BS: McDonald's or Burger King

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 08:44 PM

Bon appetit!

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 08:28 PM

Well, they are as reasonable and well prepared as the bean counters permit...

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 08:15 PM

"A reasonably well prepared hamburger is not "junk food.""

True... but yer not gonna find a reasonable well prepared burger at ANY "Fast food joint"....

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 07:35 PM

Best root beer I've ever had was at a drive-in a few blocks from where I used to live in Seattle. It was out on Lake City Way just south of East 85th Street. It was called the "Triple X Drive-Inn" and as far as I know it was not part of a chain. It was one of these places where you could "eat in" (they had a counter and booths) or "dine in your car." Park, flash your headlights, and a car-hop (usually a teen-age girl in a uniform) would take your order, then bring it out on a tray, ask you to roll your window up a few inches, then hook the tray on the window and set a prop against the car door. General fare of hamburgers, fries, shakes, various other kinds of sandwiches, hot dogs, and such. Coffee or tea–or their own brand of root beer, which they had on tap. Big, pint-sized mugs. Great stuff!

The roof of the place looked like the top of a huge barrel, maybe thirty feet in diameter, with a "XXX" on the side. No relation to porn movie ratings. The hamburgers were good, and definitely a meal, and the root beer was superb. People used to come to the place from all over town for a mug of their root beer. This was in the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties. The sudden influx of 19¢ hamburger joints, McDonald's, and other places like that pretty much ran them out of business. People without taste buds went to these new places rather than the Triple X. The Triple X had 'em beat by far for quality, but they couldn't compete with the prices–not that they were all that expensive.

A&W wasn't quit up to XXX root beer, but it was darned good. In most of the A&W drive-ins I went to, there, too, it was on tap. Maybe we were (are) just lucky out here in this neck of the woods. Triple X was good, A&W was good, and Burger King is good. I've eaten a helluva lot of hamburges and I've quaffed a helluva lot of root beer, so I'm not exactly without experience in these matters.

I do eat a raw carrot now and then. But I'm obviously no fanatic about it. .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 06:17 PM

A reasonably well prepared hamburger is not "junk food."

Think about it. Ground round (granted McDonald's mixes it half-and-half with wet cardboard), bread in the form of a bun, and the usual fixin's like lettuce, tomato, a little mayo (ingredients often found in salads), perhaps a bit of mustard and/or ketchup, and a pickle slice or two. Not junk food. Until people started assuming that hamburgers were junk food, nutritionists (sometimes a bit grudgingly) regarded the hamburger as a reasonably well-balanced meal.

That's a fact.

Now, if you let it sit in a warming oven until it renders out the fat that's in all meat and starts basting itself with it, then it turns into a piece of soggy, tasteless crap. But it's still not going to clog your veins any more that any comparable quantity of beef (in fact, the wet cardboard in a Big Mac should actually reduce that amount of fat). It's the super-size order of deep-fat fries that go with it, along with the milk shake that, if your other meals consist of a bowl of Froot-Loops or an Egg McMuffin in the morning and a pizza or a couple of Hot-Pockets, not to mention the two bags of Cheezy-Chips and the energy bar and the incessant stream of M&Ms from the vending machine and the pint of Ben and Jerry's to round out the day's food intake—day after day after day—that's eventually gonna have someone dialing 911 in your behalf as you lay there on the floor clutching your chest and gasping for breathe.

Eat a raw carrot now and then. But don't be a damned fanatic.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 03:47 PM

" One burger, even a big greasy one, isn't going to hurt you--"
Call every doctor or nutritritionist in your phone book and ask them what they think is a safe level of junk food to include in your diet... I suspect the vast majority of answers will be "none!"

Root Beer
I'll give it this FP.... A&W Root Beer is better than NO Root Beer!
:-)

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: M.Ted
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 03:36 PM

People eat more McDonald's than anything else--McDonald's kids meal come with a toy, and it seems that one third of the toys in the US now come from McDonalds. And it's not because the food is particularly tasty, or the toys are particularly fun. Bottom line, it is all bland--but it is easy, especially when one goes through the drive through--

One burger, even a big greasy one, isn't going to hurt you--but a regular diet of burgers is another thing again. My third grade teacher told us about the girl who would only eat a hamburger, fries, and a coke, and died of malnutrition. Forty years later, I can tell you that my teacher was wrong--the girl died of colon cancer--

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 03:35 PM

Well, each to his own...

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 03:31 PM

I was quoting MYSELF.... After trying just about ANY root-beer, I can at least say "Well, at least it's not as bad as A&W."

It'd have to be pretty bad Root Beer to be worse than A&W

I can see where that post wasn't as clear as it could have been, FP....

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 03:17 PM

You didn't bother me with this post, Clinton, but you confused me so much I'm really curious as to what was going on here:
"I recall A&W. Great root beer!"

Oh please.... I LOVE good Root Beer, and A&W is the standard I hold EVERY SINGLE RB I try against....

      That I get, and say a hearty "amen" to it.

""Well, at least it's not as bad as A&W"


Tasteless, bland, mass-produced crap!!!!

    But I've been looking all through the thread and can't spot who you were quoting there, so's to tell what that was about ???

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: GUEST,Rufus
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 03:03 PM

Burger King and Mickey Dees ain't got no fired chicken so I vote for KFC.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 02:22 PM

I smile a lot, "Diogenes"

Why? Jealous?

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: GUEST,Dónde está la carne de vaca
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 02:10 PM

Well, this thread wasn't terribly helpful in deciding between McDonald's or Burger King.

So instead we hit the all you can eat buffet at Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was finger lickin' good.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: GUEST,Diogenes
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 12:27 PM

Clinton, do you ever smile? (Just curious)

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 07:10 AM

Ah! Bundaberg Root Beer!

Made in the same town - but by different brewers - as Bundaberg Rum!

Be careful, lest ye utter fightin' words!

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 04:37 AM

"I recall A&W. Great root beer!"

Oh please.... I LOVE good Root Beer, and A&W is the standard I hold EVERY SINGLE RB I try against....

""Well, at least it's not as bad as A&W"


Tasteless, bland, mass-produced crap!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 01:33 AM

Hey Sandy......Mickey D is at the bottom of my list too, but they have a new Asian Chicken salad with Newman's Sesame-Ginger dressing that's tops!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 05 Jun 06 - 12:01 AM

Wendy's has been serving pretty darned good salads for a long time. McDonald's is at the very bottom of the list for me.
    Hey, Don -- my very first job (age 11) was adjusting the seat heights for renters of water bicycles on Green Lake. No fast food joints around sixty-six years ago, and even if there had been, at $1 a day, I doubt that I could have afforded to eat at one of 'em.
    Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 09:28 PM

And if you smush some real good ice cream into that A&W root beer...

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 09:18 PM

Yeah, I recall A&W. Pretty good burgers. Great root beer!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 08:52 PM

A&W was around decades before McDonalds, but somehow has never gotten their act together to hold a big market share; several locations have opened and closed near us in the last few years. But, besides some of the best root beer going, I have always found that they served a better burger than most of the chains.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 07:50 PM

"Many 'Pizza Hut' dine in places have closed"

Good!

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 07:05 PM

Here in Aus, Maccas has started converting some of their outlets into "Mac-Cafe's".... serve salads, etc. They have been hit hard by the 'health craze' and sales actually were starting to fall for a while. Many 'Pizza Hut' dine in places (same Franchise owner here I think) have closed - mostly only Take Away Pizzas now.

Here in Aus (part of Asia as Little Johnny keeps rabbiting on) we have also been introduced to the delights of 'Sushi' - mainly vegetarian filled vinegared rice rolled in seaweed. That's getting to be very popular lunch time 'grab it' food here.

But then in Aus we have a VERY eclectic palate - 'British Trad', Greek, Italian, Chinese (Dim Sum very popular!), Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Indian, Spanish, Brazilian, Russian, Native Aussie (Bush Foods), and more other ethnic styles than I can remember - just about every National style food is here! - Oh, and Seafood is still very popular, so the big US chains don't quite get it all their own way here. Many good Top 'Real' Restaurants (this excludes US chain fast food places!) offer a range of 'Ethnic' styles, and many various 'blends' of same too. Most Aussies are far more knowledgeable about food that you might suspect - always trying out new styles of food.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 02:12 PM

My hamburger consumption is about five or six a year. Barbara and I eat vegetarian (not vegan) almost all the time, but when we have guests for dinner (average maybe once a month), we may have something like chicken or a pork roast. Barbara's a pretty creative cook (my specialty is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches) and often, even with guests, she'll whip up something meatless. Most carnivores don't even notice that it is meatless.

We're not fanatical about it, one way or the other.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Homeless
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 02:12 PM

Don, I hadn't meant to imply that your BK made bad burgers, just that the procedualization was not limited to BK. It's just as easy to make a good product with procedures just it is a bad one. And vice-versa.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: C. Ham
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 01:47 PM

My wife and I are practically vegetarians, but every now and then we fall upon some helpless animal and rend it with our teeth and claws. So we're pretty picky about where we hunt our animals. I can recommend my local Burger King.

I'm a vegetarian too, except for the once (sometimes twice) a day I eat meat, chicken or fish.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 01:35 PM

Once again, your mileage may vary. In my local Burger King, I've never been handed a bad burger. I've had some really bad ones at various places, but never at Burger King. Watching that television show I talk about above reinforced my impression that, of the fast-food places, Burger King was the best. But maybe they don't all follow company policy.

It's not that I eat that many burgers. My wife and I are practically vegetarians, but every now and then we fall upon some helpless animal and rend it with our teeth and claws. So we're pretty picky about where we hunt our animals. I can recommend my local Burger King.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: RangerSteve
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 01:20 PM

Hardee's has the best fast food burgers, they're not made until you order them. Taco Bell and Boston Market have the best non-burger food, and most diners have better burgers than the fast-food chains.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 11:17 AM

Whatever 'spaw'....   I know I can stick to a topic... can you?

"LMAO"?
But you're all "A", so how do you know when to stop?

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Homeless
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 09:57 AM

Don Firth- if you want to learn about corporate procedures, read the book "The E-Myth Revisited." It basically says that if you want to have a successful business, you have to take ALL the decisions away from all the employees, and have EVERYTHING proceduralized and documented. That way you can hire the dumbest people to work for you. Ray Kroc, of McDonalds fame, pioneered the concept for the fast food industry. McDonalds has perfected it.

When I was a kid I was practically raised on McDonalds burgers. My dad had worked there as a teenager, and had some kind of weird loyalty to them. So as a kid, anytime we ate out it was always at McDonalds.
The last time I ate a sandwich there was over 25 years ago. I had just started high school and, with my parents having recently divorced, was starting to make decisions for myself. My girlfriend and I had gone inside to eat. I got a Quarter Pounder. Holding the sandwich in my left hand, in the time it took me to eat half of it, the grease (lard?) had run between my fingers, clear down to my elbow, and had congealed. I don't recall if I finished that burger or not, but it pretty much killed off my appetite for them, and I've not had one there since.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Stu
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 09:30 AM

"My point was that a home-made meat product is basically the same meat product you get at Wendy's."

Sorry Rex, can't agree with that. Our local butchers tell you where their meat is coming from, the exact farm. Some of the cows, sheep and pigs that become the meat that goes into our joints, burgers, sausages etc we drive past on the way to our Friday night session - the same is not true of the intensively-reared meat you get in the likes of McDonalds. We know our meat was reared in the countryside around the town, and it ate fresh grass and lived a happy life.

I would never eat a McDonalds - these people are taking the piss out of their customers by serving them fatty sugar-laden foods stuffed with starch. It really is crap of the highest order.

Mind you, I have been known to have the odd Burger King occasionaly, so who am I to talk?

stigWeard

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 09:21 AM

back in the 70's my colleague & his wife travelled overseas regularly as she worked for Pan Am. If they thought the local food was not hygenic they had McDonalds as they knew there would not be any germs in it. Bland, yes, but germs, no.

Around the same time I had my only McDonalds burger. Normally I would not have eaten them, but we were at the club on a Sunday afternoon & the Bistro was closed so a couple of us went hunting food while the others kept drinking, and the only thing open was the golden arches. This was back in the prehistoric days before Sunday trading (no pubs, no grocery shops, no nuffin')

So we came back to the club with our burgers & found the rest of the mob eating steaks cooked by the barman.

Being broke (no ATMs in those days, either) I sat with my friends in the yard under the green corregated fibreglass roof, eating my sausage-mince burger on soft sugarybun, garnished with 1 teaspoon of chopped onion, 2 or 3 slices of dillpickle, & a wisp of lettuce under the greenish light. I can still see it. I have never forgotten the green burger.

I would have been better just buying a packets of chippies or peanuts from the barman.

sandra

wanna click on the goooooogle ads for Franchising or Wendy's?

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 08:43 AM

Gee CH, all those times you do the same thing and now its wrong huh? And here I thought you could take it as well as dish it out.......LMAO

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jun 06 - 08:10 AM

Joe, I had the same experience with BK, going on 20 years ago. After a late ending course at the local branch of a college (still take a class as a Grandpa' a couple times a year), I stopped by the "King and ordered a simple Burger. I watched as rhey took one, already wrapped, from a storage unit and tossed it into a Microwave. I asked "is that my burger and what are you doing to it?" They said they were reheating it. I told them I could have gone on home and done that, the reason for stopping was not to get reheated food. They run their 'open chain broiler' several times a day and precooked all the burgers.

Have not been back since. The only way to get a decent or good burger is a privately owned joint where you will have to pay $8 - $12. I would rather do this twice a month than have a McDucks, BK, etc., twice a week.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 11:31 PM

"My point was that a home-made meat product is basically the same meat product you get at Wendy's."

Then you need to wake the FK up and find out what Wendy's and other fast food places do to your food before they serve it to you...

"Just doing a hypocrisy check Clinton."
Well, you can stuff it troll, cause it's got NO bearing on the conversation.....

Cause this still isn't a thread about smoking

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 11:06 PM

Like it? Hell, Clinton, I love it. My point was that a home-made meat product is basically the same meat product you get at Wendy's.

Hey, anyone ever tried one of these? Or know of a good place to get one?

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 11:02 PM

Just doing a hypocrisy check Clinton. You seem to have plenty so I can check you on the list!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 10:50 PM

" Filthy, evil, horrid meat"
Humans evolved to be omnivores... that includes meat.... whether you like it or not...

"firng up a pack or two a day?"
I have NEVER smoked 'a pack or 2 a day'.....

"pales in comparison next to the one linked to smoking"
But this isn't a thread about smoking, is it? Or are you to addled to stick to the topic at hand?

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 10:47 PM

The only time I have ever had a "Big Mac Attack" is about 20 minutes after eating one..................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 10:40 PM

Setting all questions of health-conciousness aside, why would anyone eat a McDonald's burger given a choice? You could get as much flavor from chewing on a wad of their napkins!

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 09:16 PM

I used to eat at Burger King all the time, but then our local Burger Kings started microwaving the sandwiches after they made them. Nothing worse than a microwaved hamburger bun. Don't know if they've fixed that - it's been years since I had a Whopper.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 08:50 PM

You have to be fast to eat idiot food....



"I'd hit Subway...the food is better for you, fresher and won't make you feel like crap"

The LAST time I was in a Subway (ever!), I watched the guy before me have a stand-up argument with the server. He got eventually given what he wanted. While I was being served by another server, I watched the first server dismantle and replace the ingredients in the trays... If I hadn't been in a real hurry...



I really prefer Sushi now - and it's easy and MUCH cheaper to make it at home, exactly the way you want. Great for party food too.



I remember REAL Aussie hamburgers... individually made to order, you could even look at the uncooked patty and see just how much breadcrumbs they had put in - adding breadcrumbs was a standard English -> Aussie Tradition... now the Yanks have spoiled all that... and Aussie burgers had MORE vege matter than meat... and SLICED BEETROOT! with no Dill Pickles... very hard to find the shops now... which also used to do real 'fish & chips'...

Real burger patties were not just ground meat (and NOT the highest grade meat, the lower grades were for mince!), but had some breadcrumbs or flour (helped to bind and soak up some of the fat) and often onions and even other very small chunks of veges too.



Most amazing burger I had recently was in Toowoomba - in a strange place - 50/60s theme combo second hand junk shop, dance club floor and food bar. I had taken a friend there for her birthday present, and she thoroughly enjoyed the whole place.

The 'serving plates' were heated and folded LP records (lined with paper), which from the titles, were very appropriately used - it being a 'Rock and Roll' era theme place, all those mushy strings and crooner LPs were put to real good use! :-)

The buns were about 6-8 inches in diameter!!!! and PACKED with STUFF! I doubt even Clinton could get his mouth open wide enough to take a bite from top to bottom... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 06:19 PM

Say Clinton.....Do you still smoke? I sure as hell ain't no anti-smoking zealot but why worry about shitfood when you're firng up a pack or two a day? Kinda' silly ain't it?

I mean there are a lot of health and social problems linked to junk food but that list pales in comparison next to the one linked to smoking. Geeziz man, destroying your body through lifestyle choice is my specialty! But then again, you might get run down by a Peterbilt............so if you want to walk a mile for a Camel or have a double plotcher with processed cheese....GO FOR IT!!!

I don't do either anymore but I'm day late and a dollar short. You won't quit either until it comes home to you....not just to roost but to club you with a sledge hammer repeatedly.....on a real personal level and not through lectures.

Is there anyone who thinks a Big Mac is good for them? Does anyone think that cigarettes won't give you heart and lung problems? Go for both or one or neither.....your life, your decisions!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: bobad
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 06:00 PM

Then again there are alternatives. These veggie burgers are on the Saturday supper menu at our house.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 05:56 PM

There used to be a place in Guildford called, I think, Brett's Burgers. The burgers were wonderful: 100% beef cooked to perfection - and Richard Thompson as background music.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 05:35 PM

Oh, c'mon, Clinton. Unless you're raising and slaughtering the cows yourself, you only know where they tell you your food is from. I know farmers who sell to people who, like you, prefer to buy from "people they know" and "places they trust," and it's the same stuff. Filthy, evil, horrid meat. Or perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps up in Canada, there's a wonderful cow retirement home... Where elderly cows sleep on feather beds, eat bon-bons all day, die (with their cow families at their bedsides) of natural causes, and then are magically turned into wholesome piles of ground beef by pixies. Nah. It's blood and shit and terror, and it's the same meat.

And it's delicious.

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 05:29 PM

Smell triggers memory. The smell of a Whopper invariably reminds me of my first visit to Burger King, which happened to be in the company of a girl named Sandra with whom I was madly in love at the age of fifteen. The smell of McDonalds holds no such memories.

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 05:20 PM

I'd rather agree with CH than eat crapburgers

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 05:17 PM

"for all of you naysayers, it's the same garbage you get when when you cook it at home."

Now that is just so much horseskite! Know where the food you're putting in your body is coming from.... It's not hard to do.... It just takes showing a little care for yourself....

Subject: RE: BS: McDonald's or Burger King
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 03 Jun 06 - 05:13 PM

Burger King, out of the two. And, for all of you naysayers, it's the same garbage you get when when you cook it at home. The same cruelly-produced beef, dragged through the same shit in the same filthy slaughterhouse. The entire Earth is poisoned, and you'll never escape. So eat some crappy food, why don't ya?

Anyways, for those who want to be more like me, here's my top five corporate whore fast food restaurants:

1. Tied for Culver's (a mainly upper-Midwestern chain, but growing) and Wendy's. With their "butterburgers" and fried cheese curds, Culver's is a huge part of my "dead by 40" plan. And great fries. Wendy's, I'll usually get a "classic single" with onions, nothing else on it. Godly.

2. White Castle. Yeah, yeah, screw you. It's good for you.

3. Burger King. Their fries suck, but their "Whoppers" are like heroin. Big, juicy, fatty heroin. Mmmmmm.

4. Dairy Queen. I don't know why, but the quality of Dairy Queen burgers varies vastly from location to location. But when they're good, they take me back to my childhood, when I'd eat at the Minnesota Zoo DQ. Which may explain why the smell of dolphin-water and monkey-piss makes me strangely hungry... Perhaps I've said too much.

5. McDonalds. Actually, there's about five other places ahead of McDonalds, but I wanted to bitxch about their food, so... So, there's the food, which is horrible, even by fast food standards. The "sweatburger" thing, and all that. But they put all of their horrid little sandwiches in boxes. I mean, what the fuck? Cold food that falls all over your shirt. Nice.

Oh, and I really want to try an In-N-Out burger, someday, if only for the Lebowski connection.

---Lepus Rex