# What is your favorite fast food restaurant? Multiple choice **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139 "2010-12-06T13:52:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/81 "2010-12-07T20:05:07Z")
That baffles me. Unless I’m stranded on a desert island, I would never routinely eat food that I “really despise.” Life is just too short. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/82 "2010-12-07T20:24:06Z")
Erm, how is Steak and Shake fast food? Ok, I will admit that it really skirts the border because they offer carry-out and drive-through service in some locations. However, given that their main business model is the traditional sit-down, pay-after-eating, food served on china not trays, waitered service like most restaurants, I find it hard to categorize it as fast food. I remember seeing advertising for Applebee’s take-out, but you’re not going to consider the entire operation a fast food joint because of that, are you? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/83 "2010-12-07T20:34:02Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > The first A&W I went to had an extensive hot dog menu. Among other things, you could get a kraut dog that was really heaped with steaming-hot, real savory sauerkraut. I went back several times for dogs and curly fries and root beer floats with real ice cream. > > Years later I went to an A&W again. They looked at me funny when I asked for sauerkraut. There was only one hot dog choice, a dull sort of chili dog. It seemed to have become a relentlessly average hamburger pit. Everything I got was mediocre or worse. A&W’s mediocre burger is made up for by their awesome root beer float, which is the reason we go. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/84 "2010-12-07T21:02:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > That baffles me. Unless I’m stranded on a desert island, I would never routinely eat food that I “really despise.” Life is just too short. There is eating for enjoyment and there is eating for fuel. My life is busy enough that sometimes I have to settle for quick, cheap, fuel. I think this is fairly common in the US, and nearly universal among single parents. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/85 "2010-12-07T21:05:57Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > See that makes things more puzzling. US posters mock Domino’s but in Australia they make good cheap pizza. We would rather disparage Pizza Hut who routinely close down shops as no-one can eat their crap. Domino’s makes good cheap pizza here, too, **don’t ask**. You just have to understand that there is a certain amount of trendiness involved in bashing them. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/86 "2010-12-07T21:11:16Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Domino’s makes good cheap pizza here, too, **don’t ask**. You just have to understand that there is a certain amount of trendiness involved in bashing them. :rolleyes: Come on. I’m defending freaking McDonald’s–the place everyone loves to hate–in this thread. Is it that hard to understand that some, perhaps a lot, of people really think Domino’s is crap? Even in my college days when I would eat almost anything, I could not stand Domino’s or Taco Bell. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/87 "2010-12-07T21:11:53Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > That spicy chicken sandwich is the bane of my quick-dinner-shopping existence. They cook it in the same oil as the other chicken products. > ::cut to Celtling screaming in pain as she bites into a chicken nugget:: > > And while I’m talking, KFC has started loading their chicken fingers with pepper too, the bastards. Is there anywhere a parent can get some chicken nuggets for a toddler anymore?!? A hospital cafeteria? The only place I can think of that specializes in blandness. 😉 Gotta toughen those young’uns up, **TruCelt**! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/88 "2010-12-07T22:04:40Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I thought Taco Bell would fare better. Well, they do win the restaurant wars. So, Taco Bell has that to look forward to. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/89 "2010-12-07T22:15:05Z")
Sonic has been my favorite since childhood. No matter where you go they always are pretty good. Especially in small towns Sonic often has the best burgers, hot dogs etc. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/90 "2010-12-07T22:53:57Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Come on. I’m defending freaking McDonald’s–the place everyone loves to hate–in this thread. Is it that hard to understand that some, perhaps a lot, of people really think Domino’s is crap? Even in my college days when I would eat almost anything, I could not stand Domino’s or Taco Bell. If you haven’t had it in 15 years, you haven’t had it since they admitted it sucked and [changed their recipe](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550887). Still, it didn’t score very high in the [best pizza chain poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=567573) a few months ago. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/91 "2010-12-07T23:07:09Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > If you haven’t had it in 15 years, you haven’t had it since they admitted it sucked and [changed their recipe](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550887). Still, it didn’t score very high in the [best pizza chain poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=567573) a few months ago. I have heard that they changed their crust recipe a couple years ago. I’ve been tempted to give them another shot, but I’ve never seen any reason to, as I can’t remember the last time I had chain pizza. I’m really not trying to be a snob about it–and there are many local joints worse than chains, of course–it’s just there are so many other options I have where I live that it’s never come down to ordering from them. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/92 "2010-12-08T00:03:46Z")
I picked Del Taco only because What-A-Burger wasnt listed,didnt think to pick other. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/93 "2010-12-08T00:10:45Z")
Subway in third?! TACO BELL IN SECOND?!?! You disappoint me SDMB. I can only trust In n Out’s limited penetration is the only reason it’s not winning this by a land slide. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/94 "2010-12-08T00:31:01Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > A&W’s mediocre burger is made up for by their awesome root beer float, which is the reason we go. Well, I found the root beer float severely disappointing the last time around, too, made as it was with corn-syrup-and-vanillin soft-serve. Maybe they’re better in other places, but the contrast between that experience and what I recalled from the first go round, for _every item ordered_, can only be described as shocking. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/95 "2010-12-08T00:35:03Z")
> [@LVBoPeep](#): > > Did Arby’s have a different meat product? I always remembered it in it’s current delicious but somewhat questionable form and I’ve been eating at Arby’s for at least 25 years. You ain’t old enough. Totally different before your time. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/96 "2010-12-08T13:40:23Z")
Vegetarian checking in. I voted Taco Bell, Subway, and Steak ‘n’ Shake. Taco Bell is my absolute favorite: I can get bean burritos, 7-layer burritos, cheesy bean and rice burritos, cheese roll-ups, and variants; most places will also happily replace the meat with beans/rice/whatever if you ask, so I can get veggie enchiritos, pizzas, etc. Add/subtract red sauce, fiesta sauce, nacho cheese sauce, guacamole, sour cream, and any of the hot sauces for more variety. One nearby location fucked up my 7-layer order, rang it up as a “7-layer crunch wrap,” and I got a delicious new item from the kitchen. Subway. Never understood the complaints of blandness here; I can choose from 5+ different breads, have a crapload of vegetables to add or subtract, tons of toppings and sauces. If your sandwich is bland, it’s because _you_ created a bland sandwich. I usually get veggie patty with cheese, spinach, tomato, onion, green pepper, banana pepper, black olive, jalapeno, deli/spicy mustard. Bread varies based on whims. Steak ‘n’ Shake. Perhaps odd for a vegetarian. Disregarding the breakfast menu (where I would eat the pancakes, eggs, whatever), I typically will get grilled cheese with added vegetables, sides of cottage cheese, fries, or onion rings, chili minus meat (cheese + onions + chili sauce over spaghetti). It helps that they’re a 24-hour restaurant, and I work 3rd shift; my lunch restaurant options are limited to S’n’S, Denny’s, Waffle House (would be in the list if they were fast food), White Castle, McDonald’s, IHOP (would be in the list, yadda yadda). The real reason to go, though, is for shakes or freezes. Red Bull shake, cookies and cream, mint chocolate chip, etc. Honorable mentions: La Bamba’s (local “burritos as big as your head” type place; made-to-order, not quite fast food), IHOP and Waffle House (carb shacks that make being 3rd shift not so bad). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/97 "2010-12-08T14:12:47Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > …Taco Bell is my absolute favorite: I can get bean burritos, 7-layer burritos, cheesy bean and rice burritos, cheese roll-ups, and variants; most places will also happily replace the meat with beans… Remind me to roll the windows down if I ride home with you afterwards. :eek: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/98 "2010-12-08T16:37:18Z")
Popeyes chicken is fuckin’ awesome. Burger from A&W, fried from 5 guys,shake from Steak & Shake = perfect meal. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/99 "2010-12-08T20:02:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Remind me to roll the windows down if I ride home with you afterwards. Your body can acclimate to beans, with the result that they’re not nearly as flautogenic for most vegetarians as they are for omnivores who only eat beans occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139/100 "2010-12-08T20:14:22Z")
Rally’s is the pinnacle of fast food perfection. Unfortunately, I haven’t lived in a town that had one in over a decade. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-fast-food-restaurant-multiple-choice/563139.md?page=6)