Fast Food Quest 4: What have I gotten myself into?

Hey friends! Yesterday was a big day for fast food questing.  My first treat was from Hardees!  I got the “big chicken filet” sandwich.

It was pretty good.  It has more noticeable black pepper in the breading, but it’s fine.  Honestly, it’s no bigger than anyone else’s chicken sandwich.  It’s flatter and covers more bun, but I’m pretty sure it’s the same amount of chicken (or well, what I assume is chicken) that’s in every fast food fried chicken sandwich.

Rating? 3 out of 4 of itself.

Later that day, I went to Arby’s.  I wasn’t hungry, as I had gotten a footlong sub from subway somewhere in there, but I figured I’d better get something so that I could blog about it.

I chose the small strawberry-banana milkshake and the apple turnover.  You know, the food Arby’s is really known for.

Unfortunately there is no roast beef turnover. Only apple and cherry.

Neither were very good, but let’s start with the turnover shall we?  First of all, it was cold.  The frosting that is clearly missing from the turnover above was stuck to the wax paper thing it came in.  I had asked the lady working there which turnover was better, the apple or the cherry?  She said she liked the cherry one, but only because the apple one had raisins.

Huh?

“Ok I’ll take the raisin one then.  That sounds good.” I said foolishly.

There were raisins in there, but they tasted like apples.  Or rather, everything in there tasted like sugary apple filling.  The raisins just had more of a crunch to them.   Arby’s knows how I like my raisins… nice and crunchy.

Rating: 2 out of 4 of the Hardees chicken sandwich.

Now on to the milkshake.  What a disaster of a dessert.  It was clearly a vanilla milkshake with a red syrup barely stirred in.  Let’s go in for a closer look.

maybe if they had put in some raisins...

It was bad.  I took a sip of it and had some sort of horrible reaction.  I don’t remember what I said, my mind has already blocked out that memory, but however I reacted managed to turn the other Mission Improvable guys off of trying it.

I tried drinking more, but it was hard.  I want to eat at least half of the garbage I try on this mission, and I think I managed to drink half of that syrup milk, but I wasn’t happy.  There’s gonna be worse stuff out there for me to eat in my quest, but in these deserts I realized that it’s not all fun and games.

Rating

1 out of 4 pictures of what milkshakes should look like.

Don't flatter yourself, you were convenient.