Posts Tagged ‘hotness’
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Price: $0.99; paid – $0.59
Promotion: 59-cent Tuesdays
Location: 2401-2407 W. Ogden Ave., Chicago, IL 60608 (map); phone: (312) 243-5293
Rating: 3 out of 5 – acceptable
Like its cheeseburger brother, the BK Hamburger serves up some decent value in a remarkably short package. (You could say “thin,” but unless you’re talking vertically, this burger’s still larger and wider than one from White Castle.) The difference between Burger King’s Hamburger and its Cheeseburger would seem to only encompass 10 to 20 cents — depending on the sale price — and a slice of melted cheese, but that seems to make all the difference to this rater in terms of total taste and final score.
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Tags: acceptable, American, balance, BK, Burger King, burgers, cheese, cheeseburger, clutch, difference, fresh, glue, hamburger, hotness, ketchup, melted, mustard, palate, pickles, pinch, promotion, review, sharp, short, slices, sports, tangy, value
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Price: $1.69; paid – $0.00
Promotion: free with “Matt’s Monday” Arby’s Racing deal
Location: 3931 N. Harlem Ave., Chicago, IL 60634 (map)
Rating: 3 out of 5 – acceptable
You know the main attractions on Arby’s menu have traditionally been its roast-beef sandwiches, but it can be quite helpful to have attractive sideshows as well (to eke out a little extra profit margin on a full-sized order). While Arby’s apparently has a limited supply of homestyle fries and “potato cakes” at participating locations, the form of fried potato most often associated with the chain (at least for me) has been the Curly Fry. It is described as follows on the Arby’s web site: “Perfectly seasoned ringlets, fried to a golden brown and served hot make these the perfect side item to any meal.” Perfect might not be the right word to lavish on these fried ringlets, but maybe I’ve just been missing something up till now.
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Tags: acceptable, Arby's, cold, cool-fry syndrome, coupons, curly, dining in, free, fried, fries, fry, hotness, ketchup, medium, potato, promotion, review, ringlets, roast beef, sauce, seasoned, side, turnover
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Price: $1.29; paid – $0.00
Promotion: an expiring WC scratch ‘n’ win game piece
Location: 5940 N. Ridge Ave., Chicago, IL 60660 (map); phone: (773) 271-9638
Rating: 2 out of 5 – forgettable
Could a snowy night in Chicago stop a Snob from redeeming a game piece for free food? Are frites not fried? (All these negatives are getting confusing….) At any rate, as luck would have it, not many others were out and about this evening, so I got to taste of a fresh batch from the fryer — after a few minutes’ wait. Did I mind this slight delay (for the hottest crinkle-cuts I could find)? Of course not. But the high temperature would remain the highlight of the evening as even the new hotness couldn’t salvage a bland fry. Serviceable, but nothing I’d make a drive for — unlike those tasty jalapeno cheeseburgers. Now those would’ve really hit the spot.
Tags: bland, Chicago, forgettable, free, French, fresh, fries, hotness, promotion, Regular, review, snowy, White Castle
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