Do you know where your burger is?

Sonic Drive-In tries to send me in the wrong direction

John I. Carney
5 min readJan 26, 2024

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Photo of a Sonic Junior Deluxe Burger. The burger is wresting on top of its wrapper with a plain white background.
TheDapperDan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

You may think of Shelbyville as a sleepy little town, but we have two Sonic Drive-Ins, two Subways, and — as of last month — two McDonald’s. Paris, eat your heart out!

Sonic, Subway and the Golden Arches have something else in common; they were some of the early leaders in the rush to…

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John I. Carney

Author of “Dislike: Faith and Dialogue in the Age of Social Media,” available at http://www.lakeneuron.com/dislike