May 11, 2007

Zagat the noted rater of upscale food, lowers its sights as it rates the major US food chains. No Cheesecake Factory or In and Out Burger though.
posted by Northern Exposed 17 years ago
  • Wendy's? Really? I'm surprised. Never liked Wendy's much, myself. Also surprised to see that A&W wasn't included -- but I don't know how many of them there are down there. *feels urge for a bag of sliders from White Castle*
  • I like that Hooter's got a 19-score for service.
  • I have the fondest memories of going to the Drive In at A&W as a kid. The waitperson would bring your food to the car, and clip a tray to your window.
  • At my old local A&W, you picked up a phone at the table to place your order directly to the kitchen. I always enjoyed that as a child.
  • At the old A&W where I used to live, they used to have a Morse Code machine set up at each table. You would send the message to kitchen in Morse Code and they would bring the food out in a funnel with a tube inserted in your mouth.
  • -.-- --- ..- .- ... ...
  • when i was a kid, we walked 19 kajillion miles uphill each way to have A&W.
  • When I was a kid we only had an A. The W didn't come along until years later.
  • LUXURY! Our dad would shove roots freshly yanked from the yard right in our mouths, then pour beer down our gullets until we choked to death AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!!
  • When I was a kid, we only had crude pictographs scratched on clay tablets. The symbol for "hamburger" and "cow patty" were the same.
  • I would like to make it clear that I did not actually live at the A and W.
  • We always used to giggle at the A&W because the waitress at the other end of the microphone always called Grandma "Sir." And then the waitress would come out and clip a tray to the side of our horse and buggy.
  • I didn't even see a McDonalds until 1985.
  • When I was a wee lad I would take the escalator to the second floor, uphill both ways to eat at A,W & Deathlord Mesxenxlat, mom would use the k-matrix to wipe the dirt off our faces and dad would play with his Colmexiractovisterator absentmindedly while we were waiting for the nosh, in a way that made me and my brothers laugh (he looked just like Rangoon Xslesthekcld-Goldberg doing the Fershey routine!). Our interstellar travel took a year for every thirty light years, we had to make do with Volkswagon grade freighters made on Pluto(!) and teleportation was so flawed that I ended up going back in time where people bitch about what cave they had to sleep in or how their crude hides itched. You goddamn primitives.
  • Our dad would shove roots freshly yanked from the yard right in our mouths... You guys yards right in your mouths? I'd want my dad to yank roots out of there, too.
  • When I was a kid riding in the car, we tried to ask for McDonalds, but dad said, "SHUT UP! DON'T YOU MAKE ME COME BACK THERE"... so we had to eat the dirt along the floor mats. On muddy days there was often enough to make a little burger patty. And you know what? We loved it. Kids have it so easy these days.
  • Zagat? Of Tiger Uppercut fame?
  • I'm going to the same higschool as the founders of McDonalds and the founder of Revlon Makup.
  • SO instead of root bear you got boot rear?