Are you sick of fast food bull****?Follow

Avoid the ground beefish stuff and the refried beans and you're reasonably safe. Obviously, there's no much need where I live to ever go to a Taco Bell, but every once in a while they're like the only place open 24 hours within a decent distance, and their food is pretty cheap for the quantity you get.

That's as close to praise you'll ever hear from me for that place. McDonalds is just horrific. Every time I'm forced to go there (usually because I'm with a group, with kids, and the kids demand it), I end out doing the same thing: I scan the menu. And scan it some more. And then some more. Desperately hoping that something on it will even look appealing to me. I usually go with some form of chicken sandwich because that's the most likely to not be much worse than the same thing anywhere else. There's just something about McDonalds food. It's tailored way too much to kids tastes (which I find pretty disgusting). They've attempted over the years to put items out that are supposed to appeal to adults, but they pretty much always fail. I remember having hope for the Big and Tasty back in the day, but it ended out being neither. I also don't understand their insistence on avoiding putting any actual ingredients in any of their burgers. How freaking hard is it really to put actual lettuce and tomatoes and onions and maybe even pickle on a bun? Every burger there is meat between buns with some kind of sauce with some bits of condiments floating in it. Disgusting..

I've found that the quality of a franchise varies quite a bit as you go from city to city. I think I've mentioned it before in these forums but locally the McDonald's is horrible, and BK is not too bad. But a few cities I've had to stay in for work, their BK was just plain nasty and their McD was not too bad.

I haven't been to either in almost a year though. The local Subway is better than the Quiznos I've tried the next town over, even though many people seem to love Quiznos and despise Subway. For toasted subs I prefer the local Mancinos. But they are very expensive. Occasionally they'll have special 50% off days, and then everyone in town goes there and they are packed (in store pickup only on those days, no delivery).

While I'm not going to sit hear and insist that McDonald's food isn't terrible, you are incorrect as to the content of their current menu.

Edited, Apr 6th 2012 7:12pm by Turin

If you'd just eat some chicken nuggets with some honey once in a while, you'd be a happier person.

Also, I usually get all those things you want for your burger removed from mine(I can't stand onions, the lettuce is always soggy and I only like pickles by themselves). The only thing you listed that I'd want on a burger is the tomato, and I don't like to over-complicate it for the workers. Hell, as it is, we consider it a victory if our order has the right number of sandwiches most places around here, so more complication is usually bad.

Taco Cabana is a pretty good fast food taco place with a liquor license!

Haven't tried yet.

Come to Louisiana, we have drive-thru daquiri shops and po boys. Not at the same place, usually, but often on the same block.

Do they still bend the straw down and tape it to the lid? That always kind of cracked me up.

Maybe it's because I eat them on a fairly regular basis? I really like refried and black beans.

I have never seen that one. The law now basically states you have to have the lidon your cup and you cannot have the straw in the cup. If the straw is in the cup or the lid is off, you automatically get a DUI if pulled over.

However, there's nothing about whether you can surreptitiously remove the lid and take sips and then put it back on. And Louisianans wonder why we have the highest car insurance rates in the country.

Edited, Apr 11th 2012 5:09pm by Bigdaddyjug

When you live with the chance of getting "I think I might die" diarrhea every day then that threat isn't much of one. Although there is something oddly tasty about their tacos. Of course I kinda like McDonalds also. On a side note I enjoy durian candy, see image below.



-shrug- A friend compares it to, how should I put it, the overpowering odor of a tom cat's **** in a musty basement. I find it good though, doesn't taste too good if you bite into it though.

How the hell is that possible?

Iuno, we don't have Mexicans in Britain? By Mexicans I mean the people, we have Mexican restaurants, though...

That being said I've had Enchiladas and Fajitas before. Maybe Tacos didn't make the transition to this side of the pond. That or I'm looking in the wrong places?

Edited, Apr 17th 2012 10:23pm by Nilatai