# Fuck you, Chik-Fil-A, and your overpriced shake **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597 "2006-07-08T04:06:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/41 "2006-07-09T15:59:41Z")
[QUOTE=waterj2] Not if you go to a Boston-area place. Here, what everyone else calls a milkshake, we call a frappe. [/QUOTE] Well that’s just goofy. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/42 "2006-07-09T17:40:05Z")
[QUOTE=Paranoid Randroid] What - four Starbucks aren’t good enough for you? Eh. If you have that much time, save yourself a few minutes and go to Kashmir. (Sorry. Just seeing how many UK students we can get in here. Move along.) [/QUOTE] Is Kashmir the one up on the corner close to Huddle House and Joe Bologna’s? Because if it is, it always smells kinda… off. (Besides, you’ve got the Ho and Pazzo’s closer than that. What more do you need?) Oh, and who’s hosting the UK DopeKegger? ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/43 "2006-07-09T17:40:56Z")
[QUOTE=Aeschines] Hunger! Jesus takes baskets containing twelve packs of buns and twelve frozen chicken breasts, and miraculously he and his disciples start passing out Chik-Fil-A sandwiches to the joyous multitudes. Cut to a scene of Golgotha: Three chickens are suffering on the cross. Cows are dressed like Roman soldiers, and a cartoon bubble appears next to the head of a centurian: “Keep kroocifying chikin!” [/QUOTE] Jesus is fasting in the desert. Satan appears and says “If you wanted to, you can turn these rocks into bread”. Jesus: Man cannot live on bread alone etc. Satan: That may be true, but what about… A CHICK-FIL-A VALUE MEAL! Jesus: A Chick-Fil-A Value meal! I just can’t resist! LATER Jesus: Now that was some good eatin. ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/44 "2006-07-10T00:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=Paranoid Randroid] What - four Starbucks aren’t good enough for you? [/QUOTE] Wow, there’s four of them on campus now? I’ve seen two that I remember: one in the Student Center and one in the Commons in the Kirwan-Blanding complex. To answer your question…No! In fact, I have never made a purchase at a Starbucks. [QUOTE=brianjedi] Is Kashmir the one up on the corner close to Huddle House and Joe Bologna’s? Because if it is, it always smells kinda… off. [/QUOTE] Yes, that’s the one. I’ve never eaten there or noticed any odd smell from outside…I’ll step a little closer next time and find out if I notice an odd smell.d > [@](#): > > Oh, and who’s hosting the UK DopeKegger? **AC** is no stranger to hosting keggers. These days I mostly stick to mini-kegs (in order to avoid the keg tagging required in Lexington) of German beer (such as Warsteiner, Beck’s, and Bitburger) and cans of Bud Light or Natty since that’s what’s popular around here. Also, my housemates and I keep our bar stocked with about 70 liquor bottles. The parties this summer have been small since most people I know except for some football players and other summer school students are away for the summer. I try not to let any parties here get too big during the semesters though. Dopers who bleed Blue are welcome to join…my contact info is available on here. I already graduated from UK back in May but still hanging around for now. Oh and to stay on topic…$2.93 for a shake doesn’t doesn’t seem to expensive at least not to an extent of BBQ Pit worthiness…unless maybe it’s a small shake. How many fluid ounces are in that Chik-Fil-A shake? I used to buy $5 milkshakes at a homemade ice cream shop in downtown Charleston, WV back when I still lived there. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/45 "2006-07-10T01:57:40Z")
[QUOTE=ArchitectChore] Wow, there’s four of them on campus now? I’ve seen two that I remember: one in the Student Center and one in the Commons in the Kirwan-Blanding complex. To answer your question…No! In fact, I have never made a purchase at a Starbucks. [/quote] They put one in at Ovid’s, and the other one is… I’m not sure where. > [@](#): > > **AC** is no stranger to hosting keggers. These days I mostly stick to mini-kegs (in order to avoid the keg tagging required in Lexington) of German beer (such as Warsteiner, Beck’s, and Bitburger) and cans of Bud Light or Natty since that’s what’s popular around here. Also, my housemates and I keep our bar stocked with about 70 liquor bottles. The parties this summer have been small since most people I know except for some football players and other summer school students are away for the summer. I try not to let any parties here get too big during the semesters though. Dopers who bleed Blue are welcome to join…my contact info is available on here. I already graduated from UK back in May but still hanging around for now. Tell me when and where I need to be, and I’ll be there. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/46 "2006-07-10T03:32:25Z")
I cannot see why people are upset that Chik-fil-A is closed on Sundays. Seems like a nice humane policy and it is their business after all. Now more importantly, how do we get them to open in Saudi Arabia? I love me some dry chicken breast of a plain bun with two pickles. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/47 "2006-07-10T03:46:34Z")
[QUOTE=waterj2] Here in Boston, we know ice cream. There are no Chik-Fil-A’s here. [/QUOTE] There’s one in the North Shore Mall in Peabody, if you really must. But hell, you can get a chicken sandwich anywhere. Boston Market is now owned by McDonald’s, ftr. **Paul** , how well do you think the hardcore Christian evangelism stuff would go over in SA? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/48 "2006-07-10T04:00:33Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] I love me some dry chicken breast of a plain bun with two pickles. [/QUOTE] And who in the world ever thought of putting pickles on chicken? That’s just weird. ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/49 "2006-07-10T12:30:41Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] I remember those tapes. **elfbabe** got one of those when she was about 9 or so. It featured dialogue with George Washington and some kid magically transported from the present to the Revolutionary war. It had ol’ George publicly praying and inviting the kid to pray along with him, proclaiming out loud that Jesus Christ was their Savior. _Not_ too historically in accordance with what was known about Washington. Even then, **elfbabe** could identify BS when she heard it. 🙂 [/QUOTE] So Washington wasn’t a christian? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/50 "2006-07-10T12:44:29Z")
[QUOTE=BluePitbull] So Washington wasn’t a christian? [/QUOTE] > **[George Washington and Religion](http://www.virginiaplaces.org/religion/religiongw.html)** > > George Washington and religion > [@](#): > > George Washington and Religion > > Washington gives us little in his writings to indicate his personal religious beliefs. As noted by Franklin Steiner in “The Religious Beliefs Of Our Presidents” (1936), Washington commented on sermons only twice. In his writings, he never referred to “Jesus Christ.” He attended church rarely, and did not take communion - though Martha did, requiring the family carriage to return back to the church to get her later. > > When trying to arrange for workmen in 1784 at Mount Vernon, Washington made clear that he would accept “Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists.” Washington wrote Lafayette in 1787, “Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.” > > Clear evidence of his personal theology is lacking, even on his deathbed when he died a “death of civility” without expressions of Christian hope. His failure to document beliefs in conventional dogma, such as a life after death, is a clue that he may not qualify as a conventional Christian. Instead, Washington may be closer to a “warm deist” than a standard Anglican in colonial Virginia. Judge for yourself. However, the documented record regarding his personal faith certainly doesn’t support the portrayal of him put out by Chik-fil-a. (It’s a tasty sammich which I have eaten and will probably do so again). ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/51 "2006-07-10T13:22:33Z")
[QUOTE=cerberus] If you want a real shake, go to SteakNShake. It’s ChikFilA, what do you expect? [/QUOTE] Yeah, if you want a REAL shake, don’t go to THAT shitty chain restaurant, go to THIS shitty chain restaurant. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/52 "2006-07-10T14:55:03Z")
Yeah, Kashmir’s on Limestone, near McDonald’s. It’s not great, but it’s far, far better than India Palace 3, which _did_ stink, was right next to Joe Bologna’s, and which I believe - hope - has gone the way of chivalry. Thank god. [QUOTE=brianjedi] They put one in at Ovid’s, and the other one is… I’m not sure where. [/QUOTE] Student Center Ovids (not technically _yet_, I suppose) Commons annnnd… Right outside of Student Health. > [@](#): > > Tell me when and where I need to be, and I’ll be there. That may be cool. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/53 "2006-07-10T14:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] Yeah, if you want a REAL shake, don’t go to THAT shitty chain restaurant, go to THIS shitty chain restaurant. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] In defense of Steak 'n Shake, it is substantially less shitty than most such chains, and would get my dollar way sooner than Jack T. Chick-fil-A ever would. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/54 "2006-07-10T18:10:50Z")
Chik-Fil-A is by far the better of any fast food restaurants mentioned here, especially that aberration to food that is Steak N Shake, with its overcooked shoe string fries, watery shakes and mushy spaghetti topped with chili --yeach! For late night dining, it can’t hold a candle to Waffle House. I had only seen Chik-Fil-A’s in mall food courts until moving to Atlanta, which sits just North of Hapeville, Georgia where the first Chik-Fil-A’s were made at the original restaurant, the Dwarf House. Truett Cathy, the founder, is indeed a dyed in the wool fundie, and I am upset to learn that a portion of the money I spend buying Chik-Fil-A’s goes to FotF, but I just can’t shake the habit. Whoever complained about the pickle, I brand you a know-nothing philistine – you probably don’t put pickles on your pulled pork sandwiches or grilled cheese sandwiches either –savage. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/55 "2006-07-10T18:35:40Z")
[QUOTE=ArchitectChore] No! In fact, I have never made a purchase at a Starbucks. [/QUOTE] Come … join us … don’t be afraid … Oh, and never mind that dead stare in my eyes. That’s only because I’m jonesin’ for caffeine. Wait, that didn’t help any did it … ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/56 "2006-07-10T19:14:04Z")
[QUOTE=Paranoid Randroid] Yeah, Kashmir’s on Limestone, near McDonald’s. It’s not great, but it’s far, far better than India Palace 3, which _did_ stink, was right next to Joe Bologna’s, and which I believe - hope - has gone the way of chivalry. Thank god. [/QUOTE] That was it. The India Palace 3 was once famously described by my roommate as smelling like “fried cat” as we walked to Rupp one night. And I knew that Starbucks was in the Student Health building, I’d just forgotten about it because I’m never in there. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/57 "2006-07-10T19:31:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Exodus 35:2 – Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. I’ve never had a Chik-Fil-A milk shake or chicken sandwich, but I’m willing to entertain that they are definitely NOT _to die for_. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/58 "2006-07-10T20:09:23Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] **FUCK YOU, SteakNShake!** Fuck you and the no-locations-in-Colorado horse you couldn’t be bothered to ride in on! :mad: Decatur Illinois has TWO - population is like 80,000. We have 2.8 million around here, I’m sure we could support a damn Steak ‘n’ Shake or two. Fuckers. [/QUOTE] Have you tried [Johnny Rockets](http://www.johnnyrockets.com/index2.php)? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/59 "2006-07-10T20:14:48Z")
[QUOTE=Paranoid Randroid] (Sorry. Just seeing how many UK students we can get in here. Move along.) [/QUOTE] Do alumni count? ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597/60 "2006-07-10T20:42:40Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] Have you tried [Johnny Rockets](http://www.johnnyrockets.com/index2.php)? [/QUOTE] Yeah, it’s ok. Much better shakes, but I think SnS has better burgers… Granted, I haven’t been to a Steak 'n Shake in over 10 years, so maybe they aren’t what they used to be. Or maybe the fact that I was drinking back then had something to do with it (heck, get me liquored up and Taco Bell tastes good) Re: Johnny Rockets, there is now one smack dab in the middle of the tourist part of Playa del Carmen. Very disorienting. Who, I ask, goes to the Mayan Riviera to dine at Johnny Rockets? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-chik-fil-a-and-your-overpriced-shake/363597.md?page=2)