Wendy’s

If you don’t count Steak ‘n Shake, which has waitresses, thick porcelain plates and complimentary jalapeño pepper sauce, Wendy’s is arguably the best fast food hamburger place – and it’s not necessarily the most expensive, though they do offer menu items at a variety of price points.
I was there just now, and I figured I might grab a Baconator, but then I saw that they were offering a meal called the 4 for $ 4 Meal. It must be designed for people who aren’t balling as hard as they were at the beginning of the month. They had it advertised on the big rotating sign out front. You know, the one that’s always missing at least one letter, sometimes to hilariously inappropriate results.
I wonder if they even offer this deal on the first of the month. (Shout out to Bone Thugs.) If I remember, I might take a look in a few weeks, though I probably won’t update this review. And I offer my apologies to my little brother, who prefers that these reviews come with a picture of the food. I forgot to take a picture of my meal.
The 4 for $ 4 meal comes with a junior bacon cheeseburger, chicken nuggets, fries and a Coke product. Four items total, hence the name. The price is $ 4 even, and with tax (which we shouldn’t have to pay) it came to $ 4.34. Even if they weren’t running this promotion, you could probably order all four of those items from the dollar menu, or some other permutation of four-​dollar menu items, and in fact I wonder if a lot of customers were already ordering those same four items and that’s where they got the idea.
My financial situation right now is such that I could have ordered the Baconator, fries and a drink and been fine for the rest of the week, but the fact of the matter is that the Baconator alone costs more than the 4 for $ 4 meal, and there’s a part of me that will always feel guilty for spending more than $ 4 at a fast food restaurant. I figured I might as well give the 4 for $ 4 meal a shot. If it turned out to be a decent meal, I could order it all the time and cut my fast food expenses in half. Shit, I can hardly buy groceries for $ 4!
It’s kind of amazing that such a meal could include a bacon cheeseburger, albeit a tiny one, somewhere in between a slider and a proper fast food burger. Bacon and cheese, which are essential, are how fast food restaurants make their money, and thus they usually charge you out the ass for them. There’s also tomato on it. I remember, years ago, when you had to specifically request tomatoes on your burger, or else they wouldn’t give them to you, because tomatoes had gotten kinda expensive.
I also remember, a few years ago, when they changed the fries. There was nothing wrong with Wendy’s fries to begin with – they weren’t as good as McDonald’s, but neither is anything in life. These are little smaller in circumference, I think. More crispy exterior, less starchy interior, still not as good as McDonald’s.
Similarly, the chicken nuggets seem more like actual food than McDonald’s (without being actual food), but they’re somehow less reminiscent of the sensation of biting into real fried chicken. These are more along the lines of what the nuggets in your elementary school cafeteria would have been like if they’d been prepared with any care. They’d be great with the mac and cheese from KFC. Maybe they could do some sort of cross-​promotional joint venture. The mix they use to make Frosties is the same thing they use to make the shakes at White Castle. (I used to work at White Castle.)
I topped it all off with a healthy, refreshing Coke Zero, which is the Diet Coke for my generation.
Altogether, this wasn’t enough dinner for a man of my stature. (I’m gonna try to top it off with alcohol.) Which is a shame, really. If it had been, it would have been arguably the best deal on anything ever. It makes you wish they’d come up with a version with a burger that’s twice as big – because really, it was the burger that was the problem – and sell it for $ 5. That would be perfect. They might also consider adding a $ 1 Frosty to the meal and tacking on another dollar. It would still be less than the Baconator meal. I might bring this up the next time I’m in the drive thru.

I was poisoned today at this Wendies. I took a bite out of one of my french fries and immediately had to not only spit it out, but starting throwing up. Some chemical was put on my french fries. I will never eat there again. I would suggest no one go there.

I usually like Wendy’s, but this location tastes much worse. Quality is terrible, very sloppily presented. My last order, chicken sandwich has so much sauce the bun was soggy, fries were burnt, and they gave me the wrong soda. Yuck!

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