Hardee’s

Was working in the area and went here about 2pm on a weekday. Ordered the $ 5.55 big bag meal — hot ham & cheese, cheeseburger, fries, drink and cookie. Food brought to table with minimum wait and served hot.
Good value, good food.

Driving down I-​95 is any Unilocaling foodie’s nightmare. I mean, your options range from Cracker Barrel to Krystal (which looks more like a gas station) to South of the Border. With a sedated dog in the backseat, I wanted to go as long as possible without disturbing his excellent behavior. I thought stopping anywhere would cause him to break out into a confused, drug-​induced rage.
From Philly, I made it all the way to North Carolina, until finally, I just had to feed the inner-​burger-​call. The blue sign on the side of the highway told me Hardee’s was my next chance. I’d never eaten a Hardee’s meal, so I was skeptical. Could it come close to Wendy’s?
I pulled up to the drive-​thru and whispered my order into the speaker.
«MA’AM YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO SPEAK UP.» Giles (my dog) pops up. Great. It was a panicked order, folks. I blindly requested a number 1. It’s in first place for a reason. Mashed potatoes. Onion rings. Curly fries. Biscuits. Something had to be good.
The burger tasted like meat mixed with cornmeal, the fries were more the oil they were cooked in than the potatoes they’re made of, I couldn’t find the onions in the onion rings, the biscuits were over-​sized masses of hardened butter, and the mashed potatoes tasted like diapers.
So there I went, on the long haul home, with fries, mashed potatoes, burger bits, onion rings, and biscuits flying out the side of my car. Just giving back to nature what nature gave me.

I used to really enjoy Hardees bisquits and gravy and then I moved back to Ca. and no more Hardees. So when we went to North Carolina for 3 months on an assignment and discovered there was a Hardees there you can just imagine how happy I was. The first morning there I was at Hardees for my bisquits and gravy. Yeah, thumbs up for Hardees.