What is the point of fast food anymore

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It sounds silly, but when I'm on business trips I almost really like the Darden style restaurants for this reason. Think like Olive Garden, Chili's etc. Sure it isn't great food but damn is it a lot for a little. I've gotten a big ass bag of chips dipping sauce on top of burgers fries dessert for about the same as a small meal from Taco bell and a quesadilla from there. It's almost double the amount of food for the same price, and they're almost easier to deal with because they now all have online ordering. Place the order online as I'm about to leave work, go stop on the way and go pick it up, done deal and I got something for the next day too. I almost prefer takeout style restaurants like this now over "fast" food that's anything but in their drive thru line.

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There's little hacks for certain foods too if you can't cook worth much or don't want to bother to. For example I don't want to bother with cooking a chicken, so I'll go get one hot off the rotisserie chicken counter at Walmart or HEB. $6 for a whole ass chicken already hot cooked and ready to go, take it home and shred it. If it's hot the skin and legs taste good as a snack of itself while you're processing it and you can hand shred the breast / thighs / etc and save it for using in meals. It's how I make quesadillas or chicken alfredo really quickly.

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They've been Bigot Chicken for decades now. Sorry.

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This is sadly not news, the feud between the LGBT and Chic-Fil-A is pretty long

It goes like this

-2011-

Chic-Fil-A: Our money goes to Christian charities

LGBT: Well that's fine, you are the Jesus Chicken place, pass me some waffle fries my man

Chic-Fil-A: Sure, that'll be a dollar, a dollar that prevents gays from getting married

LGBT: Wait, I thought you said charities

Chic-Fil-A: We lied

-2015-

Chic-Fil-A: Okay Gay Marriage is legal and Caitlyn Jenner + Lavrene Cox seem to be getting the ball rolling on trans rights. I guess we have no choice but to abandon "Traditional Marriage" and other such causes and just stick to charity work...

Caitlyn Jenner: I'm the worst human being alive, I hate all other transpeople, the only moral transition is my transition, and I am literally guilty of vehicular homicide but am too rich to be charged with it!

Chic-Fil-A: Okay just Lavrene Cox then... So you hungry my rainbow friend?

LGBT: Oh thank God, I can finally have a decent chicken sandwich, God what is your secret?

Chic-Fil-A: Why the lies we tell about what we fund go into every mouth-watering bite of our Homophobic Chicken!

LGBT: What?

Chic-Fil-A: Shit, did I say that out loud? Fuck, okay you got us, we're still funding Anti-LGBT causes we're just trying to be quieter about it, also we don't think abortion should be legal and are lobbying to have that banned to.

LGBT: WHAT!?! I'M PROTESTING YOU SO HARD!

Left-Leaning Americans: And we'll help!

Fox News: Chic-Fil-A, which is not homophobic at all, is being protested because Democrats are mad that a store is closed on Sundays because they hate the bible! No really, this is a spin we actually went with to demonize our political enemies!

Right-Leaning Americans: I believe that whole-heartedly because I have no ability to question any information that sounds like it's even remotely true unless it comes from a Democrat. I always knew that gays hated Jesus and will now give all my money to Chic-Fil-A.

-2025-

Chic-Fil-A: So uhh now that we're all being mask off, can I interest in you a lemonade, you must be very thirsty after playing in girl's sports you filthy degenerate.

LGBT: Oh fuck off, you know damn well we don't and that you don't care about women's sports anyway, how are you still in business?

Chic-Fil-A: Actually we're making record profits because of those guys

LGBT: What guys?

Left-Leaning Americans: We know it's homophobic, but we're addicted to fast food and it tastes just so fucking good. Your suffering is no reason for me to be slightly inconveinced, even though everyone from McDonalds to KFC has a chicken sandwich just like theirs...

Right-Leaning Americans: MAGA! MAGA! MAGA! GOTTA PWN THE LIBS! WHITE LIVES MATTER! I'M ORDERING EXTRA SANDWICHES JUST TO SPITE THE DISGUSTING FREAKS... cut off by the munching of fries WHO... slurping coke ARE COMING FOR OUR KIDS!

LGBT: Okay yeah that sadly tracks...

And that's basically the whole story

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True. Even ignoring that though, chic fil a is fine at best but overrated if you ask me. Their best menu item is the shakes, everything else is mid. Not bad just mid.

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It's definitely overrated. Where I live a solid meal will set you back $12-$14, and it's always super crowded and hence slow. Instead, I can just walk a few minutes, and get better chicken for cheaper ($10-$12) and faster at the local place.

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Impressive, you figured out it was a university coop cafe. Maybe I should have edited out the text to avoid doxxing myself haha.

True, the coops are one of the cheapest options. I also eat quite often at one of the beef set meal chains (one of sukiya, yoshinoya, or matsuya). Solid choice too.

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It's actually rice topped with an omelette, and the with some sauce thing made thick with potato starch. It's called tenshinhan, which is a Japanese reimagination of the food they have in Tianjin, China. As far as I know this dish is just named after that city in China, but it's not actually from there.

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Been there. Cheaper than Boston but not really cheap.

Image is from 8 months ago. It's 9.99 for a cheeseburger. 4.49 for a little fry. 2.09 for a regular drink. $16.57 even considering 0% sales tax in portland.

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lmao true, I think Little Ceasars is actually good for the value. The $5 hot and ready box was an almost unbeatable deal.

I really prefer Domino's, but their prices are outrageous so I don't go there anymore. If I'm going to pay a shitload of money for pizza, I get a whole New York Style pizza so I can really enjoy it. Might start making my own now though, tbh. How hard could it be?

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Whoops. Yeah it has egg too: from their website: “Grilled sausage, American cheese, Applewood smoked bacon, a fresh-cracked free range egg, (deep breath) more cheese and more bacon all covered in our signature cheese sauce”

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Looking at you five guys.

Story time. We t to five guys, go up to the country asked for a burger combo. Person behind counter says they don't have combos so I have to say out loud: lemme get a burger fries and a coke.

Like I get it but a combo is a burger fries and a coke.

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A while ago, I was charging at a highway stop, so I decided to quickly get something to drink at McDonald's. I just asked ordered a drink, nothing more. One lady started preparing the drink and put it somewhere behind the counter. I was right there, but she didn't hand it to me. I asked if she could give it, as it was the only thing I had ordered. She mentioned she was not allowed to hand over the order to customers, and she was waiting for someone else who was allowed to. It took roughly 10 minutes before I had my drink, it was very frustrating, especially for a "fast" food chain.

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Yeah so like I said, soup.

In the west this was first invented by Baron von Suppenstein, who first put proteins and starches into bowls of warm water. Truly a revolutionary. Sadly he died of dysentery at an early age.

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Hmm I see. Interesting.

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Aren't combos usually discounted over everything getting billed individually? I would understand that as useful information that I'm not saving anything and might as well deviate if I like.

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Wendy's' POS system doesn't use most vowels. Brk Bcntr is hardly the worst one they have lmao

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I don’t usually eat fast food, but one night I was starving, and there happened to be a drive-thru right next to me. I saw only two cars ahead in line and thought it would be quick. I pulled in and waited. Fifteen minutes passed. Then nearly twenty. By that point, a long line had formed behind me, trapping my car.

At the thirty-minute mark, I started asking the cars around me if they could maneuver to let me out. After almost forty minutes, I finally managed to escape.

Frustrated and still hungry, I drove a little further to a local gyro joint. I walked inside, placed my order, and within five minutes, I was enjoying a fresh, delicious lamb platter.

If this had been an isolated incident, I wouldn’t have thought much of it. But the reality is, experiences like this are all too common. Fast food isn’t fast, and to make matters worse, it’s often not even cheap anymore. Unless you’re scraping the bottom of the so-called “value menu”—which has become scarce and filled with low-quality options—you’re likely paying the same, if not more, than you would at a local spot.

When you stack up the cost, the wait, and the disappointing quality, it’s hard to justify why anyone bothers with fast food at all.

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Yeah. I could see someone ordering a combo and then complain when instead of a combo they have to pay for burger, fries and drink. It's stupid that 5 guys doesn't have a combo option but the person behind the counter did what they're supposed to do, take the order and make sure the person ordering also understands what they're ordering.