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There are a lot of "lists" on the web lately. None of them mean anything other than what they are: Fast Food Journalism.
We just have the basic's here and I have to say Arby's has never been one I liked.
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Originally Posted by weltschmerz
I don't know what messing with food means, other than poisoning it, somehow.
Never heard of food hitting anything except my stomach.
How is that being a snob?
It was easy to understand given the original context. You were not being a snob. You were being something else and you know. it.
I think some of the restaurants listed in the best list another poster wrote are more accurately described as fast casual restaurants. This would include places like Panera, Pei Wei, Mad Greens, Smashburger, Chipotle, and Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill. Denver is full of them.
Its selling point is cheap, known convenience. It's fast, inexpensive, and known (because we've all eaten at a place like, say, Burger King - so we know what we're getting). Fast food is what I want when I'm travelling, or just caught without dinner plans, and don't want to spend much time or money and alleviating my hunger. And it does that well and efficiently.
The trade-off is that it's not like the experience of sitting down and enjoying a well-made martini while awaiting my expertly-prepared medium-rare ribeye cut cut of Kobe beef. But then, I don't expect it to be.
I find all this expressed amazement that places for which a low price is an intrinsic aspect of their business model don't serve high-quality products to be absurd.
1. Papa Johns - Not because of the taste, but because the owner is a scumbag. He's never gonna get a dime from me
2. White Castle - Soggy and greasy sliders
3. KFC - Chicken too greasy
4. Taco Bell
5. Little Caesars
Wow......you are just trying to be offensive. Where was anything about eating road kill mentioned?
It really isn't hard to understand that the poster means he will have Churches every so often and he thinks the honey butter biscuits 'hit the spot' or are rather tasty.
All it takes to know what he meant is an IQ above 100.
I think some of the restaurants listed in the best list another poster wrote are more accurately described as fast casual restaurants. This would include places like Panera, Pei Wei, Mad Greens, Smashburger, Chipotle, and Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill. Denver is full of them.
It's still fast food. Perhaps a sub-category of fast food, but fast food, nonetheless.
It's still fast food. Perhaps a sub-category of fast food, but fast food, nonetheless.
I think of them differently. Some of these places have basic table service in that they will bus once you're done if personnel are available, but they also provide trash receptacles for those in a hurry. They do not accept tips like a full-service restaurant, even if food is delivered, like at Noodles. Some serve your order on real tableware, like Panera. The food is made to order, and these restaurants rarely offer a drive-through. To me, traditional fast food is Taco Bell, Burger King, Arby's, Wendy's, McDonald's and the like. The food comes wrapped paper on a plastic tray or in a bag, served up immediately after ordering at the counter or from a drive-through window. Pizza places don't really fit neatly into either category.
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I think of them differently. Some of these places have basic table service in that they will bus once you're done if personnel are available, but they also provide trash receptacles for those in a hurry. They do not accept tips like a full-service restaurant, even if food is delivered, like at Noodles. Some serve your order on real tableware, like Panera. The food is made to order, and these restaurants rarely offer a drive-through. To me, traditional fast food is Taco Bell, Burger King, Arby's, Wendy's, McDonald's and the like. The food comes wrapped paper on a plastic tray or in a bag, served up immediately after ordering at the counter or from a drive-through window. Pizza places don't really fit neatly into either category.
Regardless of your opinion on the matter, they are widely regarded as fast food, as evidenced by articles and lists such as shared by the OP.
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