Fast Food Fridays: Reviewing the Hardee's Most American Thickburger, a thing that exists

Last week in this space, I tackled Pizza Hut's Hot Dog Bites Pizza, which I termed "catnip for awful food connoisseurs." But if that monstrosity, with its pizza and its "hot dogs," was catnip for being awful, the Most American Thickburger I recently got from Hardee's (and also available at Carl's Jr.) just feels like a plot for patriotic paeans to picnic.

It wouldn't have been out of place on a Fourth of July plate, really: It's a burger with a split beef frank on top of the bun and potato chips below it, the sort of thing your dad or uncle or Cousin Rick or he's-really-just-a-summer-fling-Mom-I-promise boyfriend would put together while bored and equipped with a knife at a summer shindig.