2mo ago

Dethroned

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No Kings finally working!
- No gods, no kings, only fux.
- Burger President
  
  Chairman Burger
- The fun thing is, both emotionally and semantically a burger means a citizen as in the opposite of a king.

What could they have done worse than being a burger king
- Maybe they were too good
  
  very real chance the corporation raised the prices of the franchise ingerdients without raising the prices of the franchise menu items and this location's owner had a relationship with the local ingredient distributor, ran the numbers, and figured they could sell enough burgers in the local community to make more money than they would keeping the random walk-ins who go into a burger king because they know what they're getting.
- They were voting to become a Burger Democracy.
  
  Strange women lying in ponds distributing paper crowns is no babies for a system of government!
- Being a burger ~~prince~~ Andrew?

Excuse me ... Fux???
- BIG fux
  
  BIG fux XXL
- Who do I have to whopper to get a fux around here?
- BACON FUX !!
- It appears to be German.
  
  Right, but that still doesn't make sense. The only dictionary entry I'm finding for Fux is a variant of Fuchs, which means Fox, or colloquially a few other things unrelated to food like 'fraternity pledge'. Fuck is Fick (n) / ficken (v) so it's seemingly not that.

This doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad shop. Maybe being a franchise wasn't helping their business, so they dropped it.
It might be better than BK, that wouldn't be hard to do. BK is the worst of the major franchise burger shops, by far. I'll eat at Arby's before I eat at a BK.
- Say what you will about Arby's...
  ... There's no "but". I won't stop you.
  (Their spicy mayo - sorry, "horseradish sauce" - is pretty good though)
  
  And now you can completely avoid Arby's and still get your Horsey Sauce fix: https://copykat.com/arbys-horsey-sauce/
  I make a homemade version of the Arby's Beef and Cheddar. Even bought a deli slicer just to get that piled-up effect. The Horsey Sauce recipe above nails it. The Arby Sauce however... I've yet to find a proper copycat recipe. I think there might be citrus (lime?) in Arby Sauce but it's not listed in the ingredients.
  
  "When you eat at Arby's, there are always (bigger) butts."
  a wise man, probably
  
  Also potato cakes. Mmm.
- It depends on the country I guess. Here in France I'd do a BK over McDonald's any day. But it would loose to a Roadside (local burger chain) in most cases.
  
  In the middle of the US all of the fast food chains are hit and miss depending on location. There are like 11 McDonald's nearby and two of them are consistently good. There are at least three BKs and only one of them is consistently good.
  When the BK is good I find it far better than McDonald's. It is probably the fry grease they use and the open fire for cooking the meat, but also the vegetables and buns and everything else are just better imho. Good enough to get me to stop by a few times a year.
  
  Same in sweden. I don't eat if macd is the only option. BK is good but mAx burgers are better (when you only look at fast"food")
- Don’t you besmirch the Sauce of the Gods.
- Arby's
  I just threw up in my mouth a little...
  
  Hey, they were decent a couple... checks notes... decades ago...
- I dunno, BK doesn't wreck my guts like McDonald's
- I would say that Jack in the Box is the worst of the big national chains, but it's been a long time since I ate at any of those places.
  
  Really? They were awesome when I was a kid, but they didn't have a store near me until recently, so I haven't had them for... 15 years? They were my favorite back then, have they gotten worse?

How bad does a BK need to be to get kicked out of the worst by far fast food chain?
- I see someone has never visited a Del Taco before.
  
  Filiberto's?
- They spend their days messily eating tomatoes...
  
  Boromir would've been able to keep the franchise agreement
- Are they the worst? IMO, they're mid at worst. Some worse options:
  Dairy Queen
  Taco Bell - the one near me is actually decent since it's in a nicer area, but I avoid them when traveling
  McDonalds - I've been once in the last 20 years, and don't plan to go again
  KFC - in my area they're partnered with A&W, which is also bad (was my favorite in the 90s, but they suck now)
  I haven't been to Burger King in years, so maybe they suck now. I remember them being decent, but nothing special.
  
  A&W in Canada is actually pretty decent, but it's not tied to the American chain except I think for licensing the name
  
  I'm assuming you're not in Texas if DQ is on your list.
  
  Have you been to a dairy Queen? Or did you just put their name on there without thinking because they actually have way better food than Burger King.
  
  Even a Burger King run properly still has the worst burgers on Earth.

Me: One fux, please.
Burger ~~King~~: Sorry, we're fresh out of fux to give.

Who the fux going to go in here?
- The burger isn't going to fux itself...

Ah yes, the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of franchises
- Guess we know what they did.

How many fucking people did their food have to kill to lose the Burger King franchise?
- Sorry, that's an trade secret.
- Probably gave too many people the correct order. That goes against the BK franchise code if the one near me is anything to go by.

"Bacon fux" ? "Big fux" ? WTH?
- Germany, perhaps.
  
  German here. What?
  
  Based on the German text on the menu, probably. But that doesnt really explain it.

Ingolstadt apparently. I couldn't find the exact one, but there appears to be only 2 burger kings in the city, and I suspect it's this one (warning: google streetview)
God what a beautiful city Ingolstadt looks like from above though, with the Danube flowing through it, and the old city having an actual green belt around it
Edit: @zout@fedia.io found it here!
- Fun fact in case you didn't know, the green belt you are referring to is the leftover area of what was once the city wall. You can still kinda see it in the star like shape of the green belt and there are a few old fortifications left for sightseeing.
  
  Well it's gorgeous as fuck.
  
  aha! I see Vauban marched his way over there too then
- I walked past there this summer, that one is still a burger king.
  
  do you know where it is then, I typed in "Burger, ingolstadt" and got mostly nonsense results
- And they didn’t think of an Illuminati-related branding angle?

I was thinking about trying Jack-in-the-Box for the first time so I downloaded the app, and my local joint wasn’t listed. Did some digging and they were apparently delisted because their google reviews were truly awful. Exclusively one stars for the last year. Stuff like “person in the drive through window tried to climb out of the window like the girl from The Ring and fight me” and “the chicken was still straight up frozen, like directly from the freezer not a little cold in the middle”. I thought they always had a long line because it was good, but it turns out people get stuck in that line for an hour and can’t get out.
- That's too bad, because Jack-in-the-box is one of the better chains IMO.
  
  That probably shows they're at least still trying.

It is probably like the KFC in a neighboring town. They owner was so cheap and let it get run into the ground. When he stopped paying the chain they were going to come remove his signs. So he Painted Chicken over all of them and started buying the same or similar products from the the local food distributor he got a lot of KFC's products from. Of course it was his shitty management that lead to that and things didn't improve after it was just 'Chicken'. It stayed there three or four more years though.

All I know is that I am getting some mixed feelings from the menu items with names like "Big Fux XXL"
- Bacon fux

Burger Steward. In charge until the return of the King.
- Burger Regency.

Yes, I'll have the Junior Whop.
- I'm going for the Big Fux XXL.
  
  Nah, that chill chicken where it's at

They’re not alone!
https://www.cracked.com/article_28014_the-crazy-story-fake-burger-king-in-pittsburgh.html
- Cracked.com? Pepperidge Farm remembers
  
  Wait until you find out it used to be a paper magazine
- Not to be confused with the Burger King that is not a Burger King but isn't fake.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_(Mattoon,_Illinois)

It’s like the Avignon Anti-Papacy.

should transition to burger national convention, followed by burger first republic
- Eventually, a Burger Emperor.

"What are you getting for lunch?"
"Burger."

No Gods, No Masters, No Head Office.

Fux probably stands for Fuchs, I'm guessing.
- Fox? Does it have a different local meaning?

this apparently happened with a dairy queen in the town where my parents grew up in, but they didn't even change the branding. they just went rogue and it took a long ass time for people to notice

That is impressive because I'd rather starve than eat Burger King. Hate to see what "got rejected for quality" they essentially have no bar.

Vive la Révolution!

I mean it's better for society since Burger King won't be getting so much moeny for a name.

extra long chli chicken

Isn‘t that Freising/Ingolstadt and around that area? And yes, you couldn‘t eat that stuff.

Ooh, ooh! I know this one! It's in Pittsburgh!
Edit: okay, wrong one. But there is a similar disenfranchised BK in Pittsburgh.
- "Deise Fuxe gibt es auch als plant based."
  Signs in the burgh sprechst deutsch?
  
  Nein, es ist meine Schuld. I should click the pic and read first, but the one in Yinzertown just sprung to mind from the headline.

Should I have the classic fux or big fux xxl?

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