Filet-O-Fish: McDonald’s Most Overlooked Sandwich
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Ah Arby's,I love their Ruben sandwich!
Their Ruben is the only sandwich I’ll eat at Arby’s.
Yes the Ruben sandwich is the only product I like from Arby's.
They are normally independent businesses here, a few have tried the chain/franchise model but it never works. Greeks usually have the best shops and there are normally several in each neighbourhood.
Besides fish and chips you can normally get burgers, steak sandwiches and souvlaki. All of it so much better than anything you would get from mcdonalds, thats why i wonder why anyone would want to buy a filletofish or really anything from mcdonalds.
If you want to test yourself get the "aussie" burger from a good fish and chip shop. It has the beef patty, cheese, lettuce, tomato, fried onion, bacon, fried egg , slice of tinned beetroot and a slice of tinned pineapple all topped off with tomato sauce. A messy but delicious experience.
I must admit to enjoying the bacon+egg mcmuffin breakfast when i am travelling for work, years ago most motels served breakfast but now hardly any do so usually mcdonalds is the simple option.
Wait...they use cod in the Reuben??? 
I generally like hot sauces and spicy foods, but...fish has a nice delicate flavour and I don't like smothering it with too much spice. A few drops of lemon, maybe...maybe!...a touch of tartar sauce, but that's it. A side of fries or other potato, perhaps a veggie of some sort completes a meal.
I couldn't agree more with
Ogertron3000
about eating at independently owned restaurants as opposed to McD's. We have one in the nearby town where we do our normal shopping, coincidentally owned by a Greek fellow who employs his wife and daughters in the place. Fish'n'chips, souvlaki, steak sandwiches, perogies, gyros, Caesar salads, pizza, etc...all served in huge portions and all absolutely delicious. The place is a hole in the wall, I've only actually eaten inside a handful of times, but we takeout from there at least weekly. The fish in summer are fresh from the lake a few hundred yards distant. My mouth waters just thinking about it. 
If I actually had to eat at a fast food place, McD's isn't even on my radar for a burger. Harvey's puts them to shame, as does Dairy Queen, and even Burger King is IMHO several cuts above the Golden Retches. But with independents like Europa locally, and others in the big bad city of Winnipeg such as Fat Burger, even those are way down the list. Canada once had a chain called Toby's Good Eats, and they had several dozen differnet burgers on the menu. I tried to work through the whole list but when we moved that ended.
Back when I got around town on a bicycle, waiting anxiously to hit the magic 16 and get a driver's licence, I simply could not fathom how McD's remained in business. More than a half-century later...I still can't figure it out.
I generally like hot sauces and spicy foods, but...fish has a nice delicate flavour and I don't like smothering it with too much spice. A few drops of lemon, maybe...maybe!...a touch of tartar sauce, but that's it. A side of fries or other potato, perhaps a veggie of some sort completes a meal.
I couldn't agree more with
Ogertron3000
about eating at independently owned restaurants as opposed to McD's. We have one in the nearby town where we do our normal shopping, coincidentally owned by a Greek fellow who employs his wife and daughters in the place. Fish'n'chips, souvlaki, steak sandwiches, perogies, gyros, Caesar salads, pizza, etc...all served in huge portions and all absolutely delicious. The place is a hole in the wall, I've only actually eaten inside a handful of times, but we takeout from there at least weekly. The fish in summer are fresh from the lake a few hundred yards distant. My mouth waters just thinking about it. If I actually had to eat at a fast food place, McD's isn't even on my radar for a burger. Harvey's puts them to shame, as does Dairy Queen, and even Burger King is IMHO several cuts above the Golden Retches. But with independents like Europa locally, and others in the big bad city of Winnipeg such as Fat Burger, even those are way down the list. Canada once had a chain called Toby's Good Eats, and they had several dozen differnet burgers on the menu. I tried to work through the whole list but when we moved that ended.
Back when I got around town on a bicycle, waiting anxiously to hit the magic 16 and get a driver's licence, I simply could not fathom how McD's remained in business. More than a half-century later...I still can't figure it out.
I wont eat any of the trash from mickey-Ds so to each their own i suppose.
More than a half-century later...I still can't figure it out.
Check out their profit margins. You'll figure it out pretty quick, lol.
Well first off I can't believe I just read 7 pages about fast food, but now I feel compelled in respond. I can't remember ever thinking of going out for dinner and choosing McDs, it's always a matter of convenience and lock of other options. Like when I had to run an errand on my lunch break and have 10 minutes to get back to work, well there's a McDs a half block away and I can get a quick cheap hot sandwich. Or on family trips when it's the only place the kids can agree on and we just want to fill their bellies and get back on the road. But I have to admit I love having a good excuse to stop in for breakfast and getting a bacon egg n cheese bagel and hashbrown pattie, very tasty.
