As to the dark meat, yeah Ill eat it if done correctly. for instance in Indian food they use mostly dark meat, stewed in different tasting curries, or those Indo-Chinese dishes like chicken 65, or any of that Indian shit. I also like dark meat when roasted to get most of that shit tasting fat to render from it. In the winter we roast chicken drumsticks all the time. I will buy a huge ass package of them, drizzle them with olive oil, seasonings, and roast them at like 400f. But keep the dark parts away from my damned nuggets.
I also used to work in McD's back in like 87' or 88' and the shit was a different ballgame back then. We used to actually cook the food to order, or at the slow times, cook like a few and leave the finished burgers in the warmer for 15 min. Now they did away with all that and have those shitty warming drawers for the meat. So by the time you get your burger, the meat closely resembles a nice thick dried out piece of cardboard. Its not even in the same ballpark anymore.
The best way I ever saw hamburgers stored was in this drive in A&W I worked at around the same time. It was a franchise place that was there since like the 50s I think. The owner used to make us make a square pan of beef broth we used to place on the back of the grill, then fried the burgers on the grill to a med rare and place them in the beef broth. Best fucking tasting burgers I probably ever had, fast food wise. As the day would drag on,the pan would infuse with all that fat and juices and seasonings from the burgers. We would take it out of the pan and flash grill it for a few seconds and place it on the bun.