Today I'm in transit from Fresno to Bakersfield, CA -- the second leg of my cross country trek from Sacramento to Scottsboro, Alabama. I woke up with a headache and the Holiday Inn Express I was staying at kindly offered to give me a late check out so I could sleep a while. When I finally hit the road at 1:30 pm and headed for Bakersfield -- a 2.5 hour drive, I hadn't eaten anything and I was both hungry and thirsty. Driving south on Highway 99 through Kingsburg, which is a small town with a Swedish influence just south of Fresno, I saw a sign for Jack In The Box.
Being from California, I grew up with Jack In The Box but you rarely find them east of New Mexico, and they don't exist in Alabama where I currently live. I pulled through the drive-through at Jack In The Box #3372 and ordered the standard: a Jumbo Jack with Cheese. Since I was running tight on time, I decided to eat on the go. When I unwrapped the burger it didn't look like the Jumbo Jacks I had remembered. First, it was much smaller -- or maybe it just seemed small because of the huge leaf of iceberg lettuce that dwarfed the bun. I quickly realized that the "meat" on that burger had a nasty odor and flavor. There was no cheese present, or maybe it had dissolved under the mess of ketchup that they poured on. If I hadn't been on the road already, I would be transferring ownership of that thing back to the restaurant. Nasty, nasty, nasty. 
There's an up side and a down side to this visit. Up side is that I will no longer want for Jack In The Box. Down side is that Jack In The Box won't be seeing my smiling face again.
Jack In The Box #3372, 1881 Sixth Avenue, Kingsburg, CA 93631.
Joy Report Rating: Come On Man!
