• nieminen@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Long John silvers. Not for any particular quality or moral reason, I just don’t like fish

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    There is this franchise in my country called Boston pizza. Decades ago, I am talking in the '80s, it was amazing, but now all of the food is made frozen in Toronto or something and flown in!

    The last time I went there (edit for a sit-down meal) it was like 20 years ago almost… I went with a group of eight or nine people, my family. Every single one of us had cold food - like I’m talking “put your finger in the lasagna and it’s still ice in the middle cold”

    We were not allowed to make any substitutions on our pizza, we couldn’t even have toppings taken off.

    In complete exasperation at the end of this whole experience, my father asked the server what the hell is going on. Most of the meals were sent back. He sheepishly confessed that every single thing is there frozen, they can’t even take toppings off pizza because they’re all frozen in a giant block. You get what you get.

    This place charges double what any family pizza restaurant would charge.

    Just utter garbage.

    And the worst thing is, it’s kind of become the de facto hangout for people in our city. So you have to go and sit and politely order some piece of shit food that is horrible and choke it down just so you can socialize with people. They can barely even make nachos correctly, they don’t have trained cooks on staff

    The dingbats in my city do not even understand this is the worst possible food in the restaurant universe, they go and gobble it down with zeal. Mmmm grease

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    Five Guys.

    One was opening up near me and my friends were all excited to try it. Paid 14 bucks for a 3 dollar Steak n Shake Burger, a medium drink, and the most limp, bland, and unappealing fries I’ve ever had, and I’ve had microwaved frozen fries before.

    Never gone back, and I never intend to.

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      Five Guy worship is a complete cult. It’s pedestrian, boring food that successfully hyped people up to the point they’re willing to spend a week of grocery money for a soulless burger and fries. Where I live, for a grown man to have a proper burger and fries at that clown show is like $27 a f’king go after tax

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      Fuck yeah bro! Fuck Chick-fil-A. My gay friends still go there and I’m absolutely floored by that!

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        Agreed, one of my friends is a trans woman and it blows my mind that she loves Chick-fil-A.

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        I still don’t understand it. Their chicken is mediocre, at best. And the sauces are all available elsewhere. Same with Raising Cane’s, except there the chicken is even blander and reliant on the sauce, which again is a generic mayo and ketchup based fry sauce you can make at home.

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        2 days ago

        Popeyes is great, and consistent. Easily the best chicken sandwich as well, especially the spicy version. I wonder why they don’t use the spicy chicken in the spicy version in addition to the spicy sauce. I assume the two throw it off somehow, too much pepper, etc.

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    Chipotle. Got it once and can’t forget how much rice was packed into the burrito. Scarred for life…

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    3 days ago

    The Cheesecake Factory is somehow a nationwide tourist trap — go somewhere exciting and then eat at the same overpriced trash faux-destination restaurant you could’ve eaten at back home.

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      I don’t understand cheesecake factory. It literally does nothing well. Jack of all trades. They do almost every type of food and yet somehow all of it is bland and boring. It’s a nice restaurant for people too afraid to try new food

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    One particular local place: Went to this Chinese buffet (creatively named “Chinese Buffet”) and there were cockroaches in the fried rice. Never ate there again.

    Chain restaurants: Fuck Olive Garden. The only thing amazing about the place is they somehow managed to fuck up pasta, which is only amazing because it’s hard to fuck up pasta.