here is pretty good since they actually put salt on the goddamn fries. Burger King used to be my favorite but the one up here must be run by a syphilitic ferret judging by the service.

For the most part I get my dine out food here from local food joints. One thing I gotta hand to these guys in Fairbanks is is they know how to make good food. Of course when it hits 50 below in December there ain't exactly much else to do around here but eat and procreate so...

I hate NBA. and MLB.  I haven't watched the Association since Bird and Magic. Haven't watched Baseball since the strike.

MLS has been fun, but i'll save the derailing for tasty, tasty hamburgers.

Or chicken. Raising Canes is pretty good for a chain.

Meh, they only serve burgers medium well done now.  Waste of perfectly good hamburger.

On the subject of eating healthy, today I had lunch at a Chinese buffet, so you know how much I value my intestines.

When I lived behind the Milo's, it was in Auburn.  More or less across the street from Drake Health Clinic.

Chinese seafood buffet?

Only thing worse than that is an All You Can Eat Sushi Buffet.

The had seafood but I did not partake.  Four kinds of chicken if you count the fried rice, and hot-and-sour soup.  And a cabbage roll.

Sacrilege.

Now it all makes sense...

Frequent trips to AYCE Sushi Buffets leads to the use of deworming pills which have known adverse effects including psychosis, renal toxicity, irrational PS3phillia and seizures.

I am guessing you are not talking about a sushi bar.  Perhaps a Chinese restaurant that also serves sushi?

Speaking of burgers...

(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s183/ec1016/burger_1951.jpg)


Yeah that's right. A big ole' bacon cheeseburger nestled in between a pair of Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts. Words utterly fail to convey the sheer gastric distress this thing causes me just thinking about it.


http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2362369

I am somehow grossly intrigued.

That burger is awesome btw.

Awesome as in looks awesome or awesome as in you have actually eaten it?

I keep expecting the Chic-a-flic references here to draw Arcadian and his Hat out of the woodwork.

Yes, I have eaten a Luther. I don't know what that shit above is. But it's a cheap knockoff (comparatively, I'm sure it's still yummeh).

(http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_02_krispburger2.jpg)

Against all odds for some reason I'm now incredibly hungry

Reminds me of a McGriddle.

God, pancakes, syrup, egg, sausage AND cheese all in one easy to eat package.  It's a good thing I have will power enough to limit them to once every 4 months or so.

Krispy Kreme is the worst. May as well drink hot liquid oil. It is well known the best doughnuts are made by oriental mom and pop shops.

If you don't like bread, sugar and oil that is fine, but don't badmouth Krispy Kreme.  I personally don't care for the round cake with a hole that passes for donuts at Dunkin Donuts.  You would think that I would have liked the fried bread I tried to eat that one time in Inveraray, Scotland, but I think I could have done it with some sugar glaze.  Or three pints of Tennant's.

A thread about tasty burgers, and a line like that...and nobody makes a Pulp Fiction reference?

For shame.

Dunkin's chocolate glazed donuts are good.

KK is only teh win when the lights on.  Once the lights off I'd rather go somewhere else.

I was actually considering a Snatch reference.  Possibly a picture of Flat Top.  Work intervened.

I don't like doughnuts, even Krispy Kreme, but once a year I make these:

(http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/cereals/images/villaware-pizzelle.jpg)

I bought a new pizzelle iron a few years ago and gave the old one to my sister so we try to get them done in one or two days.  Everyone gets a stack for Xmas.  I reckon the few I cheat and eat while I'm making them is my dietary limit for butter, sugar and anisette for the entire year.

What is that? I want one.

I want to make them. Piles and piles of them.

That does not look real.  You are making that up.  Edible coasters?  Ridiculous.

Pizzelles are yummy!  Are they really that bad for you?

Actually an AYCE sushi place is probably one of the safer places to eat raw fish if you worried about getting intestinal worms and other parasites. All their fish has almost certainly been frozen.

For every three cups of flour, I use 1 cup of butter, 1 cup of sugar and six eggs.  I use anise seed but not the extract.  I add anisette until the batter is sticky so they finish up really, really thin.  If you want the rest of the recipe, just add 2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 to 1 tsp vanilla extract (my sister makes her own and it's yummy), beat everything but the flour and baking powder into the butter (melted and cooled) until it's smooth and then add in the dry stuff until smooth again.  Add anisette until the batter is sticky.  Cook for about 30 seconds or so.  You'll get the hang of the timing after a couple of tries.

Oh, you need a pizzelle iron, too.

You will never want to stop eating them until there are no more left and they will kill you slowly.

You know what else kills you slowly?

(http://www.woodenspoon.ws/CandyPress/ProdImages/246.1.jpg)

I drank a whole bottle of that and didn't shit for a week. I thought I was dying inside.

Wow.  That is almost TMI.

The cure for your problem would have been a case of Old Style.

Or Stroh's. If that can't roil up your GI tract, you are probably already dead and just don't know it.

Hey, I grew up on Stroh's. You need to use the kings throne Then falls city is what you want. $2.09 a six pack in the stubby bottles and worth every penny of that. I could of course talk about San Miguel being ex navy. Shit through a screen door and leave it clean. But I am far to nice to say such a thing.

So...we are on to beer now? :)

I thought we were on to constipation and methods of treatment.

::NSFW::

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Bristol_Stool_Chart.png (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Bristol_Stool_Chart.png)

I'm calling a hiatus on anything related to what happens to food after you eat it. I know I started it. But it was supposed to start a conversation about glogg.

I don't drink beer but it's great for your hair.  You should boil a bottle of it and let it simmer for a few minutes and add it to your shampoo.  Really.  The hoppier, the better.

No no. You gotta make that stuff for real. OMG New Years parties with the Norse Pagans. What is it? 2 bottles of port, mull it with raisins and spices, then add a 1.5L of vodka, set on fire, and drop sugar over the fire? Drink that for New Years, you're still drinking gatoraid and taking aspirin the following Christmas.

I'll call all my norse pagan friends and see if they want free tattoos.

(heh)

You should make your own Glogg.

That's like buying premade eggnog with the whiskey already in it.

I haven had them in ages but I used to like Glögg and Lussekatter every now and then. (I had a Swedish friend who cooked) There must be a bazillion calories per sip and bite, though. 

What the hell was up with Arcadian anyway?  Buying a Chicken Shack franchise isn't like joining a monastic order.  He could have slung fowl by day and continued to join in our reindeer games by night.  But no, he was all like "I am going to sell chicken, so I shall be gone FOREVAR!"

He didn't buy it, his friend did.  He was the manager.  MANAGING a fast-food joint is a "good bye forevar" position, since you're the guy who gets to cover when all your loser employees call-in sick and none of the others will come in.  Arc was also one of the 'boarding during work' guys, since after-work was spent gaming or with family.  Hell, I know my post count would be a LOT lower if I couldn't ever post during work.

Despite the certain hangover that would produce, I'm intrigued...

I thought I remembered hearing that RKDN left the glorious fast food industry after his wife got sick, but I may be wrong. I still see him pop up in Xfire now and then, so he is still around, or at least his PC is.

Tried to get to In-N-Out today. Goddamn line was out the door. Too many people eat at exactly Noon every day.

McDonald's across the street was empty.

So I went to Circle K.

Convenience store food has buggies in it.

Just got back from Burgermaster (http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10728528/). I had forgotten just how damned tasty their burgers are. They remind me a lot of In N Out, actually.

News flash.  It's all got buggies in it.  Even that gourmet shit you get at the snooty place that makes you wear a jacket.

I haven't had a beef hamburger (turkey and veggie are OK, but not the same) in uggg... years now.   You're all off my Christmas card list.  :mob:

Am I?  I haven't had a burger in years either. :cry:

I'm gonna make hot doggies tonight.  Beef.  Kosher.  On the grill.

(http://cache.gridskipper.com/images/2006/05/05192006.8.jpg)

(just because the pic makes me laugh)

http://askabout.ytmnd.com/

I had burgers two nights in a row this week.

I bought $20 worth of pork ribs and have been living like a fat, bloated Elvis all this week on ribs, baked beans, and corn bread.

Speaking of Elvis, how about the Reese's Peanut Butter and Banana Cups with Elvis theming?  Next month, I hear.

We have some Mickey Mouse hamburger patties in the freezer.  They always make me think of Krusty Brand.

Non-diseased meat from diseased animals!

I have read this backwards, forwards and upside down and I have no idea what it means!   :oops:

I just wanted to point out I consider Wayabvpar a friend.

I have a craving for Burger King.

And the nearest one is a half hour away from here and closed.

I am sad.

(http://www.junkfoodblog.com/uploaded_images/reeses-peanut-butter-banana-creme.jpg)

The king also loved peanut butter and bacon sandwiches.  I'll be damned if he wasn't right, they're delicious.

Is that really real?

Yes, and they're fantastic. Peanut Butter w/ Banana anything is like hearing the true name of god.

Once in a while my mother used to eat a peanut butter, banana and marshmallow fluff sandwich.  Not liking any of those three things when I was small, I thought it was very, very gross.

Well of course you did.

She forgot to fry it.

I now must hunt-down the Elvis Reeses' cups. Those look awesome.

There was a show I was watching that said the real recipe was a whole loaf of bread hollowed out and filled with peanut butter, bananas and like half a pound of bacon and then fried in the bacon grease.

I'm having minor heart palpitations just typing that out.

I think they are made at some truck stop outside of vegas?

I remember seeing the thing about him getting on his private jet and flying from Memphis to that place just to get one of those things.

Wikipedia here I come.

Yeah, I thought it was a truck stop outside Memphis and that he would fly from Vegas when he was out there?  I remember an anecdote from the show about him flying over to get them for Nixon?  Or maybe it was Kennedy?  One of those presidents anyway.

All I know is that seeing that show made my arteries harden just thinking about that much grease.

Fluffernutter has been around  for a while. The king just kicked it up a notch with the bacon and bananas.

I wonder where he got that from. One of the best things to come out of Africa is the Bunny Chow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_chow).

Thinking about getting myself one of these in lieu of birthday cake:

(http://voodoodoughnut.com/doughnuts/bacon_maple_bar.jpg)

Is that just a maple/brown sugar long donut with bacon on top? We have those exact donuts san bacon. I want the goddamn bacon.

You're god damn right you do.

Voodoo Doughnuts (http://voodoodoughnut.com/menu.html)

Or maybe you want Captain Crunch on it instead?

(http://voodoodoughnut.com/doughnuts/captain_crunch.jpg)

Ok, that is another reason to move to Portland.

Even though none of those look appetizing, the concept of a donut shoppe of that nature makes it sound like my kind of town.

Please tell me how the bacon one is. Man, I need to get to Portland.

If you go there, please hug V-Lily for us and spin her around.  Sauced, too.  You have no chance of spinning Furiously and WAP around.  They will kill you.

This is a tasty doughnut! NSFW: http://voodoodoughnut.com/doughnuts/cock_balls.jpg

IT'S A ROCKET SHIP!

OK, Food. Theres a lot to talk about here.
Maple syrup. You want class B. Learn to make pancakes or shack up with a girl who can, Or waffles (easier with a good waffle iron).

OK, Cleveland. little Italy is good but the rest of the city takes some knowledge's. For instance a poor boy might be Cole slaw with BBQ sauce (meatless) or it might not.

Cincinnati. i was born, raised grew up and marred 50 Miles north in Dayton. The 7 hills were great good fun during the 67 to 70 time period. I take no comfort in the fact that you find it bland now.

So, you ask whats good. Ever had a southern catfish supper (Friday night). good dry rubbed ribs.  Really good pork BBQ with pepper sauce. And really really good. Seafood couscous?

Of course something needs to be said about shrimp scampi with those damn cheesy biscuits.

I actually just had a Peanut Butter and Banana smoothie at this smoothie place in the mall the other day.

Fuck, it was good.

I wanna try this Reese's now.

Burger King's burgers are better than McDonald's IMO, the problem with Burger King is their advertising. They've never had a consistent or...well, decent plan until recently. They're actually advertising the food now, have a slogan that has lasted past a week, an icon (hell Mr. King), and the 360 games were genius marketing.

Also, in Australia they're called "Hungry Jack's".

I know this because I had to study them in a marketing class. Woo.

Best US/World chain burgers though: Wendy's. Too bad they aren't doing so well.
Best regional chain: In-And-Out. Holy shit are those things good. The only reason to go to California.

Yeah, BK burgers are better, but a lot of that has to do with preparation styles. A burger will almost always taste better when it has been cooked in a way that it is not sitting in a pool of its own fat. Yeah burgers are fatty, but when the fat is carmelized on the outer surface it tastes weird.

Also, McDonalds' new method of storing everything in the little lexan drawers then making burgers out of them just seems to make stuff taste worse than they used to.

On the Australia thing, I had a quarter pounder w/ cheese while waiting for a bus in Sydney and it was actually very tasty. Was also interesting to see that down there, the drink sizes are what they were in the states in the early 80s. 20oz is the large, 16 the medium, 12 the small. Never tried Hungry Jack's though I was entertained with the way they smooshed all those letters into the traditional bun logo.

I love this thread. Sauced, I love your new avatar.

I was once in a Hardee's in Missouri. I was so mad that it was called Hardee's and not Jack in the Box, so I stole my number that you put on your table to get your food brought to you.

I did it accidentally, but I'd like to think I did it subconsciously because I am angry at the name.

Same with Blimpy's. I AM ANGRY THAT THERE EXISTS A SUB CHAIN CALLED BLIMPYS.

the good kinda glasses withi frames people can barely see cost like four hudhnred so i just went with thet plain sdbasics

i look like a afucking old cop.

On a unrelated note, the boss just cracked open some Fish Table Organic IPAs.  Not bad for hippie beer, of course any beer is awesome at work when it's 3:30.

Heh....I lived in D.C. when the Roy Rogers burger/chicken chain got bought out by Hardee's. That was one of the weirdest changes to restaurants I had ever seen. Roy's all got "Hardee's breakfast" and Hardee's all got "Roy Rogers' chicken". They still tasted like crap.

Though I did see Big John Studd eating lunch inside a Hardee's in Fairfax, VA about a month after we moved there. As a 10 year old who was a big fan of Hulk Hogan's Rock & Wrestling on saturday mornings it was weird as hell. I saw this big dude with long blond hair sitting by the window and was like "he looks familiar". Then he stood up to leave and I gasped and whispered to my mom "that is Big John Studd!". I then had to explain to her in the car who exactly that was while, fittingly, Parents Just Don't Understand was on the radio.


Any beer is awesome at work period

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Edit: This must be an avatar joke. I don't get it.

You must have been one of those foreigners from Manassas.  Everyone knew that the Roy Rogers in Reston beat the crap out of the Fairfax location.

Also, Friendly's in Herndon had awesome fries and milkshakes.

This was actually a Hardee's, not a previously Roy's, I think. I said Fairfax cause I knew it was in the county, but all I know it was in the little shopping center where we turned towards Burke off of Braddock Road. Was like the first corner after you got off the beltway.

I never cared much for Roy's, only went there when there was no other option.

Pre-1983 Roy Roger's roast beef sandwiches were to die for.  I tried one recently and could not believe that they are legally allowed to call that substance in between the bread "roast beef" considering it must be at least 51% chemicals by weight.

Also, the Roy Rogers I went to in the old days was by the Sheraton.  I think the Hardees<->RR you are remembering was the one by South Lakes.

Rax roast beef > all other chains.

I think the chain went totally under years ago though  :cry:

Had my first job there when I was 16!  Hilarious.  Yeah, they've been gone for a while now.  Seriously, though, it was a real life "McDowell's".  Everything looked like Wendy's, but the food was from Arby's.

I came across a Rax waaay out in east bufu ohio a few years ago.  It's like they're only .. wait a sec, internet..
Wikipedia is  :heart: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rax_Restaurants)

Also mentions Burger Chef.. goddamn do I miss them. They had the best, coolest fucking "Happy Meals" as a kid.  Bigass plastic Cars, Boats, etc that your food came in then you could put stickers on to play with.

ed: Holy crap (http://www.thebawdycloister.com/reliquary/2005/10/star_wars_funme.html) I thought I'd imagined those pop-out C3-P0 and R2-D2 toys.. it wasn't something McD's or BK ever would've done and I didn't remember Burger Chef having anything but the boat and cars.

Burger Chef was the shit when I was a kid. I remember fuckall about the food, I bitched for my parents to take me there because of the toys. I barely remember that fucking vampire count guy that was their mascot. Those toys kicked ass.

I also used to love a restaurant called Sambo's when I was a kid. It was like a cleaner version of a Denny's, probably only in the south, because no way could you get away with a joint named SAMBO'S anywhere else. I loved it because I could get a pancake and bacon breakfast at night. Breakfast for dinner rules.

Isn't that the chain referenced in Ghost World?

Edit: Checked, and actually that was the even more unbelievably-named "Coon Chicken Inn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_Chicken_Inn)".

 Look!  The first one is still there!  (http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/indexsam.htm)  It's probably a bit far for a late night breakfast, though.

I remember that Sambos had really great pancakes.

I had a Sambo's tiger when I was a kid. Then they closed it down or changed the name or something. I remember that because it was my first memory of racism. After that I kept thinking of black people as Sambo. So...fuck you, anti-racist racists for making my childhood mind racist.

This is a thread about Fast Food?  Bah, I've been skipping it for so long for no reason!

We have Five Guys Burger's and Fries (http://www.fiveguys.com/) near here.  It's delicious.  They make a wicked double cheeseburger w/ bacon.  In fact, I shall go there tomorrow.

Regarding donuts, there is this place in Boulder, CO. called Tastefully Toasted (http://www.tastefullytoasted.com/).  I thought it was a coffee place.  It's not, it's a custom donuts place.  Which is ridiculous.  We used to go to Qdoba's for some nachos, then swing by that place for a dozen donuts.  That's how you get your freshman 15 to turn into an unhealthy junior 40.

I ignored this thread way too long, too. Thought it was about LotRO :P

I mostly hit up Wendy's for a large #2 combo. Because it's like two blocks from my ghetto pad. And KFC is actually pretty expensive. And BK is yucky, though their new (mcdonalds) fries are not bad. McD's....are they the one with the maple pancake thingies? Those rock. I mean, like a rock in the belly, but they taste good.

For lunch, my 'fast food' is always pizza or a sub from my local pizza shop because they are splendicious.

I too am old and decrepit enough to have dined in a Sambo's. From what I remember it was quite tasty.