MysticMisty
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Depends on region and personal preferences. Only McDonald's, Burger King, and Taco Bell are coast-to-coast. KFC, Arby's, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut, and Subway probably are, but I don't know for sure.What are the good fast food places in the US? Please educate an ignorant gwailo like myself.
For fried chicken (not tendies) I've found KFC, Church's, and Popeye's all taste about the same. Chik-Fil-A is the best option for chicken sandwiches or tendies. Boston Market is the only rotisserie chicken fast food place so there's nothing to compare it too, I usually just buy mine at grocery stores when I want it.
For fried fish I'd just skip Long John's (only one in it's category to my knowledge) and go to a proper seafood restaurant, but if you had to have it grocery stores have better options.
Arby's, like Long John's and Boston Market, doesn't have anything to compare it to, to my knowledge. I can't say I've ever had a craving for it.
Out of the big four burger places (McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Jack in the Box) Jack is my personal favorite. The burger tastes pretty good, and the curly fries and onion rings are excellent. Wendy's isn't bad, just not as good. BK used to be good, but some years ago they fucked with all their recipes and made it all suck. Their burgers used to be better than McDonald's, but it's been so long I don't know anymore. For McDonald's the burgers aren't very good, but the fries are much better than BK's.
The best burgers come from the more regional chains however. Culver's isn't national I don't think, but I'd personally rank them lower than McDonald's. The burgers are okay, but the fries are just crinkle cut grocery store fries, nothing special at all. Neither is the frozen custard. In-N-Out is purely a southwest chain, but they make excellent burgers and fries. More recently Freddie's has taken the number 1 spot for me, everything is so delicious there. They're the place that Culver's wishes they could be. Much fuss is made over Five Guys. I was unimpressed by the burgers and the hard, yet soggy, fries were absolutely disgusting. They're all over my city but you hardly see anyone in them so I don't know how they stay in business here.
There's a few other Mexican fast food places that aren't Taco Bell, but I haven't gone to any of them in god knows how long. For me it's like Long John Silver's, why bother going when there's a fuckton of full-blown Mexican restaurants in my city?
As far as fast food pizza goes I've always preferred Pizza Hut and found Dominoes to be fucking disgusting, about on par with what my elementary school cafeteria claimed was pizza. I've never tried Papa Johns. Pizza is probably the most hit or miss thing out there, I've gone to various places that have ranged from fucking amazing to on par with Dominoes. Pizza Hut isn't cheap either so it's not much more to go to one of my favorite pizza restaurants.
Subway isn't great, but got popular as the "healthy" option thanks to the ad campaign starring Jared theSubway pedo guy. I prefer to hit up a local chain for subs on the occasion I don't just buy everything at the grocery store needed to make my own.
For fried fish I'd just skip Long John's (only one in it's category to my knowledge) and go to a proper seafood restaurant, but if you had to have it grocery stores have better options.
Arby's, like Long John's and Boston Market, doesn't have anything to compare it to, to my knowledge. I can't say I've ever had a craving for it.
Out of the big four burger places (McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Jack in the Box) Jack is my personal favorite. The burger tastes pretty good, and the curly fries and onion rings are excellent. Wendy's isn't bad, just not as good. BK used to be good, but some years ago they fucked with all their recipes and made it all suck. Their burgers used to be better than McDonald's, but it's been so long I don't know anymore. For McDonald's the burgers aren't very good, but the fries are much better than BK's.
The best burgers come from the more regional chains however. Culver's isn't national I don't think, but I'd personally rank them lower than McDonald's. The burgers are okay, but the fries are just crinkle cut grocery store fries, nothing special at all. Neither is the frozen custard. In-N-Out is purely a southwest chain, but they make excellent burgers and fries. More recently Freddie's has taken the number 1 spot for me, everything is so delicious there. They're the place that Culver's wishes they could be. Much fuss is made over Five Guys. I was unimpressed by the burgers and the hard, yet soggy, fries were absolutely disgusting. They're all over my city but you hardly see anyone in them so I don't know how they stay in business here.
There's a few other Mexican fast food places that aren't Taco Bell, but I haven't gone to any of them in god knows how long. For me it's like Long John Silver's, why bother going when there's a fuckton of full-blown Mexican restaurants in my city?
As far as fast food pizza goes I've always preferred Pizza Hut and found Dominoes to be fucking disgusting, about on par with what my elementary school cafeteria claimed was pizza. I've never tried Papa Johns. Pizza is probably the most hit or miss thing out there, I've gone to various places that have ranged from fucking amazing to on par with Dominoes. Pizza Hut isn't cheap either so it's not much more to go to one of my favorite pizza restaurants.
Subway isn't great, but got popular as the "healthy" option thanks to the ad campaign starring Jared the