There are no more burger stands or similar places around here (or the last city I lived in that was sort of known for them and they all got pushed out of business it seems). That's the shame. Used to be willing to pay more for a better product from a small, local business, but now they're gone so it's just paying the same price these days for a worse product from a fast food chain.
I'll admit they've sorta figure out chicken and fast food can generally do decent chicken for the most part, but burgers still taste distinctly fast food in quality. The best fast food burger is still not as good as most average burger stands from when there were any still around. Carl's Jr $6 burger was so brilliant as marketing because it cost less than $6, but now that it's over $6 and pretty mediocre is just embarrassing. The best thing about fast food burgers was the price, and that's gone, but so is the competition so they can get away with it.
They've cracked the science of fast-food chicken, I think. Still waiting on burgers, though, because the best fast food burgers are because of everything but the actual beef patty at this point.
Unrelated, I tried to get a Ch-King the other day, but after 20 minutes of app error messages saying their own deal they would walk you through constructing wasn't valid I decided fuck them and am back to boycotting Burger King. Sucks because they're the closest fast food place to where I live by far, and I used to love them (survived on $1 Whoppers in high school, like literally might have starved without them), but every experience with Burger King for years has been frustrating.
