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Fast Food: Qdoba Mexican Gumbo Stretches the Definition of 'Gumbo'
Even though Bostonians are deprived of real Californian Mexican food, we still have enough Mex-run taquerias and burriterias around that I've never felt the urge to go to Qdoba. I haven't avoided Qdoba on purpose, I've just never trained the fast-food-chain-shopping part of my brain to sync up with the burrito-eating part: I've never been to Chipotle, either. But I found a reason to try Qdoba last week when I saw a poster for their Mexican gumbo.IHOP's Bacon and Cheddar Hash Brown Stack
The IHOP menu claims the Bacon and Cheddar Hash Brown Stack is composed of "golden hash browns topped with crisp diced bacon, melted cheddar cheese, sliced tomato, an over-medium egg, rich hollandaise sauce, and green onion." Only parts of this are accurate. The hash browns, for example, are not golden. They are white. Friends, have you ever eaten raw potato? Don't eat raw potato.Fast Food: McDonald's Chicken McBites
McBites are more reminiscent of real fried chicken than Nugget, with a heavily salted and peppered crust that makes an afterthought of the little bit of white meat inside. The exterior overpowers the bland white meat to the point where you're effectively eating fried-fried rather than fried chicken.The Best Way to Eat Popeye's Fried Chicken
I got a letter in my inbox from none other than Anthony Myint, co-owner and chef at Mission Chinese Food (one of the best restaurants I ate at last year) sharing a fried chicken hack. "Allow dark meat pieces to cool completely, even overnight in the fridge. Fry at 350 F for 2-3 minutes and then allow to drain/rest for 3 minutes. Crunch Factor!"McDonald's New Apple Cinnamon Walnut Oatmeal
Last year McDonald's stepped up to the oatmeal scene with their Maple and Fruit oatmeal. The flavor is still available, but now joined by another: Apple Cinnamon Walnut Oatmeal. While McOats should be a good thing for the world (more oats = a good thing), don't expect a stovetop-cooked texture or steel-cut sophistication.Fast Food: KFC Big Value Box
KFC seems to be returning to its roots with the current promotion of the Big Value Box. The BVB is a cardboard carryall stuffed with an individual-sized serving of popcorn chicken, a biscuit, two sides of your choosing, and a fried thigh (you get a giant jug of soda, too), and it served as my reintroduction to a chain I've forsaken for too long.The Year in Fast Food: Highlights, Lowlights, and More Breakfast Sandwiches
Although the past year didn't produce any fast food innovations on the order of 2010's fried-chicken-as-bread breakthrough, there were still several notable additions to the nation's collective drive-thru menu. In particular, breakfast took a couple of little steps forward (along with the usual steps back), bread got weird and ambitious, and they continued to throw cheese at us from all angles.Fast Food: Subway Big Philly Cheesesteak
The Subway Big Philly Cheesesteak can't compete with a freshly cooked rendition from a good corner sub shop, but I've had worse. The improved steak combined with Subway's good-enough bread makes for a fine fast food steak-and-cheese sandwich before you even get to the customizing (banana pepper rings!!!).Fast Food: Dunkin' Donuts Smokehouse Sausage Sandwich
Dunkin' is pushing the Smokehouse Sausage Breakfast Sandwich pretty hard these days. The SSBS is sausage, egg, and cheese on an English muffin. The sausage's pedigree is supposed to distinguish this from every other Dunkin' Donuts breakfast sandwich. It's from Hillshire Farms, which doesn't mean much to me, and its novel shape—a split link rather than a patty—seems a dubious departure, since "It's easy to cram into your mouth" sits pretty high on the list of positives regarding most DD sandwiches.Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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