the mediocrity of Yum! Brands

Anonus

Pizza Hut pizza smells funny. Taco Bell is...a bit underwhelming to me. As is KFC. Also they serve Pepsi products (considering the company Yum! was spun off from this is unsurprising) and not Coke products.

They don't own Long John Silver's anymore though...which might be good, as long as that combination Taco Bell-Long John Silver's by my house does not ditch the Long John Silver's part.

Obā-san

Taco Bell's Meal Deals are pretty baller

doritos, a burrito, and a medium soda for 2.75 or so

haven't been to a pizza hut in over a decade

Anonus

but what about KFC

Obā-san

Never even seen a Long John Silver's

Obā-san

KFC gave me and my sister food poisoning

Obā-san

and its got lame "old southern white dude" aesthetics, 0/10 would not be associated with

Obā-san

I'd rather go to White Castle

they got those sacks of onion chips with the horseradish sauce

every restaurant should have some sort of horseradish sauce

there ought to be a law

Anonus

naney said:

Never even seen a Long John Silver's

they seem to be too rare

naney said:

and its got lame "old southern white dude" aesthetics, 0/10 would not be associated with

the only old southern white dude I look up to in any way is one Robert Edward Turner, but you knew that

Obā-san

You know what fucked me up about Pennsylvania?

the fact that Dunkin' Donuts was like

omnipresent

I must have seen at least 15 different ones in my brief time there

Obā-san

like yoooooooooo donuts everywhere

Anonus

one opened five minutes from my house a couple of months ago

anyway Michigan is full of things that Colorado has none of: Meijer, White Castle, Tim Hortons...

Obā-san

no white castles?

that's kinda weird

not that you're missing out, onion chips aside

lee4hmz

There are Dunkin Donuts shops everywhere here, too, most of which are franchised. My brother complains that most of them are out of donuts by the end of the workday.

Calica

i can't remember if i've even seen a white castle

lee4hmz

I've never actually been to White Castle, but I had the food when I went to see friends back in 1999, and it was okay. Then again, I'm a sucker for cheap fast-food burgers.

Anonus

naney said:

no white castles?

that's kinda weird

not that you're missing out, onion chips aside

they seem to be an east coast/midwestern thing

TV Commercial for White Castle..... by videohollic

Anonus

ol' Ray doesn't seem to let his videos be embedded

lee4hmz

There were plenty of jokes about the White Castle sliders "mutating" like they were The Stuff or something.

Anonus

isn't The Stuff the pink slime from Ghostbusters II

Obā-san

Anonus said:

isn't The Stuff the pink slime from Ghostbusters II

yeah, basically sliders

Obā-san

of course sliders aren't pink

because cardboard is grey

Imipolex G

I used to like Taco Bell more when I was a young 'un.

Long John Silvers is usually good.

KFC doesn't appeal to me because I'm meh on chicken and the aforementioned old white southern guy aesthetic

Salix Babylonika

Pizza Hut is fine.

KFCs might be the least sanitary fast food restaurant, I seem to get food poisoning every time I go there regardless of what I order and that doesn't happen at say, Popeye's.

There used to be a Long John Silver's up here that was adjoined to an Arby's (which I love), but they changed that half of the store to a Taco Bell.

One-Winged Eagle

Popeyes is the best, but I often can't afford to eat there. Also, it's in the city, so I almost never eat there.

I like Mos Burger the second best, but it gives me the best food, the smallest portions, for the most money. Same problem with Popeyes.

KFC, McDonalds, Burger King...these are all fine for me. Not the best, but fine. Miles better than Long John Silver, where they serve you huge lumps of fried, tasteless fish and chicken, on a flimsy foam plate. They have the gall to serve little fried bits of nothing as food, what name escapes me right now. They don't even serve clams.

Of course, I'm not an American. I live nowhere near America. So my experiences are wildly different from any of yours.

Odradek

Chipotle is pretty good.

Bunny

hold up hold up, there are plenty of white castles in michigan

i should know, a friend of mine fuckin' loves white castle and i think it's the devil's food

Bunny

also the stuff is a movie about this weird marshmellowy stuff that takes over your body when you eat it

glennmagusharvey

suddenly i want to eat fried chicken.

MissUtilis

Popeyes is better than KFC

Obā-san

definitely

glennmagusharvey

I just know I refuse to patronize the Chick-fil-A on campus.

Princess Alice

I'm surprised the two Taco Bells on High Street aren't closer to campus. You'd think there'd definitely be a market for cheap fake Mexican food for college students.

glennmagusharvey

There's a Taco Bell on my campus.

Unfortunately, it closes at 8 PM Monday through Thursday and closes at 3 PM on Friday.

I do frequently patronize it nevertheless.  My usual is a black bean burrito and a seven-layer burrito.

Calica

there's a taco bell near me and a taco bell on campus but i don't eat at taco bell because i mostly remember it as the place that made me sick

MetaFour

The one thing I unequivocally like about Taco Bell is Baja Blast Mountain Dew.

Alduin

Whenever I eat at Pizza Hut my innards feel like they're killing themselves afterwards