Life in the Fast-Food Lane
Frank Bruni drives across the country and samples 42 fast food meals in 9 days. This isn't a Super Size Me stunt. This is about finding out what's worth eating from a drive-thru window.

Or they just bluntly declare an item to be ethnic, ipso fatso. McDonald's puts slices of white meat, snow peas and mandarin orange sections on iceberg lettuce and calls it an Asian chicken salad, a few bites of which rightly prompted Alessandra, blond and blue-eyed, to say, “It's about as Asian as I am.”

His 10 favorite items

The fast food tour map