Fuck fast foods (and fast fashion and everything related)
Fuck consumption society
Life is an act of consumption.
The comma doesn't do anything there
Does the Italic work better for emphases?
It does indeed!
Small pause. That's all
Yes but there are different types. What we have is the reckless, thoughtless kind.
And fuck this post, seriously. Glad to see this attitude in the comments.
I'm fine with the post tbh. OP is still creating content on lemmy, wich is what matters most
Latish reply, but how do you make yours? Do you do the 'restaurant' steps of using water & freezing to get the starch out?
Me, I just slice up baking potatoes and pop them in my air fryer for a while, turning and re-basting with oil a few times. Not restaurant grade, but good enough.
Sometimes when I have patience, but most often I just do the same. The difference is huge though for so little effort.
We only have McDonald's and Burger King here and i wouldn't eat there when i was starving
I have never seen so few fries from Five Guys before.
There's more but they had to crop out the 1ga bag of fries that they use as insulation for your burger.
The fries act as ballast too
Yup. And they know how to make fantastic fries. And cajun seasoning if you want. Fucking great, a worthy compliment to their consistently decent-to-great burgers.
Every time I eat any fast food burgers besides 5 guys I'm disappointed that I didn't hold out for 5 guys.
You guys have too many fast food options
I'll agree with that. And they're all so overpriced, I can't afford to eat any of them lol
Overpriced? Really? I thought the whole point was it being fast and cheap. So that only leaves convenience as an argument to go there..
Yeah a combo meal runs like $13+...It's ridiculous. My field guys at work eat out every day. I can't afford it. Cheaper to hit the grocery store and make sandwiches all week.
And too strong opinions on them. How anyone part age twenty or so can have any thought on them besides 'yuck' baffles me.
People like different things
As a non-american it blows my mind that you have so many fast food companies.
What blows my mind is that it's all large franchise.
We have tons of independant selling various form of fast-food. Stuff like Sandwiches, Pizza, kebap and more. But I can't think about only 2-3 large chain, basically we have Mc-Donalds, Quick, and that's it ? or may-be burger kind did a comeback last years, not even sure...
What really amazes me is that, that's not all of them
I was pretty sure most of them were made up. I hope this crap never makes it over here
To be fair, where I'm at in the south we have these. Still a lot but most are very regional
I'm a human not a french fry
Top two picks from each row:
McDonalds is a standard, but I prefer Arby's seasoned curly fries
Wendy's recently changed their fries and they're good enough, but prefer Smash fries.
(Special mention goes to Canadian KCF, which offers fries and gravy instead of mashed potatoes and gravy. I don't know if their US fries are different because I don't mess with that if mashed 'taters are an option.)
Five guys and Checkers
Steak 'n Shake and Popeyes
Overall, if I were choosing a place based solely on the fries: Smash > Five Guys > Popeyes > Arby's
The top two spots were tricky. I like the 5 guys fresh cut style, but Smash mixes a traditional thin cut fast food fry with rosemary. And they don't make things weird by giving you more than you can or should eat.
The only one I actively dislike is Chick-fil-A, but some of the other offerings are 'meh' enough that they need ketchup.
Missing entries: Penn Station and Skyline. They're both regional, but I like both of them over most of the other offerings. Penn Station has fresh-cut style and Skyline's fries are thin and crispy.
Arby's curly fries are peak fast food fries.
I've heard of eight of these and I've tried four. Are any of them better than Belgian frites?
God no. Belgian frites are in another league!
Of course not, but thanks for the sanity check. Do the Popeye ones come with extra spinach I wonder?
Nope!
Checkers/rally's fries are my #1, plus I think they're the only ones on this list that backup their fries with a guarantee.
I know the fries are good, but Rally's/Checkers is pretty rare out here; what's the guarantee?
I genuinely love McDonald's fries. I don't love anything else there and I go maybe once or twice a year, but they really are my favourite fries.
OP is looking to start some fights.
Checkers. And I don't even normally like that type of fry.
Jbox curly fries are on point. Def S-tier.
Then BK, McDonalds.
I’ll lump all the rest in the middle scribe I don’t think I’ve had them.
And F- for In-n-out good lord do they make terrible fries, (B- if you make them animal style)
If you could get McD's fries but animal style, we'd have a clear winner. Source: username contains the word obesity
This is Taco John's potato olé erasure, and I will not stand for it.
Wendys old fries were the best, but currently culvers.
None of these, I really don’t get why people like fries so much. Those baked potato wedges on the other hand are great
McDonald's and burger king, in that order
Rally's in the 90s, then they all disappeared and came back as garbage.
In-N-Out Animal Style no contest
Screw fries, tots are where it's at.
Where Del Taco?!
Fish flavored fries? Yuck! No thanks!
In the trash
Asking the real questions.
I'm all about Jack in the Box/Arby's curly fries.
I don't know why they are always separate things on these tho. They are literally the same fries.
Those Taco Bell fries are also pretty damn good. I didn't expect much (because it's Taco Bell) but God damn! They're like the best potatoes you can get at TB.
Didn't like the Popeye's sweet potato fries at all. I love sweet potato, but... That's not the flavor I seek with french fries. Too sweet for something that my brain associates with salty only.
Every other fry is just kinda... There. They don't suck, they're just not amazing.
Arbys I HAVE TO BEAT MY MEAT
I've only heard of about five of them.
Sweet Potato Fries > Onion Rings > Chik Fil A > Five Guys > Steak n Shake
Checkers thanks
None of those. P Terry's has the best frys
Five Guys, Chick Fil-A, and McD's
Burger King and McDonald's
Taco Bell has fries?
Where is Bojangles? They git the best fries there are.
Do people eat enough fast food to have a favourite? I've probably eaten fries from a fast food place under 10-15 times in my life.
lol at the attempted superiority
Trillion dollar market
Literally the largest restaurant chain in the world
Still enough market demand for dozens of other restaurant chains to complete
wHo EveN eATs FaSt foOd?
More talking about eating it regularly, I just don't get it. If I'm at a service station in the middle of nowhere, sure I'll eat a McDonald's. But in a city, with hundreds of better options, I don't get why anyone would choose it over better takeaways.
All I'm saying is I don't get it, I haven't eaten enough to know the differences in any of their food. You could put every frie(fry?) And every burger from every FF chain and I wouldn't be able to identify a single one.
Do you need to eat something multiple times to know how it tastes? Or do you just pay so little attention to what you eat that you can't tell the difference between thick cut vs thin cut fries, or seasoned vs unseasoned, and so on?
Or are you just blindly saying that any place that's smaller is inherently superior because it's less popular? Because you clearly can't even remember how the fast food tastes...
i have to say living in a country with more options i have not eaten in any of the places on that list in somewhere between 7-10 years and in that time i atleast have forgotten what their fries taste like other than vague memories of slight dissapointment. Also smaller places I would say have to be better than large fast-food chains as why would anyone go there if it was worse.
Of course at least in my country there are tons of random no-name grills and kebab-pizzerias that have the most wildly swinging quality but even for them its very rare for the food to be noticeably worse than what I would expect from mcdonalds so atleast for me i would rather throw the dice between "technically edible"and "holyshitthisisthebestthingever!" than choose "tastes like dissapointment engineered to taste "good"". And even if the frood from the Nonamekebappizzeria™ is just barely edible i guess at the end of the day i supported a local business(altough sometimes it might be that they dont pay taxes(not like the multinational corporations are too keen on that either).
Nah but it's been so long I have no clue what any of them taste like at this point, they can't be that different.
Small doesn't automatically mean better, it's about the cooking process, speed, and cuisine. There are far better types of food I'd go for.
This is the pretentious, willfully ignorant kind of stuff I was missing from reddit. Thank you.
What, you think you're better than me? Nobody's better than me! Hahaha
Maybe in food related matters but in life, no.
There are just so many better options for takeaways. Fast food is like bottom of the barrel, if I absolutely have to kinda food.
I was just giving you shit. Reminded me of a Rick and Morty episode. I eat like crap. I know that haha
Same, but at least it's delicious.
I'm guessing that you're some combination of "not poor" and "not from the US."
I'm no longer poor, but I do travel through the continental US on a regular basis. Even though my workplace reimburses me for food when I travel and budget doesn't enter into the equation, I eat fast food fairly frequently.
Scenario A) I've been though a series of planes, airports, and rental cars for the last eight hours. I'm in central Iowa, I've just checked into my hotel, and there's a major winter storm 30 minutes away. Non-fast food takeout isn't an option because this town has 20,000 people in it and I would need to travel for an hour to find a larger town. I could find a nice local restaurant, but there's an Arby's that's a block away from my hotel. Since my priorities are 1) putting some warm food into my face, 2) not driving through snow, and 3) going to sleep, it's Arby's.
Scenario B) I'm driving back home from Chicago, which is about a 7-hour trip by interstate highway. I'm in the scary part of Indiana when I realize that I'm hungry and still hours away from civilization. Food options are a) fast food and b) truck stop food. That last option is basically "unknown fast food with an unreadable label that's been sitting in a heated tray for 4 hours."
Scenario C) I'm in a small southern city that I've never visited. My plane was delayed and my luggage is lost. The rental agency couldn't find the car that I had reserved, so I'm driving a lifted pickup through dark and unfamiliar streets. By the time I finish shopping for some basic overnight things (deodorant, hairbrush, underclothing for the next day), it's 9:45 and most nearby restaurants are closing. Five Guys is a block from the hotel and because they close at 10, I can either choose that or try finding and walking to a restaurant that's open later.
Those are all examples from this year. Basically, takeout options outside of major cities are horrible. In small cities, most places - if they even exist - close earlier than fast food chains. If I have the time and energy I'll absolutely find the nicest local restaurant and enjoy some regional cuisine. And under normal travel circumstances, that's exactly what I do. But sometimes you just need to put warm food into your mouth and get to sleep.
They do. And the In'n'Out people are not to be trusted (when it comes to fries)
Tbf I only have about 5 of these FF places in my country.
In'n'Out fries are only OK. Honestly their burgers are only OK, too. Five Guys is superior. In'n'Out just has the distinction of being quite cheap.
A double double animal style is a good fast food burger. And hits the spot when you're in the mood. But those fries. Getting them animal style mostly redeems them but barely.
Homemade
Fuck fast foods (and fast fashion and everything related)
Fuck consumption society
Life is an act of consumption.
The comma doesn't do anything there
Does the Italic work better for emphases?
It does indeed!
Small pause. That's all
Yes but there are different types. What we have is the reckless, thoughtless kind.
And fuck this post, seriously. Glad to see this attitude in the comments.
I'm fine with the post tbh. OP is still creating content on lemmy, wich is what matters most
Latish reply, but how do you make yours? Do you do the 'restaurant' steps of using water & freezing to get the starch out?
Me, I just slice up baking potatoes and pop them in my air fryer for a while, turning and re-basting with oil a few times. Not restaurant grade, but good enough.
Sometimes when I have patience, but most often I just do the same. The difference is huge though for so little effort.
We only have McDonald's and Burger King here and i wouldn't eat there when i was starving
I have never seen so few fries from Five Guys before.
There's more but they had to crop out the 1ga bag of fries that they use as insulation for your burger.
The fries act as ballast too
Yup. And they know how to make fantastic fries. And cajun seasoning if you want. Fucking great, a worthy compliment to their consistently decent-to-great burgers.
Every time I eat any fast food burgers besides 5 guys I'm disappointed that I didn't hold out for 5 guys.
You guys have too many fast food options
I'll agree with that. And they're all so overpriced, I can't afford to eat any of them lol
Overpriced? Really? I thought the whole point was it being fast and cheap. So that only leaves convenience as an argument to go there..
Yeah a combo meal runs like $13+...It's ridiculous. My field guys at work eat out every day. I can't afford it. Cheaper to hit the grocery store and make sandwiches all week.
And too strong opinions on them. How anyone part age twenty or so can have any thought on them besides 'yuck' baffles me.
People like different things
As a non-american it blows my mind that you have so many fast food companies.
What blows my mind is that it's all large franchise. We have tons of independant selling various form of fast-food. Stuff like Sandwiches, Pizza, kebap and more. But I can't think about only 2-3 large chain, basically we have Mc-Donalds, Quick, and that's it ? or may-be burger kind did a comeback last years, not even sure...
What really amazes me is that, that's not all of them
I was pretty sure most of them were made up. I hope this crap never makes it over here
To be fair, where I'm at in the south we have these. Still a lot but most are very regional
I'm a human not a french fry
Top two picks from each row:
Overall, if I were choosing a place based solely on the fries: Smash > Five Guys > Popeyes > Arby's
The top two spots were tricky. I like the 5 guys fresh cut style, but Smash mixes a traditional thin cut fast food fry with rosemary. And they don't make things weird by giving you more than you can or should eat.
The only one I actively dislike is Chick-fil-A, but some of the other offerings are 'meh' enough that they need ketchup.
Missing entries: Penn Station and Skyline. They're both regional, but I like both of them over most of the other offerings. Penn Station has fresh-cut style and Skyline's fries are thin and crispy.
Arby's curly fries are peak fast food fries.
I've heard of eight of these and I've tried four. Are any of them better than Belgian frites?
God no. Belgian frites are in another league!
Of course not, but thanks for the sanity check. Do the Popeye ones come with extra spinach I wonder?
Nope!
Checkers/rally's fries are my #1, plus I think they're the only ones on this list that backup their fries with a guarantee.
I know the fries are good, but Rally's/Checkers is pretty rare out here; what's the guarantee?
I genuinely love McDonald's fries. I don't love anything else there and I go maybe once or twice a year, but they really are my favourite fries.
OP is looking to start some fights.
Checkers. And I don't even normally like that type of fry.
Jbox curly fries are on point. Def S-tier.
Then BK, McDonalds.
I’ll lump all the rest in the middle scribe I don’t think I’ve had them.
And F- for In-n-out good lord do they make terrible fries, (B- if you make them animal style)
If you could get McD's fries but animal style, we'd have a clear winner. Source: username contains the word obesity
This is Taco John's potato olé erasure, and I will not stand for it.
Wendys old fries were the best, but currently culvers.
Im more of a this kind of guy
when I saw that...
None of these, I really don’t get why people like fries so much. Those baked potato wedges on the other hand are great
McDonald's and burger king, in that order
Rally's in the 90s, then they all disappeared and came back as garbage.
In-N-Out Animal Style no contest
Screw fries, tots are where it's at.
Where Del Taco?!
Fish flavored fries? Yuck! No thanks!
In the trash
Asking the real questions.
I'm all about Jack in the Box/Arby's curly fries.
I don't know why they are always separate things on these tho. They are literally the same fries.
Those Taco Bell fries are also pretty damn good. I didn't expect much (because it's Taco Bell) but God damn! They're like the best potatoes you can get at TB.
Didn't like the Popeye's sweet potato fries at all. I love sweet potato, but... That's not the flavor I seek with french fries. Too sweet for something that my brain associates with salty only.
Every other fry is just kinda... There. They don't suck, they're just not amazing.
Arbys I HAVE TO BEAT MY MEAT
I've only heard of about five of them.
Sweet Potato Fries > Onion Rings > Chik Fil A > Five Guys > Steak n Shake
Checkers thanks
None of those. P Terry's has the best frys
Five Guys, Chick Fil-A, and McD's
Burger King and McDonald's
Taco Bell has fries?
Where is Bojangles? They git the best fries there are.
Where's Wing Stop?
Gross.
All of them!
Do people eat enough fast food to have a favourite? I've probably eaten fries from a fast food place under 10-15 times in my life.
lol at the attempted superiority
wHo EveN eATs FaSt foOd?
More talking about eating it regularly, I just don't get it. If I'm at a service station in the middle of nowhere, sure I'll eat a McDonald's. But in a city, with hundreds of better options, I don't get why anyone would choose it over better takeaways.
All I'm saying is I don't get it, I haven't eaten enough to know the differences in any of their food. You could put every frie(fry?) And every burger from every FF chain and I wouldn't be able to identify a single one.
Do you need to eat something multiple times to know how it tastes? Or do you just pay so little attention to what you eat that you can't tell the difference between thick cut vs thin cut fries, or seasoned vs unseasoned, and so on?
Or are you just blindly saying that any place that's smaller is inherently superior because it's less popular? Because you clearly can't even remember how the fast food tastes...
i have to say living in a country with more options i have not eaten in any of the places on that list in somewhere between 7-10 years and in that time i atleast have forgotten what their fries taste like other than vague memories of slight dissapointment. Also smaller places I would say have to be better than large fast-food chains as why would anyone go there if it was worse. Of course at least in my country there are tons of random no-name grills and kebab-pizzerias that have the most wildly swinging quality but even for them its very rare for the food to be noticeably worse than what I would expect from mcdonalds so atleast for me i would rather throw the dice between "technically edible"and "holyshitthisisthebestthingever!" than choose "tastes like dissapointment engineered to taste "good"". And even if the frood from the Nonamekebappizzeria™ is just barely edible i guess at the end of the day i supported a local business(altough sometimes it might be that they dont pay taxes(not like the multinational corporations are too keen on that either).
Nah but it's been so long I have no clue what any of them taste like at this point, they can't be that different.
Small doesn't automatically mean better, it's about the cooking process, speed, and cuisine. There are far better types of food I'd go for.
This is the pretentious, willfully ignorant kind of stuff I was missing from reddit. Thank you.
What, you think you're better than me? Nobody's better than me! Hahaha
Maybe in food related matters but in life, no.
There are just so many better options for takeaways. Fast food is like bottom of the barrel, if I absolutely have to kinda food.
I was just giving you shit. Reminded me of a Rick and Morty episode. I eat like crap. I know that haha
Same, but at least it's delicious.
I'm guessing that you're some combination of "not poor" and "not from the US."
I'm no longer poor, but I do travel through the continental US on a regular basis. Even though my workplace reimburses me for food when I travel and budget doesn't enter into the equation, I eat fast food fairly frequently.
Scenario A) I've been though a series of planes, airports, and rental cars for the last eight hours. I'm in central Iowa, I've just checked into my hotel, and there's a major winter storm 30 minutes away. Non-fast food takeout isn't an option because this town has 20,000 people in it and I would need to travel for an hour to find a larger town. I could find a nice local restaurant, but there's an Arby's that's a block away from my hotel. Since my priorities are 1) putting some warm food into my face, 2) not driving through snow, and 3) going to sleep, it's Arby's.
Scenario B) I'm driving back home from Chicago, which is about a 7-hour trip by interstate highway. I'm in the scary part of Indiana when I realize that I'm hungry and still hours away from civilization. Food options are a) fast food and b) truck stop food. That last option is basically "unknown fast food with an unreadable label that's been sitting in a heated tray for 4 hours."
Scenario C) I'm in a small southern city that I've never visited. My plane was delayed and my luggage is lost. The rental agency couldn't find the car that I had reserved, so I'm driving a lifted pickup through dark and unfamiliar streets. By the time I finish shopping for some basic overnight things (deodorant, hairbrush, underclothing for the next day), it's 9:45 and most nearby restaurants are closing. Five Guys is a block from the hotel and because they close at 10, I can either choose that or try finding and walking to a restaurant that's open later.
Those are all examples from this year. Basically, takeout options outside of major cities are horrible. In small cities, most places - if they even exist - close earlier than fast food chains. If I have the time and energy I'll absolutely find the nicest local restaurant and enjoy some regional cuisine. And under normal travel circumstances, that's exactly what I do. But sometimes you just need to put warm food into your mouth and get to sleep.
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(I don't know how to post gifs from my phone sorry I suck)
They do. And the In'n'Out people are not to be trusted (when it comes to fries)
Tbf I only have about 5 of these FF places in my country.
In'n'Out fries are only OK. Honestly their burgers are only OK, too. Five Guys is superior. In'n'Out just has the distinction of being quite cheap.
A double double animal style is a good fast food burger. And hits the spot when you're in the mood. But those fries. Getting them animal style mostly redeems them but barely.
None, I don't eat junk.