Holy ****!!!

[2muchcoffeeman]

I don't think there's a Taco Bell within 50 miles of me, so go right ahead.

The only thing within 50 miles of you is a shoal of Atlantic cod.

 

[HanSenSE]

There was a Taco Bell across the street from the store I work at. When it closed, it was remodeled into a pot shop. Win-win!

 

[Captain_Kirk]

There was a Taco Bell across the street from the store I work at. When it closed, it was remodeled into a pot shop. Win-win!

A win-win would have been putting in a pot shop next to the Taco Bell.

Kind of like putting in a Batteries Plus store right next to the sex toy shop (I am not making that up, btw).

 

[I Should Coco]

I cannot remember the last time I ate at BK. At least 10 years ago, and the main thing I remember was how lousy the food was. Lukewarm burgers, awful fries.

I do remember the last time we consumed T-Bell ... out of desperation after delays at the airport and car rental led to us leaving Midway Airport in Chicago after 1 a.m. in the summer of 2022. I poured a bunch of Fire sauce into a Burrito Supreme and it was decent enough. Thankfully the lettuce was OK!

 

[Michael_ Gee]

There was a Taco Bell across the street from the store I work at. When it closed, it was remodeled into a pot shop. Win-win!

Should've had a merger.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

I’ve not eaten at BK in a long time. Heard it hit rough times. But sounds like it’s rebounded, if the sources here can be trusted.

The BK bacon double cheeseburger was my go-to burger in my teens and 20s.

Much as the esteemed @BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo, my only confirmed case of food poisoning was from Taco Bell. In 2003. I’ve not had it since then.

The memory of all that time in the bathroom, wishing for sweet, sweet death, is still strong after 23 years.

 

[dixiehack]

There was a Taco Bell across the street from the store I work at. When it closed, it was remodeled into a pot shop. Win-win!

 

[Bubbler]

I’ve not eaten at BK in a long time. Heard it hit rough times. But sounds like it’s rebounded, if the sources here can be trusted.

The BK bacon double cheeseburger was my go-to burger in my teens and 20s.

Much as the esteemed @BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo, my only confirmed case of food poisoning was from Taco Bell. In 2003. I’ve not had it since then.

The memory of all that time in the bathroom, wishing for sweet, sweet death, is still strong after 23 years.

I had put BK on blast for a long time after it was my favorite fast food joint when I was young.

It's better than its nadir, but I wouldn't exactly be busting the door down to go regularly either.

The chicken tenders, BK had the best before better chicken-specific joints like Zaxby's became a thing, have recovered and are pretty decent again.

 

[daytonadan1983]

Burger King is doing ok these days. Granted that may still be untrue at the one across the street from Daytona International Speedway, but in general they're better now than they were.

I'll second that about the Daytona location....

 

[dixiehack]

Burger King saved me in college in the mid 90s. The drive-through only location a few blocks south of Bryant-Denny had Whoppers for 99 cents. You paid extra for cheese and of course sales tax, but water was free. So if you could find six quarters you could have dinner.

My Whopper order is cheese and mustard only. When I tell you I lived off $1.50 Whoppers with cheese at Alabama, I mean it. I got to where I could tell they had messed up my order without looking just from the weight of the bag.

I really like mustard, but BK has always gone too far with it. You could paint a bedroom with the excess mustard they put on a burger.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Should've had a merger.

I'm at the ganja shop. I'm at the Taco Bell. I'm at the combination ganja shop and Taco Bell!

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Burger King saved me in college in the mid 90s. The drive-through only location a few blocks south of Bryant-Denny had Whoppers for 99 cents. You paid extra for cheese and of course sales tax, but water was free. So if you could find six quarters you could have dinner.

My Whopper order is cheese and mustard only. When I tell you I lived off $1.50 Whoppers with cheese at Alabama, I mean it. I got to where I could tell they had messed up my order without looking just from the weight of the bag.

I really like mustard, but BK has always gone too far with it. You could paint a bedroom with the excess mustard they put on a burger.

I remember those 99¢ Whoppers well. I'd order 3 at a time, eat one on the way and put cheese slices and the other fixings on the other 2 at home.

For a drink, there was a C-store on the way home that sold 1-liter Mountain Dews for 99¢ as well. I would pay for all that sugar later in life.

 

[DanOregon]

Fast food is getting to the point where regular restaurants are a cheaper option.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

I'm at the ganja shop. I'm at the Taco Bell. I'm at the combination ganja shop and Taco Bell!

When I still lived in Michigan they opened a Taco Bell in Royal Oak that served alcohol. Didn’t last very long. Alcohol first. Taco Bell second. Never at the same time.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Most breakfasts are still reasonable, i.e. under $10 for a combo of a sandwich, hash brown and coffee. And Jack in the Box and Carl's Jr. vie for the lead in my area, although I gotta drive 15 minutes to either, which is a complete PITA.

 

[I Should Coco]

I’ve not eaten at BK in a long time. Heard it hit rough times. But sounds like it’s rebounded, if the sources here can be trusted.

The BK bacon double cheeseburger was my go-to burger in my teens and 20s.

Much as the esteemed @BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo, my only confirmed case of food poisoning was from Taco Bell. In 2003. I’ve not had it since then.

The memory of all that time in the bathroom, wishing for sweet, sweet death, is still strong after 23 years.

Can't "like" this post because I too remember getting food poisoning from fast food and feeling like death for about 36 hours. Throwing up and the Big D ... and it was from eating a spicy chicken sandwich at Wendy's while traveling home from visiting family. That was about 20 years ago and I haven't had one of those sandwiches since.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Sorry for the TMI threadjack, but the last time I had T-Bell, after a night of moderate drinking, I felt the pangs at work the next day. Went into a stall in an empty bathroom (thankfully, nowhere near my office or floor), and out came a torrent of flatulance that would make any man blush. Right then, someone came into the stall next to me.

I tried to give a little delicate push, and the gates of hell opened up. Uncontrollable violent defecation, with splashes that sounded like a hurricane pounding the shore. Tried to stop it, but it wouldn't let up.

Finally, after about 30 seconds straight of this, I hear the guy in the stall next to me mutter, "Oh Jesus Christ," and he left.

Haven't been back to T-Bell yet, but I'm sure I will at some point. Still haven't returned to that bathroom.

I miss the home bowl thread

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Taco Bell defies the physical law of conservation. That is, you **** more out than you eat in. Should be completely =.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I cannot remember the last time I ate at BK. At least 10 years ago, and the main thing I remember was how lousy the food was. Lukewarm burgers, awful fries.

I do remember the last time we consumed T-Bell ... out of desperation after delays at the airport and car rental led to us leaving Midway Airport in Chicago after 1 a.m. in the summer of 2022. I poured a bunch of Fire sauce into a Burrito Supreme and it was decent enough. Thankfully the lettuce was OK!

Man I love BK fries. So good.

But this does remind me of an ill-advised sprint halfway across the country following a buddy's wedding in 1998. We (by which I mean I because everyone else got rip-roaring drunk while I served as best man) started driving around 9 PM Saturday so we could make it back to Connecticut by late Sunday night so that the guy who rented the car could get it back by noon Monday.

We stopped somewhere in Missouri at like 4 AM so that I could finally make a call to the bullpen and get some sleep while someone else, finally sober, took the wheel. Another buddy was starving and coming off his hangover and insisted he had to have the Burger King sitting under the heat lamps. Dude, that's been there for days, don't do that, we said. We'll stop again in a few hours for fresher food. No no no, I need the food, said my idiot buddy. So of course an hour later he's moaning and hunched over and begging us we had to pull over so he could unleash holy hell on a rest stop toilet that had probably seen worse.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I miss the home bowl thread

But Finch never will ...