Fast food in Britain is generally bad, but there were some good fish and chip outlets. They certainly know nothing of hamburgers.

In North America, McD's burgers are pretty blah, but the meat is decent quality. Ask them to skip the dressing goo and then add ketchup; not bad at all. The lettuce and tomato are generally OK. I like to make my own burgers, with lean beef mixed with chopped onion, a good seasoning salt and dried oregano leaves, but travelling, a McD's is often the choice.

For light fast food, there is a chain here (western Canada) called Opa- no imagination, but I guess all North Americans know the word and know roughly what is served.
We ate lunch at one yesterday. The plate lunches are good, my salad had almost a full tomato,, cuke, fresh lettuce, green pepper and abundant slivers of good parmesan (preferred here to feta), and the dressing was fresh and good. The meat was lamb kebab, very tender, calamari, or a good spanikopita (sp?), wish a round of fresh pita, all for $8.95.

Another good chain, Edo, with a variety of Japanese fare in addition to the fish bait, but I wish the Japanese would open a noodle chain here; there are some in Honolulu (branches from Tokyo) and I enjoyed them- the big bowl of noodles in a good broth with toppings of meat, fish, etc.
Good noodles are an art.