First thing, I did see the Sony Direct. Honestly not much that interested me aside from how Deus Ex is getting remastered, but I already have Deus Ex and a fairly easy way to run it just fine on modern machines so not sure I’d be getting that. The IP holders of Disco Elysium are making “we have Disco Elysium at home” after cramming the aforementioned game into a weird phone version, neither of which I’m interested in, but I do have a PS4 copy of the original I got secondhand I’ve been meaning to get to. Also I remembered that Wolverine game was happening because they showed something about it. That’s about all I remember.
As far as chicken-focused fast food places in the continental US, for whatever reason people seem to prefer Popeyes over KFC. I just don’t see it myself. I’m not saying KFC is great either, I just find it much more edible than Popeyes, which both times I’ve tried has been either disappointing or made me feel ill. The chicken seemed weirdly cooked and kinda bland, and the biscuits are coated in too much fake popcorn butter salt stuff. I don’t mind a reasonable amount of that on popcorn, but it shouldn’t be on bread. I prefer the margarine stuff and watered-down honey stuff over that, and I know that real honey and butter are superior. Even other margarine kinds probably. At least at KFC there’s some level of seasoning on the chicken, largely salt and pepper and the other 9 herbs and spices whatever those are that I can’t tell. For all I know both those times at Popeyes were flukes in terms of the chicken, but I’m sure the biscuits were made to spec.
Of course, having been to Japan a couple times now, I also have to note KFC’s presence there, which I did go to once just to try it. I found it fine there, and the other notable thing I have to mention is that the biscuits there have a round hole in the middle so they kinda resemble donuts, but the comparative issue is Japan is also home to the best fried chicken I’ve had so far, the karaage style which is just as salty and greasy as people would normally expect for fried chicken. It’s great after a day of sweating while hiking around town, and the stuff at the konbini is also pretty good, following that style or similar. On a side note, McDonald’s is also much better over there compared to its origin country.
Back in the US, there’s also that usual “nugget style” composed of ground chicken which is often a foam-like consistency when prepared as such. Out of the fast food places I’ve been to serving those, I think Wendy’s has the best nuggets, with the breading style pulling a lot of the weight, and now they serve them like “boneless wings”, though actually more accurately called “saucy nuggets”, covered in whatever sauces outside of the usual dipping ones. Burger King comes second from what I can recall, and they also have those “chicken fries” that have a different coating but are mainly just stretched out “tenders” or whatever they’re calling their nugget-like things now.
Also a bunch of people seem to bring up Chick-Fil-A. I think I’ve only ever been to one of those once as a little one, and I was also visiting the southern area during that time, back when that’s pretty much the only place they were until they started spreading north. Therefore I can’t give an accurate modern read on their quality but I have other reasons for not going there, in addition to the usual reasons why I try to not do fast food often.
Long story short I’m not vegetarian or vegan, but I also don’t always have meat. It’s more likely when I’m out in town or vacation grabbing quick meals instead of having whatever’s at home. I’m pretty sure I have soda less often than meat though, and out of those I have cola even less often than that due to not wanting caffeine too often. Either way, if someone feels the urge to try to “convert” me away from meat and animal stuff in general, they can shove it and waste their time with someone else. I’m aware of many issues involved with the livestock industry, so let me work this out myself, and at least not having meat every single meal like a stereotypical American apparently does is something I guess. At the very least the plant-based substitutes are getting better, like they’ve pretty much figured out replicated the style of processed meat at least, with some bonus points toward facsimiles of less-processed stuff, to where they could probably covertly swap it out at fast food places or with prepared frozen meals in general and hardly anyone would know unless they were told.
Dairy is another story. Not so sure about cheese yet as there’s still a bunch of things I’ve seen that want to promote a “cheese-like experience” instead of just being cheese but plants, and I haven’t had enough experience with alternative milks to have a verdict there either. Then there’s yogurt, which I’m pretty particular about, mainly in terms of not getting Greek stuff due to it feeling a lot like chalk. Not sure where plant-based stuff tends to land in that consistency scale.