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The Fast Food Poll

What is the best fast food place

  • greggs for adz

    Votes: 3 4.6%

  • other

    Votes: 13 20.0%

  • burgerking

    Votes: 8 12.3%

  • kfc

    Votes: 11 16.9%

  • mcdonalds

    Votes: 30 46.2%
  • Total voters
    65
pluk said:
I tried the mcdonalds takeover menu yesterday.

The shaker fries are great, like sour cream pringles with a good hit of pepper on top. Maybe a bit more sweetness than I'd prefer, but definitely something I'm all for staying.
Sakura Sprite is suberb.
Then I had the pineapple mcspicy. It is exactly what it says it is to be fair, but you can imagine what a bite of cold plain pineapple would be like with the burger and it doesn't work. The pineapple is just a raw ring with nothing else to incorporate it. If it was grilled, caramalised, or has a sauce to bridge the fruit and savory it could be great, but it doesn't so it's not. I find it hard to believe this is how it is served in its originating country?
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I’ve had the shaker fries in other countries before, think I’ve had a BBQ one and a cheese one before so looking forward to seeing what these are like, but I’m not a massive sour cream fan.
 
Greggs for sure as nothing more tasty than a fresh pastry. Their Baguettes are good to.

Do like Costa for their lattes and occasionally their food
 
pluk said:
I tried the mcdonalds takeover menu yesterday.

The shaker fries are great, like sour cream pringles with a good hit of pepper on top. Maybe a bit more sweetness than I'd prefer, but definitely something I'm all for staying.
Sakura Sprite is suberb.
Then I had the pineapple mcspicy. It is exactly what it says it is to be fair, but you can imagine what a bite of cold plain pineapple would be like with the burger and it doesn't work. The pineapple is just a raw ring with nothing else to incorporate it. If it was grilled, caramalised, or has a sauce to bridge the fruit and savory it could be great, but it doesn't so it's not. I find it hard to believe this is how it is served in its originating country?
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I think the addition of cold items onto a hot patty has been a McDonalds issue ever since they started building the sandwich to order. They need to keep cheese, salad, pineapple at closer to room temperature. Or with the old system of course the warmer chute headed it back up a bit.
 
The KFC pickle burger is a thing of delectable beauty.

Unfortunately my local runs out of the frickles about 10 minutes after opening each day, so I've not managed to try them yet...
 
There's a Popeyes by my local cinema which has become my go to for fast food in recent times. Adding a Wingstop shortly soon as well.

Tried the Wendy's on my last few trips to Blackpool, just thought it was OK really.
 
pluk said:
The KFC pickle burger is a thing of delectable beauty.

Unfortunately my local runs out of the frickles about 10 minutes after opening each day, so I've not managed to try them yet...
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I found the dried pickles a bit odd. Plus the drive-thru window lady joked to her mate that I’d come dressed as a pickle because I was wearing a green t shirt. I lost the confidence to order frickles as a side after that.
 
Popeyes is good - better than KFC seems to be these days.

Had Wendy's for the first time a couple of years ago, and it was honestly one of the best fast-food burgers I've had in years.

I'm quite a fan of Tortilla as well. Food's made to order, it's arguably a bit healthier than other fast food options, and it tastes really good.
 
Crikey this is an old thread isn't it, and the fast food options here in the UK have changed dramatically since 2012!

I love fried chicken and KFC is absolutely not my go to. Popeyes is far better and a favourite of mine. We've just had a Dave's Hot Chicken open in Leicester which I tried last week, it was very good.

When it comes to burgers, cannot beat a Wendy's Baconator!
 
Had forgotten about Tortilla which is very nice, used to like Barburrito but they went down hill and started charging extra for everything.

Got Listo Burrito in Liverpool (and Manchester) which is now my preferred Burrito place.
 
I do enjoy Greggs, of course, and I've had one within a five-minute walk of my house since November. I also get a free Greggs reward each week through my bank account, which I normally redeem on a Saturday lunchtime. Generally, it's pretty consistent across the different outlets, and it's good value for what you get.
 
I'm going to throw Leon into the mix. My relationship with fast food had been nonexistent before they arrived on the scene as KFC, McDonald's and the like flatly refuse to cater for alternative diets in this country.

The rice bowls are actually not bad at all, my favourite is the Peanut Satay Chicken. It feels more like proper food than fast food has any right to. Although most of their meals do tend to give me a very mild indigestion just to remind me that it is indeed a fast food outlet!
 
Leon’s a good shout, though the one in Manchester has now closed, and is a Popeyes instead.

Had Five Guys for the first time last night, and while the food was fine, it’s definitely hugely overpriced for what it is. Refillable soft drinks are always a winner, though.
 
Five Guys Milkshakes are really good as well.

But the price of the burger and chips is so expensive for what it is, keep on meaning to give it another go after going to one by my hotel close to Parque Warner the other year.
 
I never had a milkshake yesterday, but I'd probably go back for one of those at some point. Food, though? Not a chance unless it was the only option, which doesn't seem highly likely to me.
 
John_P said:
But the price of the burger and chips is so expensive for what it is,
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I would say the price is almost worth it for the quality, but feels like it should be cheaper as its served in foil and paper. The exact same burger on a plate would feel worth the price.
The Five Guys burgers are significantly better than what a lot of pubs serve for the same price.
 
I’ve been to Five Guys a few times with my kids, usually after we’ve been to Clip n Climb at the Metrocentre in Gateshead.
There are lots of food options- an entire food mall as you find at a lot of shopping centres these days. Lots of chain restaurants such as Pizza Express and Wagamamas but I think the restaurants are coming under increasing pressure- they’ve had to raise prices which reduces demand- so they’ve been shutting while cheaper, smaller fast-food places have opened (Wingstop, GKD etc).

Five Guys is a sort of middle ground. Half the price of a full-on sit down restaurant chain and the food is better quality than a lot of fast food joints.

The thing we have to watch though is they cook their chips in peanut oil (they’re delicious!) but our youngest is allergic to peanut so he can’t have any.
(Their peanut butter milkshake also is fab!)
 
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