Good poll. My cheat sheet in case anyone isn’t familiar with any of the entries:
McDonalds - The pictures all look like food. Look. Shakes should get thinner at room temp. Fries are really good but the Super Size Me guy got pretty messed up eating here too much. And what the hell is Grimace?
BK - Nothing make a gal say “go brush your teeth before makeouts” like the Whopper with its onions and secret sauce of ketchup mixed with mayo
And as for the king mascot, I’ll see whatever Grimace is and raise you - this is one of the most glorious moments in creepy bizarre fast food commercial excellence
Wendy’s - the baconator. So many slices of paper thin bacon, it actually adds up to a whole slice
Arby’s - 5 sandwiches for 5 dollars. Wtf? Yeah, that’s right. Puddy took Elaine there. “I had the roast beef”
A&W - their whole hormone free campaign was restating the regulation they are subject to, wasn’t it?
DQ - chocolate dipped cones are great. Mandatory to eat them once a year, early summer, then remember how unsatisfying their ice cream is. Repeat next year.
KFC - So greasy. Those weird fat hanging off the drumsticks always grossed me out. I don’t know what they are because the birds I get from the butcher don’t have them
Popeyes - even more sodium than Chick Fil A. Move over Colonel, we can make chicken unhealthy too
Subway - that weird smell of their bread that you smell from half a km away and say “there must be a Subway nearby”
Tim Hortons - it’s like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, you can identify their current state or their direction but not both. So many reinventions and so many mediocre lunches. The new deluxe donut strategy is interesting
Domino’s - Pizza shouldn’t be cooked and delivered that quick
Little Caesar’s - their pizzas mirror the Red Wings of late. Not that great any more, and experiencing them is super cheap
Taco Bell - almost everything but the shells comes out of a caulking-style gun. Meat paste, bean paste, sour cream. Although all the new things are just variations using the same ingredients, 20 bucks could go a long way and wrapping a hard taco shell with a soft taco shell is ingenious
Chipotle - It’s kind of comparitively healthy, should be disqualified
Five Guys - yeah, like that other guy said, those fries are salty
In and Out - odd inclusion as it’s not local, unless I’m missing something