I wonder if more salt and a tangy or spicy dipping sauce would help offset the sweetness.  Or maybe I’ve just watched too much Chopped.

Your experience may vary. They have generally been fresh, hot and crispy when I’ve ordered them. Every fast food joint has locations that hit a home run every time and locations that suck at everything.

My ex-wife’s uncle used to run a Sonic.  At the time, the onion rings were made from scratch from whole onions.  It sounds almost like they moved to frozen product because I never tasted a buttermilk/sour one.  The burgers are usually reliable, but standard.  I suggest trying a different Sonic and see if your…

I’d say the most iconic item on their menu are the tater tots. They’re very proud of their onion rings, but I find the batter to be cakey-sweet and the end product needs salt.

Collecting McDonalds toys has been happening since the late 1980s at least.  Remember the Beanie Babies craze?  People would drive all over town trying to find a McDonalds with the “rare” beanie baby toy.  See also: Szechuan sauce.  Not a toy but these tiny sauce packets were being offered on eBay for real monies.

Somebody should tell Apple about this.

I feel like that statement was added just as bait to grab a response and up the post engagement.  I wouldn’t justify it with a response.

As of a few months ago the newly-built Wendys near my work still wouldn’t allow in-store service or dining. You either order in the the drive through or on their app or you take your business elsewhere. Maybe that’s changed, but I decided I will not patronize dining establishments that will not allow me to come inside…

Note:  I’m convinced that different stores purchase different versions of the same brand and product.  I bought Hormel chili with no beans to make chili dogs.  It was wonderfully chunky and tasted good.  Bought the same product at a different store and found it to be inferior-- not chunky, mostly sauce. 

The name tag is so that you can identify the person in the event that you wish to file a complaint. I presume it also applies to giving a compliment.

I’ll argue that the stated and official inflation numbers are, in fact, under-estimated. I’ve watched a humble TV dinner I occasionally crave go from $3.35 to $3.99 to $4.15 to $4.39 to $4.99 to $5.50 over the summer. That’s nearly double the price for the same product.

I 100% agree.  I notice that a lot of times, a grocery item is missing from the shelves for a week or two, and when they restock it the price has increased substantially.  It’s gamesmanship so the stores can claim the price increase is because “demand is so high.”

When sugar prices spiked in the early 1970s my  mother stopped adding sugar to the tea she made for the family.  We drank unsweetened Iced Tea forever after that.  As an adult I can’t stand sweet tea at all.  Also no lemon in mine, thanks.

Reminds me of Skittles’ Pride Month promotion.  They celebrated diversity by offering all white skittles.  Seemed a little off message to me.

I do love Hardees breakfast biscuits. Easily the number one or two fast food biscuit sandwich in the universe.

IMHO the hourglass design is intended to disguise a downsizing of the product. Get people used to buying the hourglass bottle, at some later time just squeeze the middle a bit and bam. 14 ounce jar for the same price.

I thought that the Coca Cola Starlight flavor tasted a little like graham cracker.

Part of the reason I ditched Harris Teeter is their abysmal self checkout. Six checkouts crammed into too little space. Part of each day sees four of the self checkout machines unavailable for use. Morning features all this plus a surly attendant who once suggested I was stealing because I couldn’t get the SKU for…

maybe you missed the part where the stores automatically use reusable bags for delivery orders and aren’t allowed to recover and re-use bags that have been in the customer’s posession.

Bag bans seem to me an attempt to blame the consumer for the mountain of plastic that our food and other products are packaged in. I have reusable bags-- they’re fine.  But I use those bags to carry plastic bottles of beverages, plastic bags of rice, pre-made meals packaged in plastic, baked goods in little plastic…