# Chicken does not actually come from the sea. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 4, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217 "2006-10-04T07:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/1 "2006-10-04T07:48:29Z")
Earlier today my department supervisor came around asking for volunteers to work 4 extra hours, so I said I could. At 6:30 everyone who was staying late took off to grab some dinner. I went to the local Burger King to get a Big Fish meal with onion rings. Before I pulled out into the street, I saw that they gave me fries instead. There was what appeared to be a mixed gender high school soccer team running around the parking lot, so I had to manuver around them into a spot before I could head inside. Once there, they just handed me a box of onion rings and said I could keep the fries, so I thought I was all set. Little did I know the horror that awaited. I got back to my desk and opened the little cup of onion ring sauce. The normal sauce is something like thousand island dressing with horseradish mixed in - I’m not entirely sure, but it’s good. Apparently this batch of sauce was retrieved from a warehouse in New Orleans or something, because it was quite curdled and nasty looking. It smelled OK, but I really didn’t feel like tasting it. Hesitantly I nibbled on an onion ring, but soon discovered that it was free from corruption. I gave away my fries, thinking that I had enough food. How foolish of me. Once I polished off the onion rings and a few stray fries, I unwrapped the Big Fish, noting the attempt at humor written on the wrapper. Perhaps this was some sort of attempt at distracting me from the subtle wrongness of the sandwich contained within. I looked at the deep fried object nestled between the buns and cloaked with tartar sauce and shredded lettuce. This object seemed too dark and irregularly shaped to be a slab of breaded fish, but my hunger got the better of me and I ventured a bite. “What the fuck?!” I examined the bite crater and combined the visual data with that collected from the act of chewing. “Chicken! Those fuckers put chicken in my fuckin’ Big Fish! Goddammit!” I tried another bite, but chicken with tartar sauce is just too damn gross. One of the guys suggested that I wipe off the tartar sauce with a napkin, but I wasn’t that hungry. For the rest of the night I was fueled not by food, but by anger. I was testing a golf game, and I beat the shit out of that ball, let me tell you. Got my golfer’s power stats pretty high, too. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/2 "2006-10-04T08:24:31Z")
**Jessica Simpson** would be quite pleased by this. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/3 "2006-10-04T10:17:40Z")
I don’t know. Tartar sauce is frigging _good_. I’ve never thought to try it with chicken, but I can’t imagine it’d be _that_ bad. ---
**Author:** ![oy\_vay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/258eb7/32.png) [@oy\_vay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oy_vay)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/4 "2006-10-04T10:59:27Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] I don’t know. Tartar sauce is frigging _good_. I’ve never thought to try it with chicken, but I can’t imagine it’d be _that_ bad. [/QUOTE] That’s what I thought about salsa and fish, and that combo when tried makes you sick to your stomach. Eclectic food doesn’t work sometimes, or chocolate cake, salsa, pepperoni, steak, and mashed potatoes pizza would have taken the market by storm by now. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/5 "2006-10-04T11:45:45Z")
Check that shit. You gotta always **check** that shit. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/6 "2006-10-04T12:14:11Z")
They FUCK you at the drive through! ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/7 "2006-10-04T12:23:13Z")
Black Rabbit’s Drunken Toilet Suprise: Ingredients: - 6 bottles of Grolsch - 1 jar of Big Boy’s tartar sauce - 6-10 White Castle double cheeseburgers Instructions: - Drink all six bottles of Grolsch - Go buy more Grolsch - Open the jar of tartar sauce - Dip a corner of the cheeseburger in the tartar sauce - Take a bite - Dip another corner of the cheeseburger in the tartar sauce - Repeat until all cheeseburgers are gone - Eat any remaining tartar sauce with a spoon Yyyyuummmm… ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/8 "2006-10-04T13:20:59Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] They FUCK you at the drive through! [/QUOTE] If only… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/9 "2006-10-04T13:26:31Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] They FUCK you at the drive through! [/QUOTE] Amen, Brother. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/10 "2006-10-04T15:14:10Z")
I’ve avoided the usual fast-food places like a plague for awhile now, partly for just this reason, partly to lose weight. The food, even if you “got” what you ordered (and indeed I often got the fish), is either nauseating going down, or causes indigestion 6 hours later. Either way I’m done with it. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/11 "2006-10-04T15:21:33Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] They FUCK you at the drive through! [/QUOTE] They fuck you particularly hard at drivethrough’s by the interstate. No matter what you order, they give you whatever is about to go bad. What are you going to do? Turn the car around? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/12 "2006-10-04T15:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=col\_10022] What are you going to do? Turn the car around? [/QUOTE] You never met Mama Plant. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/13 "2006-10-04T16:28:09Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] Check that shit. You gotta always **check** that shit. [/QUOTE] Isn’t it a bit too late to complain if you’ve allready digested the meal? ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/14 "2006-10-04T18:16:32Z")
[QUOTE=oy vay] That’s what I thought about salsa and fish, and that combo when tried makes you sick to your stomach. [/QUOTE] Jigga-WHA?! Have you never tried the awesomeness that is the fish taco? I tell you, that’s what salsa was _born_ to saucify. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/15 "2006-10-04T18:33:24Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] Jigga-WHA?! Have you never tried the awesomeness that is the fish taco? I tell you, that’s what salsa was _born_ to saucify. [/QUOTE] I’ve tried fish tacos, but I don’t understand the attraction. OTOH, they’re a straight answer to the old joke, “what smells like a fish, and looks like a taco?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/16 "2006-10-04T21:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] I don’t know. Tartar sauce is frigging _good_. I’ve never thought to try it with chicken, but I can’t imagine it’d be _that_ bad. [/QUOTE] I like tartar sauce on chicken. sturmhauke, do you like mayo & pickles on chicken? If so, it’s basically the same as tartar sauce! If not, then never mind. _s_ I’ve never had salsa on a fish taco, more like a slightly spicy slaw-sauce. I do like them! Finally this- Originally Posted by Maus Magill They FUCK you at the drive through! Did anyone else hear this in “Jay”/Jason Mewes’s voice? ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/17 "2006-10-04T21:35:30Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] Did anyone else hear this in “Jay”/Jason Mewes’s voice? [/QUOTE] If so, you must be under 20 years old. Joe Pesci OWNS that line. He could kick Jason Mewes’ punk ass all over the sidewalk. They really do fuck you at the drivethrough, though. You always always gotta pull forward so the next guy can pull up, then check the bag. Always. Saves gas, saves lives. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/18 "2006-10-04T21:49:26Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima] If so, you must be under 20 years old. Joe Pesci OWNS that line. He could kick Jason Mewes’ punk ass all over the sidewalk. They really do fuck you at the drivethrough, though. You always always gotta pull forward so the next guy can pull up, then check the bag. Always. Saves gas, saves lives. [/QUOTE] Age 44, actually. Sorry- but I’ve missed a lot of Pesci films (I think MY COUSIN VINNIE is the only one I’ve seen). I do agree about a Pesci\>Mewes beatdown, and about drivethrough fuckery. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/19 "2006-10-04T22:06:12Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] Isn’t it a bit too late to complain if you’ve allready digested the meal? [/QUOTE] Which is why I always count the cartons of fries, taste the drinks if I didn’t draw them myself, lift the top bun of the sandwiches, and count my change, **before** leaving the establishment. And it’s not too late after you’ve pulled forward, either. Never put blind faith in FF workers. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217/20 "2006-10-04T22:25:26Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] Isn’t it a bit too late to complain if you’ve allready digested the meal? [/QUOTE] :smack: Oh, I get it. Heh heh…I get jokes. :o Sorry; I just always get so :rolleyes: with people who say, “Well, I ordered a sandwich with **no onions** , because onions give me heart palpitations and hives, and I absolutely cannot consume them under any circumstances, and when I **got back to the office, ten miles away** , I found ONIONS on my burger!” You have to check when you can still do something about it. If it’s that important to you, don’t take chances. And it’s way important to me, so I don’t take chances. I also get fed up with the attitude that “Well, they’re McDonald’s workers! They don’t care!” Yeah, and with that attitude, they’ll be working at McD’s their whole life. Has a lot to do with management, I think. During my McD’s stint, the managers did not allow us to low-ball special orders; consequently, we got very few complaints. Also, if someone is planning on moving up from McD’s, no reason not to start applying a good work ethic while they’re young. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-does-not-actually-come-from-the-sea/375217.md?page=2)