Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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David trying to be the voice of productivity, getting slapped down by Pete for interrupting the important business of discussing lunch options and then abandoning all hope and joining in on the discussion basically sounds like my office every day between 11 and 1.
And Jason, well, being Jason.
I haven’t thought about a fluffernutter in probably 50 years. Thanks, Peter.
Cane’s chicken was good when I tried it not long ago, but their sides are meh (to be fair, crinkle cut fries *top out* at meh), and instead of “One Love” their slogan should be One sauce “, or more accurately “Want barbecue sauce? Honey mustard, maybe Buffalo? F you, you’re getting mayochup!”
Are Torchy’s Tacos taillight-shaped?
Unless they’ve joked about it in the past, I find it rather disconcerting that none of them make a Torch comment. I can only surmise that fruit is too low-hanging or something. 🙂
100% with Griffin on this. How does Cane’s get their chicken to taste so bland? I tried coating some chicken breast in a mixture of tapioca flower, egg whites, and toasted wonder bread, then frying in a 9-year old canola oil from Family Dollar but just could not quite get as bland as Cane’s.
A #5 with grilled onions and jalapenos, and a NO SUGAR ANYWHERE NEAR IT unsweet iced tea is pretty much a reflex of the North Main Whataburger staff when they see me coming
I’m just here to explicitly not comment about the shocker.
I too am not commenting on that one specific thing, whatever it is.
I will also comply by not commenting about the minivan.
Griffin has opinions.
This tales from the slack was so good that it has absorbed the entire year’s worth of my membership fee. You’re all working for free the rest of the year! Or working for the vintage chowder in my freezer.
20 something years ago I spent the summer in Dallas. I got home to Denver for a few days and people were complaining about the weather as it was 90+ degrees. Myself? I didn’t realise it was hot after my time in Dallas. Anyway, I miss Whataburger.
Are there no Kolache places by your house? Is that only a south east Tx thing? I love a sausage, cheese, and jalapeno kolache for lunch.
This is the right answer.
Correct.
I will always pick a local restaurant (even a local franchise with a dozen locations) over a national chain restaurant. If the Torchys Tacos is related to the one in Austin, I’d eat their breakfast tacos 3x/day. Also, you really ought to sent Torch to Torchys.
Amen. Local interesting food is almost always better.
I’m sure Mercedes knows where to get Italian beef.
OK, any place that serves limp fries needs to be shut down immediately. If you travel around much of the rest of the world (particularly Europe and England), you’ll find that every restaurant you go to makes good fries. Crisp on the outside, fluffy-soft on the inside, not too big, not too skinny. There is no excuse for floppy fries, and I will now never go to a Cane’s after hearing that, thank you, Griffin! In-n-Out gets no pass here, by the way. The burgers are good but the fries suck. They, too, should be banned until they can send some of their folks off to Europe to learn how to make fries. (Can you tell that I really like my fries and have been waiting for some time to spout off about them?)
A proper french fry needs to be twice-fried, and In-N-Out refuses to do that, and I have no idea why.
I mean, they will if you ask. Fries well done is the usual ask.
As mentioned on this site before, the bigger issue is not blanching them first.
Well done fries at INO aren’t double-fried. They’re fried once, but for a longer duration.
I’ll never understand the In n Out love. Their fries are literally gag inducing. Practically raw and floppier than an earthworm.
What’s up with Torchinsky Tacos?
INO serves a great burger at a low-to-reasonable price. I don’t order fries when I go there.
Same deal with Freddy’s, good burgers and custard, middling fries, meh hot dogs, Culver’s does a better cheese curd
With Jason to spin out questionable made up history, who needs AI?
Just a warning to everyone, Whatburger sucks, is overrated, and expensive. It’s mainly the burgers…the only thing good is their chicken strip sandwiches. I can’t remember the last time I went. Freddy’s is the best franchise “fast food” burger place…and their fry sauce is amazing!
Is In-N-Out even the same experience in Dallas, with all of those Texas people running the place? The southern California In-N-Out experience is THE In-N-Out experience.
“Pie Wei” sounds like a malapropism: “It’s MY WAY or the PIE WEI!”
The Friday before Labor Day? My god, they’re not going to work all summer! It’s just chowder sex jokes for the next three months!
Look man, I can’t keep track of holidays that don’t involve me getting gifts
Griffin is 100% right about the disappointment that is Cane’s sad, flavorless chicken. Popeye’s reliably gets my order wrong every single time but at least they know how to cook some chicken.
You go to the same Popeye’s I do?
I had Canes once. That was enough. Every time I go inside Popeyes they screw up the order. Somehow they usually get it right at the drive through.
The one by my house has perfected the process to screw up both in-house and drive-thru orders.
The amazing part is how they get the order wrong when you’re the only customer in the joint.
My favorite is when they tell you they’re out of spicy and ask if regular is ok. Like if I wanted bland chicken I’d be at Church’s or Cane’s, we put up with Popeyes shitty service specifically for the spicy chicken and only for the spicy chicken.
Clearly no foodies at the Pian. Dissing Chic fil et? Food so good even vegetarian bovines promote it. Not sure what Cane’s you went to but never had that issue. I do miss my What a Burger, for both breakfast and later. Panda Express and Panera Bread are the worst of the group. I do wonder if you have Landry’s Cajun Buffet? The only one I’ve seen is at an airport in Houston and it was amazing. But it always comes down to what do want. I am surprised there’s no BK near you as they are usually across the street from McDonald’s. Also no hoagie shops? I have found you can get a good cheap hoagie at a grocery store even at 8am
I only go to Chic fil et on sundays. Highly over-rated.
I tried that once, most of the night I forget, but the police came
I love love love a good unhinged rant. Bravo to all of you, but Griffin gets my TFTS BBQ COTD.
Layne’s is the only chicken place that dares to serve the rooster.
Get it in the box.
Never beat Kenny Rogers Roasters.
As long as it doesn’t go staley
Outstanding.
That’s not chicken, it’s rooster!
Layne’s started in the (at the time small-ish) college town where I went to college. Allegedly, it was started because some students tried to get Raising Cane’s to bring a franchise to town, and when they declined, the students decided to start their own chicken place. With blackjack. And hookers. By the time I got there, Cane’s actually did decide to build a franchise in town… two doors down from the then very popular Layne’s. That’s the story I heard at least, and I like it, so I’ve avoided any attempt to fact check it.
It’s still weird to me to see Layne’s franchises since in my mind it’s a dirty hole in the wall run by college students where you’re guaranteed to get food poisoning at least half the time, but it’s still good cheap chicken, so everyone keeps going anyways. Of course, this is also the same town that spawned Freebirds, which used to be a hole in the wall covered in aluminum foil sculptures, so I shouldn’t be too surprised.
Is Cane’s the new cause of hot dog anxiety for Griffin?
And it’s Antti with the Finnish…
I’m glad that you took the bait on the CPGS so Torch could continue down this path of madness and we all got to witness it. Any time I have any kind of illusions of being a writer or journalist I read one of his posts and I could only hope to have that kind of mastery of the language and inane references.
I’m 100% with Griffin on Cane’s. I first tried it a few years ago and it was whelming but nothing I’d go out of my way for. Then last year they opened one close to me and I tried it again and had the same opinion. I got diagnosed as celiac right at Xmas so I can’t eat there anymore so my opinion will never change.
Btw, how the eating go in Japan? I think you’ve taken the trip already?
Good memory! We had to plan out every meal ahead of time, including making reservations in some case, which definitely takes the spontenaeity out of eating (and I relied on 7-Eleven food for meals a few times), but I was able to find GF versions of most of the Japanese specialties I wanted to try and all of them were great. By far the best trip I’ve ever taken and I can’t wait to go back.