Fast Food Mega-Poll nomination thread
 

Okay, so I took a little longer to put this up than I promised, because I had to work out the qualifications:

1) No fast casual*. The cutoff criteria for fast casual as opposed to fast food will be the routine use of reusable, washable plates/bowls/cups/eating utensils (only the ubiquitous fast food plastic serving trays are allowed) for "for-here" orders, as opposed to disposable ones. Exceptions: You may request an exception to this rule by explaining why your proposed store should be exempt even though it serves its food in a manner that flies in the face of sacred fast food doctrine. Exception must be granted before any of its menu items are nominated.

2) Discontinued items: When you nominate a discontinued item, label it discontinued and include the approximate year that it was dropped. Depending on how many discontinued items are nominated, I may include some or all of them in the main poll, run a concurrent mini-megapoll for them, or just quietly drop them like a discontinued fast food item.

3) No mom-and-pop shops. While they may have just as quick service as fast food, there's just a certain soulless institutional vibe that they lack to count as true fast food. Plus, you're probably going to be the only one who votes for your local take-out store and do you really want to see it be crushed like a bug in Round 1?

4) Wawa-style gas stations. We don't really have these around here, so I will allow them on the honor system of: if you really feel like that they have a fast-food-vibe, as opposed to having a deli-vibe or a cafeteria-vibe, put them in. If someone else nominates something from one of this type of store, and you don't think the store qualifies, call them out and we can have Megapoll Fighting[TM] right here in the nomination thread! Please label these as Rule 4 nominations to maximize the potential for altercations.

Please include the name of the item that you are nominating, the restaurant/store that it is from, and a brief description of the item if you feel it is appropriate (or just want to get a jump on providing voting propaganda). If discontinued, also follow Rule 2. If Wawa-ish, also follow Rule 4.

*Look, if it's a place that I've never been, you know I am not going to google it to find out if it uses real plates, but be prepared for your fellow Megapollers to call you out for being a dirty dirty cheat. If it doesn't come out until the middle of the Megapoll, it'll just auto-lose its current round.

5 Guys Fries
McDonalds Fries
McDonalds Quarter Pounder or Royal with Cheese.
Wendy's Frosty
5 Guys Bacon Cheeseburger/Cheeseburger
Popeyes Chicken Tenders
Wendy's Burger
Wendy's Baked Potato

Should I assume this is the standard Dave's Single, no cheese?

Do you want it that specific? I figured anything from the single to the triple, with or without cheese could be an entry.

Well, single/double/triple could probably be a single entry, but hamburger vs cheeseburger should probably be separate.

OK, then both of those.
Wendy's Cheeseburger single to triple
Wendy's Burger single to triple

Qdoba’s black beans. I love the not-so-subtle lime taste. It’s kind of fast casual but the food is only served in disposable containers with plastic utensils. It should make the cut!

Popeye’s friiiiied apple pie.

Cane’s chicken fingers

Cane’s Texas toast

Burger King’s chicken fries

Sonic’s mozzarella sticks

Taco Bell burrito supreme with double meat and fire sauce.

No need to nominate anything else from Taco Bell because every single thing on their menu tastes exactly the same.

Arby's Jamocha shake
McDonalds Shamrock shake
Jack in the Box curly fries

Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich
Wendy's Asiago bacon ranch sandwich
Arby's curly fries
Arby's jamoca shake
McDonald's apple pie.
Dairy queen blizzard
Dairy queen chili cheese dog
Dairy queen cheese curd
Sonic cherry lime aide
Wawa gobbler (rule 4! Fight me!)
Primos Italian Hoagie
Del taco hamburger but only when served after 2am
Carls Junior Six Dollar guacamole burger (don't know if this still exists or not honestly)
Jack in the box jalepeno poppers
Jack in the box sourdough jack
Jack in the box ultimate cheeseburger
Culver's red pepper soup
In-N-out double double animal style.
In-N-out animal style fries well done
In-N-out black and white shake
White Castle 1921 slider
White castle onion rings
White castle double slider
White castle slider with cheese
McDonald's shamrock shake
McDonald's mcrib
McDonald's double big mac
Taco Bell Baja Blast
Taco Bell crunch wrap
Taco bell chicken soft tacoa
Taco bell doritos dos locos
Taco bell Mexican pizza
Pizza hut personal peperoni pizza served from a taco bell drive through after 1am
Bred sticks, same scenario as the pizza with marinara dipping sauce

Popeyes blackened chicken tenders
Popeyes Mac and cheese (maybe the best comercial Mac I have ever had)
Popeyes red beans and rice
Popeyes biscuit
Popeyes spicy chicken sandwich
Arby's cherry popover (turnover? I don't remember)
Dunkin donuts bacon egg and cheese with cheddar instead of American add ketchup.
McDonald's egg mcmuffin
McDonald's sausage mcmuffin
McDonald's bacon mcgriddle

I'm going to channel my inner doper here and brag about how I almost never eat all this crap y'all are nominating. :smug:

and then nominate Burgerville's Crispy Halibut Sandwich, just for the halibut. :p

I don't often pay $9 for a fish sandwich but when I do, this is a good one.

I call foul. Pizza Hut is not fast food, even when it's made at a Taco Hutt/Pizza Bell location.

Let the fights begin!

McDonald’s steak egg and cheese bagel-perfection

I was going to nominate Burgerville's huckleberry shake, but I worried you, me, and Zeener would be the only votes for it. Everyone outside Oregon and southern WA would have to trust us that their food is amazing, and this group is not the trusting type.

If you get it from a drive through window in under 3 minutes it's fast food!:durpfight:

Uh-uh-uh! As I mentioned when Ratty first brought up the fast food theme, drive-thrus don't make it fast food. Panera has drivethrus. So does Noodles.

good point. and for all I know the crap fish sandwich the Golden Arches serves might also cost $9. :fist:

So the Wawas argument holds that food dispensed from a stand-alone heated compartment, where the food is already cooked and waiting to be sold, is not allowable except under certain circumstance? Fine.

So should I expect similar treatment of other gas station slash convenience stores slash snack bars? Say, like am/pm or Jackson's? These are closer to home (e.g., west coast) and offer specific fast food beyond hot dogs and nachos. (Even 7/11 has expanded to include gas and hot food.)

It's served at a Taco bell.

Also the time matters. Panera drive through doesn't take under 3 minutes. Pizza Hut does. Also it's served in the same cardboard and plastic as McDonald's uses. No real plates. And it's a different menu than other pizza huts. Taco bell pizza hut is a distinct entity.

OK, then Panera and Noodles is fast food. As in a food-like substance that you can get quickly, like it says right there in the name. There's nothing about fancy bread and panini sandwiches that makes it not fast or not food.

Volunteering to take over the poll-running? :dubious:

No, just savaging your ankle. But what is it about Panera drive-up that makes it not fast food?

/looks over posted options

I find your lack of Burger King disturbing.

Burger King Fully Loaded Croisan'wich with Egg
Burger King Beefacon Croisan'wich with Egg (WTF is "beefacon"?)
BK Mushroom Veggie Burger
BK Single Mushroom Swiss Burger
BK Whopper with Cheese Burger
BK Onion Rings (w/ Zesty sauce)
BK Spicy Melt
BK Bacon Melt

Carl's Jr Sausage Egg & Cheese Biscuit
Carl's Jr Streak & Egg Burrito
Carl's Jr Single Western Bacon Cheeseburger
Carl's Jr Single El Diablo Burger
Carl's Jr Spicy Chicken Sandwich
Carl's Jr Charbroiled Santa Fe Chicken Sandwich
Carl's Jr 6 or 9 piece Jalapeno Popper Bites

I've actually never used the drive-thru, but I have done eat-in, to-go and pick-up ordering via the app. It is not exactly that fast. Faster than, say, eating in at Denny's, but still not fast-food fast. I don't expect that adding a drive-up window makes prep any faster.

Psst ruling on my expanded argument?

Is this a different sandwich than the Shroom n'Swiss Melt? (Because if it is I will need to nom the Shroom n'Swiss Melt separately from myself. And now I want one.)

Unless anyone else has another objection, it's allowed.

I see NAF has Popeye's Spicy Chicken listed. That would be my option for the Final Four.

Chick-fil-A Spicy Chicken Sandwich
KFC Spicy Chicken Sandwich
Dave's Hot Chicken Single Slider
Dave's Not Chicken Single Slider (made with cauliflower)

Also: 5 Guys Burgers are listed as "Little" (single) or otherwise two patties. I prefer the Little to the regular.

The Melts are different; the burgers have lettuce, tomato, onion.

I'll go on and nominate Burgerville choices:

Big Cowboy Slider
Northwest Cheese Burger
Best Coast Turkey Burger
Blazin' Hot Pepper Crispy Chicken Sandwich
Wild Alaskan Halibut Fish & Chips
Hazelnut Chocolate Shake
Biscuits w/Jam, Butter, Honey

Taco Time Crisp Beef Burrito
Taco Time Crisp Chicken Burrito
Taco Time Habanero Chicken Soft Burrito
Taco Time Big Juan Burrito
Taco Time Mexi Fries
Taco Time Taco Cheese Burger
Taco Time Tostado Beef Salad Bowl

Taco Bell Breakfast Crunchwrap Sausage
Taco Bell Breakfast Crunchwrap California
Taco Bell Nacho Cheese Doritos Loco Taco Supreme
Taco Bell Chalupa Supreme
Taco Bell 5-Layer Burrito
Taco Bell Steak Cheesy Dipping Burritos

That isn't what a Wawa is, it is more like a Deli Chain that is also a Gas Station and Convenience Store. The Food is prepared on the spot, mot pre-made.

McDonald's Chicken McNuggets
Wendy's Breakfast Burrito
Wendy's Breakfast Potatoes
McDonald's Sausage Burrito
Wendy's Spicy chicken sandwich
McDonald's Spicy McChicken
Burger King French Toast Sticks
McDonald's McDouble
Wendy's Spicy Nuggets

Arby's late lamented potato cakes, discontinued 2023
KFC Popcorn Chicken
KFC mashed potatoes with gravy
KFC potato wedges
KFC original recipe
Long Josh Silvers fish
LJS chicken
LJS hush puppies
Arby's curly fries

McDonald's Filet o Fish
McDonald's McChicken

::slaps Jackie with a wet sardine::

McDonald's Hash Browns
Big Mac
Filet-o-Fish

Because it needs to be included.

That's sorta what I thought from what I heard about it. But I've never been to one, so like I said, honor system.

I was just hoping to get a ruling to prevent any of those places I mentioned being included.

I'm going to limit it to the chains mentioned by Ratty: Sheetz, Turkey Hill, and Wawa.

Don't forget Buc-ees. Their sliced brisket sandwich is better than Wawa's.

For my money, I would say Wawa and Sheetz both have real food, but Turkey Hill is more like a 7/11

Time doesn't matter. Fast doesn't automatically make it fast food.

But as the person who raised the original objection to Pizza Hut, the bolded part above is a convincing argument. I withdraw my challenge.

Not to get into a thing about this, but I do not understand the above. Can you elaborate?

Subway Meatball Marinara

"Fast food" is more than just the time it takes to serve you. The Lions Club might have a pancake breakfast where you walk up and get a plate of pancakes in 30 seconds, but it's not fast food. A soup kitchen isn't fast food. There are lots more similar examples.

Fast food must be fast, but not all food that's fast is fast food. Therefore, it can be used to exclude something, but it isn't useful to ensure inclusion.

I'm going back on my earlier objection: I want to nominate 7/11 Pepperoni Pizza. It's not an item you can order and pickup, nor is it a wienie on steaming greasy rollers. It's smaller than a pan pizza and has four slices per pie. They're premade and kept under heat lamps, and you might get a slice that's tough to chew, but it satisfies your pepperoni craving without going to Pizza Hut, and it's cheap. Also: the breakfast pizzas are similar to Red Baron singles, and surprisingly tasty.

7/11 Pepperoni Pizza
7/11 Personal Breakfast Pizzas

This is a good description. I tell people that Wawa is like Subway but with a 7/11 attached. Only the best imaginable version of either. Sheetz I only go to for the coffee honestly. There aren't many close by, but it's got more variety of food, but it's all made fresh.

Whenever I see “Wawa”, I think about toddlers. “I want to drink wawa, mama!” Whenever I see “Sheetz” I think about old country folks. “Oh shiiiiiieeeet!”

And “Kum N Go” Well……. :wanker: