I sadly cannot boycott Chik-Fil-A—because I’m vegetarian. Never been there and never will.
When I stopped drinking Yuengling, I stopped drinking beer altogether—not sure if that counts as a boycott?
I’m with you. Around the same time I went vegetarian, I gave up booze, coffee, and tea. I think CfA didn’t miss my absence before then, and they’re not likely going to miss it now. Does never having darkened their doors in my entire life count as a continuous boycott?
That’s an old myth. It’s not brined in pickle juice.
This secret camera footage of the CFA kitchens says otherwise.
The raw chicken used to come pre-prepared in big plastic bags; we’d bread and fry them at the store. I never knew what the spice blend was, but I don’t remember it being vinegary or pickle-y. Just salt and pepper, near as I can recall; but of course, this was forty years ago.
It doesn’t kick in until the next life.
Are you sure? Because the company won’t say. There’s speculation that it is, and people have come pretty close to copying the flavor through a pickle brine. Do you have a good cite?
Ingredients for just the chicken and breading, not the bun or pickle:
Chicken (boneless, skinless breast tenderloins, yeast extract, salt, maltodextrin, potassium chloride, spice, flavor, chicken fat, garlic powder, sugar syrup, onion powder, citric acid, paprika [color], sodium diacetate, silicon dioxide [anticaking agent], molasses, tomato powder, smoke flavor, enriched bleached flour [with malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, nonfat milk, leavening [baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate], spice, soybean oil, color [paprika], pasteurized nonfat milk, pasteurized egg, fully refined peanut oil [with dimethylpolysiloxane {an anti-foam agent} added])
To see the ingredients, choose an item from the online menu. Internet myths die hard. Order a chicken sandwich with no pickle, and taste the meat alone. No pickle taste whatsoever.
Doing some research, it appears that at one time they did marinate their chicken tenders (not sandwiches) in pickle juice. This is attested to by former employees who worked at the restaurant in the late 90s. It wasn’t just pickle juice alone, there was some kind of seasoning packet they’d add as well. It seems like at some point they stopped, because testimonies from newer employees say that nothing is brined.
I can see how that practice can morph through retelling into the story that all of their chicken is brined, especially if you get a sandwich with pickles and the pickle juice flavors the chicken it is resting on.
Here’s an example discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChickFilA/comments/99nsl7/where_did_the_notion_that_the_chicken_is_soaked/
While yes, these are random people on the internet (then again, so are we), I do see a pattern where people from the late 90s or a bit earlier say it was done, and people who worked there later say it wasn’t done. And I find it more likely that they are telling the truth than that they are conspiring together for corroboration.
Then there are web sites like this:
The author claims that “the chain’s web site” has a list of ingredients for a “chicken marinade”. Yet there is no link to such a recipe. The only reference in that article is this page, which doesn’t really back up any of those claims.
This is a cross between religious AND dumbshit politicians in the news. Is god really this dumb?
Every time I hear “God told me to!”(or some variation) I instantly think of this little horror film, God Told Me To - Wikipedia.
Chic-fil-A wasn’t doing this in 1985-1986. But back then, the only things they sold were sandwiches, nuggets, and cold chicken salad sandwiches.
I remember watching that late one night. Weirdly I remember it as with Judd Hirsch but not Andy Kaufman. Oh well.
The space1999 eagle as the alien UFO really set the stage.
So, it’s beer in four out of the five senses?
3/5. It smells like crap, too.
“God told me to do it!” and other variations make me think of this one.
“God told me to do it” reminds me of my friend’s ex - he stole checks from the back of her checkbook to send to some effing evangelist. She ended up having to sell her house and was almost bankrupt. And the kicker - he was molesting her teenage daughter. Biggest scumbag lying narcissist I’ve ever seen, until Trump.
I was announcing at a softball tournament, and mentioned the concession stand had shushies, ice cream, cold soda, Gateraid, etc. Someone came up to me and said “Boy, that sounds good. All you’re missing is cold beer!” I replied “Don’t have any beer, but we do have Coors Lite.”
It makes perfect sense, if you’re a Moral Relativist. That’s why moral relativism is horrible.
I just refer to it as “amoralism”. Once you determine that there is no “true” right or wrong, then they cease to matter, and you do whatever the fuck you want to, often at the expense of anyone else.