Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore

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Cause they're awesome and cheap?
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Giff wrote:
Cause they're awesome and cheap?
Dawned on me while living in the Arizona. You have to cater to the majority of white people.

Taco Bell, Del Taco, and Jack in the Crack exist where phenomenal Mexican food exists? The majority of white people don't go to these places. They do drive through.

At least that's my theory.
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Johnnie wrote:
Giff wrote:
Cause they're awesome and cheap?
Dawned on me while living in the Arizona. You have to cater to the majority of white people.

Taco Bell, Del Taco, and Jack in the Crack exist where phenomenal Mexican food exists? The majority of white people don't go to these places. They do drive through.

At least that's my theory.
I think they exist for drunks and stoners to have something to eat at 3:30am. Houston has a ton of amazing Mexican places full of gringos (and there's one called Gringo's!).
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Giff wrote:I think they exist for drunks and stoners to have something to eat at 3:30am. Houston has a ton of amazing Mexican places full of gringos (and there's one called Gringo's!).
I think Giff has it here. When I lived in CA the quality Mexican places still had a majority of white clientele. The fast-food places are for the stoners or non-discriminating yokels just looking to stuff their faces as economically as possible.

I will spork-fight anyone who speaks ill of Del Taco, though.
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Had a friend in college (in New Mexico) that insisted on getting food from Taco Bell, when there was an actual, Mexican place, with a wide-ranging and palatable menu, across the street. Service was just as fast, and the food was comparatively priced, plus free chips and salsa!
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Rush2112 wrote:Had a friend in college (in New Mexico) that insisted on getting food from Taco Bell, when there was an actual, Mexican place, with a wide-ranging and palatable menu, across the street. Service was just as fast, and the food was comparatively priced, plus free chips and salsa!
I could go for a Blake's green chile lotaburger with cheese.
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Giff wrote:
I could go for a Blake's green chile lotaburger with cheese.
Indeed, great for a fast food burger. Next time you're in NM hit up Santa Fe Bite in SF. That is 5 star.
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Rush2112 wrote:
Giff wrote:
I could go for a Blake's green chile lotaburger with cheese.
Indeed, great for a fast food burger. Next time you're in NM hit up Santa Fe Bite in SF. That is 5 star.
Yup, it was good.
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I'm watching OKC/GSW and a Taco Bell commercial comes on. I don't watch live tv that much so this is completely new to me.

Image

The taco shell is chicken.

The. Taco. Shell. Is. Chicken.

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Johnnie wrote:The taco shell is chicken.

The. Taco. Shell. Is. Chicken.

Holy shit.
AND, a shitload of batter (I'm just guessing).
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sancarlos wrote:
Johnnie wrote:The taco shell is chicken.

The. Taco. Shell. Is. Chicken.

Holy shit.
AND, a shitload of batter (I'm just guessing).
Probably about a one-to-one ratio to get the "chicken" to stay curved.
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Its food week at The Ringer:

https://youtu.be/rJqD6HRJWr0

These folks have cleverly never lived in Flyover Country. No Blake's. No Culver's. No Freddy's. No Smashburger. No Whataburger. No Raising Cains. Not even Chipotle. (And I'm sure I'm missing lots more.) These fuckers are lame.

Also:

http://fastfood.theringer.com

(I stand corrected, btw on some of the items from that Top 50 list. They did mention some things I initially bitched about.)
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I don't think they needed to make distinctions between some items (like a Double-Double vs. a regular cheeseburger from In-N-Out). That would have made more room on the list for worthy additions like Jumbo Jack at Jack In The Box.

Otherwise, pretty spot on.
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Giff wrote:
Johnnie wrote:
Giff wrote:
Cause they're awesome and cheap?
Dawned on me while living in the Arizona. You have to cater to the majority of white people.

Taco Bell, Del Taco, and Jack in the Crack exist where phenomenal Mexican food exists? The majority of white people don't go to these places. They do drive through.

At least that's my theory.
I think they exist for drunks and stoners to have something to eat at 3:30am. Houston has a ton of amazing Mexican places full of gringos (and there's one called Gringo's!).
gringos is godawful. all the quality mexican around and you eat that?
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the calorie counts seem skeptical. a spicy chicken sandwich at CFA is 90 more calories than an animal style burger at In-N-Out that is basically half the calories of a bacon cheeseburger at Five Guys?

(unless the animal style burger is one patty and not two)

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TT2.0 wrote:
Giff wrote:
Johnnie wrote:
Giff wrote:
Cause they're awesome and cheap?
Dawned on me while living in the Arizona. You have to cater to the majority of white people.

Taco Bell, Del Taco, and Jack in the Crack exist where phenomenal Mexican food exists? The majority of white people don't go to these places. They do drive through.

At least that's my theory.
I think they exist for drunks and stoners to have something to eat at 3:30am. Houston has a ton of amazing Mexican places full of gringos (and there's one called Gringo's!).
gringos is godawful. all the quality mexican around and you eat that?
I've eaten there twice and had the same thing both times. It was good enough.
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This isn't enough to get me to eat breakfast at Taco Bell, but that's really not a horrible idea:
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rass wrote:This isn't enough to get me to eat breakfast at Taco Bell, but that's really not a horrible idea:
I might eat this tomorrow just for research purposes.
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I don't think I've seen a Hardees in 30 years.
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P.D.X. wrote:I don't think I've seen a Hardees in 30 years.
It's Carl Jr. out west.
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Spent a summer working at Hardee's. NASCAR weekend was the worst. Man, I must have put on so much weight that summer, between that job and it being my first beer-drinking summer.
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My go to Hardee's on the way to my parents just closed down. Pretty bummed. Love me some Hardee's.
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rass wrote:Spent a summer working at Hardee's. NASCAR weekend was the worst. Man, I must have put on so much weight that summer, between that job and it being my first beer-drinking summer.
There's a Hardee's and a Bojangles across the street from Martinsville Speedway. I was wondering just how many biscuits got eaten that day.

I had Bojangles twice when I was in NC/VA two weekends ago. The second time I hit a small-town Bojangles on the way to the track and the biscuits were fresh out of the oven. Had I not ordered to go I probably would have gone back and gotten some more.
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I hadn't heard of Bojangles until about 2 months ago. My first thought was the song Mr. Bojangles. Then I Google it and see it's a chicken and biscuit place and I'm like "Well, that's an odd way to honor Sammy Davis Jr."

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Bojangles is fucking great. None in Tampa anymore though.
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I guess it's my age or something, but I am surprised somebody associates Mr. Bojangles first with Sammy Davis Jr., rather than with either Jerry Jeff Walker, who wrote it, or the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, who had the hit record with it.
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I associate it with Sammy Davis Jr because he was a global star and I've literally never heard of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
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brian wrote:I associate it with Sammy Davis Jr because he was a global star and I've literally never heard of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Ha ha. Dude we come from different worlds!
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Ironically I'd probably like them but I'm being honest. Beyond being vaguely familiar with the name of the band I've never heard of them.
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brian wrote:I associate it with Sammy Davis Jr because he was a global star and I've literally never heard of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
For as much music you know, that seems hard to believe. See if their album WIll The Circle Be Unbroken is on Spotify. It's basically O Brother Where Art Thou? a few decades earlier.
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brian wrote:I associate it with Sammy Davis Jr because he was a global star and I've literally never heard of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
You mean you and your wife have never gone fishin in the dark? Lying on your backs and counting the stars where the cool grass grows? Not even down by the river in the full moon light, you weren't fallin' in love in the middle of the night? Just movin' slow? That's a shame.

I actually always associated it to Sammy Davis Jr which is surprising given my locale and favorite genre of music.
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sancarlos wrote:
brian wrote:I associate it with Sammy Davis Jr because he was a global star and I've literally never heard of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Ha ha. Dude we come from different worlds!
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Looks like the outrage a few years ago hasn't worked. Shocking.
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Blaze Pizza has come to ABQ. One is open now. One is opening soon. I can't wait to try it. Gotta see what LeBron invested in.
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Johnnie wrote:Blaze Pizza has come to ABQ. One is open now. One is opening soon. I can't wait to try it. Gotta see what LeBron invested in.


Never heard of this. Looked it up, one is 1.5 miles away. Will have to check it out.
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Chik fil A is awesome. Sad when it's a Sunday and find them closed. Props to a company that puts their beliefs above the USD. I realize their approach offends but they back it up and you have to respect that. FWIW, I don't agree with their beliefs, in totality, but respect their position and lack of contradiction.
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Johnnie wrote:Blaze Pizza has come to ABQ. One is open now. One is opening soon. I can't wait to try it. Gotta see what LeBron invested in.


Haven't had blaze but hit up a Mod Pizza this week. Very nice and reasonably priced. Will return again.
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