rolling new food laboratory inventions for american chain restaurants thread

that's some intense fetish shit there

want

Or just chain restaurants, non-monolingual Anglophone Rest of World, even

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i will cop to wanting to try a mclychee fizz, though it sounds like the name of a one-legged prospector in an old western movie

or lychee mcfizz, either way. Huat ah!

pizza dog does not look good. is it half of a hot dog? or is the hot dog submerged into the pizza?

mcdonald's steppin on arby's curly fry game outside of america i see

excuse me, "golden twister fries"

iirc arby's uses them as a way to recycle substandard potatoes into a saleable product

iirc arby's roast beef is made from powder and gelatin

prosperity beef, mcdonald's u.s. should try that one, might deflect some of their labor troubles

I have grown to love austerity beef

Arby's really is the worst tasting chain food I think I have ever eaten

to full appreciate arby's, you have to loudly order two "Big Montanas" and then look around the restaurant expecting everyone's approval.

since chinese new year, traditional fries have been unavailable at mcdonalds in favor of curly fries (at least when i left in february)
DYAO PLEASE CONFIRM

my lunch yesterday was 2 mcdonalds poutines. they replaced the back in the day plastic containers with a waxed cardboard box, which isn't an improvement.

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I will not return to this thread until the people here stop slandering Arby's

tbf I was repeating an oft heard rumor about the rb being made of powder and gelatin. i heard similar stories about BK onion rings.

i ate at arby's this week. i was almost broke too, but i hadn't had any junk food in so long and had just gone to a mind-deadening meeting next to the arby's so i felt it was propitious.

but i ordered the wrong thing and wasted my opportunity. shoulda just got roast beef. : (

dylaaaan how did you order that, did you just say, '2 poutines plz'

and did they react any, like, '2? 2?'

the american dream is a cruel joke, still no poutine

My friend and I purchased an entire Arby's roast one summer. they sliced it up and gave it to us in tin foil. they then sold us the real deal arby's buns for something like 15c per. we ate arby's roast beef sandwiches like they were apples that summer.

Lychee McFizz sounds like someone's pr0n name. It probably tastes good though.

you cut them into slices and put peanut butter on them?? xp

we ate the outsides and threw the centers in the compost

we planted an arby's and a franchise grew in his backyard

time was, you could buy yerself an entire arbys roast. now you kids have your pizza dogs and dorito tacos

that same summer, I saw an elephant ear stand parked near a 7-eleven burn to the ground. I didn't tweet about it.

龜's guide to eating at Arby's:

1. Skip the roast beef offerings and go straight to the chicken fingers

2. Ask for the honey mustard

3. Get that shit with curly fries

4. With your drink cup, take it to the soda fountain and fill it with unsweetened ice tea (virtually unheard of at other restaurants)

5. Avail yourself of the sauce bar (the best in the business.) Horsey sauce arby's sauce, ketchup, notice how it's take-as-much-as-you-want and not gingerly parceled out to you one foil packet at a time. Feel grateful

I got a chicken finger that was virtually uncooked one time and the staff was so blasé about it that I have been loathe to return

that can happen. the fryer has a timer. you drop the chicken and press the timer. you shouldn't have to check it. but I saw this happen at DQ once as well.

xpost the best sauce that Arby's has is the red sauce on the beef n' cheddar. they do not offer this sauce at the bar.

龜, what is your take on the arby's turnover situation

Man I never fucked with that

taco bell dessert empanadas?

Nah man. I don't really got a sweet tooth

Last time I had a chain food dessert invention was the bacon sundae upthread

龜, if you are a chicken fingers aficianado and ever find yourself in the deep south and see a Zaxby's, you owe it to yourself to stop in for a five-piece, seriously.

Actually, Hardee's has surprisingly good chicken fingers now, too.

Is there a name for the thing they do in the south where you get some chicken strips, fries, TOAST and cole slaw? And it's like the best shit ever?

to full appreciate arby's, you have to loudly order two "Big Montanas" and then look around the restaurant expecting everyone's approval.

^^^ this is someone who has definitely been in an Arby's. Arby's here is a homeless/tweaker hangout these days so I don't go.

dylaaaan how did you order that, did you just say, '2 poutines plz'

and did they react any, like, '2? 2?'

the american dream is a cruel joke, still no poutine

― j., Friday, 7 March 2014 22:45 (Yesterday)

yeah. my order was 2 poutines, 2 filet-o-fish, 1 chicken something. i was driving the work truck and it was a highwayside mcdonalds halfway to jasper down the yellowhead, the middle of nowhere and i had on my full lumberjack attire, reeking of 2 stroke oil sawdust dumaurier tree sap sweat, so it felt okay. but sometimes i sometimes i don't know if i'm in an upscale neighborhood or feeling body shame i try to make my single massive order look like two people are ordering, like i'm making it look like i'm just hitting the drive-thru on the way home from work, bout to head home, yep, so i'll order my own food and then a more feminine combo, maybe. like, an angus bacon and cheese combo with coke zero and then a filet-o-fish with diet coke. even that small differentiation in diet sodas is key, so they'll be thinking, ohhh yep see the wife is drinking the diet coke. then i eat the filet-o-fish on the drive home to my empty apartment, where the couch is already heaped with fast food packaging that i don't have the energy to throw away.

Is there a name for the thing they do in the south where you get some chicken strips, fries, TOAST and cole slaw? And it's like the best shit ever?

Yes, plus comeback sauce, that's at Zaxby's (and at Abner's, which was legendarily good in Oxford MS but started sliding downhill when they expanded into a regional chain).

yeah, instead of diet coke i would do sprite, and hope that sounded feminine enough, out of bitterness at otherwise having to buy something i can't drink, but that just shows how i cannot put my own petty needs above those of the performance, you should teach classes in your method

is zax sauce really comeback sauce? story behind zaxbys is kinda sad/hilarious, there was a chicken finger in athens called guthrie's, somewhat iconic or beloved or whatever, the dudes that started zaxbys wanted to open a franchise in statesboro but guthrie didn't want to deal w/ the headache of franchising so they just straight up copied his place and now those dudes are millionaires while guthrie's burnt down a few years back.

man i want some zaxbys now... but they close at 10!!!

I haven't had the original comeback sauce at The Rotisserie in Jackson, but from everything I've read about it, it's the same stuff or pretty close. Zax's is what Abner's sauce used to be before they screwed it up trying to produce it on a larger scale.

I wonder if Abner's was a copy of Guthrie's...it started around '93 or '94, franchised out and lost the magic around 7-8 years ago. The two Memphis locations have closed, Tupelo's always has an empty lot and it's sitting right in front of the Malco 10-screen.

There's a chain called Guthrie's, actually, did they just buy the name? There was one in Tallahassee when I lived there, open hella late and always with a line around the store (it was near FSU).

And god do I miss that place. Fuckin' go out late and fill up on a basket of beige food.

lol apparently they did eventually franchise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthrie%27s - this does explain how the athens guthries could be run by a notorious fuckup and yet get up and running. i'm guessing the other guthries didn't have playboys up on the walls.

lol ok, Abner White definitely went to this place during some Ole Miss @ UGA game weekend and said "I can do this in Oxford and print money."

Y'all tried Cane's? Not as great as some people rave, but the tenders are pretty good and they do serve 'em with fries and toast.

Just placed an order for a Mashed Potato Double Beef Burger (it looks exactly like the double beef bacon burger I got ~3 weeks ago but with the mashed potato at the bottom)