The Fast Food Thread

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Alex

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Extreme Pita sounds interesting. Kind of reminds me of this badass burrito joint we had by UC's campus calledCurrito. Very similar to Chipotle in concept, but it's fusion in just about every regard. The buffalo chicken burrito is so damn good. Plus, you can get your burritos toasted which is a must.

Potbelly is probably the best chain fast food sandwich shop around. It's good enough of a fast food restaurant that if I find myself in a city that actually has a Potbelly, I'll eat there.
 
Erronius

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Speaking of chicken, I remember hearing this on NPR but not sure if anyone posted it here

What's In That Chicken Nugget? Maybe You Don't Want To Know : The Salt : NPR

"Our sampling shows that some commercially available chicken nuggets are actually fat nuggets," he tells The Salt. "Their name is a misnomer," he and his colleagues write. The nuggets they looked at were only 50 percent meat ? at best. The rest? Fat, blood vessels, nerve, connective tissue and ground bone ? the latter, by the way, is stuff that usually ends up in dog food.

Now, this was an informal test. To conduct their chicken "autopsy," the researchers went to two different national fast-food chains near their health center in Jackson, Miss., and ordered chicken nuggets over the counter. The fast-food chains involved went unnamed ? "we felt that would generate negative publicity off topic," deShazo told us via email.

When put under the microscope, one chicken sample consisted of just 40 percent skeletal muscle ? what we tend to think of as "meat" ? and just 19 percent protein. The other sample was 50 percent meat and only 18 percent protein.

While the sample size was obviously tiny, the findings, says deShazo, were nonetheless disturbing.
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Noodleface_sl said:
I will never eat nuggets again. I always knew.. but now you ruined it. Thanks a lot, Erronius.
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I'm sure many of you have seen this. If you have, it's always entertaining. If you haven't, it's a nice visual aid to go with Erronius' story. 'Murica!

 
Noodleface

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Nail in the coffin, thanks for that.

I've come to enjoy making home made chicken nuggets. I basically just cut up chicken breasts into 1-2inch square/rectangular pieces, bread them and bake them. If you season them right they are fucking delicious.
 
Grimmlokk

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Am I the only one who gives no fucks whenever these stories about the horrible stuff in my food come out? If it's less than 50% fecal matter and it tastes good I'm in. "Oh boohoo I want chicken in my chicken nuggets!" Well SORRY your highness, maybe don't pull your horse drawn buggy up to a fuckin' McDonalds for lunch next time!
 
chaos

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I can't imagine there is anyone with any sense who was going to McDonald's thinking they were getting some kind of quality, or really even passable, food product. You go there, you know what you are doing, so don't fucking complain.

I like Chik-fil-a nuggets and let my daughters eat that. It has a lot of salt and probably MSG, but whatever. At least it is real chicken. Their grilled chicken is also really good, too.
 
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I agree with deep dish pizza being number 1. I'm also proud that Maryland crab cakes are up near the top. I don't know how the rest of you savages in other parts of the U.S. live without Maryland blue crabs and old bay.

I've never heard of a lot of those foods. I'm curious how representative of the region some of them really are.
 
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Grimmlokk_sl said:
Am I the only one who gives no fucks whenever these stories about the horrible stuff in my food come out? If it's less than 50% fecal matter and it tastes good I'm in. "Oh boohoo I want chicken in my chicken nuggets!" Well SORRY your highness, maybe don't pull your horse drawn buggy up to a fuckin' McDonalds for lunch next time!
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+1. It's just local news level bullshit that someone has to do an "expos?" on some fast food place every 3 months. Everybody knows that you take all the good cuts off the chicken, grind up what's left, bread it and deep fry it and that's chicken nuggets. They are not poison, they taste good, so who gives a fuck?

With regard to pizza chains, Pizza Hut has broken my heart in the last 10 years or so. They used to be my favorite chain but they stooped to Little Caesar's territory to compete on price and failed. Now they are Little Caesar's quality at twice the price. My favorite national chain now is probably papa murphy's but I don't have one within 200 miles of me.

If you want a reasonable facsimile of Little Caesar's breadsticks, just buy some pillsbury breadsticks and microwave them for 30 seconds, then drown them in melted butter and cover them in powdered parmesan cheese. They are both disgusting and delicious.
 
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Grimmlokk_sl said:
Am I the only one who gives no fucks whenever these stories about the horrible stuff in my food come out? If it's less than 50% fecal matter and it tastes good I'm in. "Oh boohoo I want chicken in my chicken nuggets!" Well SORRY your highness, maybe don't pull your horse drawn buggy up to a fuckin' McDonalds for lunch next time!
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Yeah, when I eat fast food, I really don't give a shit what's in it. Iknowit's bad and that's why I enjoy it. I don't eat it often enough to be anything other than an indulgence.
 
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Grimmlokk_sl said:
Never had a real deep dish pizza, Chicago style=/ The shit we usually get is just super thick crust, I want the stuff I've seen on TV where you basically need a fork to eat it.
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Yeah, if you don't eat it with a fork it isn't real deep dish. Around here the only "deep dish" we have is shit from Uno, which is good but it's hardly deep dish. It's basically, as you said, thick crust. I had real deep dish when I was in Chicago years ago and it was the most amazing thing I've ever eaten.
 
Alex

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Burnesto_sl said:
It's just a random blog post. This guy ranks Skyline pretty well though.

The Great American Menu: Foods Of The States, Ranked And Mapped
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I saw that map. The writer is an asshole. Cincinnati chili is magnificent.

Having the burrito in the top three is appropriate, but once again the dude is an idiot. He words it like a shitty burrito from Chipotle is comparable to what we have here. That's like the Chicago-style pizza comparisons to Uno. Just...no.
 
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