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Same. I've only had fast food once since 2020, and the experience was like yours: gross and expensive.

Before I went WFH, I ate FF pretty regularly. Mostly because it was, well, fast and offered a variety (there's at least 8 or 9 places within walking distance of my office).

My job only gives a half hour for lunch. I used to pack a lunch, but that gets tedious after a while and takes extra time out of my morning to prepare. Then if I want to heat it up, there's always a line to use the microwaves or to get to the refrigerator in the break room. By the time my packed lunch is prepared, I've got just enough time to wolf it down and head back to my desk.

Going out for FF at least let me take a walk, get some fresh air, and gave me a variety over the handful of things (or leftovers) I would pack from home.

If I ever have to RTO, that's the aspect I'd be most upset about.

Sometimes a Culver's cold custard just hits different.

Especially hits your wallet that shit makes burger king look like it's still the 70s.

I think most people only have shit fast food near them as a convenience food. I traveled through the south a lot last year and realized that most of the country must just be massive suburbs separated by strip malls and fast food buildings. Even brand new developments are all banks and Culver’s or some crap.

It’s a stark contrast to urbanized areas. We get so much more in options for convenience food that I don’t even consider fast food as existing.

I feel slightly less dirty afterwards than at McDonald's...

I eat fast food on every road trip. I don't really travel for the food in random small towns on the way. So if I get hungry, I get either gas station food or fast food.

It's not because it's good, it's because it's fast.

BK is always trash though. Bucc-ees is relatively good, so is Quik Trip. And Dunkin makes pretty good iced coffees for a decent price.

I'm vegan and we have a local vegan fast food joint. Sometimes I just want some. It's a small business so I'm supporting them.

Pre-pandemic it was cheap and fast and 24/7 and there were genuine quality items you could get if you knew them and as long as you're not some moron who buys fries/meals and only solo main items, like chicken legend at McDonald's.

I would walk for 5 min at like 3AM or whenever felt right in central London and have a £4 meal back at my flat. Cheap, quick and easy.

Now it's all gone, it's three times as expensive, all the good items have been removed like the aforementioned example and they shut at 6pm. It's just worthless.

Now I WFH rurally, used to go to subway for a quick breakfast on busy days because it was a 10 mins walk, but they shut too and now it's some shitty asian restaurant and/or german kitchen retailer.

They‘re everywhere and while the quality isn’t great, it’s a known quantity. McDonalds is never amazing but it’s very rarely terrible. A random hole in the wall is always unpredictable and a proper restaurant usually much slower and more expensive. Also, I’m weak for the Big Tasty sauce.

I've stopped going to fast food chains. Local fast casual or Sheetz/Wawa is better food, faster, and cheaper. McDonald's et al don't have any fucking value prop left.

Also a vegetarian. I love the salt, the fried and the fast. I hate cooking enough that I’ll work and exercise more to outrun as many of the negative aspects as possible.

I haven't been to Burger King in years, but I have been feeling the call of the void the past few times I've been traveling and needed a place to stop and grab some food.

I stopped eating at "BK" for the better part of a decade after I got terribly sick from eating one of their "Rodeo Burgers". It was basically the low-end burger option, except they replaced the onion with onion rings and used ketchup-based barbecue for the sauce.

The onion rings must've been the previous day's unsold rejects or something. I remember having the worst heartburn I've ever experienced in my life and then feeling so terribly sick for the next 2 days.

I'm 99% sure I have had BK since then, but it was breakfast-only.

Back in the day, it was the only fast food option for onion rings where I was growing up. They sucked compared to the real thing, but despite that they had their appeal. Now my stomach turns just thinking about them.

I eat it on occasion. I actually really like the taste of Burger King burgers, but I have internalized the fact that the burger I like is 1800 calories by itself, with another 400-500 for the fries, and for that reason, I don't eat it often. I also have to take into account that, yes, it's expensive stuff now.

My parents raised me on fast food so I probably enjoy it more than most due to the aspect of being conditioned to it.

I don't go to our only city with KFC and stuff a lot, so when I go I usually get a vegan burger there even tho it's mad expensive

I can get two whoppers for about 5 dollars and they are full of flavor over here (Brazil).

The only thing I get at Burger King is the original chicken sandwich or chicken nuggets. Their chicken is better than their burgers and I like to say they should change their name to Chicken King cuz the burgers suck.

We eat pretty healthy at home. Sometimes I need to indulge in eating terrible for me junk. BK is the only fast food that I do this with because it’s absolutely the best, at least to me.

Their chicken sandwich is like crack. No one else gets the melty fat flavor just right.