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Just ate a Hatch Green Chile burger from a Sonic in Grants, New Mexico. An OK burger made great solely because Green Chile is such a fantastic burger topping.

In-N-Out has the same reputation regarding customer service. And I don't recall *ever* having an order prepared wrong in the drive through. 

Chick-fil-A makes a pretty solid chicken sandwich. I like the spicy deluxe. Their waffle fries are good as well. 

Salt, sugar, fat, caffeine, alcohol ....

The five major food groups.

One really notices how obese Americans are when coming back from a stay in Europe.

Yeah, my wife loves CFA also, and I'm so-so with the food, it's OK, but probably preferred over other FF options by me because of service.

The one up the street has a line out the door at lunch.  There is a small park with some mature oak trees just outside and on nice days it too is packed.  They did a great job creating that small park out of a largely unused area that had really nice trees.  They built decks and places to sit underneath them.  This is just after it opened.



They have music there every Friday, it's a great example of what can be done with a small area I think:

When we are driving to "get somewhere expeditiously", I'm generally not very choosy about where we eat lunch.  If a place has a long line, I go elsewhere.  I'm just there to get unhungry and get back on the road.  We don't often drive to get anywhere fast now.  

The wife likes McD's for breakfast, and we used to drive to one near us in Cincy, but the nearest one here is awful.  We don't have many chain places in walking distance, CFA, Panera, and now a Chipotle has opened, that is it, out of over 50 other places (some a bit pricey).

I like Whoppers still as a FF burger.  

I had a Big Mac in France and it was both expensive and quite different from here.  It had a mass of lettuce and not much meat.  The wife had a simple cheeseburger and I think it was something close to 3 euros, call it $3, for their basic CB.  This was on a toll road where you have limited options at an "aire".  The French "interstates" are entirely tolls outside cities and you cannot exit to eat very effectively at all.  They have few exits and those don't have food places off them very often.  So, you stop at a "toll plaza" and over pay for whatever.

I like Crackerbarrel OK, but the wife doesn't much.  I like Bob Evans OK, but again, the wife does not.

She now likes our local French place, her first visit was not to her liking.  She says it's not quite real French cuisine, but it's not hyper pricey either, and the do half priced wines on Tuesdays.  There is a Spanish tapas place near us that we both like, and several Italian places, and Thai places, but no Korean place near us.  A new place just opened called Sugar Factory which has fairly pricey menu items, I don't care for the name, they do have a separate dessert section.  I think it's a chain.

There are some Irish bars near us that are "OK", a good seafood place, a good southern place, two really, one is a longish walk.  She likes Chipotle, which I don't especially like, it's "OK".

Salt, sugar, fat, caffeine, alcohol ....

The five major food groups.

One really notices how obese Americans are when coming back from a stay in Europe.

I saw a lot of fat people in Europe. 

It was odd how many of them spoke perfect English though