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ok i know mcdonald's and all that but they're really good! also fast food companies make most of their money from beverages t/f? (i need to know so i can feel better abt eating at them OCCASIONALLY)

― i am hungry and have nothign to do right now, Friday, 11 March 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

sorry. . .although I can still say that I eat way too much fast food I've managed not to touch McDonald's since I saw Supersize Me. Gotta start somewhere. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

From what I know, the amt of soda syrup in the sody pop is minimal, and then there's the carbonated water, so I guess they (the ristorantes) get big bux from charging the $1.49 for the king sized cup. & it's also probably why they often don't care about free refills.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

i ate KFC for 5 days out of 7 last week.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I hit Sonic all the time just b/c of their ice.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

you don't even get free refills in most places in the UK. yes, they mark up their drinks a lot (that's not to say they don't make a tremendous amount of money from the food also)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I had these once while on the road. It was basically bar quality fried chicken, which is actually pretty impressive for McDonald's.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

i forgot kfc exists. how do they compare with CHICKEN SELECTS.

i saw supersize me, but i don't really believe mcdonald's is any different from 90% of fast food chains out there. in fact i believe they've been quite a bit more cooperative w/ peta than kfc, for example.

sonic is v good; though avoid the boston cream pie shakes which taste like toothpaste. don't know what mz mzery is on abt re the ice.

― long john silver, Friday, 11 March 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

whaaa??? their ice are these awesome little pellets that have spoiled me so I never get drinks from any other fast food place. You can buy their ice by the bag.

I think as a corporation McDs is one of the most horrendous. Like Wal-Mart, where I refuse to shop no matter how dire my need for discount items might be.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

its because Sonic has CRUSHED ICE!!!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

yeah kinda crushed-up pellets.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

i don't really believe mcdonald's is any different from 90% of fast food chains out there

The movie makes no claims to the contrary. I think he says more than once that he only picked McDonald's because it's the most well-known.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yeah -- Sonic ice and Sonic tater tots. A match made in heaven.

I haven't eaten chain fast food in a while, but that's not to say I haven't eaten cheap, shitty food that was prepared very quickly.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

aw drinks with crushed ice is so great i miss it.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

you get those in Cafe de Corals in hong kong..

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

There's a frozen custard place by my house that makes real vanilla fountain cokes with crushed ice. It's heavenly.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm not crazy about McDonalds but I am tempted to start eating there just because Morgan Spurlock is an annoying assberet.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

the fact that I always felt sick after eating there made it that much easier to cross off my list.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

these are for pansies who can't handle the mcnuggets.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

haha OTM. Either eat McDonald's food or don't, but get off the fence!

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Sonic Sonic Sonic. Sonic Sonic Sonic Sonic, Sonic Sonic Sonic -- Sonic Sonic Sonic Sonic? Sonic Sonic: Sonic Sonic Sonic Sonic.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Cherry Limeade!
I really really like the table tents at McDonald's promoting the Chicken Selects in English and Spanish. Gentleman on the English side looks as though he's going to exxxpllooode from Chicken Select Tasty Sensationzzz.
But I'd still rather eat McNuggets.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

It depends whether you go to McDonalds by choice or out of convenience/necessity. I mean, the Chicken Selects are great for when you didn't want to go there at all and would like to eat something you can at least kind of pretend constitutes actual food.

What's this I hear about a double Filet o' Fish offer? That sounds so massively up my alley.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Said table tent is a profile of the "chickenthusiast."
I was hoping a google image search for "chickenthusiast" would bring up a picture of this guy's face on the card, it really is tooo much. Xpost

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

CT has no Sonic! Unless it's in Fairfield County, & eff driving 90 minutes for crushed ice & tater tots.

McDonald's burgers make me stomach sick a few hours after scarfing them down. Burger King burgers (Whopper patties, not the Angus) make me stomach sick almost immediately. Wendy's does me right. Also, I can get salad instead of fries, which is choice.

Though, really - chicken chicken chicken chicken (chicken chicken) (chicken chicken chicken) (sic). CHICKEN!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I think half of my nostalgia for my CO high school is directed at the Sonic immediately across the street. For a while it was meant to be a closed campus, and there was this eight-foot-tall dude called Big Mike who was theoretically supposed to stop you from going, but he turned the whole thing into kind of a mob racket and let people go if they'd bring him food. How many groups of people could get by him was limited by how hungry he was, but it was usually like four (burger, fries, soda, shake).

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Chick Fil-A Chick Fil-A Chick Fil-A Chick Fil-A!

their chicken is good, it even looks real, and the fries are waffle shaped.

― eman (eman), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

I ate a lot of these when they first came out. They're tasty, but no more so than the buffalo chicken strips that you'll find in any sports bar.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

chick-fil-a is awesomeness indeed.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

"Any sports bar" = one of very few places-to-eat that sound even less pleasant than McDonalds!

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

i thought this thread was going to be about some compilation put together by the philadelphia chicken

:-(

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

xpost True. But "bar" sounds ok. And "pub" sounds fantastic. All I want in the world is a pint, a basket of chicken strips, and a jukebox featuring The Clash.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

x-post
The Philadelphia Chickens are great too! (if we are talking about the same thing, ams, which I think we are)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

There's a sports bar about a block away from my place that serves quite tasty pub food, including buffalo chicken strips.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Chick-Fil-A in Tupelo — food too salty.

Chicken Selects — can't go there because of that idiotic ad campaign with the the guy warning imaginary coworkers away from his food. If McDonalds food makes you hallucinate, no thanks. (Wait, that may the best thing they have going for them...)

Sonic — the extra long chili dog and a large order of onion rings is Junk Nirvana. Skip the ice pellets, I'll take a fresh lime slush.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

America needs a loose meat sandwich chain.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, with each location next door to a "vacuum out your car" kiosk. Can you imagine trying to drive and eat one of those at the same time?

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

The little bits of meat would fall to the floor next to the old abandoned french fries creating a fast food netherworld of unspeakable beauty.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Whaddaya mean by "loose meat" -- like, Arby's?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

loose ground beef. Not formed into patties, basically.
There are two great local loose meat places in Columbia, MO.
Mugs Up (who also brew their own Root Beer!) and The Lee Street Deli
(aka LSD!!!)

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I haven't had a loosemeat yet, but I read the article about them in Gourmet by the Sterns, and I'm looking forward to the day.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

The meat's like a sloppy joe without the sauce. The sandwiches are a lot cheaper because there's less meat so you end up eating three or four.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

sounds disgusting.

sloppy joe's are only tolerable because of the sauce.

― fuckersq, Friday, 11 March 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

The key is to not drain off too much grease.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

They have a lot of SEASONING, though, also WAY BETTER THAN ANYTHING AT MICKEY-DEEEZZZZ.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

From the article I gathered that the seasonings are kinda pressure-cooked into the meat.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

SLOPPY JOE SLOP-ah SLOPPY JOE

I like sloppy joes with ridiculously thick (drunkenly) hand cut slices of sharp cheddar and cole slaw. McDonalds, put a Mc in front of that, assclowns, and maybe I shall once again patronagicize your crumbtacular establishment!

― nicka "loose meat" licious, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

i have a coupon stuck to my fridge. buy 3 chicken selects, get 3 free!! im gonna try them tonite on the way to aaron w's dj gig.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Everything about the Chicken Selects ad campaign is insanely vomit-inducingly retarded. The people getting all whoop-ass "defending" their Chicken Selects, the conspiracy guy all "that's what they WANT YOU to think"...apparently their first requirement for hiring marketing/advertising directors is "MUST BE TOTAL DOUCHEBAG". For all I know, Chicken Selects could taste like the ambrosia of the Gods of the Times of Olde flowing forth from the juicy loins of Halle Berry's excited vadge, but with advertisements like that, forever a mystery it will remain to me.

― nza bza bo-bza banana fanna fo fza, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

mcdonald's ads are incredibly fresh, and hip.

― ad major, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Why can't ALL fast food commercials have HOOTIE AND PSYCHEDELIC COWBABES!?!?!?

― nza want sloppy joe!, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Ten, twelve years ago, advertising was clever and exciting. Now, every ad campaign is a variation on "Our product is so awesome IT WILL TOTALLY MAKE YOU ACT A FOOL." Fuck that noise.

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

My ads for the loose meat franchise would point out that these sandwiches make America stronger and more secure.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mikebrowne.com/blog/media/1/20040813-01-big-ass-burger.jpg

― eman (eman), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I think they should be called chicken fingers.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

i really want to eat one of those massive burgers... although i still don't understand them - isn't the whole point of a burger is that you can fit your mouth right around it and take a giant bite at it??? rather than something that you can't properly bite and kind of quarry into?

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

You're not American, are you?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

sloppy joe's--i eat them like once every three years, but they make me extraordinarily happy, like i'm doing something really wrong and am getting away with it.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

the commercial for these is a guy saying that mcdonalds is a big conspiracy and his friend shaking his head at him while he chows down on chicken parts.

xpost sloppy joes = vegi ground round and a can of manwich on a onion roll = so great

― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

I hate how Sloppy Joes smell. What is that smell???

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

tomato sauce?

― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

spencer, if you're thinking back to the sloppy joes in your jr high cafeteria then NO THOSE WERE NOT PROPER S. JOES. also it was not real chalupa, pizza or "rib-a-que."

― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

cheese balls!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Haha, yeah that's exactly what I'm thinking of. There was some smell on Sloppy Joe days that I just couldn't deal with. Those were like the only meals I ever skipped until I went to college!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 12 March 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

re chick-fil-a: i won't willingly and/or knowingly give jesus freaks my money. ergo, i won't eat there.

(though it IS good ... and there aren't any chick-fil-a's in NYC, so it's easy to stand on principle here. not to mention that NYC has ranch-1, which is pretty much the same as chick-fil-a and aren't owned by xtian fundies!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 12 March 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

miss misery OTM re: sonic ice! i could have a cherry limeade every day and not get sick of it. unfortunately the actual food there is kinda meh, except for the tater tots.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 12 March 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

i found a new tv commercial crush. you know the one for chicken selects where the black guy who i think just finished playing basketball is sitting down enjoying his chicken selects, and that corny white guy is sitting next to him being annoying? yes yes the annoying whiteboy. so cute.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 17 March 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

This stuff is definitely much better than the average Mickey-d's fare. Not that I'd eat it normally, but when on the road there aren't many options. It used to be Wendy's, now McD's has trumped them. Also, they improved their coffee a spot.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 17 March 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

chik-fil-a is awesome not only for the chicken, but for the wonderful selection of sauces. their buffalo and buttermilk ranch sauces are tremendous for their fast food status.

also, waffle fries, guys.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

True dat. I forgot about Chik-Fil-A, but you don't see those that often.

Also, I think their name will ultimately keep them down -- it's pronounced like "Chick Fillet" but it looks like "Chick Filla," which sounds gross.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

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