For a chain to grow, it has to really appeal to a wide variety of American tastes. I’m not sure if Hawaiian can do that. I can see the appeal in the far west, and here in the south we’d love anything served with macaroni salad because we’re all gluttons, but we’ve also seen a boom and bust of poke bowl places, so I’m…

I thought they were referring to a chain called Ono Hawaiian.  I ate at one in LA like four times in one week while on vacation a decade ago. I could have sworn they’d all gone out of business but I see there’s like 50 in LA county alone.

Dollar General’s density in this country is freaking insane. Here in the Bible Belt there are probably three or four DGs for every Subway; I’m pretty sure the last Dollar General I went in had another Dollar General in the bathroom.  If Subway really wants to expand, they need to start putting them next to the ice…

Oh, that sounds like a good flavor! I’d try them but around here all we get are wasabi and parmesan.

It’s hard to say what his stance would have been, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he looked at it as keeping the rest of the crew employed and paid for a while longer while also not hiring scabs to write clues.

As a person of a certain age, it still blows my mind that vinyl is selling more than CDs. I’m glad people are collecting these things, because it helps it be a bit permanent in the world of fleeting availability online.

What I find interesting about the history of peanut butter is that Joseph Rosefield was responsible for the two biggest brands, as the article notes. But in each case, he ripped off someone else’s intellectual property. Rosefield never asked for permission from J. M. Barrie to use the Peter Pan name; later, when he…

You are speaking the truth on both the fries and the curds. One of my quirks when eating fast food is that I normally forgo the sides and just get an extra sandwich and that really pays dividends at Culver’s since their fries and curds aren’t too great.

So, because your store does things by the book, that means none of the other 41,000 locations are not run by cheap bastards? Okay, whatever.

It’s not that people think their meats are all that bad, it’s just the overall package. They’re cheap but it shows in their rubbery bread and skimpy toppings. Maybe things are different now but when I ate Subway back in the day it was a fight to get them to put more than one teeny handful of lettuce, or more than a…

Dang, French’s is rarer to see on store shelves where I live than Red Gold, and that stuff requires an Indiana Jones like quest to purchase.

Oh, I see you’ve met my mother. Doesn’t matter what the date says, if it’s past it, it goes in the trash.  And if it’s not right in front of her face, it doesn’t exist.  I’m not going to detail the epic cleanup of her kitchen that I undertook recently, but I’d be shocked if it was under $1,000 worth of unopened but…

I’ve only eaten at Sonic twice in my life and both times I got shocking sick from the food, so I’ve never been tempted to go back. That said, even the food in the commercials isn’t all that appealing, so it’s easy enough to avoid.

This is so true. I didn’t have high expectations based on the CGI art and kid-centric nature of the show, but the storytelling wasn’t bad at all, and background art is absolutely stellar. I was so looking forward to the new season of it and Lower Decks that I went and paid for a full year of P+. Oops.

I used to be a big cheerleader for DQ burgers back when the Flamethrower first came out.  Sadly, during the pandemic they seemed to switch from fresh beef to frozen premade patties and the quality took a huge nosedive.  So much so that I haven’t had a burger from them in several years now.

Pedant alert: Culver’s and Freddy’s aren’t ice cream or soft serve, but custard. Putting such a superior frozen dessert treat in the competition would be patently unfair to the other “products”.

It speaks to the lack of consistency in management. Well managed chains like Culver’s and Chick-fil-A tend to be more consistent from location to location whereas bottom dwellers like Hardee’s and Burger King are as variable as mom n’ pop restaurants.

Just because someone invented a dish doesn’t mean they do the best version of it.  From the descriptions I’ve read, the original “nachos plate” pales in comparison to what I can get at any of my local Tex-Mex places.  And then there’s Hydrox vs. Oreo, where the competitor completely beat the original.

I wonder if this is a regional issue where you are, because every single grocery store here in the south has dried, canned and frozen lima beans, along with butter beans and occasionally Fordhook limas, which my family prefers for some reason.

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