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  • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Lol, Burger King DID cut off their franchises in Russia… but of course, all the Russian franchise owners just keep operating them. What is BK corporate gonna do, send the SEALS in to blow up their stores? Kind of a good lesson in the difference between financialized funny money, and the actual operation on the ground that produces all the value.

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      I can’t read kyrillic, but i wouldn’t be surprised, they’re also just called cheeseburgers in German, without translating it to Käseburger.

      Edit: This goes for all cheeseburgers in German restaurants, not just BK. You see the same at McDonald’s or at non-franchise burger places.

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        This is my takeaway as well. Currently, between BK, McD’s, and Wendy’s, Wendy’s is just slightly better. They’re all so overpriced though, I’ll just go to 5 guys or buy from a local restaurant. If I want cheap fast food, personally, Taco Bell is the best option, that, or Cumberland Farms has really upped their food game locally. Get 2 pizza slices and a drink for $4.

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      It’s better than McDonald’s for sure. The whopper is a mid tier but legitimate hamburger with all the stuff on it, lettuce pickles tomato mayo ketchup, and most of the time it’s pretty fresh

      It used to be a lot worse a while back.

      But most states now have a Culvers, so just go there. Every other hamburger joint people rave about is HORSESHIT. In n out, so fucking mid. Shake shack, so fucking mid. Five guys, just drink from a grease trap you animal.

      Culvers is better than 90% of sit-down specialty hamburger restaurants, and better than 100% of fast food restaurants. And they have bomb salads, bomb fish fry, and BOMB ASS frozen custard.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Nationwide fast food is universally trash and is broadly acknowledged as such even by Burgerlander standards. You need to get to regional fast food before you have people vouching for them, and even then, a lot of it is tied to regional pride more than the quality of the food if we’re being perfectly honest. But most of them are still a notch better than the nationwide franchises.

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    Barely on topic but I noticed burger kings meals are like 15 dollars now but they also, at the same time, for either 15 or 20 dollars depending on the location will sell you six sandwiches, half whopper half smaller normal cheeseburger, and 3 fries. That’s like 2-3 dollars for a burger essentially. Literally if you are buying 2 whopper meals you can go oh whoops, hold up, please pay me 10 dollars and give me 3 cheese burgers, a whopper and fries. Inflation is fake as fuck