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Tennessee, United States Food Guide: 3 Fast Food food Must-Eat Restaurants & Street Food Stalls in Loudon
Find out what Fast Food restaurants to try in Loudon. Loudon is a city in and the county seat of Loudon County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 4,476 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is located in eastern Tennessee, southwest of Knoxville, on the Tennessee River. Fort Loudoun, the colonial era fort for which the city was named, is located several miles to the south in Monroe County.
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1. Carl's Drive-In
Overall Ratings
4 based on 60 reviews
Reviewed By BayInTN
We went on a Saturday night. There were many other people there, but it wasn't a crush by any means.Mindful of a description on Google as "1/8 inch thick burger patties," I ordered a double burger basket. Dear Husband had not read the Google review, so he ordered a cheeseburger with a side of fried pickles.Then we waited a half hour, which gave us plenty of time to look around and see how the trays with trash weren't being picked up or cleaned off. I watched an elderly man get out of his car, dodder up to the building, and throw away his own trash. Then, because there was no place to put the tray, he took it back to his car and stashed it on the shelf under the menu/speaker.When she finally arrived, the waitress was distant and seemed distracted. She kept leaving our car to go talk to someone in a car down the way.The food was just awful. Absolutely the worst. The burger patties are not, in fact, 1/8-inch thick. They're more like 1/4-inch. (Thicker, in other words, than the Google reviewer's exaggeration.) These are the same frozen hockey pucks you got in 2nd grade cafeteria food, and they have the same flavor and texture, too. And just to pile on the horrors, the burgers were absolutely stone cold. God only knows when they were cooked, and I guess I should thank my lucky stars that the heat lamp at Carl's Drive-In must be on the fritz, because goodness only knows how that would have contributed to bacteria growth.The double, the miserable thing that I ordered, has a slice of bread in the middle of it. A slice of bread can be removed. But for some reason, Carl's Drive-In puts the condiments on the bread in the middle instead of on top of the tiny burger patty. So if you remove the one thing that is completely unnecessary, you also remove the mustard and lettuce. Thank goodness I had mustard in the glove compartment.The fries were cold, limp, lifeless, and unsalted.Dear Husband's fried pickles were hot and crisp. They came with watered-down ranch dressing. His cheeseburger was as cold as my burger, so the cheese was a slab of cold American cheese-type product with a pale tomato slice and pulverized lettuce. The cheeseburger also comes with mustard. We were not offered any ketchup or mayonnaise, but my cold fries came with a TINY cup of ketchup. There could not have been a whole tablespoon of ketchup in there.My chocolate milk shake was melting by the time it came to me. It had no discernible chocolate flavor.The only advantage to Carl's is that it is cheap. The whole ordeal cost less than $14. I stopped eating the double, and Dear Husband ate several bites of it. I went home and made a ham sandwich that was fresh and tasty and ever so much more satisfying.Carl's is just inexplicable in its longevity and duration.P.S. -- I scrolled down and the website asked me, "Is this restaurant good for dining on a budget?" Well, technically, yes, since it's so completely cheap, but on the other hand, you can whip up a $5 dinner of Italian sausage, broccoli, and pasta with good parmesan cheese, and *that* is dining on a budget. The fare at Carl's is so bad and devoid of nutrition that I can't call it "dining." It's just treating yourself badly, cheaply.
2. Subway
Reviewed By bkent7604
Not usually a fan of Subway. Tried the Applewood Smoked BBQ and it was terrific. Really good for fast food sandwich shop.
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