“What are you getting for lunch?”
“Burger.”
No Kings finally working!
No gods, no kings, only fux.
Burger President
Chairman Burger
The fun thing is, both emotionally and semantically a burger means a citizen as in the opposite of a king.
All I know is that I am getting some mixed feelings from the menu items with names like “Big Fux XXL”
Bacon fux
Me: One fux, please.
Burger
King: Sorry, we’re fresh out of fux to give.What could they have done worse than being a burger king
Maybe they were too good
very real chance the corporation raised the prices of the franchise ingerdients without raising the prices of the franchise menu items and this location’s owner had a relationship with the local ingredient distributor, ran the numbers, and figured they could sell enough burgers in the local community to make more money than they would keeping the random walk-ins who go into a burger king because they know what they’re getting.
They were voting to become a Burger Democracy.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing paper crowns is no babies for a system of government!
Being a burger
princeAndrew?
this apparently happened with a dairy queen in the town where my parents grew up in, but they didn’t even change the branding. they just went rogue and it took a long ass time for people to notice
How bad does a BK need to be to get kicked out of the worst by far fast food chain?
I see someone has never visited a Del Taco before.
Filiberto’s?
Like the ones in San Diego?!? How dare you!
McDonalds!?
They spend their days messily eating tomatoes…
Boromir would’ve been able to keep the franchise agreement
Are they the worst? IMO, they’re mid at worst. Some worse options:
- Dairy Queen
- Taco Bell - the one near me is actually decent since it’s in a nicer area, but I avoid them when traveling
- McDonalds - I’ve been once in the last 20 years, and don’t plan to go again
- KFC - in my area they’re partnered with A&W, which is also bad (was my favorite in the 90s, but they suck now)
I haven’t been to Burger King in years, so maybe they suck now. I remember them being decent, but nothing special.
A&W in Canada is actually pretty decent, but it’s not tied to the American chain except I think for licensing the name
I hope it’s like the A&W I went to as a kid here in the states.
I’m assuming you’re not in Texas if DQ is on your list.
Nope. Is DQ better there? Because it’s terrible here in Utah, esp when we have Iceburg and Culvers, both of which have better ice cream and burgers than DQ.
Yeah, it’s almost a different restaurant than in other states. I’d try it if you ever have the misfortune to travel to Texas.
I’m sure I’ll make it there at some point. I went to San Antonio a couple years ago, and we’ve discussed going to a beach there sometime.
DQ is high-quality in large parts of the Midwest as well. I can at least vouch for numerous locations across South Dakota and Minnesota.
Have you been to a dairy Queen? Or did you just put their name on there without thinking because they actually have way better food than Burger King.
DQ is pretty hit or miss for hot food. We’ve got multiple locations and one of them I’d absolutely not go to buy the others are ok
Yeah, years ago. Compared to the options I have locally, it really sucks. Here in Utah, Culvers and Iceberg are way better, and even Arctic Circle (which sucks) is better.
At least Burger King is kinda unique in that they char-broil their burgers. Carl’s Jr does it better, but BK isn’t the worst option, at least the last time I went (which admittedly is a few years now).
Even a Burger King run properly still has the worst burgers on Earth.
Really? I like char-broiled burgers since they’re way less greasy.
I prefer my burgers to not be completely bone dry. There is a reason you grill burgers in indirect heat, and BKs entire gimmick is doing the opposite of that.
Same. I also prefer them to not be a pile of grease. Fast food will give you one of those two options, and sometimes I’d rather them be more dry than more greasy.
When I make them at home, they’re a nice mix of the two: not top greasy and not top dry. But sometimes a homade burger just isn’t in the cards, so I need to pick among the options I have.
I just wanna know what every restaurant does because I can not replicate any of their flavors while still making a “better” burger at home. Like, it tastes fine. Good even. But, like, McDonald’s burgers have this ungodly goodness that is inexplicable. I want that taste, but I don’t want the feeling of sickness that comes with it. 🤣
Here’s my guess as to what makes McDonald’s burgers special:
- high fat hamburger - 20-30%, maybe even 40%
- salt - way more than you think you need
- black pepper
That’s it. Make them thin and fry on a pan.
Their special sauce on the big mac is basically just relish, Italian dressing, onion powder, and mayo (maybe cut with Miracle Whip to make it taste more fake), maybe with a few other spices. I bet you could get close with trial and error on the ratios there.
The fries will be harder since they use a blend of oils and a deep frier, which most people won’t have.
It is probably like the KFC in a neighboring town. They owner was so cheap and let it get run into the ground. When he stopped paying the chain they were going to come remove his signs. So he Painted Chicken over all of them and started buying the same or similar products from the the local food distributor he got a lot of KFC’s products from. Of course it was his shitty management that lead to that and things didn’t improve after it was just ‘Chicken’. It stayed there three or four more years though.
“Bacon fux” ? “Big fux” ? WTH?
Germany, perhaps.
German here. What?
Does that menu make sense in German?
Nope.
Edit: Unless they replaced beef with fox (Fuchs) meat or it’s the owner’s name or something. In which case it would only be stupid.
Danke Schoen!
Based on the German text on the menu, probably. But that doesnt really explain it.
How many fucking people did their food have to kill to lose the Burger King franchise?
Sorry, that’s an trade secret.
Probably gave too many people the correct order. That goes against the BK franchise code if the one near me is anything to go by.
Not to be confused with the Burger King that is not a Burger King but isn’t fake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_(Mattoon,_Illinois)
Cracked.com? Pepperidge Farm remembers
Wait until you find out it used to be a paper magazine
Excuse me … Fux???
BIG fux
BIG fux XXL
The veggie option is “No Fux”.
On days where the customers only order veggie burgers, zero fux are given.
That was my nickname in college
No it wasn’t.
Who do I have to whopper to get a fux around here?
BACON FUX !!
It appears to be German.
Right, but that still doesn’t make sense. The only dictionary entry I’m finding for Fux is a variant of Fuchs, which means Fox, or colloquially a few other things unrelated to food like ‘fraternity pledge’. Fuck is Fick (n) / ficken (v) so it’s seemingly not that.
It’s a quirky spelling for Fuchs, yes. And it’s about fast food names, what do you expect
This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad shop. Maybe being a franchise wasn’t helping their business, so they dropped it.
It might be better than BK, that wouldn’t be hard to do. BK is the worst of the major franchise burger shops, by far. I’ll eat at Arby’s before I eat at a BK.
Say what you will about Arby’s…
… There’s no “but”. I won’t stop you.
(Their spicy mayo - sorry, “horseradish sauce” - is pretty good though)
And now you can completely avoid Arby’s and still get your Horsey Sauce fix: https://copykat.com/arbys-horsey-sauce/
I make a homemade version of the Arby’s Beef and Cheddar. Even bought a deli slicer just to get that piled-up effect. The Horsey Sauce recipe above nails it. The Arby Sauce however… I’ve yet to find a proper copycat recipe. I think there might be citrus (lime?) in Arby Sauce but it’s not listed in the ingredients.
what kind of deli slicer did you get?
Vevor 10 inch 240W. I’ve absolutely rail this thing, lent it out to my hunting Jedi buddy who also put the screws to it, lather, rinse, repeat for two years now. I used to have a meat-smoking and charcuterie business, so I have opinions about deli slicers. This unit (https://www.vevor.com/cutters-slicers-c_10662/vevor-commercial-meat-slicer-240w-electric-deli-food-slicer-10-inch-carbon-steel-blade-electric-food-slicer-350-400rpm-meat-slicer-0-0-47-inch-adjustable-thickness-for-commercial-and-home-use-p_010664867799) is categorically okay.
Cleaning it is okay, not tool-free; I taped the necessary Allen wrench to the bottom. Performance is absolutely acceptable. Maintaining it is pretty simple (sharpener is included). Motor is decent. Cheese slicing performance is decent. It tends to throw a lot of shreds, but I bet polishing the backside of the blade would fix that. Portability is the suck, but some long Velcro strips improve that. It’s no $3000 Hobart, but also costs one order of magnitude less.
okay awesome thanks, i shopped some a while ago but didn’t really find anything short of some crazy commercial stuff
Yeah so now I’m hungry, thanks a lot 😂
“When you eat at Arby’s, there are always (bigger) butts.”
- a wise man, probably
“People do crazy things in ads, like eat at Arby’s.” - Marge Simpson
Also potato cakes. Mmm.
It depends on the country I guess. Here in France I’d do a BK over McDonald’s any day. But it would loose to a Roadside (local burger chain) in most cases.
In the middle of the US all of the fast food chains are hit and miss depending on location. There are like 11 McDonald’s nearby and two of them are consistently good. There are at least three BKs and only one of them is consistently good.
When the BK is good I find it far better than McDonald’s. It is probably the fry grease they use and the open fire for cooking the meat, but also the vegetables and buns and everything else are just better imho. Good enough to get me to stop by a few times a year.
Same in sweden. I don’t eat if macd is the only option. BK is good but mAx burgers are better (when you only look at fast"food")
Arby’s
I just threw up in my mouth a little…
Hey, they were decent a couple… checks notes… decades ago…
Last time I ate at an Arby’s was around '95, they were terrible then too.
I remember the roast beef & cheddar being pretty good, especially with a coupon for 2 for $5 or something. Add some horsey sauce and they were quite good.
Fries were always hit and miss. Sometimes they had crispy curly fries, and sometimes they were soggy.
I dunno, BK doesn’t wreck my guts like McDonald’s
Don’t you besmirch the Sauce of the Gods.
I would say that Jack in the Box is the worst of the big national chains, but it’s been a long time since I ate at any of those places.
Really? They were awesome when I was a kid, but they didn’t have a store near me until recently, so I haven’t had them for… 15 years? They were my favorite back then, have they gotten worse?
I was thinking about trying Jack-in-the-Box for the first time so I downloaded the app, and my local joint wasn’t listed. Did some digging and they were apparently delisted because their google reviews were truly awful. Exclusively one stars for the last year. Stuff like “person in the drive through window tried to climb out of the window like the girl from The Ring and fight me” and “the chicken was still straight up frozen, like directly from the freezer not a little cold in the middle”. I thought they always had a long line because it was good, but it turns out people get stuck in that line for an hour and can’t get out.
That’s too bad, because Jack-in-the-box is one of the better chains IMO.
That probably shows they’re at least still trying.
At first I thought this was part of the No Kings protest.
