If it has no taste except sweetness. I haven’t had whatever Arby’s is offering but I have occasionally made the mistake of picking up King’s Hawaiian rolls. No more flavor than Wonder white bread, plus a strong overtone of sugar-sweetness, and a chew like a mouthful of cotton candy.
I’ll take your word for it, but it sounds like the bread was completely incidental to the flavors in your composition. I use a middling amount of horsey sauce myself but prefer the regular bun/bread they use to offset that and the meat.
I want to try that Kings Hawaiian. I see its a limited offer. So I’ll try and go this week. I used to buy the Beef N Cheddar but it started giving me bad heartburn. Probably the onion roll.
I make roast beef sandwiches at home pretty often. Great use of leftovers.
Here in NE, I haven’t seen one in years…but I have a question: is their “roast beef” artificially produced? I remember it as like bologna-no obvious signs of having been a cow. Their horseradish sauce was great though.
Take a plastic bag, fill with 7 lbs. of beef chunks, fill the gaps with a paste made from beef, fat and water. 10 lbs. total weight.
Freeze.
Ship to store.
Thaw. Remove from plastic.
Cook.
The few Arby’s that I know of near where I live are going strong, from the looks of things.
On the other hand, Togo’s and Quizno’s have been closing left and right - in a number of cases, less than a year after they opened. However, there’s nothing new about this; Togo’s stores were closing almost as fast as they were opening almost 20 years ago.
Probably just your local franchises as all of the ones near me are still open and seem to be doing just fine. I usually go in about once a month when I’m in town. It’s a nice change from the standard fast food fare, though it’s more expensive than most other fast food places (I generally spend around $10 for a meal at Arby’s, as opposed to the $6-7 I’d spend somewhere else), but it’s worth it. Best fast food roast beef sandwich out there, since Roy Roger’s went out of business lo these many years ago…
When I was a kid my Mom would take us there for the 39 cent milkshakes which gradually rose to 49, 59, 69 cents. Then they got rid of the Shake of the Month. We did breakfast- egg croissants. The ones near me now don’t do breakfast.
They also got rid of some other favorites- concretes and baked potatoes. The potatoes were my favorite deal in fast food.
I know they are trying a lot of new things these days but they haven’t added anything I care for since the late 90s, other than chocolate turnovers.
By coincidence, I recently had to write to Arby’s with some complaints/suggestions.
I don’t like them dispatching orders by name. I prefer to be a number. (And making up a name is absurd…)
They had a radio playing over the dining room speakers, and radio stations have lots of ads. Also inappropriate content. Recorded music would be better.
The Chocolate shake had a residual taste of berry, from someone’s previous berry shake.
Also, this is an old (OLD!) establishment, with a tiny dining room, and old-fashioned bathrooms (you access them from the parking lot, not from the dining room.)
Oh, that said – VERY GOOD BEEF SANDWICHES! Very, very good indeed. The key point of the exercise was accomplished, and happily!
So – room for improvement, but I hope they stay in business!
I know it ain’t great, but since Roy Rogers passed from the scene and Hardee’s took it off the menu, where else can you go for a fast-food shaved-roast-beef-burger with some kinda BBQ sauce on the side?
This was one of the greatest promotions ever. When that deal was on, four or five of my coworkers and I would throw in $5 apiece and buy a bushel of these sandwiches, which we’d take back to the office and dump in a huge pile on the breakroom table. Then we’d compete to see who could chow down the most (with the most horsey sauce, of course) before our lunch break was over. It became a bit of a spectator sport for the non-participants in the office as well.
Not intened as a hijack, just a side note: A coworker brought homemade white castle’s using those rolls to a company shindig. They were very popular little sandwiches. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slider-style-mini-burgers/
Not sure if that was his recipe, but I felt compelled to provide a cite.
(looking over the recipe, I would surely leave out the mayo.)
I freakin’ love Arby’s. They used to have a few in San Francisco but they gradually closed, one by one (the last one a while back, 5 or 6 years ago).
There are still a few in the Bay Area, but none between Sonoma County and San Jose that I’m aware of, which make them all a bit too out of reach for me.
I used to hit the local Arby’s all the time, until two things happened: I got married and they stopped serving French Fries. Now, the first thing wasn’t a deal-breaker, as the wife likes Arby’s too. But abandoning some of the best fast-food fries around for those disgusting Curly Fries? That was the last straw. I wrote a nasty letter to Corporate and haven’t been back since.
Of course, now I see selected locations have fries, along with other potato-ey goodies. Methinks a trip to Arby’s is in order again.
