Wendy's deal today is a free breakfast baconator with purchase.

In 2022 I moved near a Hardee's and they had the WBC. I had so many of them.

Then they stopped selling onion rings entirely, and with them the WBC.

I haven't been there since.

Grabbed Popeyes for late dinner last night on the way home from the bar.

Golden BBQ Chicken Sandwich (with swiss, bacon and gold bbq sauce) ($7.29) - nothing wrong with any of it, but: a) while the gold BBQ sauce was tasty, I wouldn't say it's a big upgrade over the spicy sauce on the spicy sandwich, or even just mayo; and b) the swiss and bacon was fine, but mostly didn't notice their flavors; also c) I got a chicken breast that had obviously been sitting under the heat lamp for a good while, wasn't at all juicy. Due to A) and B) I wouldn't pay the $1.30 up-charge over a regular or spicy chicken sandwich next time, but glad to have tried it.

Six Signature Hot Wings (I think $6.99) - They're offering six flavors of wings, this was the hottest version (4 fires vs. the Ghost Pepper flavor of 3 fires, which I thought was odd). These tasted pretty good, nice crispy coating then the wing sauce had a little bit of a kick, enough to get my nose running a little. The sauce was also a little sweet - it actually reminded me of the Wendy's saucy nuggets ghost pepper sauce. Awful value compared to the $5.99 original chicken sandwich, but almost everything at Popeye's is awful value other than the sandwich so here we are.

Regular Mac and Cheese ($4.99) - This was a mistake. The flavor was OK, but the texture was way off - it was almost soupy. I'd take their red beans 'n rice, mashed potatoes, cole slaw, and RIP cajun rice all over this mac n cheese 100 times out of 100. It's weird that they charge a 50c upcharge on this vs. the other sides. This will be my last order of Popeyes mac n cheese.

I kind of did the math in my head as I was ordering, but still it was like a slap in the face when the drive thru lady told me "$21.52, please pull forward" - I figured there must have been some mistake. I am just glad I got to spend my teens and twenties back when fast food was full of screaming good values. I can generally afford to drop $20 on a meal without a huge concern now, but this meal wasn't in the same ballpark as worth $20+. It'll be a long while before I'm back.

Soupy is the new mac-n-cheese norm. The corporate whores have realized starting soupier makes for a longer life. I had soupy mac-n-cheese last night and concluded this immediately straight from my bum.

lol if you guys saw what I pay regularly for FF delivery you would hold an intervention.
tho lately it's been lil better with so many BOGO offers.

It’s very good.

Scored my first "sport team wins, get free food" promo at mcdonalds yesterday - free mcchicken with $2 purchase!!

Got a small fry for like $2.50. Great snack. I was thinkin chinese food, but my cheapskate kicked in, plus the chinese place was across a busy intersection.

Looks unlikely I'll be redeeming all 10 free charburger coupons. 6 days, 7 coupons left. I think I can go for 5, especially now that I know they have good onyon rangs