Grossest American Chain Restaurant

How so u s steel?

If there is any of these restaurants I associate w/racism, it is Denny's, tho I suppose that is as timely as associating Jack in the Box w/E. Coli.

They sent hundreds of thousands of lobsters to concentration camps in cattle cars.

I believe at that point one may refer to them as lobster cars.

I thought Cracker Barrel was the notorious political "baddie" among this bad bunch- superfundamentalist and hardline, I seem to recall some pretty horrible policies about HIV positive employees being fired and a nasty stink/protest in retaliation.

The only one of these I have a distinct memory of eating in is Denny's. I guess they can get kind of gross at times, depending on the place, time of day, etc.

"We got paid off by Cracker Barrel!"

http://www.famu.edu/headlines/UserFiles/Image/Cracker_Barrel.web.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Holy shit, A) your'e in south Jersey / B) you don't like Pat's??

― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Tuesday, March 2, 2010 11:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm from SJ and I also think Pat's sux and is kinda expensive. I'd rather go to Joe's or Mama Ciconte's any day. Scotto's in Woodbury is pretty good too ($6.99 large pizza special!).

Most authentic food on rt 45 imo is a Sicilian Deli hoagie.

^^ I am going to keep these in mind when I return home for the summer

have always wanted to visit that sicilian hoagie shack, but it looked like a money laundering front so I'd always get the too-salty cheap hoagie from shoprite instead. :/ (I suppose all good hoagie shacks look like money laundering fronts tho)

true. doesn't help that it is next to a tattoo parlor.

Guys can we have a SJFAP? We can all get pampered at Hello, Gorgeous! and then pop by Heritages for some sodas and then GO TO THE COLONIAL ON 45!

NO SBARRO NO CREDIBILITY

that's really stretching the definition of restaurant. which is their slogan, iirc.

Also I am usually not v pretentious/elitist but will willingly/sort of embarassingly admit I am a snob and a half when it comes to Comic Sans and Papyrus. Mostly I just don't get why other people don't get it.

i'm not the pampering kind but wouldn't mind stopping by the 'lo. good flapjacks.

sounds good, if I'm back in time

when i was stuck in stockton, ca a year ago for work, i ended up eating @ Macaroni Grill a LOT. the food was surprisingly pretty good, and it was one of the few good restaurants in what was otherwise a foodie's hell.

do they actually grill the macaroni?

Say, when "dyao" get back? (ha ha!) No, they don't grill the macaroni. They just want people to know it's basically an Italian-ish Chili's or Applebees

these places (like denny's) have gotten worse over the years, right? I mean I remember eating at IHOP as a kid (and Denny's, and the unfortunately named Sambos) and they were alright, for the 70's/80's. And I don't think this is just because my tastes have gotten refined; I'm pretty sure these places have gotten much worse. The last time I ate at IHOP it was barely edible.

IHOP has always been known as I-SLOP in my neck of the woods.

def. gone down a notch or two: ihop, chili's, sizzler

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4632991n?source=search_video

Denny's is like the nastiest place on the face of the Earth

I'd imagine K-Lo's kitchen takes the cake, so to speak.

kitchen? is that what you call it?

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

i'd so much rather go to denny's than any of these. ruby tuesday chilis applebees can rot in hell

i chose Applebee's mostly for selling something called a "wonton taco"

The nastiest food experience I've ever had was in a Denny's; it involved oil and vinegar carafes that had a thin film of dead gnats floating on top of the liquid inside them and undercooked food served on unclean plates with unclean silverware and water served in unclean glasses. It was beyond vile.

xp: woah that is compelling evidence tho

I don't know what Dennys considers coffee these days, but what I used to drink there late nights was better than Starbucks.

i wanna heart Denny's simply b/c of their Nannerpuss and Paulie Walnuts ads.

wonton tacos:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q--bapvYnos/RvtwhMK60AI/AAAAAAAACOg/l0ukqP_mtW8/s400/Tuna+Taco+23082007498.jpg

wtf is that

do not wont

needs cilantro

it looks like an overstuffed fish taco.

when i was a little kid i wanted to go to red lobster so bad bcuz i had seen and ad for this like ten kinds of shrimp served ten different ways type deal & one of the ways was with lemon and garlic and theyd toss the shrimp as it glistened it seemed like the most fukken delicious thing ud ever taste. but my mom wouldnt take me cuz she thought these type a places were gross & unhealthy but i still think red lobster mb tastes p good.

havent eaten @ any of the places so i cant judge

The ever-present lemon hovering the Red Lobster shrimp looks tasty.

Red Lobster: A Good Value or Ghetto?

when I was a kid, Red Lobster was where lower middle class people celebrated high school graduations and took people on first dates. I imagine it is like Applebee's or any of these other casual dining places today.

Can't wait to see the results on this.

Red Lobster gets my vote. I fucking hate seafood.

Macaroni Grill. I fucking hate macaroni.

i got ecoli from baja fresh in 2006

i knew that there was a story in the archives that accounts for Dan's aversion to all things Denny's -- and here it is:

The year was 1982. My family was in Colorado Springs visiting my oldest brother at the Air Force Academy. Before heading over to the campus, we stopped at the Denny's next door to our hotel where we underwent a series of horrifying restaurant experiences:
- The silverware at our table was CAKED with food; it looked like the previous diners had eaten their meals and then reset the table with their used cutlery. We asked for more silverware but it took them three attempts to find some that was actually clean.

- Shaken, I went to take a drink of water. My mother abruptly shouted, "DON'T DRINK OUT OF THAT!" and grabbed my hand. Puzzled and slightly shocked, I took a closer look at the glass and finally saw the ring of orange juice pulp around the inside of my glass.

- At this point, most of the family had lost their appetites, but my dad is stubborn and wanted to eat right then. He ordered a salad with oil and vinegar salad dressing. He had poured on the oil and was going for the vinegar when my middle brother said, "Dad, before you do that, what's on the top of that vinegar?" Dad glanced at it and said, "Oh, that's just pepper." My brother said, "Since when does pepper have WINGS?" Dad put his gnat-topped vinegar carafe back on the table and ordered the check.

We walked out of the restaurant and went straight to McDonald's. I think I've set foot in Denny's maybe once since then (the whole "we don't like black people" thing from the early 90s was an unnecessary nail in an already-sealed coffin as far as I was concerned).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:14 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

The lobster pizza @ Red Lobster if fucking awesome, btw. Pretty much the only edible thing on that menu.

I've been drafted to eat there tonight. Seriously considering a salad one of those...

salad and one of those