MetaFilter posts tagged with fastfood

Easy Recipes. Does what it sez on the tin.

lalochezia — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:20:00 -0800

Fast Food Fashions of the Eighties

mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:47:05 -0800

Fancy Fast Food

Silune — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:30:17 -0800

Fancy Fast Food. Fast food reconstructed into (something that looks like) fine cuisine. Recipes included, for those who dare.

I love chicken. Chickeny chicken chicken.

hifiparasol — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:28:50 -0800

My gut reaction was that the story--although a legitimate consumer complaint—seemed to reinforce a cultural stereotype about Black people and chicken. I know for a fact that no one on our staff meant for that to be the point of the story, but the fear that we would be accused of this sounded an alarm to me. It’s sad that I even had to worry about this.

Last week a couple of Popeye's restaurants in Rochester ran out of chicken. And local ABC affiliate WHAM decided to run a story. Some people complained, and WHAM responded. Warning: Second link contains some idiocy.

KISS Burger

Joe Beese — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:57:13 -0800

KISS Burger. Our Meat... Your Mouth.(via)

Behold, the McNuggetini

mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:32:35 -0800

In which Georgia gives you the McNuggetini.

The timeless art of seduction

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:43:14 -0800

Behold the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat.

Man, that's a lot of food

jbickers — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:11:04 -0800

"Features the only hint of vegetable in the form of a few shreds of iceberg lettuce, the nutritionally bankrupt variety. Also features a vile khaki-colored sauce with black flakes we assumed to be pepper. Made it about 80% through before throwing in the towel." An unboxing of the new Guitar Hero: World Tour KFC Fully Loaded Box Meal. Nutritional info: 1210 calories - that's without the drink - and 59 grams of fat. Still, not the worst fast food you can eat - that honor goes to the Hardee's Thickburger. The GH box is a close second, with the double Whopper huffing and puffing in at third.

Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.

carsonb — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:39:16 -0800

The Ghetto Big Mac Awesome thing #949: Ordering off the menu at fast food restaurants

Super-Duper-Size Me

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:04:14 -0800

Hungry? Arteries not quite plugged enough? Behold, the Big MacChicken.

On a diet? Don't get a salad; get a burger!

cerebus19 — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:38:56 -0800

Think those salads at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, and Taco Bell are a good idea if you want something lighter? Turns out you're actually better off getting a double cheeseburger instead. For more info on nutritional facts about fast food, CalorieKing has a good database.

McDonald's Options Worldwide

ColdChef — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:01:47 -0800

Sure, you probably know in France that McDonald’s serves the Royale with cheese (thanks to the famous scene in Pulp Fiction) but did you know that McDonald’s all around the world offer a number of different items catering to their cultures? Ok, you might’ve known. But you might not know exactly what they serve. Here are some of your McDonald’s options in countries all over the world.

Fries? With that?

reklaw — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:29:48 -0800

"Typically, fast-food workers who handle drive-through calls are multitasking, wearing headsets to take orders while filling drinks or bagging food. It's a high-pressure job and employees often are more concerned about rushing through orders than trying to sell more food or being polite to customers... The call-center employees, who earn about $8.50 an hour, are trained to urge customers to add items to their order and are timed on how long each call takes."

Eat what I say, not what I do.

scblackman — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:47:05 -0800

Paging Dr. Ronald McDonald and Dr. Pepper. To Cardiology ... stat. Despite the innumerable reports demonstrating an sharp rise in childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes in children, many children's hospitals continue to provide a plethora of unwholesome food and beverage choices. Moreover, these choices often contribute to revenue in most of these hospitals. This has been well-documented in community and academic [BugMeNot] hospitals. Different children's hospitals are awfully good at handing out advice to families. Maybe the hospitals should look in the mirror [note: links to .pdf of study].

Lazy Restaurant Conversions

CrunchyFrog — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:15:22 -0800

Not Fooling Anybody. You know that new Chinese Restaurant that still looks like the Pizza Hut that shut down last year? How about that sandwich shop that still has a Taco Bell-shaped sign in front of it? Ever feel like a family-sized bucket of back repair? Find all of these, plus a guide to identifying them in your own home town.

A different Burger Time

me3dia — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:25:20 -0800

Not your older brother's Burger Time. Burger King is developing three XBox videogames starring its eponymous mascot. And not just any games: they'll be modeled after such titles as Halo, Mortal Kombat and Need for Speed. But, you know, with fast food. Confirmation of the plans came in the form of a lawsuit threatened against Kotaku, the blog that broke the story.

Ice vs. toilet water

riffola — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:51:40 -0800

Jasmine Roberts, a seventh-grade student: "I found that 70-percent of the time, the ice from the fast food restaurant's contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurant's toilet water."

"Under every forest there is a lawn."

Gator — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:45:42 -0800

McDonald's: The Videogame. A scathing critique of lousy corporate and environmental practices, or an entertainingly complex little game about the fast food industry? A little from column A, a little from column B. Torch diseased cows with the flamethrower, corrupt politicians and environmentalists, plant genetically modified soy in what used to be the rain forests of South America, force your employees to smile all the livelong day, and try not to bankrupt the company. Be sure to read the tutorial first. (Flash.)

Whale Burgers

quiet — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:30:15 -0800

Minke whales, known as cockroaches of the sea are now available in burgers from Japanese fast-food chain Lucky Pierrot. This is somewhat controversial.

fast food fitness

me3dia — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:03:13 -0800

An unholy union of fitness and fast food: Bally Total Fitness teams up with Yum Brands to offer free four-month gym memberships to people who eat at Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, Long John Silver's or A&W restaurants.

President Tomato Ketchup

sklero — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 02:58:11 -0800

Imitation chicken. Kennedy Fried Chicken, JFK Fried Chicken, J. F. Kennedy Fried Chicken, Kantacky Fried Chicken, et al. [via cardhouse]

We start to shri-ink when we hit that grill, you know we will!

pedantic — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:08:13 -0800

Wendy's Grill Skill [QuickTime] is a testament to training videos. They aim to educate and entertain. [originally via nassassin]

Silk and Sushi

chunking express — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:25:31 -0800

Silk and Sushi : Chocolate Silk for Breakfast, Sushi for Lunch, Sushi for Dinner -- everyday for a month. It is probably more healthy then eating nothing but McDonalds.

SuperSpies Me!

wendell — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:45:55 -0800

The CEO with the biggest head in America (no, not Trump, I'm talking literally) is recruiting secret agents. (You want spies with that?) Or, if you'd like a slightly less creepy way to get a lot of free really junky food, you can write sauce packet slogans.
*The term "left-of-center" is NOT meant to be political in any way. Mmm-kay.

MTV gets cold feet, or does it?

KirkJobSluder — Thu, 27 May 2004 03:57:52 -0800

This turns into one of those cases where researching a story gets weirder. The documentary Super Size Me centers on a documentary filmmaker's 30 day experience eating nothing but McDonalds. The film is doing amazingly well as a limited release documentary grossing more per screen than high-budget Troy. Here is the weird part, Reuters has picked up on a distributor press release claiming that MTV is refusing to air advertising for Super Size Me because the film is "disparaging to fast-food restaurants". The Reuters short seems to have quite a bit of legs. However a Hollywood Reporter article details MTVs side of the story placing the blame on the film's distributor. Is this really a case of a network getting cold feet? Or is it a case of distributor trying to pull the "too edgy for MTV" moneymaking ploy? And what is with the continually morphing Reuters clip that is just now being tossed onto doorsteps and stuffed into newsboxes across North America? (The film was previously discussed on metafilter back in January.