As it is vacation travel season, I thought I'd resurrect an oldie and a goodie- name the best and worst fast food places in America. Specifically bad places to eat would be welcomed as information.

Go back to work.

Fast food can never be "best" loaded with fat, starch, carbs and cholesterol.

"loaded with fat, starch, carbs, and cholesterol." Um, Richard, did you know that the only calorie sources in foods are fat, carbs and protein? So if you want to eat food without fat and carbs, you're pretty much limited to skinless roast turkey. Enjoy!

My children agree with me that McDonald's food is lousy. They prefer the chicken nuggets at Burger King if they have to eat out. But suddenly they've acquired the taste for Subzone or Subway sandwiches. Fortunately that fits right in with my tastes. They also really like Taco Bell which I find so-so.

Best-1) Popeye's (great spicy chicken, great onion rings and great fries) 2) Long John Silver's (only get the Fish and Chips and wait for a fresh cooking) 3) Arby's (delicious roast beef) 4) Dairy Queen (closet burgers to what you would cook in your back yard, great shakes, good fries) 5) Tastee Freeze (ditto)
Worst- 1) McDonald's (low quality all around, only redeming quality is the changing stations and playlands) 2) KFC (once they betrayed the Colonel, you know they were going to Hell) 3) Hardee's (almost as bad as McDonald's) 4) Subway (trash subs) 5) Wendy's (hamburgers are only redeeming feature; sorry Dave).

Long John Silver has too much grease for my tastes. I have found that Dairy Queen varies GREATLY by location. Some aren't worth stopping at even for their ice cream - which is lousy to begin with. Wendy's - the one just up the street is adjacent to a research park - they've won numerous company awards for their food and service - and it is obvious why! Elsewhere, Wendy's can be so-so.

I prefer Sizzler.

Yes, Sizzler can be very good, and a lot of them have a very nice salad bar.

Chipotle. Everything else is fat-laden garbage.

I second the Chipotle vote! Great food, good prices!

I think Roger is a fast food counesseur (sorry about spelling) and needs to lay off the junk food.

Try In&Out Burgers. Better than McD's, BK, or JITB by far.

Chipotle and In-n-Out rule!
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Unfortunately, they don't exist in the NYC area

try www.foodtv.com

I'd say McDonalds worse!!!
I guess I don't have a particular favorite. Probably ribs. Love Chicken Shack!!! That's the best!!!

In-n-Out Burger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chipotle is one of the worst. High priced, bad service and lousy burritos. Give me Baja Fresh any day over Chipotle. I actually much prefer my local hole in the wall taco shack that's been in business 30+ years.

We all have our local favorite Mexican Place, Burger Joint, etc. No matter where you live, local is better.

As far as the chains, I usually will pull over for a:
1. Arby's
2. Chipotle
3. Boston Market

In LA, I like Poquito Mas over Baja Fresh.