The original guilty pleasure

Elizabeth Donald
3 min readJul 24, 2023

My most profoundly guilty pleasure is not bad movies, bad books or even a fine chocolate dessert. It is the original chicken sandwich combo at Burger King.

Now, Burger King is clearly losing the franchise wars that Demolition Man predicted Taco Bell will win sometime between now and the major earthquake that will level half the country. So we have that to look forward to.

But the advantage of Burger King’s mediocre success is that there is very rarely a long line at the drive-through. So I can pull up and order my original chicken sandwich, substitute…

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Elizabeth Donald

Journalist for more than 25 years, freelance writer, editor, photographer, and fiction author. Subscribe at patreon.com/edonald or visit donaldmedia.com.