Regional fast food places

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-12-24 08:04pm

It's not really a fast-food place, but at Wawa's you can get hoagies and steaks and sandwiches and stuff, along with pretty much everything else you need.

Damn I miss Wawa.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-12-26 02:59pm

Alferd Packer wrote:I enjoy the entity that is the New Jersey diner hegemony. It's not really fast food (more like reasonably quick food), but it's definitely a Jersey only thing.

actually the diner was invented in Worcester Massachusetts.
According to the diner museum anyway. We have a lot of them here too (RI).

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-12-26 03:10pm

JediNeophyte wrote:Good Times. We've got several in Denver but I've never seen them elsewhere. Best fucking burgers ever, with onion rings to boot.

somewhat ot - denver? what part of denver you living at? *is living in denver himself right now* didn't figure there were too many board members in this city.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2004-12-26 03:35pm

Darth_Zod wrote:
JediNeophyte wrote:Good Times. We've got several in Denver but I've never seen them elsewhere. Best fucking burgers ever, with onion rings to boot.
somewhat ot - denver? what part of denver you living at? *is living in denver himself right now* didn't figure there were too many board members in this city.

Aurora, near Centennial.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-12-26 03:41pm

JediNeophyte wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:
JediNeophyte wrote:Good Times. We've got several in Denver but I've never seen them elsewhere. Best fucking burgers ever, with onion rings to boot.
somewhat ot - denver? what part of denver you living at? *is living in denver himself right now* didn't figure there were too many board members in this city.
Aurora, near Centennial.

ah, that's the opposite side of town from me then. i'm living on Colfax way out near Colorado Blvd.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-12-26 04:02pm

There's a place in my hometown Roskilde called "The Sandwich Company" which make some rather expensive sandwiches which simply taste so good it can't be described.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2004-12-26 08:57pm

Peregrin Toker wrote:There's a place in my hometown Roskilde called "The Sandwich Company" which make some rather expensive sandwiches which simply taste so good it can't be described.

There's a regional drive-in restaurant here called Tom & Jerry's (yes, their mascots are the cat & mouse duo). They have some damn good burgers, and they're chicken is pretty good, too. An eat-in restaurant called Sunrise Family Restaurant, of which I know two locations around here, takes the cake for best local burgers, though. Fun fact: Sunrise is located at the north end of town, on the east side of Highway 251. Directly across the street is a bar/liquor store called Sunset Liquor. Coincidence? I think not.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-12-26 09:19pm

Panda Express is my favorite here. It's a fast-food Chinese place with incredibly good orange chicken. Kind of expensive, but a two-item orange chicken with a side of white rice . .. .

(It's too bad we don't have a "drooling" emoticon)

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2004-12-26 11:22pm

Subway
KFC
Harvey's
Wendy's
Tim Horton's
McDonald's
Pizza Pizza
Mr.Sub

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-12-26 11:27pm

I was going to say Boston Market because it's damn good food for how fast you get it, but that was before I remembered Cluck U!

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-12-26 11:34pm

For me?

Five Guys hamburgers.

Greasy, fattening but y'know...there are REAL hamburgers for about a buck, buck fifty more then McDonald's.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2004-12-26 11:41pm

Guardsman Bass wrote:Panda Express is my favorite here. It's a fast-food Chinese place with incredibly good orange chicken. Kind of expensive, but a two-item orange chicken with a side of white rice . .. . (It's too bad we don't have a "drooling" emoticon)

Crappy Americanized Chinese food

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-12-27 12:30am

HemlockGrey wrote:It's not really a fast-food place, but at Wawa's you can get hoagies and steaks and sandwiches and stuff, along with pretty much everything else you need.

Damn I miss Wawa.

Wawa is quality. And you can get gas there 20 cents cheaper than anywhere else, and cigarettes at the state minimum.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-12-27 01:14am

Exonerate wrote:
Guardsman Bass wrote:Panda Express is my favorite here. It's a fast-food Chinese place with incredibly good orange chicken. Kind of expensive, but a two-item orange chicken with a side of white rice . .. . (It's too bad we don't have a "drooling" emoticon)
Crappy Americanized Chinese food

Quiet, You! You have not known the Panda's Orange Chicken!

spongyblue · Post by **spongyblue** » 2004-12-27 01:26am

Sonic. I know they have em here in Florida and parts of Texas, I'm not sure where else. Drive-in style joint. They have the best drinks. PERIOD. Milkshakes are made with real fruit and milk. You want vanilla flavor added to Dr.Pepper? No problem. Green apple to sprite? Just ask. When my girl was pregnant we went there once every couple of days for floats made from any soda, strawberry milkshake made with real chunks of strawberry, or a shake made with reese's pieces. There burgers and sandwiches made from texas toast are pretty damn good too. It's the only fast food place I regular go to anymore.

Shark Bait · Post by **Shark Bait** » 2004-12-27 01:33am

jack in the box oh it is the best since starting at the university of tampa i have been deprived of it and i recently had my wisdom teeth pulled so i cant eat such foods. But i remember all through senior year of high school Alyerium, Lost Profett and another friend of ours would stay at my place on friday nights and play D&D watch bad movies and then at three am leave the house to go get bacon ultimate cheese burgers. we were convinced one saturday morning my mom would come in and find us all dead of massive heart attacks because of our greasy food binges. damn now I really really want one.

however on the east coast I have to say I love hardy's and popeyes fryed chicken cource AZ recently got popeyes but its way out from where I live.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-12-27 02:42am

For hamburger chanin MAX has all others beat.

But I prefer a Kebab as fastfood.

Or perhaps a "Tunnbrödsrulle" that is aflat thin bread with mashed potato and some sausuges all rolled up in the bread.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-12-27 02:56am

No clue how widespread they are, but a Checkers bacon cheeseburger is the best damn fast food I've ever had this side of Pizza.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-12-27 03:17am

Galvatron wrote:I've been told that Hardees has basically the same menu as Carl's Jr. as they're owned by the same people. They even use the happy star logo!

You heard correctly.

Natorgator · Post by **Natorgator** » 2004-12-27 04:02am

The south has Waffle House, Chickfila, and Taco Mac. Probably a few others too that I'm not thinking of. The three of those is a bit of competition for In&Out

Marksist · Post by **Marksist** » 2004-12-27 04:29am

but that was before I remembered Cluck U!

There's a Cluck U! in Gainesville, FL. Not sure if it's part of the same chain where you are located. But, if it is, I guess it wouldn't be regional.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-12-27 08:23am

mulan is a decent chinese fast food chain around here.

udo´s snacks for burgers. but he´s expensive.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-27 08:42am

A&W All American Food, a largely western phenomenon. I only wish they had them here.

There are A&Ws with semi-truck parking in Heber California, Texas Canyon Arizona, Amarillo Texas, Quartzite Arizona, Buckeye Arizona... no wait, they replaced that with an Arbys... bastards, Lordsburg New Mexico, Santa Maria New Mexico...

Well, you get the idea.

Other than that, most of the places I've discovered across the country were strictly one or two-shop places. One good one that's mostly in Texas and Oklahoma is Braum's, which does excellent burgers and ice cream.

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2004-12-27 08:43am

Lick's is a southern Ontario regional burger joint, with perhaps a dozen locations sprinkled in and around Toronto. It serves the Homeburger, which is, in my humble opinion, the finest hamburger I've ever eaten. It is somewhat expensive by fast food standards, but the Homeburger with cheese is a thing to behold.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-12-27 11:10am

A&W All American Food, a largely western phenomenon. I only wish they had them here.

They have them in Okinawa too, and not just in or around the military bases. I don't know about the American variant, but in the Japanese ones you have to wait a while for your food, like a somewhat crappier version of Ruby's, of which there are two in Pennsylvania and like five in California, for reasons I cannot fathom.