Ever taken an hour detour for a double Big Mac?

"CB" (jrcb)
08/20/2020 at 15:21 • Filed to: Adventures of the last Saskatchewan Pirate

In other news, this was weird and goes against twenty-five years of training. I hate it.

DISCUSSION (31)

ttyymmnn > CB
08/20/2020 at 15:32

No. No, I have not.

CB > ttyymmnn
08/20/2020 at 15:41

Huh. Is this not normal?

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > CB
08/20/2020 at 15:43

I know for a fact that a Stent-and-Bypass takes at least three hours.

so, no, I have not.

ranwhenparked > CB
08/20/2020 at 15:45

No, but I did once take an hour detour for that Arby’s duck sandwich, only to find that they sold out before I got there.

CB > ranwhenparked
08/20/2020 at 15:46

Hold on, duck sandwich?

Just Jeepin' > ranwhenparked
08/20/2020 at 15:51

Arby’s is quite experienced at having good sandwiches that aren’t available when you really want one.

For a while they had brilliant brown sugar bacon sandwiches, I’d kill for one right now.

Jetstreamer > CB
08/20/2020 at 15:51

No, but I will happily take the car and drive 20 minutes to a supermarket that has my favorite chips, even though there is a huge supermarket like a 100 meters from my apartment.

66P1800inpieces > ranwhenparked
08/20/2020 at 15:54

Hold on, duck sandwich?

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > CB
08/20/2020 at 15:54

Can’t be too many places in the western world where it’s possible to be an hour away from a McDs.

ttyymmnn > CB
08/20/2020 at 15:57

Define “normal.” It’s not normal for me, but I will say that a Big Mac is an occasional guilty pleasure for me, and I haven’t had one in a very long time. If I get McD drive through while I’m driving, I opt for the QP since it’s not so messy.

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > CB
08/20/2020 at 16:03

It’s spelled Double Double.

Kinja'd!!!

Not my photo

ranwhenparked > CB
08/20/2020 at 16:10

Yeah, it was a limited promotion a year or so ago, only a handful of restaurants got them, only in areas where duck hunting is highly popular. There was one on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that had it, but only for less than a day.

PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120 > CB
08/20/2020 at 16:10

I think the furthest I’ve driven for fast food was about 25 miles or 30 minutes.

Was your hour drive for a Mickey D’s Big Mac, worth it?

vondon302 > CB
08/20/2020 at 16:12

Just be glad you can actually go in one. Peeing on road trips are now much more problematic.

CB > PyroHoltz f@h Oppo 261120
08/20/2020 at 16:20

I think so. Needed a relaxing drive.

CB > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
08/20/2020 at 16:21

I’m an hour and fifteen minutes from my closest one.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > CB
08/20/2020 at 16:23

I thought everyone cleared their own tables at fast food places, or at least I always did and wouldn’t think to simply walk away and leave a table full of mess. Even pre-pandemic that is how a lot of people around here did things though. Just get up, walk out, and leave a pile of trash on the table.

Post pandemic it makes sense. No one will sit there again until it's cleaned. But before it just screamed to me they were lazy selfish assholes who weren't raised properly.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > CB
08/20/2020 at 16:34

No, but I went an extra 100 kms into Manitoba this week for some barbecue and coffee near grand beach.

sony1492 > CB
08/20/2020 at 17:03

Dr iven 2 hours for starbucks, the nearest one is actually 10 minutes away but the further one has a nice drive to get there

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > CB
08/20/2020 at 17:05

I estimate the last time I had a Big Mac was around 1989.

onlytwowheels > 66P1800inpieces
08/20/2020 at 17:35

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SiennaMan > CB
08/20/2020 at 18:08

Just one more reason why I want to wander t he Canadian prairie one of these days..

CB > SiennaMan
08/20/2020 at 18:08

If you love small towns, bad roads, and thinly veiled racism, boy do I have the place for you.

SiennaMan > CB
08/20/2020 at 18:19

I’m not fond of the thinly veiled racism part, though that doesn’t sound any worse than some of the more overt acts of racism I’ve seen in the Midwest in recent years..

The rest of it is definitely what I’m looking for.

CB > SiennaMan
08/20/2020 at 18:25

Yeah, it’s pretty depressing.

ranwhenparked > Just Jeepin'
08/20/2020 at 21:01

I live in an area with very few, well, really no, Greek restaurants or diners* , so Arby’s is the only place I can get gyros. They might not make the best ones out there, but they are perfectly acceptable when there’s no alternative.

*we had one, but there’s a sad and somewhat uncomfortable story there

ranwhenparked > 66P1800inpieces
08/20/2020 at 21:03

Yeah, it was like a one day special awhile ago. They had a sous vide duck breast sandwich at a handful of restaurants, in a handful of areas with a major duck hunting tradition. I’m sure it was not the best duck out there, but the novelty of it caught my attention and wanted to try it.

mazda616 > ranwhenparked
08/20/2020 at 23:08

The ones here in Kentucky had venison sandwiches for a brief time.

ranwhenparked > mazda616
08/20/2020 at 23:11

I think the closest that came to me was somewhere in Pennsylvania

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > CB
08/21/2020 at 03:13

Double Big Mac? I’ve never heard of such a beast , and it appears to be a Canadian thing. Decades ago I would order a Big Mac made with Quarter Pounder patties, or to minimize the bread-to-meat ratio, order a double Quarter Pounder with Mac sauce and shredded lettuce.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
08/21/2020 at 05:52

Iceland