I've gone hungry for hours rather than eat at McDonald's.

Convenient bathrooms though.

Arby's, Taco Bell...anywhere that serves shredded lettuce.

The worst though is when they combine two or three in one, like KenTacoHut's...KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut in one. If I want fried chicken, the last thing I want to smell is Mexican or pizza.

The worst combination I've seen is a combo Dunkin' Donuts and Blimpie's subs. Bologna and bavarian cream donuts just do not work together.

There are 2 chains that appear to be exclusive to Alabama: Jacks and Milo's. Milos's burgers come with some nasty sauce, possibly used engine oil, that made my first visit my last.

I'm addicted to their coffee! :) I buy their beans and make it at home!

Steve

Definately KFC, Hardees, Jack in the Box...

Carls Jr. grosses me out.

Wendy's!

I've only been twice in all the years they've been around. And there was a 10 year lapse and two different states where I tried to eat a hamburger.

Both times the meat tasted tainted to me.

Ugh, makes me want to puke just thinking of it.

Rita

Their coffee is awful. Either take it black or don't. Even with that sometimes, I'd rather take $3.00/cup coffee from Starbucks than deal with Dunkin Donuts

Here in the Chicagoland area we have the steak bagels. There are a lot of markets that do not carry the steak bagels and far more where they do not carry breakfast bagel sandwiches at all. They all do, however, carry those atrocious, disgusting "McGriddles" things. I wouldn't use one of those to test a sewage grinder.

My answer to the OP's question: A typical trip for me: Up at 3:30 AM to meet the car service at 4:30AM to get to O' Hare at 5:15 AM for a 6:00 AM flight. Restaurants don't open up in Dick Daley's House of Union Waste and Government Mismanagement until well after we're in the air, so it's Mc Grease on the way to the gate.

A tight connection in IAH (CO) or MSP (NW) means that it's fast food there or nothing. Land in, say, PDX at 11AM and I have to get right in the car and make the two hour drive to Albany and then another hour to the mountaintop transmitter site. BY then I have less thean three hours of daylight before I have to pack up and leave the mountain with some light left. So, it's fast food or nothing else until dinner. As much as I hate fast food, you grab what you can and make the best of it.

I have become a conoisseur of heart-attack-in-a-sack. Mc Donald's fries used to be better before someone trying to save me from myself sued them into changing the oil. I miss the McDLT. Burker King's whoppers have changed and I'm not sure how but they used to be a lot better. Jack In The Box has the best vanilla milkshakes. Sonic's strawberry limeade is worth the airfare into a market where they HAVE Sonics. I think Del Taco is a plot by Castro to kill capitalists one bag at a time. Wendy's has gone from hot 'n' juicy to cold 'n' greasy. KFC should go back to the 11 herbs and spices and stop trying to be everythign to all people. I believe that you cannot eat over $6 worth of Taco Bell in one sitting. $10 at Taco Bell feeds a family of 5. Subway lost its roots as well. Every chain has its up and downs. But my one single absolutely most infuriating issue with ANY fast food chain is when you don't get your order right because YOU DON'T SPEAK SPANISH, or you find yourself repeating everything over and over again, or having to use a picture menu and point at what you want BECAUSE YOU DON'T SPEAK SPANISH.

Okay, rant over. Let the flames begin.

--PP

I'm the opposite.. the steak bagels come out of you like a brick, and hence I found out they ain't good for a roadtrip.

The McGriddles, however, are fantastic! The San Diego area was one of the test markets, and boy did I love it. I have them make an off-menu item though... I have them use HAM/egg/cheese. Tastes better, and way less greasy than sausage. I usually have to order "Sausage&Egg McGriddle, hold the sausage, add ham" for them to get it right though.

I seriously don't understand the devotion to Dumpy Donuts coffee...like you I'd rather go to the Buck, or even better, go back to my office and make some Longjing tea ^ . But somethings endure on the East Coast despite their time having come and gone, such as DD's coffee; A&P's; and Breezewood, Pennsylvania.

I think we should lobby for a name change. :D

It's food, you eat it and dump it off in the toliet when it goes down your throat so I can really eat any of them

Yes, but some restaurants seem to believe in recycling it relatively unchanged.

Easy...Jack in the Box