As a Canadian I have only ever eaten A&W (and Five Guys once) so I curious what other people prefer.
Probably Five Guys, but I’ve only been there once, they are quite rare here. But it was excellent.
At various times I’ve enjoyed:
- whataburger
- in-n-out
- sonic
- krystal
- white castle
- wendy’s
Lately sonic is my favorite.
Yall gonna think I’m crazy but Farmer Boys. Everybody else around me gonna say In-N-Out.
Yall gonna think I’m crazy but Farmer Boys.
I have a farm, but I’m not generally making burgers (I’ve never heard of this place).
Never heard of Farmer Boys.
Culver’s is the best, in my opinion. Five Guys is also very good but is spendy. Finally, Wendy’s makes excellent burgers as well.
Five Guys charges restaurant prices for barely-better-than-fast food
I was disappointed by Culver’s but agree about Five Guys.
Dick’s deluxe will always have my heart. You can keep the rest. Always made fresh, always pretty cheap. And they pay their workers pay good, which I’m convinced makes the burgers taste better.
They know exactly what they’re about and it’s actually FAST fast food. You have to wait 5-15 minutes at other places. At Dick’s you ask for food and you pay while they hand it to you.
Also, easy silly dick jokes. “I’ll feel better with some Dick’s in me” etc.
Never gets old.
✨immigration✨
I’m assuming to the UK, and feeling somewhat jealous (and also your display name is incredible)
Thankew, yes. It has been very difficult and financially ruinous but no regrets.
Hardee’s Monster Burger
but honorable mention to Wendy’s Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, especially dipped in the chili
Here in nz we have burger fuel. The backfire from them is pretty good
Dick’s cheeseburger.
The words “dick” and “cheese” in that order, should never be put before any food related word 🫢
Actually fast: Jack in the Box Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger.
Technically fast food but it aint fast to get: In-n-Out Double Double (the long ass fucking lines make me not even consider In-N-Out fast food; it can take up to an hour just to get to the order box!)
Unless Carl’s Jr. brings the Jack Daniels whiskey sauce steakhouse burger back. That thing still haunts my dreams. 🤤
Probably spicy whopper from BK. Not a huge McD’s fan, Wendy’s doesn’t really exist here (some menu items/branding existing in fakin wendy’s), and neither MOS nor Freshness are my favorites. I’m not sure if Lotteria is still around which is the only other chain I can think of.
Whataburger, but specifically the Sweet & Spicy Bacon Burger. Their regular burgers are pretty generic, but the one I mentioned is great. I don’t even buy it often anymore because you can buy their sauce that grocery store, so I sometimes make my own version at home.
Common! Which country?!
How have you only eaten A&W?
But also, in terms of fast food burgers, A&W Canada is pretty top tier.
Yeah, honestly. Unless OP is a young child I really have a hard time believing they’ve never had anything else. A&W is one of the least common fast food joints in Canada.
This is actually quite incorrect, A&W is the second largest fast food chain in Canada after McDonalds… Though not sure how even the spread is regionally.
Huh. Never would have guessed. I see them often enough but it seems like McD, BK and Wendy’s each outnumber them significantly. 🤷
Yeah it’s weird. I was actually a little disappointed by the A&W in the US compared to Canada, but then later someone told me A&W Canada is a completely different company/operation? Even though they seem to share certain branding.
In-N-Out Burger became my go-to when visiting family in California. It’s a little weird though in that they seem to have choices not on the menu? Like my sister-and-law said I should ask for “animal style” and I looked at her dubiously but they knew what right away what that was.
I’ve heard that about in and out as well, a little trick to make customers feel a bit more special, same deal with five guys dumping all the extra fries in the bag… They’re fully charging you for them, but it still feels special.
And yeah, originally A&W Canada got sold off to some big conglomerate in the 70s (like Unilever of something), then eventually in the 90s when the conglomerate decided they didn’t want them, a group of franchisees banded together and bought A&W Canada from them… So it’s been separate from the American version for over 50 years at this point.
There are many rural parts of Canada where A & W is the only fast food choice. I’ve noticed this is especially true for service stations west of Ontario. I spent my twenties living on the road and got stuck eating A & W so much I can only stomach their chicken these days.
Yeah I currently live in a city where I can get a great burger from a food truck in walking distance of my house, but growing up I lived in a town where the only fast food burgers were A&W. When I go elsewhere a fast food burger from a multi-national chain isn’t exactly my first choice, so I haven’t had many others.
Makes perfect sense… Be thankful your town had an A&W and not BK.
Despite reddit and Lemmy nerds screeching, McDonald’s is fantastic.
That being said,a burger is a burger, they are all pretty much the same except form factors.
Lmao, what a daft comment. “McDonalds is fantastic” followed by “they’re all the same”.
So why even mention McDicks? If every burger is pretty much the same then McDonalds doesn’t stand out.
Also, thinking that all burgers are the same feels like one of those “the female orgasm is a myth” comments that just tells us you’ve never cooked (or apparently even tried) a decent burger.
The app is great, they are quick, and despite the price increases still very cheap.
Such an angry response to a direct answer to the question at hand 🤣.
WHY EVEN ANSWER IT YOUR OPINION DOESN’T MATCH MINE 🤣
Then into the YOU PROBABLY HAVEN’T EVEN COOKED BRO 🤣 Bravo 👏
Lol the McDicks app is not great. You literally can’t order ahead of time. It makes you go to the location before you can use the app, basically making it a glorified touchscreen machine rather than something that can save you time.
Also, the prices are not that cheap, at least here. They’re comparable to every other fast food chain, including the ones that are substantially better.
And the issue is not with having a different opinion, it’s that your reasoning / justification for that opinion inherently indicates that it’s not much of an opinion. It’s like someone who doesn’t listen to a genre of music saying that yeah, I think every xxxx song sounds the same.
None of this is correct. You can order from anywhere in advance.
My town used to have a Burger King. A Whopper I had there one time was quite literally the best burger I’ve ever had, before or since.
That said, this was ~30 years ago at one specific franchise, and I hear that BK food is terrible now, so maybe this doesn’t count.
