on fried food for a moment: there's a regional chain up here called Burgerville, and it IS fast food, but it's like gourmet fast food, where a meal for two will be like $15-20 bucks.... but it's all organic and locally sourced. Right now it's both strawberry season and onion season, so yesterday I got a grilled chicken sammich, onion rings, and a strawberry shake, and it was effing delicious. The onion rings are seasonal (last week they had fried asparagus spears), but it's $3.95 for three of them, and they're as big as your hands and the onion rings themselves are like 1/2" thick. Perfectly crispy-fried (panko, not battered), and :drool: amazing. The strawberry shake is out. of. this. world. good.
The chicken sandwich was new; normally I get a white bean burger w/ garlic&rosemary aioli.
...and that's what i have to say about fried food.