Your Favorite Fast Food Restaurant

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.

ergh if you say so... anyway, thank goodness it's extinct!

see i quite like woodlice they always seem like affable guys to me but at that size...no

haha

exactly

Giant isopods are not extinct. Just stay out of the deep Atlantic.

yes, thank goodness they're extinct!

There's probably one in your bathtub right now.

Don't mess with a giant isopod, they eat dead whales.

http://www.xoggoth.org/images/woodlouse.jpg

xp They probably draw the line at going to Little Chef though.

Actually I remember being in a Little Chef and seeing a guy who looked like John Lennon.

bullet holes, stench of decay kind of thing?

burger king : elvis
little chef : john lennon
arthur treacher's : ke$ha

oh wait, she's not dead.

yet

Greggs: Franz Ferdinand

Spud U Like: Ian Curtis

Wimpy: Jimi Hendrix

Greggs: Franz Ferdinand

just Bob tbh

Pret: Joyce Grenfell
3 Quid a Pasty are You Fucking Having a Giraffe? Company: Robert Maxwell

Dixy Chicken: Dixie Chicks

Pizza Hot 2 Go: Asian Dub Foundation

Square Pie: Geri Halliwell

Bagel Nash: Kate Nash

Square Pie: Geri Halliwell

yeah i heard that rumour too

Chicken Cottage: George Michael

NV i will rep for the satisfaction of a gregg's pasty in certain circumstances but it might as well be a different food to what you get at the west cornwall outfit. yeah it's £3 but so are most lunches and that's for the large.

tbh I kvetch but it's partially comedy class prejudice and partly cos the only "gourmet" pasty i had from one of these kinda shops was pretty underwhelming for the cash.

I've never had a cornish pasty that's tasted a tenth as good as the ones i remember from devon and cornwall when i was a kid. modern pasties are totally under-peppered

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.