Favorite fast food hamburger.

[Border Vol]

I voted Wendy’s but I do love me some Krystals once in a while. You can’t really compare the two though.

The best is Frank Allen’s.

I like Wendy's chicken sandwiches more than their burgers

 

[CubsFanTN]

I voted Wendy’s but I do love me some Krystals once in a while. You can’t really compare the two though.

The best is Frank Allen’s.

Yep, Krystals are only burgers in the loosest sense of the word, but about once a year I like to make myself absolutely sick on a 12-pack.

 

[Border Vol]

Yep, Krystals are only burgers in the loosest sense of the word, but about once a year I like to make myself absolutely sick on a 12-pack.

Krystals are a cure for constipation

 

[GroverCleveland]

Quik Burger in Cleveland, TN.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

 

[ButchPlz]

Wendy's out of the above.

Also great:
- CookOut cheddar style
- Pals sauce burger
- any of the burgers from Dairi-O (a North Carolina chain)

 

[HoptownVol]

Wendy's the best sawdust burgers on the market.

 

[Firebirdparts]

Wendy's is obviously the winner given the choices, but based on voting with my wallet, I use Pal's, always.

 

[Fun coupon VOL]

I went with Burger King, Wendy’s, and sonic are all interchangeable given the day. Five guys is no doubt the best fast food burger.

In and out is my wife’s favorite.

 

[SpecialKVolfan]

I tried Pals for the first time last week and the burger was good! I didn’t get it with “sauce”, and didn’t particularly care for the “frenchy” fries. I guess they put some sugar on them? Some find them addictive but I was not one, lol.

 

[VolFaninFla]

Is this America’s best fast-food burger? One chain beat out 24 others in a new poll

 

[VolInNorthCack]

Is this America’s best fast-food burger? One chain beat out 24 others in a new poll

Cook Out is way too low. Habit and Red Robin are way too high. Had Habit burger a few times when lived in Charlotte. Was not impressed. Red Robin, the burgers are always too dry for me.

 

[Firebirdparts]

Okay so now I am going to have to try Culver's at #4. I live in Kingsport, and I'd never even heard of it outside this thread. Looks like there's one near the Asheville airport, and I'll probably be there sometime.

 

[Flogballs]

I’m clearly not a fast food burger aficionado; I think they’re all varying degrees of mediocre

 

[Go aeiou]

I’m clearly not a fast food burger aficionado; I think they’re all varying degrees of mediocre

None of them have improved in the last 50-60 years. Corporate America: Cut, Cut, Cut

 

[ButchPlz]

None of them have improved in the last 50-60 years. Corporate America: Cut, Cut, Cut

I'd actually say it's less "corporate America" and more "private equity", which seems to exist just to bleed companies dry and leave them for dead.

 

[YankeeVol]

Okay so now I am going to have to try Culver's at #4. I live in Kingsport, and I'd never even heard of it outside this thread. Looks like there's one near the Asheville airport, and I'll probably be there sometime.

They have 'em in a lot of places. Clarksville has one. There's 3 near Knoxville.

Down here in GA we have them too.

 

[Go aeiou]

I'd actually say it's less "corporate America" and more "private equity", which seems to exist just to bleed companies dry and leave them for dead.

Are you saying these chains are not corporations that control/sell the meat to the individual stores? The stores can buy their burger meat anywhere?
I guess if buying cheap enough the land might be worth more than the business?

 

[ButchPlz]

Are you saying these chains are not corporations that control/sell the meat to the individual stores? The stores can buy their burger meat anywhere?
I guess if buying cheap enough the land might be worth more than the business?

I'm saying that just saying "corporate America" doesn't quite get at the issue, which is that usually it's private equity firms (and very few at that) that are now making the decisions driving the degradation we see all over the country, not necessarily a healthy, competitive corporate environment. Corporations themselves aren't bad. The big consolidation under nameless, faceless umbrellas of low-skill finance dweebs is. I just don't think we have a "corporate America" anymore in the sense we all think about it.

EDIT: there's a big difference in McDonald's, who is trying to make money selling burgers, and an equity firm, who is trying to make money by sucking as much asset and profit out of a business as possible (because they only see them as investments, i.e. money machines).

 

[superdave1984]

Of those listed, Sonic.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Of those listed, Sonic.

Maybe it's just my location but there's a Sonic right beside my house and I would rather eat a Mcdouble than eat one of their burgers. Just old, dry, thin patties. The new smash burgers are good but they're like $8 and I'm not paying that for a Sonic burger.

My vote goes to Wendy's. The fresh meat makes a huge difference.

Also I don't consider 5 guys fast food because, well, it isn't fast.

 

[Firebirdparts]

Nobody thinks five guys is fast food. They just think we're comparing hamburgers and they couldn't stop themselves.

 

[508mikey]

place called Pussums

 

[VolFaninFla]

Romeo is a Culver’s fan

 

[Freak]

Five Guys (too expensive though)
Culver's
Cookout is decent for something quick.

I'm not a big fan of any of the traditional fast food burgers like McDonalds, Wendy's, Burger King, etc. I'll eat Sonic once in a blue moon. And I like Whataburger when I visit Birmingham.