Your favorite fast food chain (including snacks)

ClemofNazareth wrote: The Truth wrote:   I live in a small Kansas town, we don't have many other choices.  Taco Bueno is good when I can get it. I went through high school in a small Kansas town (Derby) and we mostly ate at Sonic, Taco Bell or Pizza Hut (back when it took a half-hour to cook one of their pizzas).  Went back there recently and all three of the original stores are gone. Today I prefer Red Robin.

I'm thirty miles away from there. Winfield, which has even less choices than Derby. Derby does have Casa Martinez, one of my favorite Mexcian restaurants though. You ever eat there?

Dean wrote: stonebeard wrote: Dean wrote: ^ I haven't found any fast-food outlet that can make a passable cup of tea. That's what happens when you set tea up on a pedestal. I like good things as much as any somewhat middle-class white dude, but you Brits have an intense cult of tea there. I'm not surprised you're not satisfied with anything but the best brewed tea. Give me a bag of Twinings and hot water and I'll spare the complaining, myself.  Kinda the same with everyone on the Internet bitching about Starbucks and burnt coffee. I have a French press, a drip coffee system, and all that, and yet I still like Starbucks and other coffee outlets. But nope, everybody's got to have an ax to grind about some scapegoat or other. A bucket of builders tea stewed for several days and served in an empty paint can would suffice to be honest and still be better than what passes for tea at most fast-food outlets. As for we Brits, we do not have a cult of tea, intense or otherwise - 99% of us drink regular tea (PG-Tips or Typhoo or some such supermarket brand) in a regular cup and would neither know nor care whether it's Assam or Darjeeling, though I will say that Twinnings is mainly consumed by the psuedo-middle classes and foreigners. Most Brits when dining out generally drink coffee, then how hard is it to screw-up making a cup of coffee?   I've never noticed that Starbucks burns the beans, I have noticed Costa does but that's personal preference surely - a rich roast in my estimation is not carbonised, but if you're happy to pay more for a cup of coffee in Starbucks than you'd pay for a bottle of beer then I'm not going to complain.   But don't let me stand in the way of a good old fashioned internet rant about four-fifths of f*ck-all.

First, McDonalds?

I..

I don't even.
Not even drunk can I eat that crap (this is honestly true)
Ugh I feel sick thinking about it.

I used to be bad with that stuff but I barely get fast food anymore, and when I do it's always Chipotle.

Sure it's not good for you but compared to Wendy's and Taco Bell...and you get more than Subway.
Which are the other ones I do like, though again I havn't had any of those in a long while.


Edited by JJLehto - June 16 2012 at 18:52

Equality 7-2521 wrote: stonebeard wrote: Dean wrote: ^ I haven't found any fast-food outlet that can make a passable cup of tea. That's what happens when you set tea up on a pedestal. I like good things as much as any somewhat middle-class white dude, but you Brits have an intense cult of tea there. I'm not surprised you're not satisfied with anything but the best brewed tea. Give me a bag of Twinings and hot water and I'll spare the complaining, myself.  Kinda the same with everyone on the Internet bitching about Starbucks and burnt coffee. I have a French press, a drip coffee system, and all that, and yet I still like Starbucks and other coffee outlets. But nope, everybody's got to have an ax to grind about some scapegoat or other. Have you ever looked at a tea bag that most fast food places or a diner will give you? Try it and let me know if you can see any leaves in there. It's essentially a bunch of a dust that will color the water and give people an excuse to not feel bad about drinking hot milk with four tablespoons of sugar.

Pizza Huts but I prefer independent restaurants  

Chik-fil-A. They're never open on Sundays.

I like Papa Gino's the best. It's kind of regional.

Then Subway,

I like Wendy's too

It's hard with my diet. Anything and everythings at least 600 calories.

When I order a pizza I usually end up consuming at least 1000 calories. I can't help it.

A sub at Subway is 900 Calories

At wendy's a Ultimate Chicken Grill is 340-something, plus fries, is something near 600.

^ Oh, yeah, turns out we have a couple of A&W's here in Reno. Never been there, though.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 27 2012 at 12:15

crimhead wrote: Chik-fil-A. They're never open on Sundays.

Edited by geneyesontle - June 27 2012 at 13:56

I have two confessions to make.
1. I held a fast food job for a few months when I was in college.  It was a chain that was started as a healthier alternative to Wendy's (multi-grain buns, etc.).  Wendy's started matching their menu somewhat by offering similar healthier alternatives until D'lites went out of business.  I had moved on to my first drafting job by then.
2. Used to eat a Taco Bell a bit when I was in college, but preferred Del Taco (better tacos and nachos).   With finding good taquerias in the area I had quit going to both.  I think Del is out of business.  On my last job there were two Taco Bells about equidistant from the office, one up North Druid Hills Road and the other up Bruford (actually Buford) Highway (the good taquerias are a few miles further up).  I quit after getting a few bad tasting taco salad shells and chips at each place.  It was convenient but...