rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

its been shitty for years and years. i'm just old.

when i was a kid i thought of wendy's as the "fancy" mcdonalds. ooh, baked potatoes and chili. they made good stuff. now its a toss-up as to which is more disgusting in my town. wendy's or mcdonalds. both so gross. everything smells like chemicals. benzine or something.

Friendly's used to be friendly! their burgers were decent. they are totally gross places now. like bus stops that sell hot fudge sundaes.

― scott seward, Thursday, March 15, 2018 12:52 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A google image search for Cone Head Sundae turned this up:

https://cdn.someecards.com/posts/bernie-sanders-cone-head-e1HLlP.jpg

I'm not going to look any further into whatever point someone was trying to make with that.

xpost this was in the early/mid 90s. It was just deli meat and soooo much mayo.

But food can be a potent form of shared culture, even from a giant multinational chain — mozzarella sticks, cheese biscuits, and buffalo wings form a common culinary ground — so having these touch points with one another is not so immaterial: We lose something if we lose TGI Fridays, and it’s more than just the Loaded Potato Skins.

I've been thinking about what "white culture" is, & maybe this is part of the answer? if so lol

KFC definitely has suffered the most serious drop in quality, and I don't think it's just childhood nostalgia talking. It was actually a viable source of yummy fried chicken and sides at one point, if not serious competition for Mrs. Winner's. Now it's just glop and salt in a truly dismal and sad environment; Popeye's has completely supplanted it in the fast-food chicken hierarchy.

just gotta pray that popeye's doesn't get any bigger. that's when the slide happens. they are already pretty big. but tiny in comparison to a mcdonalds or subway or dunkin donuts. i also remember when dunkin donuts made tasty donuts...

popeye's is finally opening here in france this year so maybe they are getting too big now. kfc has been here a long time I think

speaking of ohio and blasts from the past:

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/03/arthur_treachers_fish_chips_is.html

h/t former ilxor yeti mike...

Popeye's is doing heavy TV advertising down here, I've noticed. Is their national profile expanding?

no but my stomach is cos I'm there all the fuckin time

they just had ghost pepper chicken. I couldn't gird up the strength to try them - even ghost pepper potato chips made me almost choke on the heat

when I lived in the usa & had to fly through dallas I was happy to get popeye's at the airport there since I lived in dumb little midwestern towns that didn't have it.

at my hotel in japan last week the breakfast buffet had fried chicken & so now I've had my yearly allowance of the stuff, rip

Popeyes has no apostrophe. That's why I go to Church's.

i wish there was one near me. closest is like an hour away. springfield. chicopee. that area.

i'm actually 52 minutes from the one in springfield. i checked....

GO FOR IT SCOTT

my fave place to go in springfield is actually white hut. but i never go to springfield.

http://www.trazeetravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/White-Hut-West-Springfield-Massachusetts-%C2%A9-Rusty-Clark-Flickr-e1448858007790-1000x399.jpg

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57bb161ee3df2828c8a36cf4/t/5847172ebe6594c4abb16d62/1481054000473/14976748_10154166447836378_2111742694673511029_o.jpg

popeyes, to be clear, is not, like, great or anything. it's funny in nyc because virtually every item on the menu merits the required saltshaker logo next to items that by themselves exceed your daily recommended sodium intake. but it's better than kfc. biscuits are dece (though no Bojangles or Biscuit World)

they opened a white hut in amherst but it closed because people in amherst suck.

The White Hut in Amherst closed?? I went there while it existed, love terrible-good cheap burgers

tom's hot dogs is my favorite place near me. if you are ever in whately, massachusetts you should go! sadly, i would go there every day for lunch if it were closer. i really am a simpleton. been there 60+ years.

https://www.potatopro.com/news/2018/nacho-fries-best-selling-product-launch-taco-bell-history

i gotta say i'm not 100% sure if i'm on board with nacho fries - they were ok but way too soggy when i had them - but i am WICKED into my new favorite site, potato pro dot com

Mission:

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We have made it our mission to offer ever MORE information about the global potato sector and make the information you need EASIER and FASTER to find!

FAM, a company entirely dedicated to cutting solutions for the food industry, has developed the innovative, patented FAM Centris™ product line to counter some of the key issues frequently encountered during the production of potato and vegetable chips.

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this is important

omg POTATO PRO

important question about the nacho fries: do they have flour on them? this is why i hate bk's fries. my gluten intolerance (sorry i know) has a side effect of me having the aftertaste of eating dirt shortly after i consume wheat products and i HATE when that taste intrudes on my post-fry glow

i hate when i go to a diner or somewhere cheap and their fries are coated with whatever they coat cheap fries with now. why did someone think that was a great idea? unless people just love crunchy coated fries and i'm in the minority. maybe an onion ring lover came up with them.

speaking as someone that gleefully eats lots of crap food without discrimination.....people gleefully eat lots of crap food without hesitation or discrimination

i love how matter-of-fact potato pro is how challenging it is to, and i quote, "identify and separate crop from clod, stones and foreign objects including wood, plastic, glass, bone, rubber, metal and more."

potato amateurs might get squeamish about that - "oh geez, ANOTHER bone?" - but not potato PROS

this is a new frontier for us really - we've never really gotten into new inventions for the food laboratory itself. the possibilities loom.

maura i don't think they're 100% ok, although there's apparently less wheat in their batter than whatever "tapioca dextrin" is: " “French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, modified corn starch, rice flour, salt, tapioca dextrin, wheat flour, sodium phosphate, baking soda, guar gum, xanthan gum, dextrose. Cooked in canola oil (dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent), TBHQ).”

Woodstock Pizza in Isla Vista (near Santa Barbara, Cal) has a Banh Mizza pie. https://woodstocksiv.com/

NEW! BANH MIZZA
Sesame ginger sauce, grilled chicken, julienned carrots, red onions. Topped with fresh cilantro, a sesame ginger sauce drizzle, and a Sriracha Swirl

oh yay, a fresh hell.

But wait, there's more!

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/30623753_10156149773845053_3871125286628587824_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=ccfc027a59b81a63279b84e87facc0ab&oe=5B6339DD

A glitter pizza, this time from Dagwood's in Santa Monica.

Coming back again soon by popular demand; the #magicalAF edible glitter pizza!!!!🦄🌈🍕 thanks for the shout out @jimmykimmel @jimmykimmellive , even if it does make you want to burn our restaurant to the ground 😜😂😳

ew

move aside amateurs, scotland has invented the salt-and-chilli deep-fried pizza

https://i2-prod.glasgowlive.co.uk/incoming/article14511094.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/30126927_1882152068503542_5416232948130046848_n.jpg

good god that looks horrible, order me two

not gonna lie i would house that entire thing right now

Trip to Glasgow for one of them is looking like a cheaper alternative to Dignitas

(also would totally demolish)

cheaper and tastier alternative

I was already looking forward to summer 2019 when our big annual conference is in Edinburgh, but now

(The local place that did a “pizza frito” has taken it off the menu, boo #harbingeroffailure)

Edinburgh

edinburgh sux

get yersel to glasgow, get a wee macaroni pie, some buckfast and get chibbed at an old firm match, that's the real scotland

white castle impossible burger??

https://instagram.com/p/Bhcw2H6nNgd/

As someone with a nostalgia for childhood WC "rat burgers" but for 20+ years only eats meat when I know it's clean and where it comes from, this is GREAT NEWS.

wait why is Questlove breaking this news? Does he own White Castle now?