Is Arbys making a comeback? I'm seeing more and more of the chains pop up out here, and man that makes me sooooo happy. The Big Montana might be the most underrated sandwich around (put that on your list RRD), and that freakin' horsy sauce is out of sight. Hmmmmmm.....
With two great lunches at Arbys, they now move into my top 5 fast food chains:
1. In and Out
2. Taco Bell
3. Pick Up Stix
4. Popeyes
5. Arbys
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You have to be careful not to hitch your wagon to one food. I'm not talking genre like mexican or anything. I mean one particular food. What is arbys to most people, roast beef, right? And most other people just think your saying hardees wrong.
Now sure they may have other shit, but everyone think's arby's = roast beef. It's just too limiting to be in a top 5. It's like calling the lazy boy store your favorite furniture store.
And why did arbys have to steal the big reno cowboy's hat? Reorder your top and resubmit.
i completely disagree with your hitch theory. popeyes? KFC? sure, they have different offerings as well, but they're fucking CHICKEN JOINTS. and you gotta have a chicken joint in the top 5. i think your commentary was more about roast beef.
BTW - my agency is pitching popeyes. i may be on the account if we win. how appropriate that i have a focus group of 2 fatty's in my hip pocket.
I would fly out for free if you landed the Popeyes account!!! Seriously...no joke. For free
Top 5 Fast Food Joints:
5.Taco Bell
4.Chipotle
3.Hardees
2.Baja Fresh
1. Chick-Fil-A
Although the Arby's 5 for $5 got me through college.
5. Krystal: Offering chili-cheese dogs, to go with the traditional fast-food menu gets you onto my top five. Add in the square buns/patties and just enough grease, and you have Krystal!
4. Baja Fresh: pretty good mexican and i'm a sucker for a burrito. A relatively deep menu, but they don't do anything great. I can't see it any higher than this, but certainly can't put anything else above it.
3. Chick-fil-A: struggled between this one and Chipotle, but I think that this just comes down to my personal preference for burritos vs chicken. Good menu and well done. Points deducted for being closed on Sundays. Can't tell you how many times that has fucked me.
2. Chipotle: limited menu, but my favorite burrito, hands down.
1. In and Out: just in another league. Fresh cut fries and getting your burger "animal-style" are two of my favorite things about I/O. Always seemed to be manned by high schoolers, but with a remarkably good attitude. Kinda like Mormons, but not as wierd.
I love Chick-Fil-A, but they don't have them out here. Right before I moved, I started going there for breakfast and it opened up new doors for sandwich combos like a chicken egg and sausage sandwich. Amazing.
Never was a big fan of Chipotle, since the local Mexican joints out here are so much better. But when I'm craving 12 tacos, I also go back to the Bell. Curr, when are we going to have that taco eat off?
Arby's is not just roast beef anymore - have you had their market fresh sandwiches?
And WTF is "Pick Up Stix"? A chain that sells Pixie sticks?
My Top 5:
1. Rally's - a midwestern thing - the fries are great, and the burgers are cheap and decent. Classic drunk food.
2. Arby's - like many others, I got through college on the 5 for 5 plan also (with #4 below)
3. Taco Bell - can never go wrong here. 7-layer without sour cream is a staple of mine to this day.
4. Burger King - I gained 20 pounds in grad school because the BK on campus had 99 cent specials on:
- Sausage Crossandwich AND
- Whoppers
So when I was in the lab for 10 hours straight and shot of cash, it was BK at9 am, BK at 2 and BK at 7. Yikes.
5. Panera. A refined taste for the discerning appetite.
What's with the paean to the world of fast food sluttery, and then you change course and salute the high end call girl of fast food, panera bread.
The last 10 years has seen the ff world challenged by the creation of quasi-ff with no drive throughs, no microwaves, double the prices, and "natural ingredients".
The bell begot the triumverate of mexican royals, chipotle, baja, and qdoba. Subway is now flanked by the classier Quizno's. Boston Market was utterly destroyed the panera bread. Roy Rogers, a once proud bulwark of sloppy, salty, instacrap has been replaced by the farm more upscale, Brokeback Mtn. Burgers.
At the current rate, traditional ff will be dead and gone in 10 years with the nation's roadsides then littered by wellness centers and wholistic meal huts. America will join Burma with its mandatory countrywide morning jogs and Papua New Guinea as the fittest nations in the world.
How the hell did you slip in a Brokeback Mtn joint while discussing fastfood?
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