At Sonic today
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That is one of those items were you see extremes. There’s a McDonald’s kind of near me that’s $3.70 for a large and then there’s another one 1/2 mile from that one that is $5.
Crazy.
Fwiw Wendy’s has really upped their fry game and the Dave’s famous is actually pretty good for what it is. It’s the best fast food burger available nationwide imo.
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That’s why I gave in and put the McDonald’s app on my phone. $1 large fries deal is available most of the time.
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I had a hankering for fresh seafood that tasted like it was fresh from the dock. So I went to Arby’s lol .
I had heard from various confidential sources that the fish sandwich was really good. They have a spicy one with jalapeños, and you can get it in a 2/$6 mix-and-match deal.
Got to say, this was pretty damn good. I think my favorite may be Popeyes Cajun Flounder, but this one was right up there. Really thick, the batter/coating on the outside was super thin yet very crispy and the fish was thick and hot.
My “spicy” sandwich though had no heat, I did not get any jalapeños for whatever reason, and the sauce had no heat at all. But I didn’t care. It was definitely one of the better fast food offerings.
Sorry for the really lame photo. Unfortunately I did not have professional lighting.
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At least it’s as wide as advertised on tv.
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Szechuan sauce available at McDs until 4/4 or while supplies last. Guava pies are back too at some locations.
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Is the Szechuan sauce any good?
It has kind of a sweet/sour + soy sauce flavor. Some people say it’s like teriyaki. I think it’s worth trying.
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Large fries are now $5.19 at my local McD.
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szechuan sauce
your post alerted me to its availability just in time, and I actually went out and got myself an order of nuggets just to try it out. I’m old enough to have been a grown up with a small child when Mulan was in theaters and it originally showed up as a cross promotion, but hadn’t had it since.
It’s… fine. I mean, it’s moderately better than the sweet and sour, and mostly tastes like they dumped extra soy sauce into one of those, but, even for a drunk cartoon mad scientist, this is a pretty weak item to build a time machine for.
The hot mustard sauce (which may or may not be available in your area. It is in mine) is WAY better, in terms of zipping up the solid but (let’s face it) very blank base that is the McNugget.
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Uhhh wtf?!?!?
Talk about a variation. I was in Oxnard, was doing a high carb belly blowout and used a deal in the app for BOGO Large fries. The location charged $3.49.
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T-mobile gave out a code for a free JITB basic chicken sandwich with purchase (TMTJACK, anyone can use in the app until 4/18) so I tried the FTC-recommended egg rolls and deluxe fish sandwich, both pretty solid. Their new pineapple shake has ok (artificial) flavor, good thick consistency, but overall not as good as Sonic shakes.
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I just had a tooth extraction and have to eat mush for a few days so I ate some mashed potatoes and mac & cheese from KFC and they were surprisingly satisfying.
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The KFC sides have always been the secret that held KFC above other fried chicken joints.
The mashed and gravy, while not anything like the good stuff your mom made on thanksgiving, is a perfectly acceptable fast-food equivalent of it. The mac n cheese is, again, not exactly good, but at least on par with generic box-o-noodles or some of the better microwavables, like Stouffers.
Personally, I really liked their cornbread. little bricks of almost cake-sweet cornbread. That + their half-melted butter and diluted honey packets made some sort of alchemical lighting you couldn’t beat. I was sad when they dropped them.
The coleslaw sucks, and has always sucked.
The chicken USED to be a sort of ‘best of a bad lot’ choice, but in the last decade or so, it’s just… I dunno if it’s that the franchises I hit are all owned/managed by incompetents, but it’s been super oily and much blander than I remember. Now that a Church’s is more convenient to me, that’s where I’ll go if I need a ‘fast food fried chicken’ fix.
If I want REAL fried chicken, there’s lots of local places I’m happy to spend an extra dollar or $5 for.
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Team Popeyes checking in! I love all of Popeyes sides.
I haven’t been to Church’s in years so really no recollection of how it tastes. Pioneer Chicken was a childhood favorite growing up in Los Angeles County. I seen one in Boyle Heights, probably not worth it anymore. Besides if I am in that area I am getting tacos lol. KFC is not my first choice for fast food fried chicken but it can scratch that itch and I like making sandwiches with the sides/biscuits.
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@JeetKuneBao agreed. The best fast food side is red beans and rice at Popeyes. Biscuits are better here than KFC.
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FWIW, if you liked it as a kid and want that nostalgia hit, IMO it’s worth it. I hit them a few years ago after not having them for a couple of decades. Cracking open the containers of the sides, the mashed potatoes and gravy, and the rice, the aroma hit exactly like childhood and took me back immediately.
The crust and skin was still just as crisp and crackly and exactly like my memories. What was different that I didn’t remember was how much oilier it was. The skin although tasty was dripping a lot of grease, more than any fast food place.
I’ve done it a couple of times since that first revisit, mainly to include friends and family in the nostalgia trip and everyone enjoyed the meal and agreed it was like the old days. But it wouldn’t make my regular rotation for fast food fried chicken.
I still prefer Krispy Krunchy chicken for best QPR fast food fried chicken.
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