A new fast food review is now up at Geekweek:

Sirloin steak, they say. Not exactly, says I…but the irony is a name-change might actually benefit the product. Because this beef tastes a lot like the thin, tender slices commonly found on skewers in the form of Thai satays. Calling it satay would potentially create cultural [...]

Without much going on on a holiday Monday, I did another Fast Food Review. A sample:

McDonalds is venturing dangerously into Taco Bell territory here, not because of the pseudo-Mexican thing, but because they seem to be adopting the same philosophy of “what new way can we combine the same ingredients that we use [...]

My Fast Food Reviews will be going over to Geekweek for the foreseeable future. Here’s an excerpt from my first one over there:

I have not been a huge fan of barbacoa in the past, but this is almost certainly because the only times I’ve actually eaten it were at casino buffets, where it [...]

I know what you’re thinking: “What kind of stupid fucking asshole orders something called the Baconator and asks for it without bacon?” And I know what else you’re thinking: “You, of course. What a tool. Wendy’s has plain ol’ cheeseburgers, but morons such as yourself couldn’t possibly figure that out.”

Let me explain.

I got a coupon [...]

The Big Carl must be doing pretty well (it’s certainly, consistently one of the top search terms that brings people to this site), because this officially makes it a trend — the Big Mac rip-off is the new mini-burger. Not literally; we’re talking trendwise. Tiny burgers were the hot new item on menus everywhere earlier [...]

The long-held truism about El Pollo Loco is that you should never order anything there other than the charbroiled pieces of chicken that are their specialty. Seriously, for a nominally Mexican place — nominally in that “pollo” and “loco” are Spanish words, and Spanish is the language many Mexicans speak — their burritos are an [...]

Some of you may remember — actually, I hope most of you will, or else you might have a brain disorder — about two years ago when Taco Bell revamped its value menu with a bunch of new items. One of them was the double beef and cheese burrito, made with ground beef and nacho [...]

Right upfront, an apology: normally I begin every fast food review with an image of the product in question taken from the official company website. And yet Subway’s official site not only has no picture of the Seafood Sensation; it doesn’t even MENTION it. I suspect this may be because they don’t want to reveal [...]

On David Poland’s Super Movie Friends show last week, I said that film snobs often use the fast-food analogy when it comes to movie reviews, i.e. that critics shouldn’t even have to review the likes of a Michael Bay movie because, after all, food critics don’t write about McDonalds. My response to that is that [...]