The Fast Food Thread

Xevy

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One time in college I got an Iced Coffee from McDonald's and then a Spicy Chicken sandwich from Wendy's. When I got home I found a dead fly floating on my McCafe. So I poured it out. Then, out of sheer paranoia, I checked my spicy chicken. There was a dead fly in the lettuce. I just took off the lettuce and at that shit anyway. Motherfucker costs like $6.
 

Hekotat

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Speaking of Brazilian steakhouses, if you live near a Fogo De Chow sign up for a free birthday meal. You only have to pay for your drink and sides (if you want them but they are a space waster). You do have to buy a drink though.
 

Vaclav

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Speaking of Brazilian steakhouses, if you live near a Fogo De Chow sign up for a free birthday meal. You only have to pay for your drink and sides (if you want them but they are a space waster). You do have to buy a drink though.
Cool, been meaning to try one and been thinking of something to do for the wife's BDay - she's thinking of some Disney that day, and the nearest is in Orlando... Kismet and would help defray some of the costs of starting up our resident passes by having a cheap (but awesome) dinner.
 

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Mures

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I like Panera. My only gripe is that they are way overpriced. Their portions have shrunk quite a bit in the past 5-ish years, yet their prices have gone up quite a bit. $9.00 for half a cold turkey sandwich and 5oz of soup is a bit much.
I didn't find it that bad, it was 20.xx for the wife and I and she got some fancy large green tea. Any shit fast food is going to run $15 for two combos these days and $20 isn't far off what two combos at chik-fil-a costs, and this is made fresh to order.
 

McCheese

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I agree that Panera Bread is a bit overpriced for what you get. A lot of the sandwiches and soups are hardly better/more complex than something you could throw together at home or get out of a can, to be honest. The only things worth buying at Panera Bread are some of their more complex salads or their hot sandwiches, like the paninis and whatnot. It infuriates me that my sister loves to go to Panera Bread and get chicken noodle soup and a cold turkey sandwich.

It's true that the prices are roughly the same as other fast food places (12 - 15 dollars for two combo meals), but things like a spicy fried chicken sandwich or a big mac, etc., aren't things you can easily make at home and/or buy from the grocery store.
 

Khane

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You think a big mac is hard to make? It's thousand island dressing with a little mustard on 2 shitty hamburger patties...
 

Noodleface

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I really enjoy the new McDonalds commercials where it shows the worker carefully cracking a fresh egg and emptying it into the little disk-shaped thing on the griddle and cooking the egg.

Totally believable that they make their eggs like that.
 

Mures

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I also like the commercials where they are like we'll tell you whats really in our food, these people ask good questions, but you have to go do your own research if you want the answer. Go to our website where we get free advertising, they probably even ask for an e-mail at some point. I saw a video of Grant Imahoweveryouspellithara from mythbusters telling you what is in mcdonald's french fries and its something like 17 ingredients, the video explains the process of making the fries and when they get to the ingredient list they very quickly glance over it.
 

McCheese

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You think a big mac is hard to make? It's thousand island dressing with a little mustard on 2 shitty hamburger patties...
I didn't say it's "hard" to make, but it requires more effort than throwing together a cold turkey sandwich. You'd need to buy hamburger buns, hamburger patties, thousand island dressing, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, then cook the burgers. That's a lot more ingredients and effort than tossing together some deli turkey and two slices of bread. This is especially true considering hamburger patties, hamburger buns, and thousand island dressing aren't things I normally keep in my house, whereas bread and turkey are since those kinds of deli sandwiches are pretty common as lunch items.

I think most people have the opinion that when you go out you want to get something that you wouldn't normally make at home. Chicken noodle soup and simple cold sandwiches like turkey/ham are things that lots of people make every day at home. Maybe you make hamburgers all the time and have all the ingredients on hand, but I don't.
 

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Sometimes I just can't get home to eat, so I stop somewhere. That turkey sandwich at Panera on that bread with the sweet crust? That's good shit, regardless of the effort to build it. Something being hot doesn't make it better.
 

Khane

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Sometimes I just can't get home to eat, so I stop somewhere. That turkey sandwich at Panera on that bread with the sweet crust? That's good shit, regardless of the effort to build it. Something being hot doesn't make it better.
The turkey sierra sandwich is pretty dope indeed.
 

Joeboo

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Panera's best sandwich used to be their chicken salad on a croissant. Had awesome bean sprouts on it. Then there was that e-coli bean sprout scare several years ago and they stopped serving those, then they stopped serving sandwiches on croissants, then they stopped giving those sour dough rolls with their soup and switched to french bread. EVERYTHING WENT TO HELL.

I miss Panera from 5-10 years ago.
 

McCheese

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Panera's best sandwich used to be their chicken salad on a croissant. Had awesome bean sprouts on it. Then there was that e-coli bean sprout scare several years ago and they stopped serving those, then they stopped serving sandwiches on croissants, then they stopped giving those sour dough rolls with their soup and switched to french bread. EVERYTHING WENT TO HELL.

I miss Panera from 5-10 years ago.
Panera does tons of menu changes, most of which displease me. I haven't been there in quite a while because first they stopped serving the chili and cornbread I loved, then they got rid of my favorite salad.