Tuesday

Fast Food Restaurants. the good and the bad

 10/21/2023

So I’m watching all this stuff with Israel and my mind is filled with opinions and wisdom.  But my mind needs more so I’ve decided to use my wisdom by providing a very experienced review of both fast foods in the area and those quick markets we all use from time to time. 

Let us begin with the fast foods that are better than others.

The very best, and this will surprise, is from Hardees.  It is called a Fresno bacon burger, I don’t know why.  It does not come on an ordinary  hamburger bun, but instead as a sandwich  on Fresno bread, as it is called.  The best thing about this burger is that it comes with tomato and mayo on it, with the meat products perfectly fitting this hamburger “sandwich”.  This burger costs about $9.00.

The second best of the fast food burger offerings is from, surprisingly, Dairy Queen.  It is called a Ranch Bacon Burger.  This burger is offered with one or two hamburger patties.  It IS served on an ordinary hamburger roll but features, as it name implies, bacon.  Dairy Queen puts onion rings on this offering, cheese and tomato.  This costs around $8.00 for one patty.  I don’t know why they call it a “ranch” burger.

The third best “burger” available at local fast food restaurants near me, would be that fast food place that “has the meats”….which would be ARBYs.

Arbys is famed more for its famous curly fries than this “Steak and cheese”….a new offering on Arbys’ menus.  Arbys does, indeed, “have the meat”, but it had always been a weird kind of roast beef that I never much liked, although It would do in a hunger pinch.  Now Arby’s has a steak and cheese sandwich thing which is pretty good.  It is steak, but it will never be mistaken for sirloin.  The roll seems a bit big or else Arby’s should provide more meat.  This costs around $9.00 for one.

Beyond this, Wendys used to make a pretty good chili, mostly because fast food restaurants don’t usually serve such as chili and soups.  Now you can still get chili at Wendys but it is mediocre as I see it.  Wendy’s has pretty good hamburgers but win no great prizes.

There has been, of course, McDonalds and Burger King.  They  too are adding bacon to everything but there is always the quarter-pounder with cheese and the McDonald’s Big Mac.  Nothing great, but dependable.

We move on to those “Bodegas” that around my way are called “Wa-Wa” and “Royal Farms”.

Both of these establishments are convenient, located everywhere, and having all sorts of foods.  Royal Farms professes its chicken to be mighty and it is very good but on the level of KFC.  Wa-Wa is frequented in great numbers by construction and highway workers but their sandwiches are sometimes not so much.  Wa-Wa has taken to serving pizza of late, but only after 4 pm I think.  But if you’re looking for some pre-cut watermelon or pineapple, some readymade breakfast sandwich, some apples with peanut butter, these “bodega”  type stores might be your style.

That’s all for now.  Come back for my plan for my autobiography.

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