Fast Food Cheesesteak

Lately I've been hold-up at my parents house, recovering from this surgery and watching an immense amount of television. I keep seeing these commercials for Arby's new Philly cheesesteak, it's a stupid commercial... in fact I think their whole "It's good mood food" campaign is retarded.

I've been a fan of Arby's since I was a kid, specifically the regular roast beef topped with their now non-existent spicy brown mustard. But ever since the mustard went MIA, I just stopped going there altogether. Like I said though, lately I've been watching a lot of Food Network/commercials and finding myself craving all kinds of crap.

Spending the 4th Eating Garbage

I didn't end up doing anything on Independence Day this year, at least nothing special. Since I was going to waste the day anyhow, I thought I should at least eat some fast food: a truly American past time. On top of that, why not go to Sonic again, since it is "America's Drive-In".

I love spicy stuff and was going to get this new Blazin' BBQ burger, which sounded pretty amazing considering it has fried jalapeno, regular jalapeno, habenero sauce and pepperjack cheese... but I was suffering from a hangover and the thought of all that spice made my stomach start filing papers to get clearance from my esophagus for "reverse digestion". So I went with "The Ring Leader" instead, which is basically a bacon cheeseburger with grilled onions, and an onion ring. Honestly, I would've preferred a normal burger, but since I started this blog I'm making myself try new things.

Where's Michael Douglas when you need him? (see below)

Despite it looking like shit (most fast food does), it was so-so. Wait, I take that back, the onion ring situation made it kinda gross. I'm not a connoisseur of onion rings or anything, but I didn't like this at all. The breading on it was doughy, like a piece of bread that wasn't cooked enough. So that taste just spread across my tongue when I bit into it and then the onion slipped out of the fried coating, like onion rings always do... it was a fucking mess. I can't even remember tasting or seeing the grilled onions either, maybe they're what really made it taste strange? Who knows.

Overall, this burger is almost complete bullshit though. I mean, can you really expect anything good to come of this idea? Fried stuff needs to be on it's own, not sandwiched in between greasy ass cheese and meat on a bun. I should've gotten the BBQ one instead, lesson learned.

Sonic Drive-In

Last autumn, the first Sonic was opened in the greater Baltimore area and I was over-joyed. I admit it's probably mainly because I didn't grow up with them around, but I have a strong affection for all of the "non-East Coast" fast food chains, ie. In-N-Out Burger, Whataburger, Jack in the Box, etc.

Right now they're promoting four new hot dogs: New York, Chicago, Chili Cheese Coney and All-American. The Chicago seemed like it could be awesome, so I drove up this weekend in the rain to check it out.