Cancellation of the Dollar Menu Reviews

After much thought, a ton of heartburn, and a show about heart disease in American males, I have decided not to pursue an ongoing series about dollar menu items.  However, from the research I have compiled over the past three and one-half years, I offer the following:

$.99 will buy you a good burger, but you'll have to buy at least two of them ($1.98 worth, plus tax at 8.1% in Maricopa County) in order to become full.  

Best bets:  Burger King Whopper Junior (adding cheese incurs an additional $.10 charge, but can make the difference - recall my fondness for American cheese), Wendy's double stack, or Wendy's Jr Bacon Cheeseburger.  

If you like mayo and fried conglomerates of coagulated chicken parts, McD's has a good spicy chicken sandwich (although the lettuce they use leaves much to be desired) and Wendy's has a similar option.  Sadly, no one offers a good grilled option for $.99 that I'm aware of.  

If you must kill yourselves slowly with trans fats, at least enjoy what you're eating.  Happy hunting.

Irony: Part One.

Irony is: Buying a satellite radio and paying $14.99 a month for it's "Crystal Clear, CD Quality Sound" and then installing it so it plays through your FM Radio, just like any other (free) radio station. Genius. I'm sure there is an engineer somewhere, in a cubicle buried far beneath the Earth's surface who just laughs all day, day in, day out, about that fact.

Maybe not that funny, but I had to chuckle when it dawned on me the other day.