The Fast Food Thread

uncognito_sl said:

bacon fondue fries

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They taste any good? They look horrendous

I had the burger. Was quite a bit worse than just getting a normal burger

Chysamere_sl said:

Just ate an entire block of braised pork belly, grilled under a salamander oven until the top was crispy, someone put me out of my (delicious) misery.

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Only had pork belly once to date, but jesus it was a perfect meal. I can only imagine how good that was.

Ritley_sl said:

I had the burger. Was quite a bit worse than just getting a normal burger

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What? The burger was delicious.

Vaclav_sl said:

They taste any good? They look horrendous

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First couple bites where good then it tasted kinda oddly bitter.

Burger was great.

Regime_sl said:

Yep it's fantastic. One of my favorite dishes is Twice Cooked Pork. When I go back to Chengdu I visit my old teacher's restaurant.

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Wait... twice cooked pork like what you can have at many chinese places is pork belly?! Or you talking about another thing that uses the name?

Shit, wife's been getting TCP from Chinese places for years, and if it's been pork belly I've been turning my nose up at some I'd probably go nuts for...

Grumpus_sl said:

First couple bites where good then it tasted kinda oddly bitter.

Burger was great.

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Sounds legitimately like the fondue's I've had then - usually some sort of wine or something in with the (mildish) cheese so there ends up being an acidic finish. Not sure I'd like that with something as plain as a fry though.

Vaclav. You have a habit of hating on food without ever trying it.

Alex_sl said:

Vaclav. You have a habit of hating on food without ever trying it.

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I really am not that way, if I come across like it. I try new things almost constantly. My only consistent turnoff are merging foods for no good reason while they have varying textures - beyond that I'll try almost anything as long as it doesn't have visible mushrooms (no clue why, I get sick when I eat mushrooms - but like cream of mushroom soup as a sauce component is NP, I'm sure it's probably psychological) - and if their textures become pretty much the same, that's fine too. [i.e. in a fajita or stew stuff really isn't distinct anymore]

Seriously, if I sit down at a place and there's a menu of 25 things and I've tried 24 things on there at some point, I'll almost always go for #25. And most of my favorite things I've had in life, I've had a single time. [i.e. Whole Red Snapper deep-fried at some place in NYC is probably my favorite meal I've had in my life]

TCP falls under the "everything merged together with varying textures" issue of why I never wanted to bother trying it. (Same for Tarrant's Fridays not appealing to me)

Heck, if I want a sub and some veggies, I'll get the Sub undressed and eat the salad on the side. I just like being able to enjoy components individually. Shrug. It doesn't seem like a terrible rare phenomena though.

To me I want every bite to be predictable. "I'm getting a bite that tastes like X and has texture like X" not spinning a roulette wheel of extra crunch, saltiness, sourness, etc. I'd rather just go to the texture/taste that appeals that moment.

[Similarly, when I go to a buffet or something, I don't even let my items touch - I'll probably get every item on the buffet if we're there long enough - but I'll make a million plates of 3-4 items to do so instead of having one item pollute another]

Once I find a good meal at a restaurant I exclusively order that.

My favorite restaurant is a local place called Barrett's and in the last 7 years I've gone over a hundred times. I've never tried a single other item on the menu besides buffalo chicken and fries.

Yeah I'm like Noodle I find something I like and I tend to stick with it. There is this great hole-in-the-wall place where I've heard everything they make is fantastic and I've been there at least 20+ times but I've only ever ordered the jambalaya.

One step closer to supertasting faggot

I think it just speaks more to my personality of favoring a known sure-thing than an unknown possibly-better thing

Somehow I'm not surprised at all by that behavior from you, Tenks.

Had the gouda burger from Wendy's for lunch. Kinda meh. Not great, not bad, not worth a repeat.

Not a good to go item though. That lettuce mix they put on it has leaf lettuce in it and that shit is just not made to sit on a warm burger for more than a couple of minutes. It wilts and goes from lettuce to green membrane-like substance.

Carl's Jr just opened here. I had their chicken in the Vegas airport and was underwhelmed. Is their beef any better?