fandomhigh | Food Appreciation, Class #4, Period 3

"What up? Welcome to class. Today we're going to talk about the most important and life-saving of food groups: fast food," Marshall said. His food pyramid may have been a bit skewed compared to everyone else's. "Fast food is there for you the morning after a long night of drinking, it's there for you when you've been on the road for hours, it's there for you when it's 2 a.m. and you don't feel like cooking for yourself. Clearly it's the greatest thing that's ever been invented. Even in ancient Rome they depended on food vendors for many of their meals since many didn't have kitchens of their own to cook in."

He paused.

"As a lawyer, I feel the need to tell you that I got that from Wikipedia and cannot be held responsible for the validity of that statement," Marshall said. "So if you share that fact at a party and get owned by some fast food guru then don't blame me."

"Fast food as we know it got started in the 1920's. The first burger franchise was started in Kansas with White Castle burgers. The burger joint is the most popular of fast food restaurants. Usually they serve burgers, fries, milkshakes, onion rings and some sort of fish and chicken sandwiches. These are your Burger Kings, McDonalds, Arby's, Roy Rogers, Checkers, Timmy Ho's, Wendy's and Sonic. There's more but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. All are good in their own way. Arby's has curly fries, Roy Rogers has the Gold Rush Chicken sandwich, Sonic is like an old school drive thru thing. It's all good."

"Then we've got fast food places that venture away from the burger thing. KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's, Dairy Queen, Panda Express...that sort of stuff. For when you get bored of eating cow," he said. "Chicken, Americanized Mexican food, seafood, hot dogs, Chinese food. That sort of stuff. If you're a novice to fast food, I'd avoid going to Taco Bell if you've got plans for later on during the day. Just saying."

Because there was a chance you'd spend the rest of the afternoon in the bathroom.

"And, for the record, the holy grail of all fast food restaurants is when you find one of those KFC/Taco Bell/Pizza Hut hybrids," Marshall said. "Those are a gift from god."

"Okay, so, we can thank this island's freaky awesomeness for the wide array of fast food we have today," Marshall said, gesturing down at the table. There was everything. McDonald's, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's, White Castle, all sorts of ~~moddable~~ fast food. "I know for a fact if you want a White Castle burger you'd have to go to Ohio or New Jersey so I don't know how the lunch ladies got this."

They were mysterious people in that cafeteria.

"Anyways, eat up! There's all sorts of soft drinks you can mix together and don't forget to dip your french fries in your milkshakes," he said. "It's good."

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"Dude, what's with Neil Patrick Harris? Why is he so horny?"

I have seen Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle about a billion times and I never get tired of it omg.

True story, in 2005 me and three friends drove 5 hours to Columbus for White Castle. It was epic.

Gawd. This class makes me crave food so bad every week. Right now I'm lamenting the lack of Steak'n'Shake on the West Coast.

I have never been to one of those. But Erin has told me delicious things about them.

I would seriously almost go back to Missouri just to go to Steak'n'Shake.

Damn restaurant chains. Why you gotta be hatin' on other regions?!?

Come visit here! And then we can... drive 90 minutes to a Steak'n'Shake.

Damn.

DO NOT SAY THOSE THINGS TO ME WHEN I AM ACTUALLY CRAVING STEAK'N'SHAKE. I MIGHT TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY.

My husband insists we stop at Steak 'n' Shake every time we visit his family. and points them out hopefully from the highway the second we leave the airport.

I'm not sure he'd move back to St. Louis just for that, but it'd be a near thing.

Awesome.

...I don't suppose it would be okay to mod there being some Mr. Cluck's intermingled with stuff? Hurley would be ecstatic.

Mod whatever you want yo.

She says from the wrong account.

Soooo craving In-N-Out right now. NOM NOM NOM.

I'm so ending up at either In-n-Out or Fatburger tomorrow on my way home, I just know it. And I had Fatburger the other night. Dammit.

I don't like you right now. I haven't had any In-N-Out in a year!!! OVER A YEAR!

Well, crap, if I wasn't going to be busy all this weekend I'd say we should go.

And now I'm wishing we'd gone there last weekend instead of Corner Bakery. D'oh.

I have this goal of actually catching up on my reading and work this weekend. (Insert hysterical laughter here)

Nom nom nom.

Randomly, I still think a "double double" is a name for a coffee, not a hamburger.

It's totally a coffee. *is firm*

I feel duty bound to point out that Timmy Ho's (assuming you're using the short form for Tim Horton's and there's not actually a chain of burger places with that name somewhere in the US...) doesn't actually serve burgers.

Though there was a guy last week that came through the drive thru three times in one night and kept trying to order a Big Mac....

Shhhhhhhhhhhh I was guessing and I thought the name sounded funny.

Ahahaha I had the same reaction. And I don't even work there! It's totally like, culturally ingrained, I think.

When I worked at Subway there was this one regular guy who clearly thought he was HILARIOUS and would ask for a Big Mac EVERY TIME.

We have a Subway downtown with a drive-through. A drive-through. AT SUBWAY. *craves Subway now, actually*

There's a White Castle down the street from my old apartment, omg. And I don't even EAT MEAT and I went there all the time.

THEY HAVE MOZZERELLA STICKS.

Food Appreciation, Class #4, Period 3

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