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has anyone tried the Burger King impossible burger? I believe it’s being tested in one market and will be available nationwide later this year. White Castle also has the impossible burger but there isn’t one near me. I am looking forward to trying them.

 

In general, I've read great things about the Impossible Burger.

 

Impossible Whopper boosted Burger King’s foot traffic by double digits

 

Burger King’s plan to roll out a meatless Whopper nationwide could help boost sales by double digits, new data shows.

 

After just 29 days of testing the plant-based Impossible Whopper in 59 eateries in the St. Louis area, the fast food giant saw foot traffic pop by 18.5%, according to inMarket Insights.

 

That’s compared with a 1.75% decline in traffic at the company’s other restaurants elsewhere in the US, said inMarket Insights, which analyzed location data of over 50 million Comscore-verified users.

 

The inMarket Insights data helps explain Burger King’s decision in April to add a veggie burger from Impossible Foods — which bleeds like a real beef burger — to its menu after just one month of testing it in the Gateway to the West.

 

Burger King now aims to offer the vegan burgers on all its menus by the end of 2019.

 

“Given the success in St. Louis, we expect to see a positive impact on visitation as the Impossible Whopper rolls out nationally in the future,” said inMarket Insights in a statement.

 

Burger King promoted the Impossible Whopper in St. Louis on social media and other outlets, but its marketing was “in line” with other promotions.

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Burger King brings back tacos for a limited time with new $1 Crispy Tacos

 

 

For a limited time, the home of the Whopper will also serve tacos.

 

Burger King announced Tuesday that participating restaurants nationwide are introducing a $1 Crispy Taco. Prices will be higher in Alaska and Hawaii.

 

“We’ve seen success with tacos in our West Coast restaurants and knew it was time to bring this West Coast favorite nationwide,” Chris Finazzo, Burger King's president for North America, said in a statement. “The Crispy Taco adds variety to our snacking items and truly hits the spot.”

 

According to Burger King, the taco features a “crispy, crunchy tortilla filled with seasoned beef, shredded cheddar cheese and crisp lettuce, all topped with just the right amount of our savory taco sauce.”

 

In a commercial, The King, Burger King’s mascot, shows off the new tacos in a commercial shot in Austin, Texas.

 

“This is Burger King, this is not Taco King here,” one person in the commercial says.

 

Some locations starting selling the tacos before Tuesday's official launch, according to social media reports.

 

Twitter user @palmqueezy tweeted Monday "@BurgerKing we need to taco bout this... Who let this happen?"

Burger King's Twitter account responded simply: "Corporate."

 

This is not the first time Burger King has offered tacos nationwide. According to Comicbook.com, the tacos exited most locations nearly a decade ago in 2010.

 

Burger King also isn't the first burger chain to serve tacos.

 

Jack in the Box said on its website that tacos have been a permanent menu item since the mid-1950s.

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He was ‘poultry’ in motion.

 

When a 96-year-old Chick-Fil-A diehard showed up at his favorite Severn, Md. restaurant this week with a flat tire, the manager sprang into action.

 

Daryl Howard, knew the customer only as Mr. Lee, a WWII veteran who usually ordered chicken biscuits and coffee, CNN reported.

 

He arrived Thursday morning, and told Howard his dilemma.

 

“As soon as he finished his sentence, Daryl informed me he needed to help this gentleman right now,” fellow manager Rudy Somoza told the outlet. “So, Daryl jumped into action without hesitation.”

 

It took Howard about 15 minutes to change the flat.

 

“His action of kindness was beautiful. Daryl has always been so helpful to anyone in need,” Somoza said.

 

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I live in Southern California thus a very easy question to answer - In-N-Out. I'm addicted

I miss In-N-Out in SoCal

In Arizona, In-N-Out too always a standby fave

If IN-n-OUT would come any closer to Portland than their outlet in Medford, 260 miles south, I would be at least 30 pounds heavier!

When I lived in L.A. I was amused when people would stick IN-n-OUT BURGER bumper stickers on their cars but would block out the "B" and second "R" to make it read "IN-n-OUT URGE"

I am fond of the regional places like Culvers, Rax Roast Beef, and In-N-Out burger.

I don't do a lot of fast food, but when I do it's In N Out or Popeyes.

for visitors to the LAX area who also like planespotting and want to try a classic In N Out burger, head to the very popular one on Sepulveda immediately north of the field. Park a couple blocks north behind the Trader Joe's or at the Ralph's on the west side of Sepulveda, then walk over to avoid the perennial traffic jam at the In N Out itself. Order a double-double animal-style and head over to the small, grassy park across the street and watch the planes land immediately overhead. Hope for an A-380! One of my hugely favorite things to do when in LA!!

I hear In-N-Out has good fries but I've never wanted to wait in line long enough to find out.

Living in SoCal, I have long been fascinated by the almost universal obsession with In N Out Burger. I know I am in the extreme minority - and I actually have kept my silence on this topic with friends, but from my earliest sampling of them I thought there is absolutely nothing about their product to warrant the cult-like status they enjoy. I have never seen one without lines around the block (cars) and traffic jams. I heard of one new store going up and they had to install a traffic light to accommodate it. To me, their burgers are 'OK', but certainly not worth the hassle. And their fries out-and-out SUCK. They remind me of Wise potato sticks that used to be sold in tiny bags when I was a kid.

I swore off any fast food with a drive-thru in 1992. And I've stuck with it - One exception.... I moved to CA 1993, everyone swears by In & Out. Refrained a dozen years, eventually tried it.... no big deal, for same reason as @Funguy .... dried out, well-done doesn't appeal to me... so no challenge avoiding that.

I try NOT to patronize "fast food" venues too much, but when I have-- I've favored going to N & OUT burgers-- Jack n the Box-- Subway-- and Denny's. [...not all at once or at the same time!]

I have finally broken my desire for In & Out. The one nearest me used to be great but recently they switched to WELL DONE only. Their excuse was that tired old 80's - we don't want to make anybody sick!

Innout burger

In the (always) busy drive-thru line this very moment at In N Out. Plenty of time to hammer out a post here in the forum!

I did a very @azdr0710 sort of thing today. I went and sat to eat one of their burgers under one of the umbrellas outside the In-n-Out Burger joint just near LAX and watched aeroplanes landing and taking off.

God I miss in and out Burger in the Southland. So. I will have to say five guys . I mean when has five guys ever failed to satisfy. At least one must be a win

 

How mystery In-N-Out burger wound up on a Queens street

 

Meat mystery solved.

 

The New York man who recently told The Post about finding a pristine In-N-Out cheeseburger sitting on a Queens street claims he’s figured out how the double-double wound up so far from home.

 

Lincoln Boehm, 31, said Wednesday that after posting about the puzzling patty on Instagram, he received a message from Helen Vivas, a 16-year-old Queens girl, who said she had dropped the burger while running to catch a bus.

 

“Helen was sincere, and from the jump I knew this person may hold the answers I’ve spent the last four days searching for,” Boehm wrote in a first-person essay on Vice.

 

The high schooler, who attends Veritas Academy in Flushing, told Boehm she picked up the burger at one of the West Coast chain’s outposts in Encinitas Calif., July 19, before getting on a red-eye JetBlue flight back to the Big Apple.

 

As proof, she provided a screengrab from her Instagram story of the In-N-Out restaurant she went to, her receipt from the eatery and her flight information.

 

“At the counter, she made it clear to the In-N-Out employee taking her order that she was about to board a flight, and asked for suggestions to preserve the burgers as much as possible,” Boehm wrote.

 

She ordered two double-doubles without sauce, explaining how the burger stayed in mint condition. She also bought two single cheeseburgers, with the vegetables packed in separate baggies.

 

Once on the plane, she ate one of the double-doubles — and kept the bag containing the other sandwiches on her lap for the entire flight, Boehm wrote.

 

She landed at JFK airport Saturday at 5:27 a.m. and took the AirTrain to the Jamaica station in order to catch the Q44 bus home.

 

That’s when “she saw the bus sitting a block away at the stop, about to leave” and ran to catch it, Boehm wrote.

 

“The good news: She caught the bus. The bad news: The bag burst open at the bottom while she made this fateful sprint.”

 

She was apparently able to catch two of the three burgers before they hit the ground — but left the double-double behind.

 

About an hour later, Boehm, an In-N-Out addict from Santa Monica, and his wife Dara Katz, came across the untouched burger.

 

“It genuinely shook me to my core,” he previously told The Post.

 

The fast food giant has locations in Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Texas and its home state of California — but its closest restaurant is at least 1,500 miles from the Big Apple.

 

Boehm said he fielded dozens of messages with theories about the case.

 

Now that he’s solved the mystery, he said he plans to meet the fellow In-N-Out superfan.

 

“My wife and I have invited Helen and her family over to our apartment for a barbecue,” he wrote. “We’ll probably have hot dogs and chicken.”

 

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I like the fries at Five Guys.

God I miss in and out Burger in the Southland. So. I will have to say five guys . I mean when has five guys ever failed to satisfy. At least one must be a win

5 guys arrested for a fist fight... at Five Guys

Jul 22, 2019

 

STUART, Fla. (WXYZ) — Police in Florida say they arrested five guys at a Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurant last week for a fight.

 

According to the Stuart Police Department, they received a report of a fist fight inside the restaurant on July 17. They arrived and arrested them all.

 

Police say three juvenile males and two adult males were charged and processed at the jail.

 

A witness said a cup was thrown and a door slammed in someone’s face before an “all-out brawl” broke out, according to an arrest report. The cause of the fight is unknown.

 

Three male juveniles and two adult men were charged with affray and processed at the Martin County Jail, police said. Florida law defines affray as a first degree misdemeanor charge resulting from two or more people fighting in a public place and disturbing the peace, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

 

Keith Morine and Loren Perine, of Stuart, who are both 18, were arrested and booked into the Martin County Jail, the newspaper reported. The three male minors were fingerprinted, booked into the jail and later released to parents.

 

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This Oregon man was on a mission – a mission for free chicken nuggets.

 

When Twitter user Skweezy Jibbs found out that the fast food giant was offering free chicken nuggets nationwide last week amid the coronavirus pandemic, he said he decided to make the most of it by visiting 11 different Wendy’s restaurants twice in one day.

 

“Times is tough so when i heard @wendys was givin out free 4 piece nuggs today i knew i had 2 HUSTLE,” the man tweeted Friday. “I hit every damn wendys twice within 17 miles across 2 states it took 5 hours but now we eatin free 4 a week WHAT IT DOOOOOO.”

 

The man tweeted out a photo of his supply of the grub as well as a map of the route he took through Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington.

 

Wendy’s even tweeted out a special shout out to the man for his nugget trek, saying, “That’s just straight up impressive ngl [not going to lie].”

 

Some Twitter users pointed out to Skweezy Jibbs that he likely spent more money on gas than if he had paid for the nuggets, but the nugget-loving man claimed he already had gas in his tank.

 

Last Friday, Wendy’s offered folks four-piece chicken nuggets at any drive-thru across the country.

 

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I do enjoy a good Popeye's fried chicken sandwich, but I am also drawn to Panda Express Honey Walnut Shrimp.....

 

But then again, a big fat Chulupa from Taco Bell has my heart.

Yes to all of that plus as a Texan I need an occasional Monterrey Melt at Whataberger.

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repeating a 2018 post I made in this thread......

 

go into a McDonald's, face the harried, sullen staff, and see the result of a franchised, stockholder-beholden corporation.....

 

walk into an In N Out and see the result of a 100% company-owned-stores operation with one owner, no shareholders, a simple menu, relatively good- quality food and relatively high employee wages, and very slow growth.....happy employees: the backbone of any successful business

 

very, very rare interview with the current owner of In N Out in this clip:

 

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An Indiana murder suspect escaped from a prison transport van that made a pit stop at a McDonald’s on Monday, authorities said.

 

Leon Taylor, 22, was being extradited from Texas to the Hoosier State when he fled from the van operated by a private contractor at the fast-food joint in Gary, Indiana at about 2:10 p.m., according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Department.

 

Taylor, who is wanted for a murder in East Chicago, Indiana, was wearing a belly chain with handcuffs, along with a leg brace when he slipped from the van in the McDonald’s drive-thru, the sheriff’s department said.

 

He also had on a grey hoodie over a black hoodie, black Puma tennis shoes and black jeans.

 

The driver of the van tried to catch Taylor after he fled, according to surveillance footage obtained by authorities.

 

As of late Tuesday, Taylor was still on the lam, authorities said.

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An escort who eventually became a Platonic friend treated me to Waffle House once; I'm glad I took him up on his invitation and refrained from commenting. He lived for a while with his grandmother whose budget could afford Waffle House on rare occasions. The escort said he ate there out of respect for her and nostalgia, so whenever I go to a Waffle House, I think of them. Sadly, the escort died at age 23.

http://manhattan.backpage.com/MenSeekMen/m4m-hot-hung-bbc-charming-conversationalist-9544406773/92968294 the pictures come back for a dude who seems to have been deployed late last year and is/was very anxious to get back home to Waffle House and Popeye's...

Usually sit down at Waffle House 2 am or beyond!

In Georgia...my favorite is Mrs. Winners Fried Chicken. There are not many left, but lucky to have one close to my home. I also love Waffle House... scattered , covered and smothered and country-ed.

It's been years since I lived near a Waffle House. I do miss the waffles and hash browns. Perfect weekend breakfast.

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