Fast Food - A "Guilty" Pleasure….
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That's chick doesn't eat burgers.
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i've fallen back in love with burgers again…
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Primanti Bros.
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Discovered the Habit Burger Grill last time I was in Phoenix, best burger chain IMO. Any of the tasty burgers paired with tempura green beans or sweet potato fries are my kind of heaven
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Why not bring pizza into the mix?
We started a 22-day challenge today, so yesterday we went to this NY-style pizza place and got a 20" (in-house, they do 26" pizzas, but you can't take those home, presumably because you couldn't fit it into your car
) pepperoni and banana pepper pizza to enjoy during Chicago's placekicker's epic choke job. This place makes a great pie, floppy but not greasy at all on the underside. Every slice becomes a calzone when folded in twain to eat 
Despite being a Chicago partisan in many areas (football, NL baseball, hockey, basketball, hot dogs, steak sandwiches), I much prefer a NY-style slice and don't consider deep dish or stuffed pizza to be pizza at all. I do enjoy Chicago's thin crust traditions, especially over a greasy NYC-style thin crust, but hard to beat a NYC style slice (unless you're wood-fired Neapolitan, which is arguably a proto-NYC style).
When we're through our healthy thing, I'll be checking out a New Haven-style pizza joint I recently heard about.
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They do, and those fries look amazing–reminiscent of Steak Escape's fries in appearance.
Though, I'd cut the sandwich diagonally.
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How aren't more of you Americans dead??? Seriously obscene!
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Have you seen the American obesity, heart disease, and diabetes rates? We're not all dead, but we're trying.
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It’s worth pointing out that this thread is called «guilty pleasures». It’s only lethal if you eat all the time [emoji1]
Thing about the US is, as well as being a country of corn syrup, saturated fats, sugary soda, enormous portions, and bacon and cheese on everything, it is also the country driving the plant based life style/vegan fitness trends. Go figure.
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Apologies in advance for the OT rant, but this topic is an area of interest and passion, believe it or not (I hope this isn't considered political):
If you look at the chart of obesity* rates in the US, the spike originates at exactly the same time the FDA pursued a "growth for growth's sake" policy (translation: grow corn because we can get high yields, then figure out how to use it all) and the USDA updated its dietary recommendations based on Ancel Keys' junk science demonizing fats. Whatever you're seeing in this thread, many calories in many diets shifted from fats to carbs, and the effects have been catastrophic. It is discouraging that government policy has led to a sick and suffering populace.
*Obesity, metabolic syndrome, type II diabetes, hypertension, and a host of other maladies fall under a complex of diseases related to poor diet
Compound this with a healthcare philosophy and economics that is more about treating symptoms than addressing root causes of diet-related issues and we have a public health crisis of incomprehensible scale. Check out this article by a cardiologist who wanted to use food to prevent instead of statins to treat high cholesterol–it has been a hugely uphill battle for her, because our healthcare economics are perverse--what we do in the States is more like sick care than health care.
What is heartening, if way late, is that there are ever more healthy, or less unhealthy, fast food options, such as fast food salad and poke joints and fast casual health-themed restaurants.
