Farewell, Burger King

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Yeah, I know fast food is bad for me. But a few times a year I have to have a burger and fries or onion rings from...wherever. I no longer care for Wendy's, and I only like McD's fish sandwich. So, once every few months I get a Burger King Whopper & onion rings.

Well, that's what I got Friday. Brought it home, first couple bites were't so great. Ate a bit more, then......I tossed it into the trash. I don't know if it was the burger, toppings, grease from the onion rings.....WHATEVER.
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BK, we had a good run. Next time I get a craving, I'll get a sack of White Castles. SLIDERS :laugh:
 

We don't have those CM. We also don't have In & Out, but I spent some time in California and still remember Carl Jrs. Yum!

If I lived in Texas I would look like a whale because I love good Mexican food. Ohio Mexican food is a JOKE. OTOH California pizza was awful.
 

Last time,I stopped at the BK,I had the same experience, my fav was the Whopper Jr and onion rings.
Whole thing went in the trash
 
applecruncher said:
We don't have those CM. We also don't have In & Out, but I spent some time in California and still remember Carl Jrs. Yum!

If I lived in Texas I would look like a whale because I love good Mexican food. Ohio Mexican food is a JOKE. OTOH California pizza was awful.
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OMG, I love Mexican food. :drool:
 
Our best take-out burger chain in NC is "Cook-Out Grill". Lots of people like "5 Guys" also.

I corrected my typo that said "5 Guts"...that's more like it :laugh:
 
Lara said:
Our best take-out burger chain in NC is "Cook-Out Grill". Lots of people like "5 Guys" also.

I corrected my typo that said "5 Guts"...that's more like it :laugh:
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We have 5 Guys here; very popular but they're in a different part of the city. I might try sometime.
 
Still hanging tough with the Whopper Jr ‘burger’, small too salty fries, and sugarless chemical ‘drink’
They do have real tomatoes of which I’m a sucker for
Somehow it does it for me in town when shopping for building material
Quick, not hard on the pocketbook

However, let it sit and it all turns to Glopper Jr with limp wilted potato worms

Then again;
Someone putting in a pitch for the supermarket chikin in another thread may change my mind
Goin’ to town tomorrow
Monday is cheap chikin’ day
 
I also occasionally loved a Whopper but they lost me when they changed the formula for the sauce. Made it much too sweet for me
 
I'm deeply saddened by the news!

I hope the onion rings are not part of the problem.

I'm a big fan of onion rings in general and also those seasoned pigtail fries from Arby's.
 
Lara said:
Our best take-out burger chain in NC is "Cook-Out Grill". Lots of people like "5 Guys" also.

I corrected my typo that said "5 Guts"...that's more like it :laugh:
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IMO, NC has the very best barbecue pulled pork sandwich I have ever eaten. I really like the sandwich with the cole slaw on top of the meat. There used to be a place inside of Charlotte’s airport that sold the sandwich. I always looked forward to that sandwich when I flew into Charlotte.

We would sometimes fly down to Miami from New York or Washington and do a stop in Charlotte. While the cabin was being cleaned for the next leg of the flight, I would run inside and get a sandwich to go. My First Officer would laugh and tell me that we were going to get fed from the galley on the way down to Miami. I would tell him/her that we weren’t getting anything as good as this sandwich.
 
Out of the "Big 3" for fast food burgers, Wendy's, McDonald's and BK, I like Wendy's the best. I usually get a #1 combo with bacon, which is just their regular 1/4lb cheeseburger with bacon. I like Wendy's fries the best too.

Five Guys is pretty good and I like Fuddruckers too. We've got a New England chain called the 99 Restaurant that makes a really good burger as well.

I love a good sloppy burger, the more grease, bacon & cheese the better, lol. I always use an 80% patty or 80% ground beef when cooking burgers on the grill, everything else just turns into a hockey puck.
 
When I was a kid, there used to be Ground Round restaurants, the ones with the peanut shells on the floor...great burgers.

Nowadays, once in a great while, I'll have a Red Robin or Johnny Rockets burger. We used to have Fuddruckers, too, but it's been gone for awhile now.

Five guys is pretty good and of the 3 fast food chains, I like McDonald's the best.

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We don't go to the fast food places at all. When I'm with my daughter she likes to go. Who am I to sit in the car. That would be so impolite. lol To be honest I could live on McDonalds fries. I don't even need the burger!
 
CindyLouWho said:
When I was a kid, there used to be Ground Round restaurants, the ones with the peanut shells on the floor...great burgers.

Nowadays, once in a great while, I'll have a Red Robin or Johnny Rockets burger. We used to have Fuddruckers, too, but it's been gone for awhile now.

Five guys is pretty good and of the 3 fast food chains, I like McDonald's the best.
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We used to have the Ground Round restaurants here in Mass, they were pretty good.

Dairy Queen also makes a decent burger.
 
@ DaveA

:lofl:

One site I used to visit had an animated vomit/barf emoticon. It moved, kinda like this roly-poly rolling on floor laughing one ^^. I used to look forward to an opportunity to use it!
 
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C'est Moi said:
OMG, I love Mexican food. :drool:
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I'm in New Mexico, and Mexican food is a staple here. Too bad most of it is so fattening! I make a mean green chile chicken stew that isn't fattening at all, though. And posole, made right, isn't fattening either. I make it a couple or three times a year -- a huge pot -- and freeze it in meal size portions.
 
Butterfly, "Pasole made right"? That peaked my curiosity so I googled the recipe. So many variations. Authentic? Pasole Verde? Pasole Rojo? Red, white, or green? Which one is made right? It must be really good the way you make it.
 
When I'm out on the road for a trip and we make a stop, BK Jr and onion rings for me, but I agree, it doesn't taste as good as years past. I will settle for one of the others if we can't find the BK close by. Last time I was out, I was called picky just because we rode past two McDs and a Wendys and had to get across the road to the BK. :yeahright: I would have stopped for a Churches burger if we'd passed that first though I rarely ever see one of those anywhere I live, mostly saw them in Tampa Fl.
 
Butterfly said:
I'm in New Mexico, and Mexican food is a staple here. Too bad most of it is so fattening! I make a mean green chile chicken stew that isn't fattening at all, though. And posole, made right, isn't fattening either. I make it a couple or three times a year -- a huge pot -- and freeze it in meal size portions.
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Yummy. When in New Mexico, I'm always on the hunt for Hatch chile peppers. :drool:
 
The only local FF places here are McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts. More pizza places than anything else. To get even Wendys or Burger King requires an 8 to 10 mile (one-way) journey. Personally, I really don't care for burgers at a FF place and maybe being summer has to do with the quality. For a while I was getting ground turkey and making my own burgers from that, but it just didn't have the same flavor that red meat burgers have - not BAD, just different. Ended up putting plenty of barbecue sauce and other condiments on them.
 

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