WHO IS THE BEST FAST FOOD JOINT?

[THE FUCKING HORN DOGG]

I SAY IT IS TACO BELL BECAUSE THEY ARE SO CHEAP, AND IF YOU DON'T GET FULL YOU CAN SPEND ANOTHER 85 CENTS AND GET A TACO. MCDONALDS IS BY FAR THE WORST, BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST PLAIN NASTY.

[Satan]

Three things:

1) This belongs in MPSIMS forum.
2) Glad you know where the Caps Lock key is. Now try to not use it ever again.
3) The name, the SCREAMING and the wording of your post smell like a troll.

Now then, to respond to the question you so eloquently asked:

WENDY'S has the best food overall, IMHO. The spicy chicken sandwich is excellent. I also like their breadsticks at $0.50 a pop.

MCDONALDS offers wonderful french fries.

WHITE CASTLE is a taste I acquired and love, though I don't have one near me at this time.

ARBY'S is the place for roast beef. A Big Montana with that nuclear cheese sauce. Yum.

BURGER KING is enjoyable for burgers. The Whopper kills any other fast food dead cow. And their big-ass chicken sandwhich is also tasty.

HARDEES is average for everything, excels at nothing, and makes me yawn.

TACO BELL is bland. For just a couple bucks more, get some real Mexican cuisine.

PIZZA HUT, DOMINOS and any other fast food pizza joint are abominations unto God, serving "pizza" with a taste and consistance of limp cock. I'll pass.

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[UncleBeer]

Oh shit, here we go again. Which by the way is exactly what happens after eating at Taco Bell.

Turn off the caps, change your screen name, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Correct-a-mundo Satan. This should be in the MPSIMS.

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[Doobieous]

Taco bell? Please, get some real mexican food. Thats an abomination and insult to real mexican cooking. Another reason to love California, theres a taqueria in almost every town, and the food is as cheap or even cheaper than Taco Bell. A local roadside taqueria serves jumbo burritos for just $5.00 Can't even finish the whole thing in one sitting. It's lunch and dinner.

For other stuff:

Mac Donalds has the best fries.

Burger King has good burgers and their whopper is cheap and filling

For Chinese, a few restaurants here have lunch buffets with the food already set out so it's sort of like fast food.

KFC is good (i dont care, I like it)

I also like fast food pizza (Round table garden veggie pizza is good). But nothing beats authentic stuff. Never had NYC style pizza but every big city claims their pizza is the best (Chicago does the same). I like the tradidtional simple pizzas - simple rounds of pizza dough, with a simple tomato sauce, slices of mozzarella, a few basil leaves or sun dried tomatoes .


Oh i noticed my local grocery store was selling the packaged frozen White Castle burgers

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[Kat]

My choices:

Taco Bell: Sometimes I go for pseudo-Mexican food.

McDonald's: The best fries. QPC is their best burger and there's nothing like the double cheese for that grease craving.

BK: I hate their fries. Had the "great new fries" once and they were crunchy for God's sake. Plus the one by me has atrocious service and never gets the order right.

Wendy's: First choice. It's not much farther from me than BK, better prices, better food, better service. Only problem is a guy I worked with in HS works there.

Hardee's: Mushroom swiss burger. That's about it.

Arby's: That does not taste like roast beef to me. I like real roast beef. Their chicken sandwiches are decent.

Pizza Hut, Dominoes, et al: If it's remotely related to pizza, I'll eat it. Not Little Caesar's, though, unless I'm near starvation.

[Czarcasm]

Contestant #3, do you have any objections to kicking this asshole off the board, or are you going to bitch about this one too?

[Road Rash]

Okay FHD, here is 2 or 3 for you. For cheap greasy mexican food there's Taco Cabana. I do sometimes do Taco Bell because it's cheap. But in Texas, like California, you can go to a cheap taqueria and get better food. For burger joints there's Whataburger. A little better than MacDonalds or burger king, almost as cheap. There are better local burger places. I give credit for unlimited self-serv ketchup.

[Doobieous]

I forgot to add: For simple good burgers, everyone here loves "In And Out Burgers" Not a big menu but they use fresh ingredients and actually grill their burgers. Pretty good but i would have to drive 30 minutes to get there.

[Mojo]

serving "pizza" with a taste and consistance of limp cock.

Hey Satan, how do you know what......awww, forget it. I know its the BBQ pit but I'll leave this one alone

[Sealemon88]

I love Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich; and I think Wendy's fries are the best, next to those curly fries from Arby's.

I love that spicy chicken at Popeye's; and their potatoes and cajun gravy....mmmmm mmmm.

I reserve Taco Bell for those days when I need to atone for something. Pancho's Mexican Buffet is great for this also (Def. of a Pancho's experience: when you find yourself sitting on the toilet with a bucket in your hands because you don't know what end you're gonna be using first. )

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You say "cheesy" like that's a BAD thing.

[Polycarp]

C'mon, guys, a troll does an OP in the pit so you can flame him on site instead of in a new thread, and you're bitching? Some people you just can't please!

Me, I think it depends far more on the individual "store" than people usually give credit. I've had excellent coffee at McDonald's. I've also had a substance they claimed was coffee, but was the sort of thing that gives toxic sludge its good name.

A Hardee's in Northern Virginia appears to be the Confederacy's last stand. We had New York tags then, and the f**d (In this case, the word deserves censoring!) was intended to give cardiac arrest to the pre-schooler in the car, much less the rest of us.

One can get good fast-food pizza, but unless starvation intervenes, it is not advised to conduct a thorough survey for it; it's very rare.

I would have to say Long John Silvers.The one by me just went out of business ,but their chicken planksgood you'll walk the plank!) were yummy,especially the million tiny coating balls . There used to be a place called Beef Corrall.They had the Best cheeseburgers....

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[SkeptiJess]

In So. CA, In & Out burgers are the best. And the fries are made from real potatoes and the shakes from real ice cream -- wonderful.

In No. CA, I like Carls Jr. The fries there are merely average, though.

Everywhere else -- Wendys. Good burgers, but lousy fries. MCDonalds CAN make fries. Sometimes, if I have a little extra time and the two shops are close enough, I'll drive through and get a Wendys burger and then drive through McD's for the fries. Still, I'd rather skip the fries altogether than eat a McD's burger.

My husband is not a huge fast food person. He likes what he calls "point-point" places. They have them all over San Diego -- small cafeteria-style Asian restaurants where you point to what you what @ $.99 an entree. Most of these don't even have real names -- just neon signs out front that say "$.99 Chinese!"

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[Sealemon88]

Hey orangecakes...remember when Long John Silver's sold extra batter with the entree? Now THAT'S good eatin'.

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You say "cheesy" like that's a BAD thing.

[NicePete]

Big Kahuna Burger

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[Bluepony]

Yeah, I miss our Long John Silver's. It went out of business too. They had some good food and those crumbly things were good to snack on. My arteries, probably, breathed a sigh of relief when that place closed down.

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[Diane]

Without question - Edos Japan.

The chicken rice bowl with LOTS of hot pepper sauce. My favorite! I just ran to the food court at the mall and am eating one this very moment.

My mouth is burning, but damn it is good!

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Coffee, chocolate, men . . . Some things are just better rich.

[Road Rash]

posted 09-23-1999 12:57 PM
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CoolDude: Where in Texas do you live?

Houston.

I was in So. California last year. My friend who lives there talked about In and Out. How the fries are drained of their grease and the shakes are so good. The fries were the driest I have ever had and the shakes were not impressive. Every where else we went was good, but not fast food. There was a great pizza place in Long Beach.

[Road Rash]

posted 09-23-1999 12:57 PM
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CoolDude: Where in Texas do you live?

Houston.

I was in So. California last year. My friend who lives there talked about In and Out. How the fries are drained of their grease and the shakes are so good. The fries were the driest I have ever had and the shakes were not impressive. Every where else we went was good, but not fast food. There was a great pizza place in Long Beach.

[HeadlessCow]

During marching band season in High school my friend and I would always go out to Taco Bell. Our stomachs would hurt marching at halftime but we always went. It was a strange kind of addiction I guess.

[Czarcasm]

I'm surprised no-one has brought up Jack-In-The-Box. They used to make the greatest steak tartar burger!

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[Markxxx]

Taco Bell is the best

Burger King is best for burgers

KFC is best for Chicken
Popeyes is good but too high priced

Worst:
MacDonald's
Browns Chicken

[Byzantine]

How often do you people eat at these places to have a preference? I don't think I could call ANY of those places good! I hate to be the only one to post this here (no I don't but I felt compelled to say that) but fast food is fast but it isn't FOOD! That's like calling Rap music!

IMHO (okay, that right there should cut down on the flames... yeah, right!) I've never had a burger any place that was as good as the one I make myself. Same for fries (both deep fried and oven baked) and chicken and ..... (she goes on and on).

I'm not being a wanker or a troll here (lie) but I only eat at fast food places in the most dire of circumstances. I've never eaten at one place enough to really be able to compare it to others. Don't you folks ever pack a lunch? And even though these places are chains isn't there a huge difference between the individual restaurants? Just because the fries are good one place does that guarantee that they are the same everywhere else?

So, if you had a choice between home-made and fast food, which would you pick?

Oh and slythe shared: I'm surprised no-one has brought up Jack-In-The-Box.
I have, every single time I've eaten there I've brought it up! Usually about an hour after eating it!

BTW we are in the pit which is why I'm flaming you. If this were MPSIMS I would have gone on by. But I noticed there were no flames here. Have at me!

Satan,someone beat me to take joke...I hate it when McDonalds doesn't quite finish the fries and they are white and limp like...like...oh forget it

[SqrlCub]

CoolDude: Where in Texas do you live?

I used to like Whataburger. For fast food they blow any other burger out of the running. Taco Cabana is ok for cheap Mexican food. It is infinitely better than Taco Bell (I don't know how anyone eats that horrid crap.) Even now that I live on the East coast and don't have access to good Mexican food I refuse to eat it. I am glad I learned how to make all my favorite meals before I left.

Anyway,
McDonald's only has good french fries.
Burger King sucks.
Wendy's sucks.
Hardee's sucks.
Arby's is tolerable.
Friendly's has good ice cream otherwise it sucks.
The only good thing about the big chain pizza stores is the breadsticks and then only at Little Ceaser's. Even they aren't great.
White Castle sucks (you really need to acquire that taste).
You can't get decent Chinese food outside of any of the Chinatowns across the US, they tend to be cheaper than fast food anyway.
KFC is alright. They have good chicken strips.
Popeye's has better biscuits.
Long John Silver's is just the spawn from the darkest pits of Hell and even that gives its revolting flavor too much credit.
Hot Dog on a Stick has good lemonade, everything else sucks.

Now that all the negativity is gone, the Miami Grill is probably the best fast food restaurant that I have been to. It has a large menu, is reasonably priced, and everything is just above average.


SC

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[Kat]

This is still here? I would've thought it would be in MPSIMS by now.

Anyway, I can't believe I left out Checkers. Checkers is the first choice for fast food, if I'm in the mood to drive that far out of my way for it--and quite often I am, because it's worth it.

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[Doobieous]

My husband is not a huge fast food person. He likes what he calls "point-point" places.

That's usually how Filipino restaurants are set up. You usually go in for lunch and point to what you want, they put it on your plate, you pay right then and there.

SqrlCub i would beg to differ that you can't find good Chinese food outside of any Chinatown. In fact i have had some bad food in SF's Chinatown. A local restaurant here was voted best Chinese in the area (and there are a lot!).

[The LION]

The only way to discribe people who enjoy Taco Bell and Pancho's Mexican Barf'et is to say that ther taste buds are located a yard
lower than narmal.
So Say's The LION


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[The LION]

narmal = normal
long night!

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[Lynn Bodoni]

{{BTW we are in the pit which is why I'm flaming you. If this were MPSIMS I would have gone on by. But I noticed there were no flames here. Have at me!}}

The reason this is still in the Pit is because of the thread originator. I didn't want him to go LOOKING for his thread, and possibly inflicting himself on Patrick. Pat's got enough problems as it is. Probably I should have moved it. If Pat wants it, he can ask me nicely and I'll give it to him.

Lynn/SDStaff Lynn
For the Straight Dope

[tracer]

I know people who won't patronize Carl's Jr. or Domino's Pizza because both organizations make donations to Operation Rescue.

Personally, though, I don't care if a business is the primary supporter of the KKK's Lynching Division, the Nazi Medical Research Institute, the Coalition of Baby Eating Technophobes, or the Council to Torture and Kill Everyone Whose Screen Name is Tracer -- as long as I like the food. (Which, in the case of Carl's Jr. and Domino's Pizza, I don't.)

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[Mullinator]

Checker's has the best food, and it is a shame they aren't nationwide yet. McDonald's has the best play areas, and i think everyone can agree that is the most important aspect of a dining experience.

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[Sealemon88]

Quote: The only way to discribe people who enjoy Taco Bell and Pancho's Mexican Barf'et is to say that ther taste buds are located a yard
lower than narmal.
So Say's The LION


No man, you got it all wrong.

See, sometimes, we as a human race must purge ourselves through punishment. This is why we drink too much and get hangovers. Why we watch Jerry Springer at least once. Why we sometimes get into relationships with people we KNOW will be bad for us.

And why we sometimes feel the need to eat "food" that will have us shooting fire out of our asses the next day.

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You say "cheesy" like that's a BAD thing.

[Satan]

slythe winked:

I'm surprised no-one has brought up Jack-In-The-Box. They used to make the greatest steak tartar burger!

Slythe, I KNOW you've been coming back to this post all this time, wondering when, if anyone, would indeed get this reference.

Well, you are free to not come back again.

Checkers is good! Especially the fries & shakes! Yum!

Krystals is a perfectly acceptable alternative to White Castle, but avoid the shakes & fries. The burgers are still yummy

Burger King & McDonald's suck!

Hardy's & Arby's give me <font color=green>The Runs </font>

I don't like Mexican or Chinese, so I can't honestly judge. :|

The South is seriously lacking in good Pizza joints.

The Best Burger in Creation comes from a local chain (Nashville) called Fat Mo's.
Do you like cheese? You will be asked what kind you want-7 kinds!! Enough green stuff to make a salad at no extra charge (on the burger , I mean). Vidalia Onions-sweet & wonderful! Meat patties ground from fresh that day! Patties the size of MANHOLE COVERS!
Halapinios for your burger-no extra charge!
If you want a special topping for your burgers, call ahead in advance--they will send an employee to the store to buy it for you at a very nominal fee!
14 different flavors of ice cream for milkshakes! Milkshakes big enough to drown a dog in!
Fries from heaven !!! Huge helpings of everything!
Fat Mo's is burger paradise! They call themselves-"What Hamburgers Were Before Fast Food." It's true!
When passing through Nashville <font size=6> Eat At Fat Mo's! </font>

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[SkeptiJess]

So, if you had a choice between home-made and fast food, which would you pick? - Byzantine

Depends. If someone else was doing the cooking, serving and cleaning up, I guess I'd prefer home-cooked. Around here, though, I'm the cooker, server and cleaner-upper and, frankly, sometimes driving through some drive-in sounds one hell of a lot better than cooking one more meal.

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[andros]

No, go ahead, Daniel. Tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back.

Sheesh. You wear a sandwich board for extra pocket change?

And for that matter, "halapinios???"

-andros-

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I like Subway and other sub sandwich places, although sometimes I get heartburn from them. But it's worth it.

I love Big Macs (so shoot me!). I used to love Wendy's chili until I found out what was in it from this board. Wendy's has great chicken, especially the Monterey Jack Chicken Sandwich (which isn't currently available, durn it).

Hardees has moved out of my area, to be replaced by Burger King. I used to love their sourdough hamburger and chicken sandwiches with bacon, but that's about all they had going for them.

Taco Bell--I don't go there often because there's a long line of BYU students in the drive-thru at all hours of the day, and because I don't care for some of their food. I mean, you've got to question their methods of measurement when they call a tiny little sorry-excuse-for-a-burrito a "Big Beef Meximelt." The only thing "big" about it is the price. Give me Del Taco's nachos or chili fries any day.

I liked Arby's's Santa Fe Chicken sandwich when they had it, but they've removed it from the menu.

The best one? IMO, it's got to be Wendy's.

[Torgo]

I'm surprised none of the southwestern denizens of SDMB has mentioned Whataburger yet. I used to live in that region and I can tell you nothing I have ever had, fast-food wise, will ever measure up to the luscious, made to order burgers that the wonderful Whataburger corporation has unleashed. Yum!

If you're ever in Hemet, California (and there's really no reason why you should be...) drop by Cris' Juicy Burger and experience a little bit of culinary nirvana.

Taco Bell: I don't know what the hell they're putting in their so-called "beef" burritos but it sure as hell ain't beef. Or food for that matter.



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"My hovercraft is full of eels."

Andros- I am not jesting. Fat Mo's is the ultimate burger joint for the true coniseur.
It is delicious! Do not reject this!

And....(borrowing a page from ARG).........


Have you accepted Fat Mo's as your true burger savior?

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[OpalCat]

As a vegetarian, my view of fast food is a bit different than most. Taco Bell ranks higher on my scale just because they offer more stuff that I can eat... however I haven't eaten there in 6 months, since the last time my husband and I went through their drive-thru and ended up with horrible food poisoning for the next 48 hours.

McDonalds... I like for breakfast. Egg McMuffins w/no meat and egg & cheese biscuits are yummy.
Burger King has good breakfasts too.
BK Kid's Meals beat out Happy Meals for toys. (My son loves cheeseburger happy meals with "no meat, no pickles")

KFC is good, because there are potatoes, veggies, biscuits, and other stuff... Boston Market is better for that stuff though.

Wendy's is good for baked potatoes and Frostys, but it seems like it takes forever to get food there, so does it really qualify as "fast" food?

Btw, speaking of fast food and breakfast, does anyone else's local McDonalds have the all you can eat breakfast buffets on the weekends?

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[Mojo]

None of you live in New Mexico obviously, otherwise Lottaburger would've been mentioned by now (probably in the same multicolored 40 point font Daniel B. used). Blows most other fast food away. Typically there only a few items at each fast food place I can stomach:
McDonalds- French Fries.
Whataburger- Egg & potato taquito with cheese (please)- I know its not really a taquito but thats what they call it.
Jack in the Box- Ultimate Cheeseburger- only 950 calories (590 from fat!) and seasoned curly fries.
Checkers- the fries.
Taco Bell- Churros.
Wendys-Hamburgers are OK.
Burger King- Burgers, fries are much better now.
Hardees, Arbys, and Weinerschnitzel- no redeeming qualities.

[Bluepony]

Come to think of it, you can get THE FUCKING HORN DOG at Jack In The Box. It comes with fries and also is available in Kids' Meal size with FUCKING HORN DOG action figure included.

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[Diane]

Byz - You're in SLC, right?

The next time you are downtown, head over to the ZCMI Mall food court and order the chicken rice bowl from Edos Japan and then squirt some of that hot pepper sauce on the top.

You'll change your mind about fast food. If not, there's no help for ya, girl.


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Coffee, chocolate, men . . . Some things are just better rich.

[Gazelle]

<WARNING: LAME FLAME>

Did anyone notice that fast food joints aren't inanimate objects anymore?

"Who" is the best fast food joint?

That's all I have the strength for... Weary with the trollity of it all.

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[SqrlCub]

I mentioned Whataburger earlier, Torgo. :P

SC

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[eden]

Doesn't anyone like Taco John's? I could eat piles of their soft tacos...

[andros]

Mojo: Dead cert, pal. Lottaburger, double meat, extra cheese, extra green, with a large fry and a cherry coke. Mmmmmmmm. . . . best in the world.

Diane: You're right. For some reason the Edo's in the Z is about the best mallfood I've ever had. Dunno why.

Diane and Byz (and any other Utahrns): Training Table?

-andros-

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[Harmonious Discord]

Taco John's. Arn't their soft tacos the product of the Piles.

Taco Bell. Burritos filled with dog meat.

Hey moderator! Nobody can flame in this thread. This belongs in Mundane Piontless Shit.

[Lynn Bodoni]

So start a thread in MPSIMS. I'm not about to inflict Horn Dogg on Patrick.

Lynn/SDStaff Lynn