Not Fast Food, Good Food Made Quickly

The Wall Street Journal HERE has an article about fast-food joints pushing things other than their burgers because of the rising costs of beef. This reminds me of something I wrote a while back HERE, that in some places, eg McDonald's the burgers are actually the least desirable items on the menu:

The funny about fast food burgers is a lot of times these days they're overshadowed by the other stuff on the menu - chicken sandwiches, chicken mcnuggets, fries, tater tots, curly fries, fried curly tots, fried curly tots with cheese, fried curly tots with cheese battered with chicken mcnuggets while some fucking retarded asshole insists on spending 10 minutes mopping under your table ("excuse me...excuse me...move your feet please...excuse me...") even though there's not another human being sitting and eating in the entire place, chili, jalepeno poppers, etc etc. In general, McDonald's burgers are rarely satisfying.

I could go years going to a McDonald's every day without buying a burger and be perfectly happy. This principle doesn't apply in EVERY chain of course - I don't know who walks into an Arby's and orders a fucking ham & cheese on Wonder Bread, for fuck's sake. If I could have an entire-body skin transplant with their roast beef (YES, I know it's not "real roast beef," calm the fuck down already.)

This is also like the chicken at chain pizza joints being way better than the actual pizza phenomenon:

I can't remember the last time I got chicken fingers from a pizza place where the chicken fingers weren't better than the pizza. And I mean EXPONENTIALLY better, even. Wtf?