Today I went to burger king for the first time in years. It was even worse than I remembered it. (had the vegetarian option, don’t know if it’s as bad with the meat burgers) Additionally it’s fucking expensive and not as quick as it used to be. So my question is why do some people go there regulary?

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    2 days ago

    We have not gone to a fast food in the last fifteen or twenty years, if not more. Why would we? It’s not welcoming, the food taste like… cardboard, it’s rarely a pleasant place to eat, and people are often noisy. When we want to eat a burger, we cook it ourselves with fresh food. Yep, when we want to have some, even the fries are handmade. There is just no comparison.

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        2 days ago

        Most certainly, but I would also not call that a fast food, not one that serves handmade burgers. Those are true restaurants.

        We had one a few block block from us, it was real excellent. When they bring the plates to our table (we don’t have to queue, and the place was nice and quiet, and comfy) it’s almost like looking at a wonderful mix of poetry and painting that’s made out of bread, with those little sesame seeds, overflowing salad, the pickles, onions, juicy and thick meat (they have true vegan alternatives) and fries that don’t look like fat squishy toothpicks. Their burgers tasted good just by looking at them, and they’re even better when you would take a bite :)

        But they’re also not that fast to prepare the burger, and a tad more expensive than the nearby McDo or whatever.

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          2 days ago

          Preparing food at home isn’t “fast food,” either. It’s likely slower, assuming you don’t have a professional fry station in your kitchen.

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            Preparing food at home isn’t “fast food,” either.

            It certainly is not, and that’s my whole point. You don’t need to go to a fast food to eat a burger. That said, it’s not that long and it can also be a lot of fun doing it with your spouse, like we do, our with friends. A lot more fun ;)

            And if’s because of time constraints one goes fast food, one can easily prepare something (much better) at home for their next day lunch. My mom used to that for me when I was a kid, like most moms would do back then, and I have done that countless times when I used to work normal office hours and had a very busy job.