The new menu marketing at Back Yard Burgers is fresh, summery, and fills me so full of hope each time I drive up to the speaker to make my selection. I think they even changed the real-life look of some of their food items, just so they could look good on camera. It’s not often that you find fast food that actually looks like it does in the pictures. Back Yard Burgers has done it, though.

There’s a new ‘light menu” combo, a.k.a. “The Manager’s Special” or “Bistro Combo” that you find at delis. With it, you can choose 2 non-sandwich, healthier, items, and make it a combo! Baked potato and salad, salad and soup, coleslaw and baked potato. You get the idea. It’s a first in fast food. Kudos to them.

However, there is one thing on this new menu that irks me. I’m played for a fool by BYB when I patronize…they think I have no memory, no pride. I’ll tell you the bad news first. When Back Yard Burgers created this new menu, the left out one thing - possibly the most scrumptious reason for anyone dining in the Back Yard - seasoned fries. Instead, your combo would come with regular, Sonicesque yellow fries.

In the midst of my disbelief, my eyes were constantly drawn to a food item picture in the fresh combo column, one that looked like sweet potato fries, with a big black sign slapped over it, announcing, “COMING SOON.” Yet another first, I thought, and I welcomed it, looked forward to their arrival so I could one day order the nutritious and desert-like sticks.

One day, I drove up, and the COMING SOON sign was gone! Finally, I could try out some sweet potato fries from a drive thru! Well, this is the good news, in a way, but somehow I feel like I’m not getting the good end of the stick here…there were no sweet potato fries hiding behind that suspenseful sign, no, it was their old fritters and my old friends: the seasoned fries were back!

Unfortunately, along with their new name, “Cajun Fry Shaker,” came a new price; higher, of course. They still do not come with the combos, so if you want to substitute, you have to pay even more extra.

I feel like BYB has found a way to put a sin tax on their most sought after commodity. I feel unrepresented by my fast food community. Daily, I put my hands through the fire (see logo) to pay my respects to this restaurant and this is what I get? You take away something great, make me miss it, then bring it back only to dangle it in my face with a false name and have me to reach further into my pockets to enjoy it again? Shame on you, BYB. I’ll never eat a fry at your establishment again.

Checkers would never do this to me!

You can accuse fast food for being bad for your health, but you can’t say it’s bad for the community.

A Burger King in London is offering a $200 burger, but before you drive away from the drive-thru line too quickly, note that the proceeds go to “Help a London Child” charity.

At to what goes on the burger:

The fine ingredients of what is called simply ‘The Burger’ include Wagyu beef, white truffles, Pata Negra ham slices, Cristal onion straws, Modena balsamic vinegar, lambs lettuce, pink Himalayan rock salt, organic white wine and shallot infused mayonnaise in an Iranian saffron and white truffle dusted bun.

Wow.

Via foxnews.com

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The Frosty Float at Wendy’s did not float my boat and Taco Bell Hot sauce deactivates in non-Taco Bell food.

I saw TB Borderbowls at the grocery store - but the recipes were changed a little. This is actually by the packaged taco shells and and enchilada kits - not in the frozen food section. Kind of strange. Instead of cheese, they either had a salsa sauce or vegetable saute thing. Rice, chicken, beans it did have, though. I was too grossed out to even try it. I guess the chicken is freeze-dried, or something.

Krystal now has the festival-favorite, chicken-on-a-stick, called “Chick’n Stick’ns.” Sounds good to me. I guess hanging around all the fairs to hold Krystal eating contests sent them back to the kitchen with an idea.

Baskin Robbins, soon to open a DRIVE THRU right down the street from my work, at Poplar & Highland, is sporting the name “Jamoca” for it’s coffee-flavored chocolate shakes - a name that Arby’s has donned for years on it’s Original Frappuccino.

Yangs is taking debit cards these days. Yes! I can go thru the drive thru now. For so long, it was go in and use the generic ATM machine which charged extra. Their roast beef is delectable.

I am eating alot of non-meat fast foods right now. The veggie burger at Back Yard Burger is tops on my list. Try it with cole slaw - awesome! Next would have to be the burrito Supreme with no beef. The crunchy tacos are also good with beans instead of beef. They are more filling. The other day I had a grilled cheese from Sonic, and asked them to add tomato & lettuce. It made for a nice toaster sandwich.

As for a previous request for someone to write about BYB’s onions rings, I am that person. I had them a while back, and I do remember that I liked them. I want to eat them, instead of fries, but I am usually on my lunch break when I visit BYB. I just don’t want to return with onion breath. This reminds me of the time a lady came in my office one day. I immediately smelled onion rings. To me, this was actually a good smell. It wasn’t her breath but I just smelled them. It made me think of Back Yard Burger’s onion rings. Then, as she was waiting on me to do something, she reached into her book bag - a BYB bag was poking out of it - grabbed an onion ring, and ate it. I was not repulsed by this, but rather, envious. As she left, the smell trailed behind, and I used some Lysol to rid myself of the craving.