maverickhuntergirlz492 wrote:

Little Caesar's-affordable, great pizzas, crazy bread

I can at least tolerate all of the other restaurants on this list, but to be frank, Little Caesar's is utter, absolute shit. They make literally the worst, most abhorrent pizza of anyone ever. I'll take those frozen dollar pizzas from Wal-mart over Little Caesar's. It's basically just cheese and pasta sauce on dough-flavored gum.

Top Five Fast Food Restaurants: A List by Cameron Richter
1. Five Guys Burgers & Fries
-I'm not sure if this is actually "fast food" considering how expensive it is, but on the rare occasion I can actually afford it, their burgers are fantastic, and their cajun fries are probably my favorite fries of anywhere ever. The free peanuts are nothing to sneeze at either.
2. Lion's Choice
-Again, I'm not sure if this is fast-food, but they serve, more or less, the best roast beef sandwiches you're going to get at any reasonably priced restaurant. Their baked potatoes and strawberry sundaes are also worth mentioning.
3. White Castle
-Everyone else I know complains about how horrible they make your stomach feel, but I'm assuming the fact that I've been eating them since I was a little kid explains why they have no effect on me. Excellent jalapeno cheeseburgers and cheese fries.
4. Pizza Hut
-Everything on the menu is over-saturated with grease, and that's exactly how I like it. I don't eat pizza for my health. Their stuffed-crust pizza is transcendent.
5. Jack in the Box
-I included this on the list for both taste and affordability; their Breakfast Jacks are extremely reliable when I'm in a hurry somewhere and I need a cheap breakfast. Also have stellar curly fries with cheese, jalapeno poppers, and breakfast burritos.

Honorable mentions:
-Sonic (dem tater tots with cheese)
-Taco Bell (a guilty pleasure)
-Rally's (I'm not a fan of most of their food, but their fries constitute a presence on this list)

Methid Man wrote:

Lion's Castle, Whataburger, Braum's or Rally's. I think I might have heard of Carl's Jr. and In N Out Burger though.

Lion's Choice is essentially Arby's, but with much higher quality meat (it's also a bit pricier, but worth it). And they have baked potatoes. Rally's is basically Carl's Jr./Hardee's with much higher quality fries. Haven't heard of the others, though.

I don't currently really have the money to eat it very often (if ever), especially considering my school tuition contains a meal plan for eating in the cafeterias on campus, but I think it's fun to at least list out my favorite choices from when my parents used to take me out eating when I was younger.

I would also debate with the idea that healthier food is somehow cheaper, tastier, and/or takes less time to prepare. I'm not really sure how it is in more urban areas, but the only available options for buying vegetables in rural areas (i.e. Wal-mart) are often way more expensive than is reasonable. People in rural areas would more than likely rather buy three or four Breakfast Jacks from Jack in the Box than a bag of grapes, which is the same price.

Let's take a look at Taco Bell's stuffed nacho, for example; it's a tortilla wrap containing sour cream, spicy sauce, spicy onion bits, and shredded chicken, all for $1.50. Sure, it might be cheaper in the long run, but buying all of those individual ingredients together (a pack of tortilla shells, a container of sour cream, spicy sauce, spicy onion bits, and shredded chicken) would easily run over $10, which is often more than people who make minimum wage easily have out-of-pocket. It does save money to buy your own ingredients, I'm not denying that, but I feel like there are other factors/reasons why people eat fast food that you guys aren't considering.

And, people wouldn't continuously buy fast food if they thought it tasted gross; different people have different palates. As for it taking lest time, simply put, a lot of people don't have the time or energy to prepare their own meals as often as they'd like, and making a five-minute trip into a drive-thru on the way to work or the way home is vastly more convenient than the potential 15-30 minutes it takes to prepare a good meal.

Again, I don't consider myself some kind of fast-food advocate championing its merits, but the idea that anyone and everyone has the time, energy, resources or even interest to simply swear it off for the rest of forever and that any dissenters deserve diabetes or any other potentially life-threatening illness is kind of a myopic perspective.

I don't see how eating fast food automatically equates obesity. Many people who eat fast food are obese, but I don't think it's safe to generalize that to everyone. I guess I should have clarified my Jack in the Box example by mentioning that four Breakfast Jacks can feed someone for an entire day. A bag of grapes (or any healthy food of the same cost) more than likely cannot.