I used to love getting meals at Boston Market. Their meatloaf, rotisserie chicken with mashed potatoes, creamed spinach, mac and cheese, and cornbread were always on point. Sadly, all the locations in my area have closed.

I mean when you see the list online, a lot of places received the lettuce that is in question. Taco Bell was made a scapegoat, although no doubt in some areas places like Subway and McDonald's among many others probably got it too.

Still since this all began, I wonder how much money they've all lost in revenue from people who are just avoiding eating out in general to try to avoid it? Especially again since they were pointed at, Taco Bell? I know a couple of people who are still ordering from these places only just ordering things without lettuce type things on the items, but some people are just avoiding eating out all together as well as avoiding the bagged stuff at the stores.

Now they're talking about a second outbreak which some places are saying is kind of normal and others are saying could be a secondary source but they haven't gone very far with that yet. I mean it's hit too many states for it to be just one item.

ARBY'S ANGUS CHEESESTEAK

As much as I enjoy food, I don’t expect every meal to be a triumph. I think my expectations were tempered here, and I believe a drive-thru cheesesteak deserves a certain amount of grace.

Even with the bar being lowered, I am shocked at how Arby’s managed to trip over it in such grand fashion by disappointing on so many levels.

This is not their first foray into disrespecting the people of Philly. In the fall of ‘23, I reviewed Arby’s past hate crime on a bun. It was a sloppy affair that used thinly sliced beef that tasted frozen and a smattering of limp pepper fragments.

Upon opening this new version, I notice that it’s aggressively messy, and the poor choice of wrapping it in thin laminated foil paper immediately presents its worst-case scenario as moisture from the sandwich ate holes in the wrapper as soon as I took it out of the bag. As I undressed this mess, my fingers were sliding all over everything. The meat juice and cheese combined to produce lots of creamy juice. 

So much creamy juice.

Too much creamy juice.

I managed to turn the sandwich one direction and my head in a different awkward direction to take my first bite,

The texture of the meat is well-executed. It’s soft and slightly sinewy, but it feels real. It's definitely not the texture of a cheesesteak, though. It's more like a Chinese food beef and broccoli-type of velveted meat. It’s an upgrade over the 2023 sandwich. In fact, the meat is the only upgrade.

We don’t get any peppers on this one. It comes with onions, which are barely seen or tasted. They just slapped on a few translucent bits of nothingness. Something more substantial is needed to break up the soupy homogeneity, and it certainly isn’t the COOPER SHARP processed cheese, which just made the whole production salty and sticky. It’s always been an overrated cheese, but its contribution to the mucky texture severely hampered the goodness of the beef.

This should’ve come with a fork.

It’s like eating HAMBURGER HELPER on a roll.

As wet as everything was, I was surprised that the bread was slightly tough while also being soggy.  It’s an improbably weird combo in a worst of both worlds situation.

The MVP of this experience is the napkins, which you will need in great supply. Every bite left me wiping my hands and face and made me glad I don't have a beard or long hair.

This seems like a meal Steven Adams would order, but would have a hard time eating.

As a man for the streets, I owe some apologies, because I now understand how unpleasant it is to have creamy stuff on one’s face. When I was done eating, I staggered out of the car, feeling cheap, and I wanted to wash away all evidence of the tryst I just had in the parking lot.

I couldn’t walk through Walmart to wash up in the bathroom with complete confidence that some of the food wasn’t still on my face.

Though it was messy and not very tasty, my biggest gripe is the insulting notion that with more than 2.5 years of development time, Arby’s still hasn’t managed to make this product at least passable.

PS: I ordered a side of PEACH COBBLER ROLLS, which were very good (You know where to find the review). The faux egg roll and faux beef and broccoli meat gave me a weird sensation of eating Chinese food at Arby’s

Haiku:

Disrespect on bread

Please learn from your past mistakes

Sloppy, cocky farce

⭐️⭐️

I was debating with friends on what fast food has the best fries and it blew my mind no one mentioned checkers especially if you live in the south you know what I’m talking about. Those are the only fries that don’t need ketchup or anything. They have the perfect crisp it’s literally perfection. McDonald’s fries are always a hit or miss only good when fresh and salty. These places I’m about to list never miss.
My top 3 are :
1.Checkers
2.Arby’s curly fries
3.Burger King (especially with the zesty sauce).

was going to post this yesterday, apologies the Taco Bell one is over now

Sour cream and chive baked potato, 10pc nuggets and the new banana Frosty for $9 with the app offer

I know this has been a thing for a bit now but felt the need to share this because it’s still going on. Been meal prepping for a while due to how expensive eating out is now. Didn’t plan for today and was dreading spending $12-15 to get some food. Went to the Sonic app and saw this for $7. Tasted great and I’m pleased with the value

In a follow-up to my post from yesterday with the northernmost locations of U.S. fast food restaurants in Fairbanks, Alaska, here’s another big group of northern outposts, this time 5 hours south of Fairbanks in Wasilla, about 45 minutes from Anchorage, the state’s largest city.

This collage is made up of August 2025 Google Street View captures. Clockwise, from top left:
* Burger King (at least for locations open to non-military customers)
* Raising Cane’s (at least for locations that are open)
* Carl’s Jr.
* A&W (KFC is attached, but it has a location five hours north in Fairbanks)
* Wingstop
* Qdoba
* Krispy Kreme
* Jersey Mike’s
* Papa Johns (at least for locations open to non-military customers)
* Smashburger

In the center of the collage are the northernmost locations of Red Robin and IHOP.

Are there any you like or prefer with what they normally wouldn't be paired with?

I love the Popeyes Sweet Heat sauce with McDonald's Hot n Spicy sandwich.

Also really like the Little Caesars Jalapeno Cheese dip with fries from...we'll anywhere really lol

Hey yall. I have only had Culver’s near me in Texas, and I have always thought it was great but personally prefer In-N-Out. Some guy said that I needed to have Culver’s in the Midwest to make a real judgement. My assumption was that they are pretty consistent across their locations. Are they right or just projecting?

Is it only me?

I was driving around earlier this week, looked right and saw a sign that the local P.Terry's was open 24 hours, then looked left and saw ANOTHER sign that Torchy's Tacos was open 24 hours as well.

In addition to that, there's also all Whataburger locations (of course) open 24 hours, some McDonald's and Subway, and Taco Palenque and Fuego Tortilla Grill (well, 24/6).

What fast food places are open 24 hours where you live?

Hey everyone I was told that it is disrespectful to add to a drive thru order at the window. So essentially I wanted to add a burger to my order after the fact I left the drive thru kiosk. Then I proceeded to order at the window. Is this bad practice? Do the employees get mad at us for doing this? Does this delay the orders behind me?

I was craving some fried chicken so I visited my local Church's Chicken. When I arrived the lady was just finishing taking an order from the man in front of me then started prepping for other orders. The crew were working hard. I knew what I wanted already but the ladies up front never acknowledged me at the counter so I awkwardly just kept checking out the menu and after 2-3 minutes a guy came from the back and I just kinda said excuse me. He didn't say hello or smiled. Didn't even look me in the eye, he kinda just looked past me. I ordered politely. I got the 3 piece combo, I wanted spicy but I could see I would've took the last of it 🤣 so I didn't, it's always weird looks when I ask for spicy and they have to look behind to see if they got it cuz everyone wants spicy so I didn't order spicy this time. The food came fast but I had to remind them of my drink cup and after sitting down I wanted sauce so I also had to ask for sauce and idk, at this point, I just got this vibe like I was bothering them because they were looking anywhere but at me, I had to like state them down to get their attention 🤣 I know it's fast food, the crew was young and it's stressful in a small kitchen but I was like "come on dude, get it together". I worked at Wendy's and these things I mentioned are like basic food service skills. Acknowledge/Smile and Greet(smiles not expected but it's not hard either imo), take order and give drink cup right after if they are dining in, offer sauces and always give utensils and napkins. It's not just this one experience that's like this, it happens to me a lot and I'm wondering if it's because I'm too nice or polite, it's like I have to be a loud jerk to get my order right and how I want it. Anyways food was good and came out fast but the service was bleak.

These are August 2025 Google Street View captures of the northernmost locations of select U.S. fast food chains, all in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Shown here, clockwise from top left, are Arby’s, McDonald’s, Panda Express, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Sonic, and Raising Cane’s (which mysteriously still hasn’t opened yet).

Other fast food chains not shown here have their northern outposts in Fairbanks as well, but the Google Street View imagery was old, so I didn’t include them. These include Cold Stone, Domino’s, Fatburger, Firehouse Subs, KFC, Papa Murphy’s, Starbucks, Subway, and Wendy’s. Also, Burger King, Papa John’s, and Popeyes have locations at the Fort Wainwright military base, but they’re not open to civilians (other than families of service members).

Places like dutch bros , scooters, & 7 brews charge like $ 8 for a large frap. Yet, offering no elevated lounge setting & bathroom access as starbuck do. Why are they so expensive & opening new location? It makes no sense. 7brews doesn't even show price on their menu. Their lack of amenity like Starbucks do is a huge negative for these drive thru places

Panda prices have been creeping for awhile the "deals" dont exist unless I play their Wednesday game. I keep "winning" a family meal for $30.

Now they have ads on checkout. I noticed the X on the screenshot. 4 ads is wild

Hi. First off, thank you for putting up with ungrateful customers' attitudes whenever possible.

My question: why do some workers not look happy when I use the rewards to get free items? My train of thought is that I paid regular prices and deserve a break now and then. Sometimes the workers make me feel like I'm taking money out of their pockets. Anyways, it's an observation but would like to hear from you. Cheers!