This salad features a mix of almost flavorless iceberg and romaine lettuce, the lettuce bed serves as mostly texture in the mouth. Make no mistake, Dairy Queen’s salad is just as bad as Burger King’s side salad, it just has more stuff in it, so we can’t deny that it’s a better meal all around. Dairy Queen - Crispy Chicken Strips Salad Dairy Queen Imagining all the landfills they must be filling up with discarded side salads makes our brain hurt.įind your nearest Burger King here. Does that feel wasteful? Imagine being Burger King. The best thing about this salad is the croutons (which are average, for croutons) so you’re better off throwing away the lettuce and just eating those. I opted for the Honey Balsamic, but no amount of Ranch or Italian could have fixed this thing. If you order this salad you’re given the choice of Ranch, Italian, or Lite Honey Balsamic Dressing. All the calories from this thing come from the croutons, and if you have this salad, they’re the only thing you’ll want to finish. The tomatoes are a pale shade of orange, and the amount of cheese is so minuscule that it looks like Burger King is rationing cheese for the apocalypse. This is by no means a premium blend of anything, it’s just iceberg lettuce. Just ditch the salad completely BK, who do you think you’re attracting with this thing, the health-conscious?īurger King describes its salad as having a “blend of premium lettuces garnished with juicy tomatoes, home-style croutons, a three-cheese medley, and your choice of KEN’s salad dressing,” and everything about that statement is a lie, except for the dressing part. The sort of fresh ingredients you need to put together a salad are perishable, which means every week Burger Kings across the country are throwing away salads, because no one is ordering them. Think about what stocking a salad means for a fast food restaurant: they have to have fresh ingredients on hand. Having said that, what is available, BK’s Side Garden Salad, is easily the worst tasting, most low effort salad in all of fast food. For whatever reason, it’s not available anymore but if it was we wouldn’t be giving Burger King the bottom spot - that would’ve gone to Dairy Queen. To be fair to Burger King, until recently they had a pretty decent salad called the Chicken Garden Salad. Burger King - Side Garden Salad Burger King Finally, construction, in which we’ll answer the simple question: Is this well put together? Dressing, while essential, will have little effect on our overall ranking because ultimately you’re going to pick whatever dressing appeals to you most or whatever comes stock with the salad.ġ2. Then there is balance, the ratio of lettuce to toppings, and the quality of the toppings themselves. Okay, a bad salad won’t kill you, but you’ll wish it did. A great salad isn’t just lettuce, but leafy greens are the foundation of salad, so if you build on a bad foundation your house will collapse onto itself and kill you. Ready to see the ranking? Great! But first… Instead, I focused on each establishment’s best tasting salad, regardless of calorie count, and used whatever stock dressing came with the salad, no exceptions. Please note: this won’t be a ranking of fast food’s healthiest salads (for the healthiest fast food meals, click here). When I set out on this ranking, I found that many restaurants have either dropped salads from their menu entirely (McDonald’s) or are putting in so little effort they might as well drop them (Burger King, who else?).Ī lot of fast food salads are bad, but I tried as many as I could lay hands on anyway. After various health crazes demanded salads, most fast food establishments seem to have accepted that people come for the nuggets, fries, and double cheeseburgers - not limp lettuce. Trust us, we’re no strangers to the genre.īut alas, “a quality salad” is increasingly rare these days. Seriously, a quality salad can be just as good as anything else on the fast food menu. You’ve got your protein, ample veggies, and a good amount of fiber to help it all digest. Even when salads go the decadent route, which they sometimes do, they’re usually built in a way that’s balanced. Plus it’s healthier than chomping on a fried chicken and bacon sandwich. Sure, the average salad isn’t as food coma-inducing and glorious to behold as a juicy, decadent cheeseburger - with its tower-like construction, fried onion rings, and strips of fatty bacon - but a good salad can still be satisfying. Fast food salads don’t have to be some sort of compromise.
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