Chick Fil A.
Fuck yeah bro! Fuck Chick-fil-A. My gay friends still go there and I’m absolutely floored by that!
Agreed, one of my friends is a trans woman and it blows my mind that she loves Chick-fil-A.
I still don’t understand it. Their chicken is mediocre, at best. And the sauces are all available elsewhere. Same with Raising Cane’s, except there the chicken is even blander and reliant on the sauce, which again is a generic mayo and ketchup based fry sauce you can make at home.
Agreed. Went there once and was like…that’s it?
In my area, Popeyes is so much better too.
I love Popeyes. So damn good.
Popeyes is great, and consistent. Easily the best chicken sandwich as well, especially the spicy version. I wonder why they don’t use the spicy chicken in the spicy version in addition to the spicy sauce. I assume the two throw it off somehow, too much pepper, etc.
Get their apple pie.
Also, Popeyes fries > Arbys fries.
Burger King - Absolute worst of the whole fast food genre.
I’ll take Burger King over McDonald’s any day. I get a craving once in a while that can only be satisfied by their onion rings.
Not my favourite but at least they haven’t been hit as hard by shrinkflation
The last two times I went to Burger King, I ended up throwing up. Two separate locations, multiple years apart. I will never go back.
Same, but with McDonald’s.
I haven’t had Burger King in 20 years.
It was my eighteenth birthday and I had a bad experience
You, me, and more than half the US military. That shit is like the exclusive fast food on every military base everywhere.
That was my entire childhood experience of fast food
McDonald’s.
McDonald’s. If you can call that a restaurant
McDonald’s. Worst most overpriced saltiness yet bland ass food.
Literally all of them. I just go to the grocery store now for food.
The Cheesecake Factory is somehow a nationwide tourist trap — go somewhere exciting and then eat at the same overpriced trash faux-destination restaurant you could’ve eaten at back home.
I don’t understand cheesecake factory. It literally does nothing well. Jack of all trades. They do almost every type of food and yet somehow all of it is bland and boring. It’s a nice restaurant for people too afraid to try new food
Olive Garden is nasty
I went there once like maybe 10 years ago or so and I was shocked at how bad it was. Got the lasagna it was straight up Stouffer’s. Tasted like garbage. I sent it back. I’ve never done that in a restaurant before first time in my life. Plus the soup tasted like it came from a can. The whole restaurant is just straight up gross.
One particular local place: Went to this Chinese buffet (creatively named “Chinese Buffet”) and there were cockroaches in the fried rice. Never ate there again.
Chain restaurants: Fuck Olive Garden. The only thing amazing about the place is they somehow managed to fuck up pasta, which is only amazing because it’s hard to fuck up pasta.
If you define the term “Restaurant” generously, it’s McD.
I haven’t been to a Taco Bell since before Covid started, and I feel pretty good about keeping it that way.
You don’t go to Taco Bell, you end up at Taco Bell.
Having worked at almost every fast food restaurant, the only thing I can say for Taco Bell is that nothing gets “cooked” in store. Browning a tortilla or heating up a bag of beef or beans really doesn’t count.
I guess technically the cinnamon twists and nacho chips are fried fresh each morning. If you want to recreate the cinnamon twists, those are literally deep fried twisty pasta. It starts out about ⅛" in diameter, and 1" in length, and puffs up in the deep fryer to the big twists. You do need something to press them into the oil, or they will try to jump out like popcorn.
Wendy’s. Used to be my favorite. Then I moved to a town where they were all really, really awful. But that town had a Rally’s, so overall significant upgrade.
That’s a shame. I like Wendy’s too.
Best fast food nuggies
I miss their soup and salad bars
Panda Express. Like warmed over cans of LaChoy from the 1970s.
Yeah… while your description is accurate, I’m still gonna eat there. Because sometimes warmed cans of LaChoy just hit that spot.
My niece suggested this place for lunch today and was quickly shouted down by the rest of the kids here. They know!
Five Guys.
One was opening up near me and my friends were all excited to try it. Paid 14 bucks for a 3 dollar Steak n Shake Burger, a medium drink, and the most limp, bland, and unappealing fries I’ve ever had, and I’ve had microwaved frozen fries before.
Never gone back, and I never intend to.
Five Guy worship is a complete cult. It’s pedestrian, boring food that successfully hyped people up to the point they’re willing to spend a week of grocery money for a soulless burger and fries. Where I live, for a grown man to have a proper burger and fries at that clown show is like $27 a f’king go after tax
Any chain restaurant.
