You may have seen the above map floating through your Twitter or Facebook timelines today, supposedly showing the "most popular fast-food chain" in every state in America.

Don't trust it. The map, compiled by Business Insider using data from Foursquare, both of which should be ashamed, is almost impossibly bad.

Let's start with Oregon. Chick-fil-A, despite only having two locations in the state, gets the nod as our favorite fast food chain, ignoring hometown hero Burgerville, with its dozens of metro area locations, or Little Big Burger, with more than 10.

Chick-fil-A dominates the dumb list. Their minimal white-on-red chicken logo fills up Wyoming, which also has just two locations, both in Cheyenne, and Montana, which has one. And east of the Mississippi? Forget about it.

"The most popular fast food chain" in Oregon is Chick-fil-A, sez @businessinsider. Number of locations: 2



Number in Montana: 1 https://t.co/eOorUr6Czu — Mark Friesen (@mfriesen) October 19, 2017

And yet, California's pick might be worst of all. I grew up in the Bay Area and went to school in Southern California, and yet I've never heard of "Cane's," purportedly the Golden State's most popular chain. (Apparently, they're a chicken strip chain with a handful of Los Angeles-area locations.)

I don't even want to get into their misguided methodology. If it spits out a list like this, it can't be right.

Here are some more reactions to this abomination:

This map from @businessinsider showing most popular fast food joints in each state can't be right.

Texas does not love In-N-Out. pic.twitter.com/aUdWthHbPB — Ben Baby (@Ben_Baby) October 19, 2017

Hmmmm ... @businessinsider deleted the tweet. The article is still up. https://t.co/wcYT7GFZl0 — Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) October 19, 2017

I’ve lived in CA for 33 years. Never even heard of Canes and im fat (fast food enthusiast). — Emad (@Emaddahere) October 19, 2017

[me]: the map said that Chik-Fil-A was the most popular fast food place in like, 45 states. it's outrageous



[therapist]: your hour is up — mavis beacon (@vodkalemonades) October 19, 2017

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