Good news for those of you with tongues. A couple weeks ago, McDonald's created a rip-off Chik-Fil-A sandwich. If you are unfamiliar with the Chik-Fil-A, first our condolences, but by way of brief explanation it is the chicken-sandwich corner in the triforce of amazing Southern fast food chains.* Their breaded, grilled chicken is so fucking tender and delicious it can kill the fiercest meth-hangover by smell alone. I am literally salivating right now as I type this.The only downside to Chik-Fil-A is that the company was started by a devout fundamentalist Christian, so all the restaurants are closed on Sundays, which always ends up wrecking post-party car trips. Also most of the franchises are owned and staffed by people from the same local church/youth group, which means if you walk in wearing anything even slightly weirder than cargo shorts and a Bass fishing shirt you can generally expect to be silently stared and/or pointed at. (Back in high school I was going through the drive-thru at one in suburban Atlanta with a punk friend who had a chelsea haircut, and when we pulled up to the window the girl with our food actually shrieked and dropped the bag on the ground.)So anyways, back to the whole McDonald's rip-off thing, I've got a suspicion that their "Southern-style chicken sandwich" will probably pale in comparison to the original. But in the end the situation's really win-win. If the McSandwich does suck, the marketing push will still most likely force Chik-Fil-A to compete via lowered prices, joke offers which you can take full non-joke advantage of like the half-eaten sandwich thing in the picture (a 1 1/2 sandwich value), or even (fingers crossed here) making available their chicken on the sabbath. However, if it's good, I will never again have to take the IKEA shuttle bus out to Jersey and sprint across US 1 to satisfy my stomach's homely longings. Not that I've ever spent three hours on a Saturday doing that.BABY BALLS*The other two are Backyard Burger and Mrs. Winner's—Waffle House is technically not fast food but does deserve mention for its overwhelming ubiquity and the quality of the Waffle-House-themed songs on its jukeboxes.