Fast Food: Search & Destroy

By the way, the Spicy Beanburger was an invention of the Wimpy Burger Chain over here in good old Blighty. These days Burger King do them as they bought out all but a few independent members of said chain.

Wimpy also does (did?) a round sausage in a burger known as a Bender. What times we lived in back in the seventies. That said, nothing better than seeing a gig at the Brixton Academy and then having a Bender in the Wimpy.

If you are in Australia DO NOT have a KFC, I don't know what happened in the journey over there but it isn't the KFC of the UK.

Speaking of the (insert Southern US State)/Dixie Fried Chicken phenomenon. The best name I've ever seen is the chain in Manchester known as "McTucky". Utter, UTTER, genius.

They have this enormous Golden Krust warehouse in the Bronx. I see it everytime I take the train up to White Plains. And yer right ... Golden Krust patties are the best cheap-eats in NYC (they have a stand under Grand Central).

They also had one of the most hilarious ad campaigns a few years back, when I guess they were starting to franchise and they were trying to get West Indians to set up Golden Crust franchises (because the ads were on an NYC West Indian/ethnic radio station). Some guy with a really thick, exaggerated Jamaican accent, shouting "IMAGINE! WHAT A WONDERFUL TING! GOLDEN CRUST PATTIES! ALL OVER AMERICA! YES!" Ads don't get better than that, I tell yas.

I woke up this morning, thinking about a Popeye's Spicy 3-piece with a biscuit and the red beans and rice. Its an atrocious meal on so many levels, but damnit if I didn't want it. But frugality will win out and I will wait until payday Thursday.

Sonic brings the value menu just in time.

Do you think that McDonald's gives you good value for your money? Like, if you were poor, would you eat there a few times a week?

i am poor and i never eat there so

dosa place that sells giant vegetable curry for $2.50 oth

i was poor last year and it was definitely more tempting in terms of value for money IF i had to eat out because i didn't have time or groceries at home to pack food, but rather than getting to the point of "a few times a week" i'd just try to make sure to have more rice & beans or spaghetti leftovers around, which is cheaper and better for you in the long run. (now i am at a point where i can stick to the same weekly budget as last year and have a little money left over, but i still cook cheap food and eat leftovers most of the time. and the only fast foods i eat repeatedly are $3 big pieces of pizza, $2 bagels, and $5 burritos, none of which cost more than mcdonald's.)

(i mean "more tempting" than, say, a place where a sandwich or salad is $7-10. there weren't any really cheap places where i lived.)

I just ate Wendy's for the first time in a long time -- they have these "natural-cut fries" now that are pretty good; however, I made the mistake of ordering the value chicken sandwich, not realizing it was different from the fillets and clearly made from that mashed up chicken goop. I can't decide if the sickness I feel now is real or psychological.

Sonic's Summer of Shakes is a dangerous thing.

the chicken burger at larkburger is so goddamn amazingly delicious and beautifully presented, it's the best chicken sandwich i've ever had. i have no idea how any of their other food is because i order the chicken burger and nothing else every time- i don't want any other food messing up its perfection. maybe more fast casual than fast food. it's not really a burger either, it's a spicy chicken breast marinated in adobo served with l, t, o, and cilantro. damn.

Shake Shack cuts out its human cashiers at Astor Place NYC. Your "order ready" goes to your phone (not mine).

http://gothamist.com/2017/10/02/shake_shack_ditches_humans.php

i am sitting in my car at a sonic right now... the layout of this restaurant is so tilting. you pull right up to a touchscreen but you can't just type in yr order, you have to use the old school shitty intercom thing anyway? then eventually when yr carhop walks up with yr corn dog or whatever, they have to maneuver the order to you in an odd, painstaking manner bc your window is entirely blocked by the screen thing? whyyyyyyyy

had no idea Hot 'n Now still existed. Granted, it's just one location, but I ate at my local one at a lot in the early 90s.

love thinking of old obscure fast food joints.

also, one of my favorite "wtf" fast food stories: https://www.cracked.com/article_28014_the-crazy-story-fake-burger-king-in-pittsburgh.html

and....this one

https://www.lamag.com/digestblog/sweet-dixie-kitchen-in-long-beach-is-serving-popeyes-chicken-again/

I miss Long John Silver.

My sister worked at one many years ago and used to smuggle out those crispy bits of crust for me, the ones that accumulated at the bottom of the case. It was actually quite a complicated operation .

Big deal, that stuff was such a hot commodity that theft was immediate grounds for firing!

It was a different time, the dying days of the Cold War.

I go online and now I see that the remaining LJS sell the crumbles.

But BITD, they were NOT TO BE EATEN! Customers asked for extra crumbles all the time.

I now realize the managers probably took them home at night and sold them on the black market.