As a Canadian I have only ever eaten A&W (and Five Guys once) so I curious what other people prefer.
Probably Five Guys, but I’ve only been there once, they are quite rare here. But it was excellent.
I don’t know if it is considered boutique, but Five Guys and Smash Burger are top in my book. If you’re only counting drive up availability, In-n-out.
Never had a bad In N Out double double with chopped chilies and grilled onions
I get mine with chilies, grilled onions, and onion.
Whataburger, but specifically the Sweet & Spicy Bacon Burger. Their regular burgers are pretty generic, but the one I mentioned is great. I don’t even buy it often anymore because you can buy their sauce that grocery store, so I sometimes make my own version at home.
Actually fast: Jack in the Box Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger.
Technically fast food but it aint fast to get: In-n-Out Double Double (the long ass fucking lines make me not even consider In-N-Out fast food; it can take up to an hour just to get to the order box!)
Unless Carl’s Jr. brings the Jack Daniels whiskey sauce steakhouse burger back. That thing still haunts my dreams. 🤤
Common! Which country?!
Despite reddit and Lemmy nerds screeching, McDonald’s is fantastic.
That being said,a burger is a burger, they are all pretty much the same except form factors.
Lmao, what a daft comment. “McDonalds is fantastic” followed by “they’re all the same”.
So why even mention McDicks? If every burger is pretty much the same then McDonalds doesn’t stand out.
Also, thinking that all burgers are the same feels like one of those “the female orgasm is a myth” comments that just tells us you’ve never cooked (or apparently even tried) a decent burger.
The app is great, they are quick, and despite the price increases still very cheap.
Such an angry response to a direct answer to the question at hand 🤣.
WHY EVEN ANSWER IT YOUR OPINION DOESN’T MATCH MINE 🤣
Then into the YOU PROBABLY HAVEN’T EVEN COOKED BRO 🤣 Bravo 👏
Lol the McDicks app is not great. You literally can’t order ahead of time. It makes you go to the location before you can use the app, basically making it a glorified touchscreen machine rather than something that can save you time.
Also, the prices are not that cheap, at least here. They’re comparable to every other fast food chain, including the ones that are substantially better.
And the issue is not with having a different opinion, it’s that your reasoning / justification for that opinion inherently indicates that it’s not much of an opinion. It’s like someone who doesn’t listen to a genre of music saying that yeah, I think every xxxx song sounds the same.
None of this is correct. You can order from anywhere in advance.
My town used to have a Burger King. A Whopper I had there one time was quite literally the best burger I’ve ever had, before or since.
That said, this was ~30 years ago at one specific franchise, and I hear that BK food is terrible now, so maybe this doesn’t count.
I haven’t eaten a huge variety of hamburgers, but I particularly liked the “Tobikiri Cheese” burger (now discontinued) from the Japanese hamburger chain Mos Burger.
Mos Burger emphasizes using “domestically sourced” ingredients, and among the many foreign-owned burger chains in Japan, it particularly pursues a taste tailored to Japanese palates.
Furthermore, this hamburger chain stands out among Japanese hamburger chains, having been the first to sell the “Teriyaki Burger” (also known as the Samurai Burger).
Unfortunately, this favorite menu item is no longer available, but I like the overall flavor direction of this brand, so I’m thinking of going back again.
They have a lot pf Mosburger outlets here in Singapore, and their prawn rice burgers are pretty good. It’s basically prawns instead of meat and rice instead of the buns.
How have you only eaten A&W?
But also, in terms of fast food burgers, A&W Canada is pretty top tier.
Yeah it’s weird. I was actually a little disappointed by the A&W in the US compared to Canada, but then later someone told me A&W Canada is a completely different company/operation? Even though they seem to share certain branding.
In-N-Out Burger became my go-to when visiting family in California. It’s a little weird though in that they seem to have choices not on the menu? Like my sister-and-law said I should ask for “animal style” and I looked at her dubiously but they knew what right away what that was.
I’ve heard that about in and out as well, a little trick to make customers feel a bit more special, same deal with five guys dumping all the extra fries in the bag… They’re fully charging you for them, but it still feels special.
And yeah, originally A&W Canada got sold off to some big conglomerate in the 70s (like Unilever of something), then eventually in the 90s when the conglomerate decided they didn’t want them, a group of franchisees banded together and bought A&W Canada from them… So it’s been separate from the American version for over 50 years at this point.
Yeah I currently live in a city where I can get a great burger from a food truck in walking distance of my house, but growing up I lived in a town where the only fast food burgers were A&W. When I go elsewhere a fast food burger from a multi-national chain isn’t exactly my first choice, so I haven’t had many others.
Makes perfect sense… Be thankful your town had an A&W and not BK.
There are many rural parts of Canada where A & W is the only fast food choice. I’ve noticed this is especially true for service stations west of Ontario. I spent my twenties living on the road and got stuck eating A & W so much I can only stomach their chicken these days.
Yeah, honestly. Unless OP is a young child I really have a hard time believing they’ve never had anything else. A&W is one of the least common fast food joints in Canada.
This is actually quite incorrect, A&W is the second largest fast food chain in Canada after McDonalds… Though not sure how even the spread is regionally.
Huh. Never would have guessed. I see them often enough but it seems like McD, BK and Wendy’s each outnumber them significantly. 🤷
Oh my goodness, oh my dayum…
I’d probably also go with A&W. I’ve gone vegetarian and as much as I dislike the pricing on the Beyond burgers at the grocer, they do make a pretty good one. And while I’m not really into their masala burger, it is neat that they have more than one option I can actually eat - truly a sad statement, but here we are.
I used to be pretty into Harvey’s though. People are pretty divided on them because like, it’s an obviously frozen hamburger and it tastes like it. But A) all their competitors are freezing their patties, and B) it honestly tasted like the obviously frozen burgers I could have been making at home.
Nowadays they cost about as much as going to a nice place though, so there’s not nearly as much fast food in my diet.
Harvey’s was good way, way back when they still had items like the Ultraburger. But that was like 30 years ago. Then they simplified their menu and at around that time the quality of everything went down noticeably. Then we stopped going there because we always felt gross afterwards. Haven’t been back in decades.
The 'Shroom Burger at Shake Shack is still the best non-meat burger I’ve had by far.
In terms of large, North American fast food chains, I like A&W, Carl’s Jr/Hardy’s, and Jack in the Box. In terms of smaller, regional chains, I think In-N-Out is leaps and bounds the best (though What-A-Burger is also really good). Outside of North America, I’m a pretty big fan of Mos Burger from Japan. JollyBee from the Philippines is also pretty great, but mostly because they serve spaghetti and I find that amusing.
I think Shake Shack is overrated but worth trying. FiveGuys is meh.
I also firmly believe that smaller burger chains like In-N-Out, Shake Shack, and What-A-Burger are probably more or less equal in terms of quality and what determines which you think is best is where you grew up.
I’ve had enough burgers at fast food chains to confirm none are even close to what I make at home.
MacDonald’s are too small, hardly any meat.
At Burger King getting a Whopper on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday is a mistake. Patties are cooked ahead of time and are very dry. I had one on a Friday that was amazing. Another time the Friday Whopper was meh.
A&W Mozza burger is pretty good but have gotten smaller and more expensive over the years.
Harvey’s are the closest to what I make at home.
