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Title: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lise on Oct 23 08 04:35
OK, there are times when you just go for a particular fast food joint (almost) all the time. Which one is yours?

  I don't really have one but if I was in a mall and had to pick one, I almost exclusively go to a Chinese take-out, namely the Flaming (crappy) Wok.

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Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Sportsdude on Oct 23 08 04:49
chinese or japanese take out.
Out of the list the only one I've been to recently is Subway. The rest its been between a year to 7 years. lol
 
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lise on Oct 23 08 04:52
Sometimes I get McPuke's french fries. I don't know what it is about their fries but they're darn good.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Sportsdude on Oct 23 08 04:59
I think its the salt, but funny thing about that place everything tastes the same no matter what it is. lol
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lise on Oct 23 08 05:14
Nope, definitely not the salt. I always ask for no salt on my fries because I hate the salt. I think it must be the fat.... oh yes, glorious fat.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Sportsdude on Oct 23 08 05:15
the deep fryer. lol  
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: 49er on Oct 23 08 06:30
MacDonald was sued at one time by some vegetarian because they used hamburger grease in the frying oil.

  For quick take out lunches it usually Chinese....chow fun/chow mein and congee with pork and 1000 year old egg;  sometimes mexican, usually a beef burrito with sour cream
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: purelife on Oct 23 08 07:29
I don't eat at take-out places that often, but lately it has been Subway because of their $2.99 sub of the day.  (cheapest I can find in downtown)

Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: 49er on Oct 23 08 08:07
I too. once a blue moon, get the $5 foot long Subway, always the meatball
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lil Me on Oct 23 08 08:27
Fast food for me is sushi, Hon's or donair.  Once in a while I have Subway (meatball sub on Sat).  My kids like McD, but my fave burger is Burger King.  We eat KFC Toonie Tues a couple times a year.    
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: weird al on Oct 23 08 10:23
Dona Cata, on Victoria Drive at 35th in Vancouver, is great.

Fast, cheap, tastes good. Seriously hot salsas.

http://www.dinehere.ca/restaurant.asp?r=1893
 
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Marik on Oct 23 08 10:43
bah look at all these healthy choices!
Burger King's Whopper is the best!!! has the most calories of any "chain-burger"

 
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Sportsdude on Oct 23 08 10:47
Ever been to Hardee's or Carl's Jr Marik?...(they've got the highest) lol

They also have a 2000 calorie breakfast burrito, which puts you right back to sleep.
 
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Michel on Oct 23 08 10:53
     
 
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: P.C. on Oct 23 08 10:58
Whitespot legendary.  It's a crying shame BC Ferries got their hands on it.  They could muck up caviar.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lise on Oct 24 08 05:41
I like Whitespot's salmon burger. It's the only thing I'll stomach from them. Their fries are terrible.

  I've caved in to Taco Time's taco salad. Calorie busting it ain't fer sure.    
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: P.C. on Oct 24 08 06:09
lol.....I'm not much into fries, but I really like their fries.....and they're the only fast food place where I do like fries.  They are the closest to homemade to me.  The little shoestring ones taste like cardboard.  
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Van on Oct 24 08 06:35
I refuse to eat fast food. I won't support places like McDonalds, Burger King, DQ etc. They are poison and an insult to the human race!

If I want a good burger, I will go to my favorite local pub and get one of the best burgers money can buy. They actually use real beef and chicken!!
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Russ on Oct 24 08 06:36
 I like all fast food.

Doesnt mean that I should eat it or that I do on a regular basis however



Triple Whopper with cheese. Poutine Fries.. and LArge Coke.
   
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Michel on Oct 24 08 08:19
     
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Russ on Oct 24 08 08:59
 Michel wrote:
ahhh poutine, good Russ, good ! [img style="font-style: italic;" src="/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/21.gif[/img]

I'm strangely developing a nationalist pride with poutine. Between it and Céline Dion as cliché most well known export item from Québec, poutine is less hard to digest [img style="font-style: italic;" src="/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif[/img]  

 
I always thought it to be from Quebec as well. The guys from Lousiana all claim it to be from there, they say its documented?!? I told them my usual answer for that.

It is easier than Celine.. LOLOL
 
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: purelife on Oct 24 08 09:02
One White Spot location sold an undercooked burger.  My colleague had one the other day.  One part of the meat was cooked and the other was still pink.  

  I've also experienced it at another location.  I do like their fries and milkshakes.  
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: P.C. on Oct 24 08 09:09
I think the guys from Louisiana are mistaken.  (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/3.gif)

    Maybe that's why I like a Whitespot burger.  I'm not a big fan of blackened little pucks as a substitute for a hamburger patty.  The only burgers, where cooking rare is a danger, are those that are made with additives and 'filler'.  A 100% pure beef burger can be bleeding profusely with no danger at all.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Russ on Oct 24 08 01:10
 purelife wrote:
One White Spot location sold an undercooked burger.  My colleague had one the other day.  One part of the meat was cooked and the other was still pink.  
 
I've also experienced it at another location.  I do like their fries and milkshakes.

I like my burgers a wee bit pinkish in the middle. In the states they ASK you how you want your burger cooked. saweet!
I ask how people want them
 
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: JJ on Oct 24 08 01:23
Taco del Mar I like their vegan burrito and I'm not even a vegan.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lise on Oct 24 08 09:06
Hey Russ, did you hear about Harvey's burger recently? I heard they found listeriosis in their meat. Ugh.

  Oh, anyone like Wendy's chilli bowl? Yummy.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: correction on Oct 24 08 10:48
did you hear about Harvey's burger recently? I heard they found listeriosis in their meat. Ugh.

  It was E_coli and it was one location, North Bay Ontario I believe
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Marik on Oct 24 08 11:00
 Sportsdude wrote:
Ever been to Hardee's or Carl's Jr Marik?...(they've got the highest) lol

They also have a 2000 calorie breakfast burrito, which puts you right back to sleep.

never even heard of them... are they in the states?
 
 
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: weird al on Oct 24 08 11:58
Anybody mention Arby's yet? I'm mostly not too crazy about fast food joints at all. Been to all of 'em, tired of 'em all, but I like Arby's a bit, for the chicken fillet. Depends on the location. I found one that's consistent, that always gives you fresh, clean lettuce and tomato with your chickenburg, compared to the tired and stale and droopy stuff that other outlets will give you. Their fries are pretty good. I think they have a different supplier from the main fast food places.    
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lil Me on Oct 25 08 11:24
I'm not crazy about McFood...but I had to say this...
 
 McD restaurants are cleaner, staff are friendlier with good attitudes, and they almost always get the orders right!!!!
 
 Wendys, A&W, Burger King....dirty restaurants, the bathrooms are almost always locked (need to ask for the key), staff are lazy and act bored, they move slowly and they screw up the orders.
 
 Mind you, the Wendys/Tim H combo restaurants are better than the stand-alone Wendys.
   
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lise on Oct 25 08 04:53
My bad. I thought it was the other bug. Oh well. That's one nasty bug no matter what.

  I like Arbys and their curly fries. Hmmm.... haven't had those in ages. Must go eat one now!!!

  I miss Wendy's southwestern chicken salad. I know they're loaded with calories but that the one I also ate when I was pregnant. Like I was constantly craving it at one point. They don't have it any more. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/10.gif)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Sportsdude on Oct 27 08 06:55
 Marik wrote:
 never even heard of them... are they in the states?


Yeah. You probably remember them from the Paris Hilton car ad where she prances around a sports car.
 
 
 
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Marik on Oct 27 08 09:18
ohhhhhh!! that one! yeah all I remember was she ate some burger while washing a car with not much clothing on.  
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lil Me on Oct 28 08 05:39
Anyone tried the A&W Uncle Burger yet?  
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Meaty Uncle on Oct 28 08 06:35
Had it a few times, I like it. Nice meaty taste for a fast food burger.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Lise on Oct 28 08 07:49
No but it looks really good. I had their sirloin burger when it was on promotion... wondering if they're the same with different name.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Fast Food Joint
Post by: Future Canadian on Nov 10 08 07:44
I have a weakness for Big Macs and for Gorditas. It's sick, I know.

I'm stoked we finally have a European fry kart here (like Fritz in Van, my fave!), and it's right next to a trailer that serves an awesome burger. They don't know it but we refer to them as Dirty Burger after Trailer Park Boys.