RANDOM SHIIET March 14, 2025

“Unmasking the Most Overrated Fast Foods: What Fans Don’t Want You to Know!”

More info: Reddit

A couple of weeks ago, a thread appeared on the AskReddit community, where the author, the user u/Fueled_By_Tacos (ain’t a damn appropriate username?), asked the question: “What is the most overhyped fast food?”

Interestingly, today the thread has almost twice as many comments as upvotes, which means the discussion has been quite lively. So, let’s find out together which fast foods people think are really overrated and overhyped.

A person holds a fast food hot dog wrapped in white paper, topped with pickles and sauce. I travel a lot. The best and most consistent fast food in America is the taco truck/trailer/stand. Regular American fast food has reached a new low in the last few years. Even a simple hot dog surrender now has about a 75% chance of being a major disappointment. Subway has probably fallen the most.

Rasty1973 , Elisabeth Jurenka Report

If you think that fast food is something relatively modern, tracing its roots back to the 20th century, then you are definitely mistaken. The prototypes of fast food date back to ancient Rome, where a significant part of the inhabitants lived in rented rooms in large houses called “insulae.” These rooms didn’t have a separate kitchen, so the tenants usually bought ready-made food, eating it all down with bread soaked in wine.

Well, and then, already in the 19th century, we go to England, experiencing an industrial boom, and workers who urgently needed to go to the factory didn’t always have enough time to cook their own food. Therefore, already in the middle of that century, small shops appeared selling standardized portions of typical British food – fish and chips.