So, My Town Has This Now

"KirkyV" (KirkyV) 10/20/2015 at 12:15 • Filed to: None

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So, trying to get in on that hot kebab money, eh Burger King? I know your game.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:19

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Well...I’m moving to your town

PS9 > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:21

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If your BKs are anything like ours, not even free delivery would make me eat there again.

Nevermind all the gimmicks BK, JUST START MAKING BETTER FOOD DAMNIT, ENOUGH WITH THE COLD ASS FRENCH FRIES ALREADY!

PanchoVilleneuve ST > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:21

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I’ll come to your house and shit in your mouth for free, no need to order Burger King.

Ash78, voting early and often > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:21

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I’d pay just about anything for delivery kebabs. Damn this lack of multiculturalism!

Seriously, though, that’s one of the things I always enjoy about traveling in the UK — even a lot of small towns have such international diversity, stuff you only see in very large cities in the US. Even the McDonald’s menus reflect it.

Svend > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:22

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Ye’, thanks for that. My city lost it’s Burger King when the store I work for wanted to build another store and turned the location of the Burger King into a car park.

I could murder a Whopper or two right now but will have to settle for my Latte Macchiato. :(

KirkyV > PS9 10/20/2015 at 12:22

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Not gonna lie, their fries here - to my taste buds, anyway - are actually pretty good. So are the Whoppers, as long as you're looking for that kinda fake smokey flavour.

georgechristensen > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:23

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Kebab delivery doesn’t seem right to me. Part of the experience is buying one from a guy named Hazim in a runned down looking trailer at an abandoned servo.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:23

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I have no idea why Maccys doesn’t do this too. Mcdonalds seems much more interesting when you’re drunk. One of my least proud moments was drunkenly spilling a happy meal at 2am... then eating it anyway. I don’t know why I bought a happy meal.

KirkyV > Ash78, voting early and often 10/20/2015 at 12:24

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Hey, I could say something similar about decent Mexican food... Though it’s true I probably wouldn’t give up kebabs for it. Some nights*, all that’ll do is a nice lamb shish with salad, pitta and garlic sauce.

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*By ‘some nights’ I mean literally any night out drinking, and plenty of nights in as well.

Textured Soy Protein > Ash78, voting early and often 10/20/2015 at 12:25

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I live in Madison, WI. Population 243,344. Not a “very large city,” nor very multicultural, what with the city being 78.9% white, and surrounded by corn fields and cow pastures. I was actually shocked just now when I looked up the number to see we finally got below 80% white.

I can get kebabs delivered to my house.

djmt1 > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:27

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I only recently found out that there are driv-thru Burger Kings and now this? I need to expand my horizons or something.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:27

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Nah PS9 is crazy, BK is definitely the better burger here, McD’s burgers are crap, Wendys puts too much crap on them, BK is just over priced.

KirkyV > PanchoVilleneuve ST 10/20/2015 at 12:27

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Does your shit come in Flame Grilled(TM)?

PanchoVilleneuve ST > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:28

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It can if you want.

KirkyV > djmt1 10/20/2015 at 12:28

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You live in London! You've got, like, all the food in the frigging world a few minutes away.

Wacko > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:29

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I hate you, I want a Whopper now, but our local bugerking closed less than a year ago. Closest one is 100kms away. Guess next time I work in that town gonna get myself a whopper instead of a subway sub.

duurtlang > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:30

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Ugh. I never got the appeal of BK (and McD). Not that cheap yet very poor quality. For me it tends to be a last resort, for when I have no other option. When ordering food you’ll always have another option.

The last time I ate at a place like that was when I looked at the ‘90 Citroën BX for 505turbeaux. It was right next to a McD or BK place. I checked the car, went to the plastic food place to eat something while discussing the state of the car with 505. It was one of the few times I was happy finding a BK/McD, although any cheap restaurant would’ve done the trick.

djmt1 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 10/20/2015 at 12:31

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You know why.

KirkyV > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 10/20/2015 at 12:31

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I, too, have experienced the drunken Happy Meal phenomena. I still don’t know what causes it.

Anyway, what I really want is delivery KFC. Or a KFC drive-thru. Literally anything better than a single KFC right in the middle of the town centre where it's impossible to park.

KirkyV > georgechristensen 10/20/2015 at 12:32

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Never had trailer kebab, but that might have something to do with there being no point in my town more than half a mile away from a kebab shop.

PS9 > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:33

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Maybe we can fly in some of the BK cooks in UK to florida then, because all the BKs around here serve cold-ass french fries. Maybe that heater they keep it in isn’t hot enough or something, but damn, after they’re served, you have like 10 seconds or so before 100% of their crunchyness is lost.

McDs fries wilt if you don’t eat them soon too, but can I at least drive a mile or so home and open the bloody door before my french fries turn to mashed potatoes already!?

MontegoMan’s right on the money with Wendys. Go there if you want your burger to be 60% ketchup and mayonnaise. DQ’s fries remain fries after you get them home, but they’re on the wrong side of the street for me so I don’t go their as often.

Ash78, voting early and often > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:34

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That’s one unique thing here — even in spots across the rural Deep South, 100 miles from the nearest city, you can find great Mexican restaurants. A lot of the people who start them are initially drawn to agriculture and chicken processing, for example.

Ash78, voting early and often > Textured Soy Protein 10/20/2015 at 12:35

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College towns are always excepted...they’re all statistical flukes :D

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > djmt1 10/20/2015 at 12:36

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This is the correct answer.

KirkyV > duurtlang 10/20/2015 at 12:36

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Oh, 5/6 of the time I'll still order a gigantic kebab, but it's nice to know that, should the need for mass produced fast food overtake me, I won't have to drive anywhere.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:37

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See I haven’t eaten KFC since the one in my town got shut down for being overrun with rats... twice.

KirkyV > PS9 10/20/2015 at 12:39

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Recipe’s probably different. Conflicting health and safety/food additive standards and such. That and they must leave them in the fryer for longer.

I’m pretty sure Wendys has more or less died out here at this point—there’s certainly not one near my town. What I really want is a local Five Guys or something.

Textured Soy Protein > Ash78, voting early and often 10/20/2015 at 12:40

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But I live in a totally non-college part of town. It’s midwestern suburbia that’s near a college.

KirkyV > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 10/20/2015 at 12:41

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Pretty sure that’s happened to ours at least once, and I’ve never been entirely convinced that their chicken is actually all chicken.

I'd still get, like, 90% of my fast food there if it were more convenient, though. Can't beat that coating stuff.

Svend > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:42

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At least I can still get kebabs and pizzas delivered up to 4am in the morning, which at 4am in the morning on a drunken night out and finding there is nothing in the fridge to quench your drunken urges a McDonalds or Burger King would not be my first option. A donner kebab with garlic mayo and chilli sauce most definitely will.

lone_liberal > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:44

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The BK nearest to our house used to deliver but they quit offering it earlier this summer. I never did make use of it.

KirkyV > Svend 10/20/2015 at 12:46

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There’s genuinely nothing better than a sloppy kebab after a night out. It’s typically the best bit of any given night out.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 12:55

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Yeah the coating is amazing.

Svend > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 13:01

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So true. My favourite is a kebab shop owned by a Turkish Cypriot family but I tell them I forgive them (it’s a standing joke, I lived on the Greek Cypriot side for a while) because they make such good kebabs.

m-b-w loves his SUBAROO > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 13:56

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And they say that us Americans are lazy...

Manic Otti > KirkyV 10/20/2015 at 14:20

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This would be great for the people I always get behind in the drive thru that are ordering $50 worth of custom made crap for 8 people.