Unright: Adjective Bird Whiskey: I'll stick with farkin awesome Chick-fil-A.

I've eaten at Chik-Fil-A 3 times and I've gotten food poisoning all three times.

I follow the three strikes rule. No fast food place has ever struck itself out so quickly.


You're doing it wrong..

You mean, they aren't composed entirely of heavy cream, butter, cake flour, and fried pig fat?

indylaw:

Better than the other night I ordered from Popeyes. While still open scrubbing the floor buy the food and hosing it down, splashing the debris on the floor all over. I was hungry and decided to risk it...I waited for my order. This cashier's rear was so perfect, so so perfect, I forgot all about the permalard and lard flying all over and zoned in on her. I just might have to snap a pic and upload it here. Perfection I'm tellin' ya.
/Married
//Bad, bad boy.

SlothB77: i had one, now my stomach is doing cartwheels. i think i have food poisoning. about to pray to the porcelain god. i hadn't eaten at a mcdonalds in a couple years. gave this a shot. regretted it instantly.

drink some pepto, you'll be fine, ya pussy

SichuanPepper: I always wonder how people are not embarrassed to eat this crap.

//gotta get out of this country
//lives down the street from McD. Always busy.

I'm more embarrassed that I share national heritage with self-important whiny douchebags such as yourself.

To each his own, I guess I'm saying.

Unright 2008-05-15 04:12:25 PM
Adjective Bird Whiskey: I'll stick with farkin awesome Chick-fil-A.

I've eaten at Chik-Fil-A 3 times and I've gotten food poisoning all three times.

I follow the three strikes rule. No fast food place has ever struck itself out so quickly

Maybe you should just try washing your hands after you take a dump?

yagottabefarkinkiddinme: Food poisoning 3 times, yeah right.

I'd be dubious of this claim as well (exaggeration for the sake of a story, etc...), and I've never eaten at a Chick-Fil-A, but I *did* get food poisoning from two consecutive trips to Burger King. Both times, I blame the whopper. I don't know if it was the lettuce, meat, bun or mayo... twice in a freakin' row.

steamingpile: drjekel_mrhyde: /Most blacks from here(that I know of) roots are from the south
//Cornbread,blackeyed peas with okra and ham hawks,and fried chicken FTW

So cause their parents once lived down here 40 years ago makes them able to remember everything accurately? I choose not to put mayo on my chik fil a most times simply because its good that way, I had mcdonalds chicken sandwich once and they are trying to copy them but fail miserably.

actually 20 years ago and one should never forget how to cook
/Cooking is a like a rite of passage to that generation

SichuanPepper: I always wonder how people are not embarrassed to eat this crap.

How do you feel good about yourself when you scream to the world, "this is me. I knowingly and enthusiastically choose to put this product inside me. I know not what it contains, and it probably isnt all that good for me, but i am the kind of person who takes pride in my ability to stuff 1 dollar worth of chicken parts down my face. I enjoy the feeling it provides as it lodges in my colon. I like salt. I cherish washing it all down with 100% corn syrup mixed with carbonated water. This is my culture. This is what I value - Chicken parts and corn syrup in a bag to go. I hope I can pass such ethics onto my children, so that they may one day understand the multi-dimensional wonder that is McDonald's food. I am American. Pass the ketchup."

//gotta get out of this country
//lives down the street from McD. Always busy.

The grass isn't greener on the other side.

SlothB77: i had one, now my stomach is doing cartwheels. i think i have food poisoning. about to pray to the porcelain god. i hadn't eaten at a mcdonalds in a couple years. gave this a shot. regretted it instantly.

Sounds alot like my hangover right now.

/Must be done
//I for suck at photo painten..

We've had this sandwich in Atlanta for a copule years now. My opinion - not great, but edible.

Chick-Fil-A is getting way too much credit in this thread. While their food can be very good, it is often inconsistent from location to location. I have 3 of them within driving distance from my office, and only one of them has consistently decent food. Undercooking seems to be an issue at quite a few of their franchises (got an order of chicken strips there once that was still raw in the middle, needless to say, the corporate office sent me coupons for a crapload of free meals). Service from store to store is extremely variable as well.

TFA: Kris Vire, Theater writer: As an actual Southerner who makes a point of getting a juicy, delicious Chick-Fil-A sandwich on every visit home, I can say that Mickey D's version is a poor imitation

How in the hell can you taste the difference? That's like saying dogshiat tastes better than catshiat.

/won't eat either

SichuanPepper: um....mechanically separated chicken breast parts bound together with xanathan gum and injected(19% by weight) with a saline solution containing flavoring agents.

yummy.

no wonder cancer rates are so high in this country.

//yes, there is a correlation

[Citation Needed]

i like em, so all ya'lls is crazy.

McDonalds is certain diarrhoea every time I eat there.

Why the hate for Popeye's?

As far as fast-food fried chicken goes, Popeye's wins. Good spices.

/can't hold a candle to Grandma's though
//old school in a cast-iron skillet is how it's meant to be

indylaw:

/It's not kosher, but it's discounted... a Jewish quandry for the ages!

That's hilarious. Thanks.
/I'm Jewish

joshcyclist: Give me a Bojangles chicken biscuit anyday over Chick-Fil-A.
I'm not even trying McD.

/When I first moved down south, I thought it was pronounced "Chick Filla"
//That would be a good rapper name

Thanks for the laugh, man. The keyboard is safe, but that was damn funny.

safeinsane: TFA: Kris Vire, Theater writer: As an actual Southerner who makes a point of getting a juicy, delicious Chick-Fil-A sandwich on every visit home, I can say that Mickey D's version is a poor imitation

How in the hell can you taste the difference? That's like saying dogshiat tastes better than catshiat.

/won't eat either

Go back to the beer snob thread, you vultures! BACK, FOUL THINGS!

Ok my biggest problem with the McDees freebie sandwhich besides no sauce either honey mustard or mayo was the fact it had an odd dill flavor that was almost fake. It was like a flavor that was hard to place and really took away from the fact it was free.
As far as chikafila you have to get the chick in minis for breakfast. They are the chicken nuggets on a honey roll, but small. They totally rock. I also have to agree with the guy with the popeyes ink, Popeyes has the best commerically fried chicken. It has lots of flavor and is really crispy. That is all.
/Fried Chicken is my favorite food
//Grease rules, and by that I mean actual grease and not the stupid musical.

safeinsane:

How in the hell can you taste the difference? That's like saying dogshiat tastes better than catshiat.

/won't eat either

By "either" I meant McDonald's or Chick-Fil-A, of course. I leave the dogshiat and catshiat eating to our mutt.

Nando's FTW. I ate some in London and it was... ahem... one of the best meals I had in five days there.

I see they are finally entering the US market. Washington DC, that's further away for me than some of their Canadian locations. I'm in Arizona. Nando's would make a killing out here. People here actually like spicy food.

drjekel_mrhyde
/Most blacks from here(that I know of) roots are from the south
//Cornbread,blackeyed peas with okra and ham hawks,and fried chicken FTW

What's a ham hawk? Is that anything like a ham hock?

And to think my biggest concern was that they would take a flatten Chicken McNugget, slap it on a bun, bury it under a gallon of mayo (a McDonalds tradition when they serve something that otherwise has no discernable flavor) and put a tiny pickle on it.

It appears I got the gallon of mayo wrong, my apologies.

SichuanPepper: I always wonder how people are not embarrassed to post like such sanctimonious coonts. Is it because they are so much better than you are in the nameless, faceless, cold and impersonal world that is the internet?

FTFY

drjekel_mrhyde: /Most blacks from here(that I know of) roots are from the south
//Cornbread,blackeyed peas with okra and ham hawks,and fried chicken FTW

You forgot the ox-tail stew and mason jar of ice tea

/sweet

WienerButt: You have to be allergic to peanuts or something like a farker already pointed out.

Peanut oil does not contain the protein that causes peanut allergies.

At least, according to Alton Brown on Good Eats. Wish I could the precise episode, but he talks about frying something in peanut oil, and brought up the allergy thing, although he did mention alternative oils if you were still not convinced.

As a born and raised Mississippian, I am an expert on fried chicken. McD's is crap. Chick-Fil-A is good. Popeyes is good. My Grandma's is best.

/now where's my sister...yee haw...I'm horney

Seemed like the article was pretty snobbish about Mcdonalds to begin with. I tried their breakfast sandwich the other day (free coupon), and it was as good as I would expect. About the same as one of those little sandwiches you get form the freezer and microwave. Good cure for a hangover, little too much grease for anything else. What more could you expect?

/Gets McDonalds once in awhile since there's no taco bell around.
//Only eats either once in awhile.

SichuanPepperI always wonder how people are not embarrassed to eat this crap.

How do you feel good about yourself when you scream to the world, "this is me. I knowingly and enthusiastically choose to put this product inside me. I know not what it contains, and it probably isnt all that good for me, but i am the kind of person who takes pride in my ability to stuff 1 dollar worth of chicken parts down my face. I enjoy the feeling it provides as it lodges in my colon. I like salt. I cherish washing it all down with 100% corn syrup mixed with carbonated water. This is my culture. This is what I value - Chicken parts and corn syrup in a bag to go. I hope I can pass such ethics onto my children, so that they may one day understand the multi-dimensional wonder that is McDonald's food. I am American. Pass the ketchup."

//gotta get out of this country
//lives down the street from McD. Always busy.

9/10

It was good, but you were pressing a bit toward the end, right around "This is my culture."

Several bites though, good job!

So I had one of these today (hell, it WAS free). It tasted OK... not good, but not total crap either. But, it was free. It was actually a little bigger than I expected. I'll pick one of these up for dinner as well. Because it's free.

Still, it'll never beat Chick-Fil-A.

And also, Popeye's chicken is the shiznit. It used to be even better back in the day, though.

If you haven't tried chik-fil-a, you should. Tasty goodness for fast food.

If you haven't tried it because of its Christian ties, you're just being silly. The only thing that's overtly "religious" about chik-fil-a is that it's closed on Sunday. But I'm from the south so that kind of thing doesn't really throw me.

I eat at CFA for the chicken and McDonalds for the $1 double cheeseburger I need at 2am. That's basically it.

Clever Neologism: As far as fast-food fried chicken goes, Popeye's wins. Good spices.

They put one in near my work, and I ate there. Once.

Popeyes is like a bad one-night-stand. It seems like a good idea beforehand, and you're not thinking much of anything while it's going on, but afterwards, you feel all dirty inside.

SichuanPepper: I always wonder how people are not embarrassed to eat this crap.

How do you feel good about yourself when you scream to the world, "this is me. I knowingly and enthusiastically choose to put this product inside me. I know not what it contains, and it probably isnt all that good for me, but i am the kind of person who takes pride in my ability to stuff 1 dollar worth of chicken parts down my face. I enjoy the feeling it provides as it lodges in my colon. I like salt. I cherish washing it all down with 100% corn syrup mixed with carbonated water. This is my culture. This is what I value - Chicken parts and corn syrup in a bag to go. I hope I can pass such ethics onto my children, so that they may one day understand the multi-dimensional wonder that is McDonald's food. I am American. Pass the ketchup."

//gotta get out of this country
//lives down the street from McD. Always busy.

Guess what, you'll likely find a McDonald's in any other country you may choose to visit, with the possible exceptions of Uzbekistan (assholes) and East Timor. And there will be people eating there.

We don't all have the time, money, or patience to lovingly prepare a 3 course organic feast every single day. Sometimes you just need something to fill your stomach in the few minutes between leaving work, picking the kids up from school, and commuting for an hour.

McDonald's is fast. It's cheap. It tastes pretty good for what it is - factory-produced replaceable parts meant to be assembled quickly by high school dropouts with a minimum in training. Should you eat it all the time? No, of course not. If you eat it every once in a while, you'll be fine. We don't all define ourselves by what we eat. It all turns to shiat anyway.

indylaw: It all turns to shiat anyway

True dat!

\Double True!

SichuanPepper: //gotta get out of this country

Can I have your stuff when you leave?

indylaw 2008-05-15 04:43:14 PM
The advantage McD's has on Chick-Fil-A (which they are clearly targeting) is their biscuit. Chick-Fil-A couldn't make decent biscuits to save their life, which is unacceptable for a food business out of Georgia.

/Hardee's is better
//if the cashiers don't rob you at knifepoint.

I would have agreed with you 2 years ago. But since then, Hardees in my area has gone down the tubes, and every breakfast item they make tastes like cardboard. Then I started getting Chik-Fil-A chicken biscuits, and haven't been back to Hardee's since.

I actually prefer Popeye's and, lately, Zaxby's for my chicken fix. However, a Guthrie's is about to open here, and I'm anxious to try them out. When I was in College, the local Guthrie's pretty much owned the campus. Yeah, they're greasy, but that was TASTY grease. I'm curious to see if and how they've changed recipes when they open here.

KFC just doesn't work for me anymore, except I could be convinced to nibble original recipe if I'm famished, and I won't touch Church's for anything.

Of course, I grew up having grandparents who actually raised the chickens they fried, and Sunday dinners with them beat anything that could ever come in a box or a bag.

dletter: /and us Yankees will all go "Tim Who?" when you mention that donut place.

Did you miss the Tim Horton's thread yesterday? We have them all over the US.

SichuanPepper: I always wonder how people are not embarrassed to eat this crap.

How do you feel good about yourself when you scream to the world, "this is me. I knowingly and enthusiastically choose to put this product inside me. I know not what it contains, and it probably isnt all that good for me, but i am the kind of person who takes pride in my ability to stuff 1 dollar worth of chicken parts down my face. I enjoy the feeling it provides as it lodges in my colon. I like salt. I cherish washing it all down with 100% corn syrup mixed with carbonated water. This is my culture. This is what I value - Chicken parts and corn syrup in a bag to go. I hope I can pass such ethics onto my children, so that they may one day understand the multi-dimensional wonder that is McDonald's food. I am American. Pass the ketchup."

//gotta get out of this country
//lives down the street from McD. Always busy.

The lines in europe for Mcdonalds are just as long. In my travels in asia I have seen some sanitary nightmares and am far more certain of what I ate at a MickyD's than some of those farking places.

If you think people's food choices are what identify them then you are a sad pathetic individual.

I would kill for a chic-fil-a right now, european food blows (other than Italy).