I still don't get why I don't see anything but wendys in news articles. Its actually one of the better ones overall. Why not bk or mcdonalds or kfc?
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Funny, the only burger place I got to anymore is Wendy's.
Where I live, actual home-style cooking at roadside eateries is cheaper.
They forgot to put THE HAMBURGER PATTY on my burger about 8 years ago. I've never given them money since.
Hope they go out of business with their $10 burgers and soggy version 2.1 fries.
That sucks for me. I like their chicken honey biscuit sandwiches and Dave's Triples. Haven't gone often, due to money getting tighter.
Anyhow, time to use my leftovers for a midnight meal. I am using a $3 bowl of Nissin ramen, plus the remnants of a Kirkland pot roast and some buttered yams, alongside a spot of Better than Bullion.
I stockpile several of these pot roasts ($17ish apiece) each CostCo trip, and find them especially grand in a savory stew if I dice them up.
You're paying $3 on a ramen?
Ramen bowls cost more than cups or basic packages. They are a bit bigger, and have some extra flavoring, and can be prepped at 1 in the morning without having to wash dishes.
The cup style has too little water for my taste, and I don't feel comfortable balancing a cup of hot ramen back to my room. The bowl stuff just feels better for me, ergonomically speaking.
It always cracks me up to see how pissed off at fast food restaurants people on social media get over really specific things like “I’ll never eat at Wendy’s again after what they did to the chicken sandwich.” Or, “They ended 5 for 5 Tuesdays and since then I’ve never been back.”
It’s especially funny on Lemmy though where people are pretty left and in one comment calling for abolishing capitalism and in the next they’re getting pissed about how McDonald’s chicken nuggets only come with 4 pieces instead of 5 now, or something.
To me it’s all gross and not even food, so I don’t ever eat there. But, yes, abolish capitalism and don’t eat shitty corporate fast food.
I some times browse their menus when I'm in a depressive state, but in reality, I havnt had fast food, out side of one crunchwrap (that absolutely sucked) in the last 5-7 years. I got a black bean crunchwrap sometime last summer, and it just confirmed why I don't go to these places at all anymore. It's so unhealthy anyway, and there's absolutely no benefit if you ignore that either. In my youth I went ten years with no fast food. Broke my veganism for Wendy's sometime in 2014.. Aye, but were getting back there.
I feel like cooking is an act of defiance in today's capitalist world. There are many benefits to doing so. Don't support them, it's simple.
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I went recently and it felt shallow. I instantly regretted from a $$ and upset stomach standpoint.
I’m sure a Wendy’s has just opened in my town. In England.
Also in england - my town had one for about a year. it recently shut down and is being reopened as .. a Popeyes?
Wendy's went to shit when they ruined their chicken sandwich by trying to copy Popeye's shitty sandwich and cheaping out on their french fries by leaving the shitty skin on them, ruining the cheese fries. They never had good burgers and the frosties were always outclassed by a real milkshake. And I ONLY went to Wendy's as a kid. Really fucking sucks they made the choices they did but at least now they are paying the price. Now if only pizzahut would get owned too for removing the nice dine in experiences with the saladbars for "modern" aesthetics.
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Weirdly, and I don't know how long it's been there, I saw my first Wendy's in Australia recently. No intention of going but I wasn't aware they'd come here.
Edit: apparently it opened in November last year, and the first one was in January last year in Surfer's Paradise.
The inside of the one near me always has a wet floor from some kind of leak, and the light flicker, like it was built in the Rapture food court from Bioshock.
Good now do McDonald's
Great news! That is happening, McDonald's has had a few bad years but takes longer.
wendys currently now is just a slop. i remeber going into for the first time 20+years ago, it was more restuaranty feel with better food. i dont think i have even went into one since, by parents still go there to buy the current stuff.