Fast Food Mega-Poll nomination thread

[Kat]

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.