Your Favorite Fast Food Restaurant

we don't have any of these places in Wisconsin you indie prick

if this poll was for which name sounded the most like slang for the male genetalia 'Frankie & Bennys' would win at a canter

with maybe a respectable showing for 'Little Chef'

wanna get in your Bagel Nash without spending my chedder

xpost LOOOOOL

Even as a non-Britisher I have eaten at many of these during forays into the UK's culinary exclusion zones. I really like Greggs (but can someone explain a macaroni pie for me, I must have missed that one?), Prêt à Manger, Wimpy, and West Cornwall Pasty Company.

I really miss Prêt sandwiches, in particular. Or really any British sandwiches. Tesco sandwiches. Whatever, it's better than having to go to Subway or else eating hot dogs that look like they've been through the dishwasher.

When M&S was still in Paris, I used to sometimes go there and get sandwiches...

so, uh, what were you wearing when you got those sandwiches? (if it's not too personal a question ;))

Fcuk if I remember.

are these made up?

yes, someone made them up. that's generally how businesses come into being

i got 'em from wikipedia. uk-based places

I only know Pret and Wimpy. What's the Pasty chain like?

it's a chain of slightly oversized food carts, usually stationed near transportation links and selling several varieties of pasty, which i generally find delicious and enough for a smallish dinner

I haven't really done that kind of food in ages but I used to like pasties well enough in the UK.

West Cornwall Pasty Company does pretty solid grub. They're not shy with their HP sachets either, 'cept I always end up struggling to hold the pasty firmly in the paper bag with one hand, whilst failing to administer said brown sauce with the other.

Sticky fingers.

they're always too hot.

His sticky fingers?

are all these in the UK?

West Cornwall Pasty Company are a piss take tbh, good luck selling pasties at 3 quid a pop lads.

Frankie and Benny's - pish, never ever have exactly what i want
Greggs are a reliable lunchtime pleasure but seem to have discontinued the egg mayo and bacon baguette, twats
Ramsden's is a piss-take for tourists
lol Little Thief
Cookies? get tae fuck
Wimpy not as good as i remember but i need to rediscover the bean burger
fuck a Spudulika
don't know the rest really

this is a piss-take right?

Greggs by a fucking league out of these but

Dixy Chicken begs the question how fucking hard can it be to make good chicken batter you shitehawks?

Is it naptime or are you just hungry, NV?

just had quite a nice curry but these are mostly reprehensible "fast" food joints

I went to Wimpy once. It was good, Wimpy.

I had a burger.

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I went to a Wimpy once too. It was somewhere in Essex and I had the veggie burger. I remember it being good but I was v v drunk at the time so it might have been shit.

I haven't been to Wimpy in eons but it was truly vile back then.

West Cornwall Pasty Company

There was a Pasty stand inside Kings Cross that might have been this one that was pretty good.

the veggie burger (spicy bean-burger) used to be A.

last time i had a regular wimpy tho the onions tasted like bits of cellophane that had been sat in lukewarm water for a week and the burger matched it for flavour

I remember being very entertained by the real plates and stuff but like I said - very very drunk. Might have been Ilford.

The only one of these I've ever had is Pret a Manger. I used to get sandwiches there fairly often when I worked near one in NYC.

My favourite disgusting fast food meal is a Whopper meal, but don't see BK so I guess I'll go for Pret, the middle class option.

in the u.s., BK is a high-end brand of athletic footwear

shinehead wrote an entire album about their sneakers, oh, i mean "trainers", sorry

I haven't been to Wimpy in eons but it was truly vile back then.

― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:19 (41 minutes ago)

They did have the truly inedible 'Bender in a Bun'.

oh and they sell a bacon and cheese halfpounder
http://www.wimpy.uk.com/images/products/HalfPounder%20Bacon%20%20Cheese.jpg
...which looks like two brake discs with yellow plastic sandwiched between

oh man

I used to work at Burger King, if anyone has Burger King-related questions

Their Whopper is indeed the bomb

xp Ingredients: bacon, 2 x burgers, 'Kaiser' bun, cheese slice (processed), onions (dehydrated), tomato ketchup

the onions look the most appealing in that photo tbh

That picture's from their website, where they're trying their damnedest to make the food look as appetising as possible.

i wanna know why its insouciant cheddar tongue is mocking me

http://i.imgur.com/tMNb1.gif

haha

could totally go for a cornish pasty but will settle for an empanada from porto's.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2120/2311122432_b3ff1f9399_m.jpg

http://www.portosbakery.com/

wow, i just learned via wikipedia that empanadas originated in Europe. for some reason i thought they were an indigenous Peruvian creation.

Square Pie looks pretty good, but I've never been to one. Anyone have any experiences?

the wimpy half pounder and the giant isopod: separated at birth?

http://www.wimpy.uk.com/images/products/HalfPounder%20Bacon%20%20Cheese.jpg

http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/assets/images/giant-isopod-front-se42.jpg

Did the Peruanos eat wheat?

Giant isopod probably less gristle-y.

many thanks for the future nightmare provisions /: turn images off turn images off turn images off

I love a BK but my Minnesotan work buddy refuses to eat there in the UK because fuck paying 12 dollars for a BK burger basically

i like to imagine that the isopod is really a gentle, sweet lapdog and not the cartoon-evil hellspawn from the murky depths it appears to be.

good Greggs pasties = sausage, beans and cheese; the chicken fajita one they sometimes do, and the christmas one

Of that lot, West Cornwall Pasty Company by a nautical mile.

Yes, it is not as good as proper pasties and they are not fit to even dice, say, Portreath Bakery's potatoes, but it is good food, effective, easily found, satisfying, tasty and not actually hugely pricey if you get a vegetarian option.

Though, had it been on offer, I would probably have picked Pasty Presto as my preferred fast food pasty source of choice, though I know this inspires cries of "abomination!" and "heresy!" because they put carrots in some of their pasties. But in a spicy Moroccan chickpea curry pasty, they can put carrots in if they like and I'm not going to complain. If they ever open a branch in London, I'm in trouble, because OMG their Rhubarb and Custard pasty is some kind of next level deliciousness I could easily become addicted to.

Also, WCPC because of the pirate on their logo. Like, either that is the hugest pasty ever made, or the pirates in West Cornwall are really really REAAAALLLY small.

i am still slightly puzzled at the notion of Cornish "pirates" surely these dudes were really smugglers and the kind of dudes who beat shipwrecked sailors to death on the beach trying to cash in on the modern "gosh aren't pirates cool/hilarious" internet horror?

I am not going to get into a historical discussion of seafaring practices and pirates vs smugglers vs wreckers (the first two may have some overlap, but you're talking about wreckers, who were generally uncommon, historically, in seafaring communities) on a thread about fast food, especially with someone who is just trying so hard to be cynical about everything.

The only thing I find weird about the logo use of the pirate, is that pasties are actually associated so heavily with tin-mining, rather than seafaring. But whatevs.

aww you're no fun. and i'm the least cynical person i know.

I'd be a lot more fun if I were sitting on Falmouth Docks, eating a pasty. But I'm cranky when I'm in pasty withdrawal.

also tbh when i come home from a long day of being endlessly patient and professional there's nothing more satisfying than having a pop at over-priced pies. the posh pasty shop in Hull shut in under a month is all i'm sayin

OMG Portreath Bakeries delivers.

http://www.portreathbakery.co.uk/

Only the meat ones, unfortunately (which is a damn shame as their cheese and onion pasty was one of the best pasties I have had in my LIFE) but god DAMN. Want.

you'd think they'd offer clotted cream as a side tbh if i'm gonna order half a gross of scones

roffling at cocktail pasties, idk why

gentrification of real man tin-miner food is the joek mainly i guess

like you're supposed to throw away the handle, not gonna happen with one of those is it?

why would they only offer delivery for the meat varieties?

i am pondering the idea of some kind of savoury surprise booze pasty now tho

feel like somewhere in the vicinity of Port Vale somebody is opening a doomed gourmet oatcake shop as we speak

Yeah, it's actually odd that they don't do the cream-tea-to-takeaway thing, I've certainly seen that in other bakeries.

Cocktail pasties is such a delightful oxymoron, isn't it?

fuck i had no idea you were supposed to chuck the handle

southern softies dolefully chewing away

originally it was designed because the miners' hands would be dirty so they held it by the seam and chucked it when they'd finished. also believe they could be made partitioned with a savoury filling in one half and a pudding in the other?

You're only supposed to throw the knob away if you've been digging all day in an arsenic rich tin seam. Soft Sowsneks (Cornwall is further south than you!) are allowed to eat the crust.

tbh the crust isn't much fun unless you've got brown sauce handy tho

Due to a local colloquialism, swede can be referred to and advertised as turnip whilst in a pasty, but only swede may appear in a pasty.[6]

Whatever you do, BEWARE THE CORNISH PASTY INSPECTOR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZnutkySWi4

pasty wiki has been thoroughly illuminating and will enrich my weekly reduced ginsters from tesco after football experience no end

Ginsters are only actual Cornish Pasties on a technicality.

I wonder if they'd send a box of pasties to canada.

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Greggs near my work just had a refit and now offers eating in facilities if I am prepared to pay VAT on my mexican bandito baguette. Also they now put some doughnuts etc on shelves within reach of the grasping public, so that we can put it into a paper bag ourselves (i.e. it has gone delice de france style posh).