# Anybody ever try Raising Cane's (chicken fingers)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808 "2020-02-12T04:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/21 "2020-02-13T15:01:50Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I once drove a rent check from Costa Mesa to my landlord in Carlsbad, CA (about 52 miles) just so we could visit Pea Soup Andersen’s restaurant. This was in 1995, when the Carlsbad location was still a thing. The actual soup at the location in Buellton, twenty years ago, was much better than it had any right to be. I remember it being delicious, and memorable for more reasons than the ubiquitous billboards up and down 101. Cane’s is all right for what it is, albeit I think the tenders have gotten smaller when I last tried them three weeks ago. I’m trying to eat less fast food things like that as I get older and fatter. I’d heard Zaxby’s are better, but have never tried them. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/22 "2020-02-13T23:24:33Z")
Buellton IS the better location, but it’s the difference between 50 miles and 200 miles. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/23 "2020-02-13T23:51:03Z")
We planned a road trip from L.A. to Solvang decades ago and packed some sandwiches for a picnic lunch. Once we were in range of the pea soup fumes (and it was waaaaay foggy and cold on the coast), we opted for Andersen’s instead. And forgot about the sandwiches in the trunk for **months**. I checked locations for Raising Cane’s in SoCal, and they’re all east of the 710. Too far for o.k. chicken fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/24 "2020-02-14T08:01:35Z")
I had Raising Cane’s for, like, the third time ever this week. My previous experiences didn’t exactly bowl me over, but I was insanely bored with my usual dinner choices so I decided to mix things up a little bit. It was fine. I continue to find the dipping sauce, which is apparently a big selling point for the chain, quite unremarkable. (It’s apparently a 2-to-1 mixture of mayo and ketchup with a few spices tossed in.) On the other hand, I found the huge picture of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman on the wall of the booth that I sat in to be an amusingly random choice of decoration. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/25 "2020-02-14T16:48:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Buellton IS the better location, but it’s the difference between 50 miles and 200 miles. That would be a bit of a hike. I wouldn’t do it for just the soup. Sanford Rinconada Pinot Noir and Ojai Bien Nacido Syrah, OTOH… We were in the area for the above and other wineries, and said, "We’ve grown up seeing the billboards everywhere, why not try it? Glad we did. I thought I hated peas until I tried that soup. Turns out I just hate supermarket frozen peas. I don’t remember seeing a picture of Lynda Carter, and I definitely would have, but the pictures of the founder’s yellow Labs are always a neat treat. The fingers are better than, say, Whataburger’s attempts to do chicken fingers. Which isn’t saying much. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/26 "2020-02-14T17:36:56Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > Cane’s is all right for what it is, albeit **I think the tenders have gotten smaller** when I last tried them three weeks ago. Easily. Raising Cane’s tenders today are maybe 2/3 the size of the ones ~15 years ago. Maybe even more recent than that. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/27 "2020-02-15T05:30:44Z")
There’s one in San Diego, where we visit friends when attending SDCC every year. They introduced us to it a couple years ago. I love their chicken fingers! It’s probably a good thing there isn’t one anywhere near I’m from (SF Bay Area) because I’d have a hard time staying away, at least for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/28 "2020-02-15T06:15:54Z")
They’re in Hawaii, and we’ve tried the one near the university here in Honolulu. Quite good. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/29 "2020-02-15T14:44:57Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I was FaceTiming with Kayla this evening, (she’s in Brooklyn, I’m in SoCal), watching her finish her dinner (she stopped for Popeye’s chicken), and it occurred to me that I could use a meal myself. So, maintaining the FaceTime session, I got in my car and drove over to the nearest [Raising Cane’s](https://www.raisingcanes.com/) Chicken Fingers Shoppe. I’ve been there before, but in the past, the stores were all ten miles and more from home. It’s a testament to how delicious their chicken is that the drive was worth it. And last fall, they opened up a new location two miles from my apartment (I found this out the last time I took **kaylasmom** to the hospital, and watched a nurse returning from a lunch run). > > Anyway, I kept the FaceTime session going while I ordered and received my chicken fingers sandwich. Kayla was saying that if only there was a Raising Cane’s in New York, it would be the IDEAL place to live. So I told her to look up the nearest location to her, and she found one in Boston, MA. > > It just so happens that she’s got a possibility of doing summer stock in New England this year, so if she gets one of the gigs, she’ll have that going for her. In the summer. But she was watching me chow down on her favorite sandwich TONIGHT, and it made the summer seem SO FAR AWAY. She started looking up train ticket prices (not for tonight, but there IS a long weekend coming up). She may just do it. She’s got a California friend up by the GWB, and she just texted him to find out about his weekend plans. > > OOOOORRRRRRR. . . > > Anybody in Brooklyn up for a road trip? Is she a cook at all? I’ve had really good luck trying copycat recipes from the web. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808/30 "2020-02-15T14:55:56Z")
One opened up near here last fall. To publicize the opening, they gave out a ton of coupons for a free meal, and I’m a sucker for free food, so I gave it a try. It was pretty good as free food goes. But there’s no way it was worth the $8 that was the regular price. And my neighborhood has such a high concentration of fast and short-order food that I can always get something better for less. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-ever-try-raising-canes-chicken-fingers/847808.md?page=1)