# "Have a blessed day!"... \[Chick-fil-a\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649 "2014-10-27T15:11:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/41 "2014-10-28T00:42:29Z")
> [@tenacious\_j](#): > > to me, that’s more of a visual thing than a flavor thing. Wendy’s food, except the chili and the sea salt fries, tastes like it’s been steamed all day. I think CFAs fries are more potato-ey than Wendy’s baked potatoes. Gotcha. I was stuck on resemble = looks like. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/42 "2014-10-28T00:56:20Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > …No thanks, Chick-fil-a. I’ve made other plans. :rolleyes: well then, you won’t have to hear them say it. problem solved. so why are you complaining? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/43 "2014-10-28T01:14:22Z")
Wendy’s spicy chicken sandwich trumps all FF chicken sandwiches IMO. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/44 "2014-10-28T01:24:33Z")
I just looked up “blessed” in the dictionary and there are at least two ways that it’s not tied to anything divine… (1) blissfully happy or contented, or (2) bringing happiness or thankfulness. So, no matter where I’ve been in my life spiritually (from an agnostic to whatever it is I am now), I’d never have a problem with anyone wishing me such a banal, but kind sentiment. Bring on the blissful happiness! Oh, and Cajun chicken. I’m about that, too. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/45 "2014-10-28T02:21:53Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > …No thanks, Chick-fil-a. I’ve made other plans. :rolleyes: You can also go with with “bless your heart”, which may or may not mean “go fuck yourself”. Fortunately, back home in Confederate Florida, everyone knows I loathe CFA’s food, religion, and politics; no one even suggests it as an option if I’m in the group. I think the 15-minute rant turns people off. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/46 "2014-10-28T02:28:50Z")
I’ll echo the Wendy’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich is the best chicken sandwich, but Chick-Fil-A makes a pretty damned good chicken sandwich. I boycotted them myself for a few years due to the company giving to ex-gay groups, which is akin to giving money to torturers (IMO), but since they’ve ended that practice I’ve started going back (I do realize that still give to anti-gay marriage groups, which I disagree with, but I find that to be an expression of free speech and not worthy of boycotting - and I got really sick of ‘boycott culture’ after the Eich thing). CFA also has tasty waffle fries. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/47 "2014-10-28T02:31:42Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > How are they even in business and seemingly thriving with the likes of Popey’s as their direct competition and the completely unremarkable Wendy’s pretty much making the exact same chicken sandwiches? I happen to enjoy the spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy’s but they don’t serve anything like the chicken from Chick-Fil-A. But, yes, they seem to be thriving. Head to any of the three locations here in Little Rock at lunch or dinner and you’ll see a huge line in the drive thru and plenty of people eating indoors. Why? [ul] [li]The employees are unfailingly polite.[/li][li]The restaurants are clean. [/li][li]They make _really_ good chicken sandwiches.[/li][li]They’re competitively priced.[/li][li]The biggest complaints I hear about Chick-Fil-A as a restaurant is that they’re closed on Sundays and their employees say stupid stuff like “have a blessed day.” [/li][/ul] I get that not everybody likes the chicken from Chick-Fil-A. I don’t really understand it, but, hey, different strokes for different folks, right? But why they’re successful really isn’t a mystery. Edit: Incidentally, I didn’t hear anyone say “have a blessed day” when I got my lunch today. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/48 "2014-10-28T02:34:43Z")
I’ve never eaten at a CFA. Reason one, when I’m out and about running errands and might like a fast-food lunch, it’s usually a Sunday and they’re closed. Two, the sodium content – way too high for me. The religiosity of the founder runs a distant third. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/49 "2014-10-28T02:44:43Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I was a aware of CFA’s stance on homosexuality. I suppose curiosity and proximity got the better of me, enough to want to brake my embargo. But once in there, I was surprised by the lack of variety. You can have chicken breaded and not breaded, sandwich, strip or nugget form. Some unremarkable waffle fries and a coleslaw that should go directly in the trash. That’s it? That’s what all the fuss is about? The fact that they’re better than McDonald’s? > > Meh. Colour me blessedly unimpressed. My first experience with Chick-fil-A was at the Sooner Mall in Norman, OK (it was Spring, 2009, and I was there for a school on one of the Postal Service’s sorting machines). I didn’t have a sandwich, but they WERE pushing a peach milkshake at the time. That thing was bloody delicious. My next Chick-fil-A experience came in the fall of that year, when the newly-elected APWU chief steward and Local president passed out sandwiches at the beginning of tour one evening. Pretty tasty, but nothing to change my life. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/50 "2014-10-28T05:38:52Z")
The nearest Wendy’s is ten miles away, and I don’t know if there’s a Popeyes in a hundred mile radius. CFA is he best fast food chicken we have around here. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/51 "2014-10-28T11:42:18Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > So, why are you eating there, if the food is so awful and the employees are annoying you? > > I can only conclude that you ENJOY being “insulted” and self-righteously angry. Once. I ate there ONCE. Check post #3. And I’m not insulted by the blessed day comment as much as I am by the blandness of the food and the minor local hoopla of a Chick-fil-a coming to the area. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/52 "2014-10-28T12:03:16Z")
“Have a blessed day” is not a Chick-fil-A thing. If you heard it there, the employee said it of his or her own volition. The only phrase you’ll repeatedly hear one of their employees say is “My pleasure”. Now I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/53 "2014-10-28T12:32:56Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > But once in there, I was surprised by the lack of variety. To me, that’s invariably a good sign. It means you have one core product you concentrate on, and you do it well (if you’re packing the restaurant and continually expanding across the US.) Now, obviously some people here disagree about the quality of their product, but I do think it’s the best fast food chicken sandwich, much how I think In N Out is the best fast food burger and it has a similarly short menu (just cheeseburger, hamburger, fries, and shake, I believe.) Chick Fil A actually has a bit more on their menu, like salads, wraps, a breakfast burrito, breakfast biscuit sandwiches, etc. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/54 "2014-10-28T12:47:14Z")
Feeling a little less grumpy and more fair minded today, I have to concede the above point - ‘Chicken’ is right in the name of the joint. I might as well have complained about the lack of variety at KFC. I’m w/e on the ‘blessed day’ thing too; Could have been just the server or this particular store. Still don’t think the chicken is anything to brag about. It’s acceptable, maybe better than some other fast food joints, but that’s hardly a high bar. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/55 "2014-10-28T13:56:34Z")
Approps of nothing, in general, the ONLY people I ever hear saying “Have a blessed day” are African-American women. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/56 "2014-10-28T14:00:57Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Wait: if you buy a chicken sandwich you receive a blessing? Does Martin Luther know about this? He’d nail 95 feces to their door. It would not be known if this was a theological stand, or a commentary on the quality of the chicken sandwiches. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/57 "2014-10-28T14:18:01Z")
If you are offended by Truett Cathy (founder of CFA) spending CFA profits to promote homophobia, urge people to boycott on that basis. Don’t go claiming that CFA sandwiches are not delicious, because a lot of people think they ARE delicious (me included). The only effect your claims will have on people who think they are delicious is to make them doubt your word – clearly you don’t know what you are talking about, or are willing to lie to influence them. It actually hurts your cause. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/58 "2014-10-28T14:55:45Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > Fortunately, back home in Confederate Florida, everyone knows I loathe CFA’s food, religion, and politics; no one even suggests it as an option if I’m in the group. I think the 15-minute rant turns people off. 😃 I bet you are a lot of fun to hang out with… “Hey let’s go hit Chik-Fil-A. Their sammiches are the shit.” \ “Right. So Chik-Fil-A it is. Deuces.” ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/59 "2014-10-28T15:20:51Z")
> [@Alex\_from\_CB](#): > > You hear…blessed… used in place of _fortunate_ or \*lucky \*all the time down here in the slave states. > > Coach Bobby Liverspots of The West Florida Fightin’ Flamingoes said, " we was blessed that ball bounced sideways and rolled out of bounds to protect our win." Used in that context or as “Have a a blessed day,” there is a 100% chance the person means “Blessed by God exactly as I perceive him.” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649/60 "2014-10-28T15:23:38Z")
Even though I’m not religious I don’t care if someone wishes me to be blessed, at least for today anyway. I guess I have to come eat there again tomorrow to be blessed tomorrow. And judging by the crowds I don’t think that boycotting Chick-Fil-A is hurting their business much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-blessed-day-chick-fil-a/702649.md?page=4)