What is your favorite Fast food hack/mod?

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1. Driving by the restaurant without stopping to get food

2. Microwave Ben & Jerry’s chocolate brownie ice cream for a delicious milkshake. Shhhhhh, don’t tell your pancreas.

3. I know it’s a hot take for some, but I *love* chipotle, and it’s really the only fast food I eat and eat there 2-3 times a week or as my go to for work travel.

   If im trying to optimize the amount of food I get, especially during bulking season, here’s what I do:

   Get a bowl, ask for a bowl to go with a tortilla on the side.

   Ask for extra rice, extra beans, and then whatever meat you want. After they load up the meat, say “oh, actually, could I please get double meat, I’m trying to eat up/bulk up. If you ask in a respectful way they’ll either feel bad or load up and give you a huge extra heap on top of what they gave you. Then, you can ask for extra toppings on top of that like salsa, pico, cheese, etc and load that thing to the brim and have a bowl/burrito combo where it’s almost two meals in one.

   Secondly, If you go to a lot of places when it’s kind of slow and between rush hours (IE 1:30-3:30) you can get a ton of extras they’re trying to clear from lunch or a ton of fresh stuff for the pre-evening rush. If it’s also slow a lot of places don’t give a fuck and won’t mark your bowl with extras so there’s been times I’ve paid $9.50 for a $17 bowl and some locations will do that consistently where others won’t even if you’re a regular.

4. Binge eat Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, guaranteed to make you feel better.

5. I get my burgers cut in half at Wendy’s and dunk em in a small bowl of chili

6. Allow me to introduce you fine folk to my favorite DIY mashup. Go to Carl’s Jr. and grab yourself a big cheeseburger and a spicy chicken sandwich(the “cheap” ones). Remove the bottom bun from the chicken sandwich and and discard. Lift the top bun from the burger. Place the chicken sandwich, bun side down, onto the now open faced burger. Replace top bun, and chow down on your new MotherClucker™️!

7. Chipotle doesn’t charge for extra scoops of rice & fajita veggies if you order a meat for your burrito/bowl

8. There was another thread about fast food items you miss and I mentioned that I missed the Beef and potato burrito from Taco Bell. Then a kind Redditor pointed out you can add potatoes to the beefy 5 layer burrito and it’s a similar vibe. Been ordering it that way ever since.