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Ordering online "Fast food". Two of the places I order from, D'Angelos and Papa Ginos, let you order online and pick up later. As does Dominos and I believe Five Guys. This is the best way to order this stuff. You get to put your options in exactly as you want, pay for it online and pick it up later.
But the best part?
www.retailmenot.com
They track all the online dicount codes for these places. 3 dollars off a large sub that makes it the same price as a small? yes please!
Chipotle does it too. It really is fantastic; I like it for the convenience, but mostly for the reason I like Value Meal numbers - I don't have to actually verbalize the food I'm ordering to another human being. Don't make me speak my shame! You know I'm just going to shovel that food out of its greasy bag into my mouth while crouching in a dark hidden corner!
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EshTending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles.Portland, ORRegistered Userregular
Anyone have any recommendations for strange self-made fast food combinations? By that I mean things like the infamous "McGangBang" (I really hate that name), which consists of putting a McChicken Sandwich (bun and all) in between two Double Cheeseburgers (buns and all). You have to assemble this yourself, but is it ever tasty.
Also, they put some weird things on the tray mats at Burger Kings in Germany...
Oh, I've had that image bookmarked for about a month now. I just need to find a friend who is willing to go to McDonalds with me and bring back the ingredients for that monstrosity.
Ordering online "Fast food". Two of the places I order from, D'Angelos and Papa Ginos, let you order online and pick up later. As does Dominos and I believe Five Guys. This is the best way to order this stuff. You get to put your options in exactly as you want, pay for it online and pick it up later.
But the best part?
www.retailmenot.com
They track all the online dicount codes for these places. 3 dollars off a large sub that makes it the same price as a small? yes please!
When I lived in Boise, ID, they used it as a test market for Kentucky Fried Chicken delivery. That was about 12-13 years ago.
I've heard rumors of Wendy's that deliver in Washington, D.C.. Can anyone verify this?
Corner Bistro makes a great burger, as do BareBurger and Island Burger and Five Napkin Burger, and of course for chains: Shake Shack! I've yet to try the le parker meridian burger or the peter luger burger. those are next on my list. After that.. NY style Pizza.
Skip the bold. That place is the WORST kind of tourist trap. Everyone that goes there is all "Wink wink, I'm in the know, like a REAL New Yorker".
The Burger itself was pretty meh. I'd rather go to Jackson Hole and hate myself.
hate yourself? I've never been, whys that?
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
I've heard rumors of Wendy's that deliver in Washington, D.C.. Can anyone verify this?
In NYC, McDonalds delivered, but they had a crazy high minimum order price, like $100.
Which, at that point, that's just called "catering."
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AbsalonLands of Always WinterRegistered Userregular
Today at work, I was feeling weak, tired and somehow ravenous. I was slightly hungover and desperate for calories.
So at lunch I went to Subway, and ordered a foot-long Italian BMT with BBQ dressing, olives, onions and cucumber slices.
Then everything turned red for a while. When I came to, the BMT was gone and I didn't feel anything but contentment for the rest of the day. I don't think bread has ever been justified harder in history.
Today at work, I was feeling weak, tired and somehow ravenous. I was slightly hungover and desperate for calories.
So at lunch I went to Subway, and ordered a foot-long Italian BMT with BBQ dressing, olives, onions and cucumber slices.
Then everything turned red for a while. When I came to, the BMT was gone and I didn't feel anything but contentment for the rest of the day. I don't think bread has ever been justified harder in history.
This used to happen to me with bags of Salt & Vinegar chips. I'd buy a large bag, meaning to ration it out over the week. Next thing you know I wake up, my hand is inside the empty bag, covered in grease and salt, and I'm sweating vinegar.
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AbsalonLands of Always WinterRegistered Userregular
Today at work, I was feeling weak, tired and somehow ravenous. I was slightly hungover and desperate for calories.
So at lunch I went to Subway, and ordered a foot-long Italian BMT with BBQ dressing, olives, onions and cucumber slices.
Then everything turned red for a while. When I came to, the BMT was gone and I didn't feel anything but contentment for the rest of the day. I don't think bread has ever been justified harder in history.
This used to happen to me with bags of Salt & Vinegar chips. I'd buy a large bag, meaning to ration it out over the week. Next thing you know I wake up, my hand is inside the empty bag, covered in grease and salt, and I'm sweating vinegar.
Buying Salt n' Vin snacks is like buying pure defeat.
It's like when you eat pizza or lasagna you've made yourself - somehow your body thinks it is sooo damn good it makes itself ignore how full you are. Like there is something the glands have in store for orgy-mode. It knows you've had more than enough but something that tasty just needs to be consumed in as large a quantity as is structurally possible.
I get significantly better quality food, and a better food mass to dollars ratio, at any local Chinese takeout place than any chain fast food.
That said.
Checkers is pretty decent. Their burgers are mediocre just like every other chain but the fries are excellent and the milkshakes are pretty good too. Usually I'll just get those two and skip the burger. The "drive-through-only" aesthetic appealed to me until I started riding a motorcycle and now it's just a pain in the ass.
Strange, I find Rally's(Checkers Eastern/Southern half) to have good burgers. FAR better than anything from McDonalds or Burger King at least. As for the drive-through, you know you could have just parked and ate there right? Don't they have like little tables near the building? Plus the walk up windows.
I don't understand you NYC guys talking about chains, I've only been there once and exclusivly ate off street carts of hot dogs and gyros, and things with forgin sounding names. Sure I almost died, but it was a great week.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
Oh man, back in my freshman year of college I used to get boneless wings from this wing chain (Wings Over <city name>, mine was Ithaca); at the time they were fantastic. Really tender white meat with a good amount of surface area and light breading, great sauce, and low-rent frozen crinkly fries that somehow complimented the wings (or maybe it was just the fact that I was high most of the time when I ate them). A year later, either that branch or the whole franchies had been bought and rebranded as just "Wings," I forget if they were still good.
My senior year and now, they're back to being "Wings Over..." And the boneless wings just suck. The meat is all dry and twisted, like the chicken was a hunchback or something. You bite into it and it's all stringy. So much disappointment. I even tried ordering them again a few months ago after a 3 year hiatus, hoping they'd switched back, but no, still awful.
Gotta say, I avoided Taco Bell my entire life but started eating there about six months ago. The Beefy Melt Burrito was my weapon of choice, with baja sauce and crunchy red strips added to the mix. Twas quite good. And despite how most fast food treats me the next day, Taco Bell, with it's storied reputation for hella nasty shits, never has affected me that way. Maybe it's the location?
Sonic, at least, around where I am, are all universally bad. There was a time when I would go there, but everything started getting worse and worse until one day I seriously got ill. Then I was done. We had a What-A-Burger right next door to it for a bit, but they went under. Guess they don't have much of a chance here in FL. Not enough room in the market, I suppose. Myself, I was never impressed with it. Seemed old and dry. The only thing going for it was the straight up mass of everything you ordered.
Burger King, for whatever reason, always manages to serve me a burger with a big ol' piece of gristle in it. Every. Time. I don't like them much these days. Plus, I always feel like I'm dying two hours after the fact.
With McDonald's, I maintain a strictly breakfast only rule. Has something to do with how their burgers all taste freezer burned every time I eat there. They usually over pepper the meat to cover it up, but it does a poor job.
Checker's is good going in, awful coming out. Double for Krystal. Plus, you always get the sense that the people working there are just one insult away from burning the place down.
Chik-Fil-A I love, but I can no longer eat for the aforementioned support of Anti-Gay Marriage groups. Gotta take a stand on principle, right?
Pollo Tropical is another example of goddamn delicious when you're eating it, but then the polar opposite of that 8-12 hours later. Good Mac and Cheese, good plantains, good pulled pork guava bbq sandwiches. But man you pay for it later.
Steak and Shake is something of a mixed bag. On the one hand, pretty damn good shakes. But they better be, what with being part of the namesake and all. The burgers are sometimes divine, sometimes a bucket o' grease. Depends heavily on the line cook, I guess. The fries are those tiny little shit fries that you need a fork to eat that are almost always overcooked.
Someone mentioned Backyard Burger earlier. My experience is it's tasty as hell, reasonably priced, but there aren't enough near by.
Five Guys pales in comparison to Red Robin, but those places are rare too, and more like a restaurant than a fast food place. Still, if there's a Red Robin near by, do yourself a favor and go there. Trust me.
I like red robin but the service for fries refills is just terrible, at least in the only location I've been to a few times (it's not in my city.) It really bothered me.
Given that this thread spawned from the tips thread, I'll point out: the only time I've ever declined to tip, and also been in a group that declined to tip, was at red robin. The place was nearly empty, and yet we only get got an offer for a fries refill long after we were done eating.
And then after not tipping, one of us (not me, thank goodness) had forgotten our coat, and had to walk back in and get it. Awkward.
I like red robin but the service for fries refills is just terrible, at least in the only location I've been to a few times (it's not in my city.) It really bothered me.
Given that this thread spawned from the tips thread, I'll point out: the only time I've ever declined to tip, and also been in a group that declined to tip, was at red robin. The place was nearly empty, and yet we only get got an offer for a fries refill long after we were done eating.
And then after not tipping, one of us (not me, thank goodness) had forgotten our coat, and had to walk back in and get it. Awkward.
I found this myself at the Red Robin near me. Awesome burgers, but they advertise free refills on fries and use that to justify pretty paltry portion sizes for them...and then never come around to get you more fries.
They probably have a standing directive to the servers to not ask customers about it. You just have to keep on top of them and hold them to their word. Last time I was there I didn't need a refill on fries anyway, but that was because they offer free refills on their soft-serve root beer floats, and I had one too many.
Red Robin hamburgers are pretty terrible here, Five Guys are uniformly better.
But what the internet has taught me is apparently Five Guys not in the Northern Virginia area may be horrible.
Come here, we will get some together. With bacon.
Another thing... people keep referring to them as doubles? Are they on the menu that way at Five Guys around you?
Every one I have seen a Hamburger is two patties and a Little Hamburger is one patty.
Ahhh, for us it was that the wait-staff came around once maybe 10 minutes in to ask if we wanted more drinks, then just didn't come around at all till about 5 minutes after we were fed up and wanted the cheque. Normally it's, as you say, a case where you just have to ask them, but that one experience was just an egregious lack of service.
Maybe the server just forgot about us.
Erik
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EshTending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles.Portland, ORRegistered Userregular
Ahhh, for us it was that the wait-staff came around once maybe 10 minutes in to ask if we wanted more drinks, then just didn't come around at all till about 5 minutes after we were fed up and wanted the cheque. Normally it's, as you say, a case where you just have to ask them, but that one experience was just an egregious lack of service.
Maybe the server just forgot about us.
So, the floor was a ghost town of servers? You couldn't get anyone's attention at all? I would've gotten the attention of another server and asked her/him to get mine if I needed something and they hadn't been around in a bit. Maybe something happened? No reason to stiff them. But, that's a whole other thread.
I've only been to a Red Robin once though, and I don't even remember what the place looked like inside or how the food was.
Nah, other than the drinks / cheque + fries offer, the person just chatted with some other staff in the place the entire time. We basically had about half the entire restaurant to ourselves.
I agree that for waiting, it's best to be available but unobtrusive.
So, the floor was a ghost town of servers? You couldn't get anyone's attention at all?
We only saw two staff out front the entire time we were there. It was pretty dead. This was in Edmonton, AB.
Corner Bistro makes a great burger, as do BareBurger and Island Burger and Five Napkin Burger, and of course for chains: Shake Shack! I've yet to try the le parker meridian burger or the peter luger burger. those are next on my list. After that.. NY style Pizza.
Skip the bold. That place is the WORST kind of tourist trap. Everyone that goes there is all "Wink wink, I'm in the know, like a REAL New Yorker".
The Burger itself was pretty meh. I'd rather go to Jackson Hole and hate myself.
burger joint's solid and everyone that's not a new yorker is wowed by it.
when i've been there it's a shorter line than shake shack anyhow
Wendy's is one of those hit-or-miss places for me. Certain locations are super good, and definitely better than McDonalds/Burger King. Usually great at getting orders right, and I eat far too frequently those locations. Others are worse than Burger King (but never worse than McDonalds) and usually mess up orders so badly I just stop bothering.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
I am actually mad at their spicy chicken selections. They are cheaper than the non-spicy(or were when I last went), but I have bland taste and prefer the regular.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
I would walk barefoot through Hell to get to an In 'n Out. But there aren't any in Alaska : (
Alright, where in Alaska? Because Arctic Roadrunner in Anchorage has some of the best burgers I've ever eaten, and I don't know why you'd ever want an In 'n Out if you had access to it.
I have never tried Arctic Roadrunner. I'll have to stop by there someday soon.
The nearest Whataburger is...40 or so miles away, past Norcross, from where I live.
Nonetheless, next time I'm in that area, I want to try it out. I've heard nothing but praise about the place. Need to find out what the fuss is about.
I don't want to oversell the place. It's just good and fresh, the latter being their big thing.
Unless you're there for breakfast, your best bet is ordering a double whataburger with cheese, a side of onion rings or fries with gravy, and a chocolate shake.
Considering that's about 2200 calories, you might skip the next few meals after that. And jesus are their shakes thick. If you are there for breakfast, the absolute best thing is the honey butter chicken biscuit.
I ended up visiting a friend in Nocross who moved here from Seattle (and was not impressed by Whataburger).
Turned out it wasn't even there anyway. It's going to be there. At some point in the future. Whatever.
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FaranguI am a beardy manWith a beardy planRegistered Userregular
I'm of the opinion that food carts are usually the best option when it comes to fast food. I still have fond memories of the Superdog food cart from my college days - jumbo hot dog with mozarella, bacon, crumbled potato chips on top and ketchup/mustard with a hint of pineapple juice, toasted - Oh God it was heaven.
I'm sad because where I live currently I don't know of any exceptional burger chains aside from Fuddruckers, which as mentioned earlier, is expensive. On the days I eat out for lunch I usually go to qdoba, even though I pass by a chipotle to do so. Better fajita veggies, and I usually get a free drink from them for working in the area.
Krystal - yes, it's only in the South. I always tell them no mustard. Good stuff. Mix it up, get some chicken ones and cheese ones and doubles and all that.
Zaxby's - they try to pretend like they aren't fast food and a lot of people believe it.
Chipotle - I mainly like them because they make a half-assed attempt at free-range and local and stuff. But Moe's is better.
Panera - I think there is collective insanity going on. Everyone tells me to eat there, they are always crowded, and I've been to multiple ones, but they are consistently horrible. Just like significantly, noticeably, outstandingly gross and phony and horrible. I really don't get it.
Moe's is crazy expensive. Like, I looked at their menu and a taco was going for something like 3-4 dollars. Chipotle's gives you 3 tacos for 6 dollars and change. Maybe if Moe's had like, crazy bigass tacos, it'd make sense. But they aren't that big.
I've tried Chipotle many times, and I just don't like it. They put way too much cilantro in everything and I don't really care for the stuff. One day I was needing me some Mexican food for lunch, so I chanced this place called Taco Fresco. Oh god so good and inexpensive. After looking at their website, it's just an Illinois thing. and India. Illinois and India.
I haven't had a fast food burger in a while, but I used to go to America's Dog and their burgers were pretty good. but fuck, I guess that's a Chicago thing too.
I like Wendy's... sort of. Their chicken sandwiches are pretty good. There's a Wendy's near my office, and it's like stepping into a bad neighborhood. I've been in there a couple times, and it's always fucking trashed. I felt like I was going to get dysentery eating there.
I think the fast food place I miss the most is Long John Silver's. I rarely run into one that's convenient. Which is probably good, because although their chicken is awesome, it's probably beyond terrible for you.
Who goes to a Long John Silver's and gets chicken? You have to get a metric ton of battered fish and hushpuppies and eat them until you can feel the grease congealing inside you.
Am I the only one, by the way, who eats healthy at home but will do soulcrushingly unhealthy things when I do eat out (12 Krystals, 8 pieces of fish and as many hush puppies, etc)?
Krystal - yes, it's only in the South. I always tell them no mustard. Good stuff. Mix it up, get some chicken ones and cheese ones and doubles and all that.
Zaxby's - they try to pretend like they aren't fast food and a lot of people believe it.
Chipotle - I mainly like them because they make a half-assed attempt at free-range and local and stuff. But Moe's is better.
Panera - I think there is collective insanity going on. Everyone tells me to eat there, they are always crowded, and I've been to multiple ones, but they are consistently horrible. Just like significantly, noticeably, outstandingly gross and phony and horrible. I really don't get it.
The one time I ate at Moe's the burrito was mostly dried out, shitty bland rice. Like two pieces of chicken in the whole thing. So disappointed.
Chipotle on the other hand, so long as you get the barbacoa, is deliciosity incarnate. My thing is the barbacoa with tomatilla salsa, hold the veggies, extra meat. I loves it, but it's $8 goddamn dollars by the time I'm through. But it does feed me for like three days, so that's always good.
I agree completely with your assessment of Panera. The only somewhat decent thing I've ever eaten there was a bagel, and even it was on the dry side of things. Now that I think about it, that's the problem--all their bread is too hard/dry, no matter how fresh it is. Cuts my mouth pretty frequently.
yeah, it's almost like there are people out there that love crusty somewhat chewy bread. They do white bread and this tomato bread thingy, aside from thick crusts they tend to be quite soft and moist.
Panera - I think there is collective insanity going on. Everyone tells me to eat there, they are always crowded, and I've been to multiple ones, but they are consistently horrible. Just like significantly, noticeably, outstandingly gross and phony and horrible. I really don't get it.
yea, every time I have been there it sucked. Really bad bread that seemed stale and a bland sandwich.
I just wanted to say that Five Guys is the best again. We had Kim Kardashian at ours a few weeks ago. I guess her boyfriends dad owns it. Every once in a while his pimped out Escalade is out there.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
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Chipotle does it too. It really is fantastic; I like it for the convenience, but mostly for the reason I like Value Meal numbers - I don't have to actually verbalize the food I'm ordering to another human being. Don't make me speak my shame! You know I'm just going to shovel that food out of its greasy bag into my mouth while crouching in a dark hidden corner!
Oh, I've had that image bookmarked for about a month now. I just need to find a friend who is willing to go to McDonalds with me and bring back the ingredients for that monstrosity.
Have you seen this?
When I lived in Boise, ID, they used it as a test market for Kentucky Fried Chicken delivery. That was about 12-13 years ago.
I've heard rumors of Wendy's that deliver in Washington, D.C.. Can anyone verify this?
hate yourself? I've never been, whys that?
In NYC, McDonalds delivered, but they had a crazy high minimum order price, like $100.
Which, at that point, that's just called "catering."
So at lunch I went to Subway, and ordered a foot-long Italian BMT with BBQ dressing, olives, onions and cucumber slices.
Then everything turned red for a while. When I came to, the BMT was gone and I didn't feel anything but contentment for the rest of the day. I don't think bread has ever been justified harder in history.
I have never attempted ordering Wendy's in DC. I mean, it's just something that hasn't crossed my mind yet.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
This used to happen to me with bags of Salt & Vinegar chips. I'd buy a large bag, meaning to ration it out over the week. Next thing you know I wake up, my hand is inside the empty bag, covered in grease and salt, and I'm sweating vinegar.
Buying Salt n' Vin snacks is like buying pure defeat.
It's like when you eat pizza or lasagna you've made yourself - somehow your body thinks it is sooo damn good it makes itself ignore how full you are. Like there is something the glands have in store for orgy-mode. It knows you've had more than enough but something that tasty just needs to be consumed in as large a quantity as is structurally possible.
Strange, I find Rally's(Checkers Eastern/Southern half) to have good burgers. FAR better than anything from McDonalds or Burger King at least. As for the drive-through, you know you could have just parked and ate there right? Don't they have like little tables near the building? Plus the walk up windows.
My senior year and now, they're back to being "Wings Over..." And the boneless wings just suck. The meat is all dry and twisted, like the chicken was a hunchback or something. You bite into it and it's all stringy. So much disappointment. I even tried ordering them again a few months ago after a 3 year hiatus, hoping they'd switched back, but no, still awful.
Sonic, at least, around where I am, are all universally bad. There was a time when I would go there, but everything started getting worse and worse until one day I seriously got ill. Then I was done. We had a What-A-Burger right next door to it for a bit, but they went under. Guess they don't have much of a chance here in FL. Not enough room in the market, I suppose. Myself, I was never impressed with it. Seemed old and dry. The only thing going for it was the straight up mass of everything you ordered.
Burger King, for whatever reason, always manages to serve me a burger with a big ol' piece of gristle in it. Every. Time. I don't like them much these days. Plus, I always feel like I'm dying two hours after the fact.
With McDonald's, I maintain a strictly breakfast only rule. Has something to do with how their burgers all taste freezer burned every time I eat there. They usually over pepper the meat to cover it up, but it does a poor job.
Checker's is good going in, awful coming out. Double for Krystal. Plus, you always get the sense that the people working there are just one insult away from burning the place down.
Chik-Fil-A I love, but I can no longer eat for the aforementioned support of Anti-Gay Marriage groups. Gotta take a stand on principle, right?
Pollo Tropical is another example of goddamn delicious when you're eating it, but then the polar opposite of that 8-12 hours later. Good Mac and Cheese, good plantains, good pulled pork guava bbq sandwiches. But man you pay for it later.
Steak and Shake is something of a mixed bag. On the one hand, pretty damn good shakes. But they better be, what with being part of the namesake and all. The burgers are sometimes divine, sometimes a bucket o' grease. Depends heavily on the line cook, I guess. The fries are those tiny little shit fries that you need a fork to eat that are almost always overcooked.
Someone mentioned Backyard Burger earlier. My experience is it's tasty as hell, reasonably priced, but there aren't enough near by.
Five Guys pales in comparison to Red Robin, but those places are rare too, and more like a restaurant than a fast food place. Still, if there's a Red Robin near by, do yourself a favor and go there. Trust me.
Given that this thread spawned from the tips thread, I'll point out: the only time I've ever declined to tip, and also been in a group that declined to tip, was at red robin. The place was nearly empty, and yet we only get got an offer for a fries refill long after we were done eating.
And then after not tipping, one of us (not me, thank goodness) had forgotten our coat, and had to walk back in and get it. Awkward.
I found this myself at the Red Robin near me. Awesome burgers, but they advertise free refills on fries and use that to justify pretty paltry portion sizes for them...and then never come around to get you more fries.
They probably have a standing directive to the servers to not ask customers about it. You just have to keep on top of them and hold them to their word. Last time I was there I didn't need a refill on fries anyway, but that was because they offer free refills on their soft-serve root beer floats, and I had one too many.
But what the internet has taught me is apparently Five Guys not in the Northern Virginia area may be horrible.
Come here, we will get some together. With bacon.
Another thing... people keep referring to them as doubles? Are they on the menu that way at Five Guys around you?
Every one I have seen a Hamburger is two patties and a Little Hamburger is one patty.
Maybe the server just forgot about us.
So, the floor was a ghost town of servers? You couldn't get anyone's attention at all? I would've gotten the attention of another server and asked her/him to get mine if I needed something and they hadn't been around in a bit. Maybe something happened? No reason to stiff them. But, that's a whole other thread.
I've only been to a Red Robin once though, and I don't even remember what the place looked like inside or how the food was.
I agree that for waiting, it's best to be available but unobtrusive.
We only saw two staff out front the entire time we were there. It was pretty dead. This was in Edmonton, AB.
burger joint's solid and everyone that's not a new yorker is wowed by it.
when i've been there it's a shorter line than shake shack anyhow
The name pleases me
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
because they don't cut corners hurr
servers can't be bothered to get up for whatever reason
I have never tried Arctic Roadrunner. I'll have to stop by there someday soon.
You mess with the dolphin, you get the nose.
I ended up visiting a friend in Nocross who moved here from Seattle (and was not impressed by Whataburger).
Turned out it wasn't even there anyway. It's going to be there. At some point in the future. Whatever.
I'm sad because where I live currently I don't know of any exceptional burger chains aside from Fuddruckers, which as mentioned earlier, is expensive. On the days I eat out for lunch I usually go to qdoba, even though I pass by a chipotle to do so. Better fajita veggies, and I usually get a free drink from them for working in the area.
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Zaxby's - they try to pretend like they aren't fast food and a lot of people believe it.
Chipotle - I mainly like them because they make a half-assed attempt at free-range and local and stuff. But Moe's is better.
Panera - I think there is collective insanity going on. Everyone tells me to eat there, they are always crowded, and I've been to multiple ones, but they are consistently horrible. Just like significantly, noticeably, outstandingly gross and phony and horrible. I really don't get it.
I haven't had a fast food burger in a while, but I used to go to America's Dog and their burgers were pretty good. but fuck, I guess that's a Chicago thing too.
I like Wendy's... sort of. Their chicken sandwiches are pretty good. There's a Wendy's near my office, and it's like stepping into a bad neighborhood. I've been in there a couple times, and it's always fucking trashed. I felt like I was going to get dysentery eating there.
I think the fast food place I miss the most is Long John Silver's. I rarely run into one that's convenient. Which is probably good, because although their chicken is awesome, it's probably beyond terrible for you.
Am I the only one, by the way, who eats healthy at home but will do soulcrushingly unhealthy things when I do eat out (12 Krystals, 8 pieces of fish and as many hush puppies, etc)?
I've come around to liking fish more recently though.
The one time I ate at Moe's the burrito was mostly dried out, shitty bland rice. Like two pieces of chicken in the whole thing. So disappointed.
Chipotle on the other hand, so long as you get the barbacoa, is deliciosity incarnate. My thing is the barbacoa with tomatilla salsa, hold the veggies, extra meat. I loves it, but it's $8 goddamn dollars by the time I'm through. But it does feed me for like three days, so that's always good.
I agree completely with your assessment of Panera. The only somewhat decent thing I've ever eaten there was a bagel, and even it was on the dry side of things. Now that I think about it, that's the problem--all their bread is too hard/dry, no matter how fresh it is. Cuts my mouth pretty frequently.
I think y'all bitches be crazy.
yea, every time I have been there it sucked. Really bad bread that seemed stale and a bland sandwich.
I just wanted to say that Five Guys is the best again. We had Kim Kardashian at ours a few weeks ago. I guess her boyfriends dad owns it. Every once in a while his pimped out Escalade is out there.
but they're listening to every word I say