Re: Two good things happened today
By: Accession to Nightfox on Thu Aug 29 2024 06:10 pm
I think McDonalds burgers are okay sometimes,
I'd take a Kwik Trip gas station burger over a burger from McDonalds, any day.
And there's a Kwik Trip on just about every corner, too :)
but I'd take a Burger King Whopper over a McDonalds burger.
Completely agree! You can also order your whopper with "heavy all" and get 50% more of every other ingredient on that whopper. You can thank me later. :)
I remember when they had the "Gilbert Burger". A triple whopper with double everything (without pickles).
I'd order it with pickles and without tomatoes. :)
But in the past few years, when I get a fast food burger, I've often been
going to Wendy's again. I think I prefer a Wendy's burger over McDonalds
or Burger King (usually a Dave's Single or Dave's Double) - They seem
really fresh to me, and are fairly tasty.
Wendy's isn't bad. I just don't have one close enough to me, and there's always other and better options if we're out and about and pass one. :)
Both of the ones here in Appleton shut down about a year ago because the franchisee went bankrupt. One is just down the road from me, but they could never keep enough people. Even if they were open, the lights outside were off, and it regularly took 10 minutes at the drive-thru even if it wasn't busy.
Apparently someone has snatched up the locations and there's a sign out front saying it'll be re-opening this fall. I do miss Frostys...
Another fast food burger I like is A&W's Papa Burger.
I happened to stop at probably one of the only A&W's left in Wisconsin (it was down in Racine or Kenosha), not all that long ago. Whatever burger I had wasn't bad, for fast food. But really nothing I'd write home about, when comparing fast food burgers with burgers from just about anywhere else.
There's more A&Ws than you think in WI according to
https://awrestaurants.com/locations-list/wi/
(47 cities, Some cities have more than one)
They have the best cheese curds from a fast-food, "chain restaurant" standpoint. (That's right, Culver's, I'm calling you out for those dry balls of bread you call "cheese curds").
They made a big push about 15 years ago or so to expand. 20-25 years ago there was only a handful like the one you were at.
Back when I was a kid my parents would occasionally stop at the one in Clintonville, WI on the way up to our cottage. Maybe once every couple years or so, and usually only when we were going up there with friends.
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