Araxen
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The Fast Food Thread
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Noodleface
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Alex
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Soygen
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I had one of the McD's wings. My friend's girlfriend brought a box when we went kayaking a couple of weeks ago. The one I had was ok, I guess. For McDonald's food, it was pretty good. I was expecting some chicken McNugget type fakeness, but it was an actual nice sized, normal chicken wing.
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Joeboo
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about 75% of that list in NY/NJ, 10% is Chicago, and the rest is the rest of the country. I don't know that I believe that pizza everywhere else is that lacking.
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I grew up in North East PA, not far from Old Forge which made it at #101 on that list. I've lived in a few different states from east coast to the west coast and I have yet to find pizza as good as what comes from the Scranton/Old Forge area. Not discounting the New York/Chicago pizza because I haven't had much of it. Every where else I have lived the pizza has generally sucked.
This is the shit I grew up on. It's so good.
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"None of them hold a candle to a piece of wonderbread with some cheezewhiz spread on it. 15 seconds in the microwave and I honestly can't taste the difference."
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That list is retarded (as are most "best food" lists). While I concede that some of the pizzas on the list are truly unusual and interesting and therefore stand out of the pizza crowd, the vast majority of the pizzas listed are interchangeable. I seriously doubt any average joe could tell the difference between standard pizzas like #11, #18, #46, etc. Hell, it looks like half the pizzas are on there more because of their history than their actual taste.
Look at #99 as compared to Little Caesars Deep Dish. They're the same fucking thing! God damn pizza hipsters.
Look at #99 as compared to Little Caesars Deep Dish. They're the same fucking thing! God damn pizza hipsters.
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See, this is a perfect example of why rating pizzas is stupid. EVERYONE says the same thing about the pizza they grew up on. "Oh, well, pizza in bumfuckville is the best pizza ever! Pizza in other cities sucks!" When you eat that pizza you're not tasting the pizza, you're tasting delicious nostalgia.I grew up in North East PA, not far from Old Forge which made it at #101 on that list. I've lived in a few different states from east coast to the west coast and I have yet to find pizza as good as what comes from the Scranton/Old Forge area. Not discounting the New York/Chicago pizza because I haven't had much of it. Every where else I have lived the pizza has generally sucked.
This is the shit I grew up on. It's so good.
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I guess I wouldn't say the local pizza I grew up on is the best pizza ever, my sample size is so small that it wouldn't really count for shit. What I meant in my original argument however was that the local pizza place was infinitely better than most of the chain pizzas. I think most people besides McCheese will agree to that. Unless of course their local pizza places suck.
Vegas here, and #84 (Metro Pizza) is no joke nostalgia, but for a very different reason then the food. First time I ate there I was about 15, was digging the pizza, it's still amazing to this day. But what I'll always remember was the company. I saw a group of people eating across from me with a girl I thought I recognized, then it clicked. I walked over and went "Hey, you play Dana Scully in that new X-files show, right? I love that show!" and we talked for about 15 minutes, this smoking hot chick giving time for a 15 year old fan. Will always love that memory.
Gravy
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I tried them. I wish I hadn't.
They weren't even fucking close to what I'd consider to be a chicken wing. I have a sneaking suspicion that my 'wings' were extra bad because of poor cooking, but I didn't care for the flavor either.
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Oh, I bet they could tell *A* difference but with variations in taste they'd be all over the place. Not to mention that you have people raised on slightly different and more subtle differences than things like "Chicago vs NY" pizza. I don't think nostalgia is as pervasive as you think it is, I suspect that a large part of it is because what you picture as the taste of what something should taste like is what you were raised that it should be.
That said the list does seem just a 'little' bit skewed/biased, but /shrug.
One of my favorite pizza places from Buffalo (in particular the 3-cheese steak):Just Pizza - Menu
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This line invalidates anything else you might have said. BBQ chicken and garlic chicken are not pizza.
That said, the sicilian pizza from California Pizza Kitchen is usually what I go with if I am going to get a frozen pizza.
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I wasn't even aware CPK had a frozen pizza line until like a year ago. They do zero justice to their in house pizzas.