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[fan_eunice]

Going off the not icky part of my post yesterday, I am curious now.

See, I love fast food. Yes, I know it is horrible for your health and other things and I shouldn't eat it (and I don't nearly as much as I used to). But they put crack in it or something. Share with me people, what is your favorite fast food meal?

Mine is, as I mentioned, the Western Bacon Cheeseburger from Carl's Jr. (if you do not have a Carls Jr. near you, it is a 1/4 pound cheeseburger with bacon, topped with onion rings and barbecue sauce) With the fried zucchini on the side instead of fries. I could die happy with one of those in my hand.

My go to comfort food fast food standard is a 1/4 pounder with cheese from McDs, no onions and with fries. Weirdly, taste wise I actually prefer a Whopper, but unless I am having a specific craving it does not hit my junk food spot as well.

When not in the mood for burgers at all, Taco Bell...crunchy taco supreme (how many depends on how hungry I am). Eating Taco Bell is a strange experience because it is the least food like food I know. Like, I'm eating it and looking at it and going 'this is not food, what the hell is this, I should be so grossed out right now....AND I NEED ANOTHER BITE RIGHT NOW'

Okay, now you. It's bad for you, it's bad for the world, there are a million reasons not to eat it at all...but what's yours?

Comments

[kuwdora]

omg, Becca, since I moved to the West Coast, In-n-Out Burger is, like, ecstasy . So delicious with the sauce and the real, fresh-cut potato fries and the burgers just. omg. make me the happiest thing ever.

omg waaant one now.

[fan_eunice]

In-n-Out, oh god. I try to avoid thinking about it too much, because refusing to ever live in California again means it is permanently off the table except for visits...but oh god so good.

California in general has an amazing burger culture. Can't throw a rock without hitting an amazing burger, especially in southern CA. I do miss that.

[klia]

The only fast foods I really ever crave are Arby's beef and cheddar and Wendy's crispy chicken nuggets. And it's a very good thing neither chain is nearby, too.

ETA: I forgot to mention White Castle cheeseburgers and onion rings, which aren't even in my state. Sad that every visit back east involves gorging on all the fast food we don't have here.

[fan_eunice]

Ooooooh, Arby's beef and cheddar. I never seem to live close enough to one to develop a habit, but I suspect I would if I did and I always get one when the opportunity presents.

[a_lanart]

There's a little cafe next to my local station and they do a to die for breakfast in a bun - bacon, egg, black pudding and mushrooms. Yum! Whoppers with bacon but no cheese are nice too but the breakfast bun is it for me!

[fan_eunice]

Oooooh, that sounds yummy!

I think we don't have proper fast food

[marymac]

The fastest fast food I can get is actually mostly good for me - Boojums veggie burrito, Oh dear god, my mouth thinks it is in heaven. They are life-savingly smart people who opened a burrito shop round the corner from where my uni stashes all the postgrads.

Or there's the indie burger bar beside my house, with their ridiculous big Irish beef burgers filed with wonderful things like caramelized onion chutney and aioli and rocket and blue cheese. And sweet potato chips. HEART ATTACK IN A BAG AND I DO NOT CARE.

Oh god, starving now.

Re: I think we don't have proper fast food

[fan_eunice]

And sweet potato chips.

...I AM SO JEALOUS OF YOU RIGHT NOW

Re: I think we don't have proper fast food

[marymac]

Food of the GODS

Re: I think we don't have proper fast food

[marymac]

Here's more fodder - Genoa fish & chips. Fish straight off the boat at the harbour up the road, chips you and see them cutting in the back. Best consumed walking back along the shore half-cut at 1am.

[violetisblue]

Three magic words: Kream 'n' Kone. Sadly I'm over a thousand miles away from the place but I could happily live on their fried clam platters. As for fast food I can actually drive to in less than 20 hours, I can't eat them anymore for health reasons but I used to have a weakness for Egg McMuffins. And Steak n'Shake.

[fan_eunice]

Egg McMuffins seem to be a common point of cross appeal. There is just something about them. :)

Steak & Shake, man. Just like I think Carl's Jr. needs to hurry up and franchise out of the west, I am of the equal belief that Steak & Shake needs to go cross country as well, because I MISS IT.

[twtd]

Sausage biscuits from McDonalds, which I only ever eat at Christmas because I'm rarely awake early enough to get them the rest of the year and walking to get fast food, when you pass a million better places to eat means that I've cut almost all of it from my diet since moving to Boston.

Chik-fil-a chicken nuggets and waffle fries, and chicken minis for breakfast. The return to a place with abundant chick-fil-as is one of the things I'm looking forward to in moving later this summer.

A coke with lime or a strawberry limeade or a Dr. Pepper with cherry and tater tots at Sonic.

We got an In-and-Out near my house in Vegas when I was in high school and I just do not see the appeal at all, but there would be drive thru lines snaking all the way across the Walmart parking lot.

[fan_eunice]

*nodnod* when I was living in the city without a car I hardly ate any fast food at all.

The fresh cut fries are a big part of the In-N-Out appeal, I think. Real potatoes! At fast food! Who knew!

I don't think I've ever eaten at a Chik-fil-a, but everyone I know who grew up with one swears by it, so I am gonna have to check it out some day when I am near one. I do have a Sonic in town here, so I believe I'll have to try that...I'm still not sure how I've managed to never eat at Sonic before.

[everysecondtuesday]

Sonic's cherry limeades are delish. I can't eat most fast food, but if I am on a road trip, I rely on Taco Bell and Waffle House (the second of which technically isn't fast food, but is still super fast). Does something like Moes Southwest Grill count? Their nachos and burritos are my favorite.

[fan_eunice]

Okay, that is the second rec for Sonic drinks. I am going there next time I am in town :)

Waffle House totally counts given it's ubiquitous presence along road trip routes, I would probably actually give Dennys the same status for the same reason (though not IHOP, since although it exists in the same genre, it's generally not found off just about every 'food next ten miles' exit on the interstate.

[some_stars]

Sonic cherry limeade. I don't even care about soda mostly, I'll take a Mexican Coke (because real sugar, not HFCS) if it's around and enjoy it but soda is never something I find myself actively wanting, and I rarely order it. But SONIC. I don't even know what they put in there, it's not like they're using fresh from-scratch cherry syrup or something, it's just fast food! BUT SO GOOD.

[prof_pangaea]

tiny steak and shake fries. also shakes, obvs.

popeyes. nnnngh their chicken is so delicious, and their biscuits! there is only ONE in albany and i'm never around it, but at least i know it exists if i ever NEED some fried chicken. nom.

[montanaharper]

Popeye's spicy fried chicken, with a side of cajun rice. The nearest Popeye's is about an hour drive from here, so I only get to go there a couple of times a year. :-(

Favorite burger: Burger King's A-1 Steakburger (no mayo). I've been getting it with no sides lately because while I love the onion rings in theory, they're never quite as good as I remember and they tend to upset my stomach. And BK's fries can't hold a candle to McDonald's.

Since I moved into the middle of nowhere (the nearest grocery store is half an hour away), I've been eating far less junk food, and most of it doesn't really even appeal anymore. For instance, I used to love Taco Bell, but I'm all meh about it now. I guess I've kind of replaced drive-thru junk food with make-at-home junk food—mostly the really good frozen pizza from Costco, which I have a couple of times a week.

[serrico]

Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich. There was a Wendy's on campus where I went to uni, and I lived off those things for four years. I don't do that *now*, fortunately, but the urge is still there. *drools*

There's a Canadian burger chain called Harvey's that makes fantastic burgers, but weirdly, the most cracklike thing about them is the dill pickles they use as garnish. BEST PICKLES EVER. (This may be a hereditary fast-food craving: when my mom was pregnant with me, she'd get pickle cravings for Harvey's pickles *specifically*, and would get a packet of them on the side of her order.)

[cereta]

I have been told that mother's cravings during pregnancy often correspond to the child's eating habits. Where the chicken and egg is, I'm not sure, but color me unsurprised that my daughter loves Thai.

[serrico]

Well, all the women in my immediate family are very fond of pickles in general and Harvey's pickles in particular, so it's *somewhere* in the genes. Biology is fun. *g*

[cereta]

The Whopper is my go-to. The burger is reasonably tasty, and it comes with all my favorite things: onions, pickles, ketchup, mayo, a little lettuce to round it out. I don't really care for their fries, so I just get it with a Diet Coke.

Lately, though, I've been going to Culvers. The burgers aren't as good (well, the actual burger is quite good, but it doesn't get as goopy delicious), but the frozen custard shakes are almost obscenely creamy.

[elynross]

Sonic's limeade (not cherry!) is my favorite fast food drink. Then I'm overly fond of Arby's Arby-Q sandwiches and potato cakes (and their reubens are pretty damn fine), or regular McD's hamburgers and french fries -- except when what I really want is a Big Mac. *g* And any of the volcano items on Taco Bell's menu, or Taco Bueno's bean burritos. Um.

I see people who say that they no longer even like fast food, after eating healthily for a while... I don't see that happening to me. I try not to indulge as often as I used to (I hardly ever eat out in a sit-down place, but drive-through is SO TEMPTY after work!), but regardless of everyone's attempts to make me ashamed and guilty about it, I don't believe that eating fast food now and then is a sin -- or even particularly bad for me.