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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

My Favorite Fast Food Hamburgers

These are the classic flagship sandwiches of each burger joint (Whopper, Big Mac, etc.) They are also limited to the choices in the North Alabama market.

1. Double with Cheese
(Wendy's)
Best meat in the business. Everyone else can go home. Seriously. It's cooked fresh and hot, hot, hot with a pinch of salt.

2. Six Dollar Burger (Hardee's/Carl's Jr.)
This is an angioplasty waiting to happen. With 1060 calories and 73 grams of fat, it's death between two slices of bread. It's also extremely messy. But, boy, can it be good. The crowning touch? Bread and butter pickles. The only catch: Finding a Hardee's (or Carl's Jr.) that is tolerable and clean enough to order it from. Most are slow and filthy.

3. Whopper with Cheese (Burger King)
Used to be number two back before they pulled a McD's and starting stockpiling patties and nuking them as they went. Half the time it's not nuked enough, either.

4. Cheese Krystals (Krystal)
No one can eat just one. No one.

5. Big Mac (McDonald's)
McDonald's has the least exciting beef around. The only major selling point is the special sauce (which is thousand island dressing with an addictive chemical in it that makes me crave it fortnightly*) and that crucial third bun. Outside of those? Dull as dishwater.

*- Shout out to Mike Myers fans.

4 comments:

Darby said...

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Dewdrop said...

I am guessing you haven't tried "Five Guys Burgers and Fries". A must!

Sharp said...

We just got one recently. I've heard they're great.

Sharp said...

Dew, i finally made it to Five Guys. To me, the burger seems like a very messy, very greasy Wendy's - which means it's good! And the copious, obscene amount of equally greasy fries are a cardiologist's dream. I'll never order their fries again without an assistant to eat them all.

I don't think there's enough superiority in taste to warrant the price (or the health effects). But I did love it!