McDonald's or Burger King. On the one hand, McDonald's has those sappy commercials that try to convince you that taking the whole family out to eat grease-soaked french fries and slimy, sugary hamburgers is an essential part of being an American. Both companies display hideously misleading photographs that make their food look thirty times more plump and fresh than it really is.
Stranger still is the fact that they want to emulate each other.
This, of course, makes it even harder to decide which one is the worst. Fortunately journalist Nick Brown wants to help . I won't reveal the verdict, but I will say that Brown's quest leads to some of the liveliest food writing I've ever seen. The meat was dry and chewy around the edges and the lettuce was like wet crepe paper. Click here to find out, or just ignore them.