fast-food
Stop Thinking You’re Better Than Subway, Bitch
For years I’ve struggled to put my finger on the peculiar sadness of Subway, the submarine sandwich fast-food chain. It is an aspect as familiar…
I Ate a Burger Made by Flippy, the Burger-Flipping Robot Who’s Here to Take Your Minimum-Wage Job
A fast-food restaurant seems like a fitting venue for the robot apocalypse. I’m sitting in black leather chair at CaliBurger, a mostly unremarkable burger chain,…
An Ode to the McDonald’s Happy Meal Cheeseburger
Those Golden Arches look a little bit like a fountain of tears today. Well, if you turned them upside down and ignored the fact that…
A Late-Night Drunken Run for the Border With Lyft’s Taco Mode
The bright purple light cuts through the Orange County night as if it were a Bat Signal for Prince. It, too, is a symbol, but…
