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We know it's, like, not cool around these parts to admit one's love of over-processed, non-organic, industrially farmed fast food. And maybe it's just that we haven't had breakfast yet, but we couldn't help but notice that all of the foods chosen by Chron editor and "Poop" columnist Peter Hartlaub in his roundup of fast foods he finds "vile" look sort of delicious to us right now. McDonald's McGriddle sandwich? Who doesn't like the combination of sausage with a pancake with syrup? Those KFC bowls? Delicious hangover food if you ask us. And while Domino's is hardly the best pizza or the most politically conscious food choice for liberals, that bacon cheeseburger pizza would also hit the spot. We admit we have not tried the Taco Bell Volcano Taco (pictured), but it, too, might entice us after a long day of driving down I-5. We're really sorry if this offends your sensibilities. And all this on a day when Mayor Newsom issued an executive order for sustainable food practices citywide!
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i would eat 8 of those red tacos right now.
Those volcano tacos are frickin hot, even hotter than the "fire" sauce.
I've always wondered why Taco Bell meals have the large soda, and KFC meals only have the medium. Now I know.
Tacos... gimmee.
However, KFC's Famous Bowls? "Vile" is kinda harsh. "A tasteless pile of warm mush" is more accurate.
Yep - it actually looked good to me when they came out, but it turned out to be just a bowl of disappointment.
Look, I'm not afraid of fast food. I crave a QPC from McD's from time to time. But that KFC bowl thing is gut-wrenchingly disgusting. Patton Oswalt was right about those things.
I suspect that KFC chose 'bowl' because most Americans might have a hard time pronouncing 'trough' correctly. And while I'm peeving, it always reminded me of an even lower-brow version of Denny's griddle breakfasts, the menu item promoted not by the food but by its serving implement: "You're eating out of the pan! THE PAN!"
Goddamn I need a cigarette.
The only time I tried to get a Volcano taco, they were all out. I've gotta try again. I love eating unnatural colors.
Hartlaub sounds like a dweeb. He probably hates Doritos too.
I must eat a Volcano taco today.
He's actually a super, super well guy. One of the nicest folks at the Chron.
But, yes, you must get one of those tacos today. Mmm.
Maybe he's a nice guy, but is it necessary to be so pretentious?
Oh wait, he's a food writer. Sorry. Duh.
C'mon, he name drops French Laundry & Chez Panisse. Why does this guy even get an opinion on fast food?
And I don't know about taste, but there is no way on earth that based on looks alone, that fois gras looks more appetizing than that Volcano taco.
What the hell does presentation have to do with fast food. This shit ain't Perbacco.
You eat it precisely because it's cheap, fast, greasy and occasionally even tastes pretty good. And that's about it.
presentation rightly has nothing to do with fast food as you say, but in the columnists defense he wasn't commenting on the 'taste' just how it looked.
So maybe its a moot / useless point.
And by the way, McGriddles are teh nasteezzzz!
I was excited to eat it but after one bite, i knew i'd made a very gross miscalculation.
Nobody's stepping up to defend the Jack in the Box tacos? I mean, it looks and tastes like cat food, but where else can you find a food fried whole including the lettuce.
I eat fast food maybe once a year now, and most of it tastes like cardboard to me, (I loved it when I ate it every day.) But you're right, he picked the most scrumptious sounding options from those restaurants. And the McGriddle is heaven.
The Jack in the Box taco tastes surprisingly like soft shell crab.
The McGriddles are surprisingly delicious. It's an egg mcmuffin... in a pancake. What's there to dislike?
And I know everyone loves to talk shit about the KFC bowls, but really. It's potatos, gravy, corn, cheese and chicken, but combined into a wonderful bowl. Just because it's all mixed together in a bowl people get all pretentious about it.
Fuck that. More for me.
Now I'm hungry.
oh, this is so post-supersize me. i'm really impressed that you can push past the smug ideologies that must be suffocating you in the city, and still have the energy to raise your weak voices: "but i like fast food..."
but i am only a cliche: you disgust me, and i'm better and healthier than you, if only for that one bad habit you may have.
Well taking the stairs and bicycling help compensate for my fast food habit. Besides if not for my love of fast food I wouldn't have my Uhura glass.