The dearth of spitoons and cuspidors has been appalling.
I used to love those mouth melting inferno pies. So good, but so dangerous!
There’s a local pizza chain called Pizza Pirara near me. They’re basically going after the same Little Ceasers “Hot N Ready” walk-in and walk-out $7 pizza market but getting a fresh custom pizza for the same price is actually pretty tasty.
They also have some of the best chicken wings I’ve seen, really big meaty chicken wings that are oven baked to the perfect temperature so they aren’t so dry like other places.
I had to stop going there though despite my love of their chicken wings because for whatever reason their employees were CONSTANTLY forgetting to put buffalo sauce on the wings. I have no idea if they think me asking for “Chicken wings” automatically starts meaning “No sauce” but then when I started specifically asking for “Buffalo Wings” they still kept forgetting to put the buffalo sauce on. Frustrated I started to say “Buffalo wings with EXTRA buffalo sauce” but then this seemed to confused them even further, I’d get there to pick up and they would irritated ask me “So much extra sauce so you actually want?” And I then had to act like I was telling a Subway employee how much mustard I wanted on my sandwich having to tell them when to “stop” saucing. I wound up just giving up on going there.
Ah… Subway.
“Give me a Six Inch BMT with Everything”
You want mustard and mayo?
Yes.
You want lettuce?
Yes.
You want tomato?
Uh… Yes, I want everything.
You want olives?
Uh… Is olives somehow a subset of Everything? Yes, I want olives.
You want pickles?
Yes, Goddammit! I want fucking pickles! I want EVERY FUCKING THING you got back there! If you got a bucket of spit, I want a few swabs of that! Now, Make the fucking sandwich and stop asking me if I want anything!!
You want onions?
Now, I’ve never been a Subway “sandwich artist” but my guess is that they’ve dealt with plenty of customers who said they want “everything” on their sandwich but then are shocked to find jalapeños or olives or whatever there.
Absolutely - people have a different idea of what “everything” means and to an extent , different regions and restaurants do , too. For example, I don’t like mustard on burgers. If I go to a McDonald’s in NYC, that is not generally a special order *. If I go to a Burger King and simply specify “no tomatoes”, it will not usually have mustard either . Because mustard isn’t standard on burgers in NYC.
*Although it was for a short period of time at one NYC location I know - I expect they wasted a lot of burgers.
You forgot “often burned”. I don’t know why they can’t get it right. They use locally grown potatoes when possible and they have the proper equipment, but it’s like nobody has ever told them how to make a proper fry. Or they just don’t give a shit now that they’re a national chain.
Oh man, you just triggered a food memory. The fries in Brussels are absolutely addictive. I lived there for two years and couldn’t get enough of them, especially served with homemade mayo and alongside a perfectly cooked steak au poivre.
Really? I find Five Guys fries immensely superior to any other burger chain. I’ve never found them undercooked. The can be too salty – most fries are – but you can order them without salt.
The portions are too big, which is why you order a small.
I’m going to agree that this is unreasonable of you. Some places have a standard list of what “everything” consists of, but Subway does not. As far as I know, the list of possible toppings is not identical at all locations. A customer who was used to getting “everything” at a location that did not offer jalapenos and green olives might get something he didn’t expect at a location that did. And does “everything” include all the various sauces/condiments that they have available?
They’re not crispy. People who need their fries crispy aren’t going to like Five Guys fries.
I believe their national expansion is through franchising, not corporate-owned locations. I have heard complaints from people who have gone to newer locations. Controlling quality and consistency throughout a nationwide network, especially involving franchises, is not easy. Perhaps Five Guys is working out kinks.
That being said, I much prefer the fries at Shake Shack.
Some people like a sandwich with ‘everything’, whatever ‘everything’ is. They may just like everything and not care, or they may be grown ups who can pick out some particular thing it turns out they don’t like.
Then there are the people who don’t want to tell you what they want on a sandwich but then need to know what ‘everything’ is. Hard to say if that’s better than someone who asks for ‘everything’, insists on getting everything, “Give me the works!”, and then complains about something included with ‘everything’.
‘Everything’ or ‘plain’ (nothing extra) should be free with the price of a sandwich. Want to pick your extras? That will be an extra charge to cover the cost of aggravation.
I at least don’t find them inferior in taste, and superior in size. The only ones that they are worse than off the top of my head are Checkers’.
Their burgers, on the other hand, are probably made from cheap cuts of meat because they look like they should be tasty but in actuality are quite bland to me. Even an indifferently-cooked backyard burger has a superior taste to the meat itself (even though I would not claim to actually cook them better myself at home, unlike the trope.)
EDIT: To be more specific, their burgers are neither juicy nor have a tasty slightly burnt taste to them, and they are the only place that manages to achieve neither.
Well, Subway’s model is that you go down the line and tell the sandwich artist exactly what you want and exactly what you don’t want. @Gatopescado has only emself to blame for trying to override this function.
Right. There are plenty of other sandwich places that have other models, like where each sandwich on the menu has its own preselected list of toppings, or there’s a standard list of toppings that you get when you ask for “everything” (plus maybe a few other things that are available on request but not part of “everything”). But that’s not Subway.
I agree that KFC coleslaw is pretty good, largely because it’s not drowned in creamy glop like the vast majority of coleslaw both from chains and otherwise decent to good non-chain restaurants. In addition, restaurant coleslaw in general is horribly bland, and you have to liberally use salt and pepper to get it semi-edible.
I’ve gotten more confident about ordering steamed broccoli as a side at steak places like the Longhorn. They’ve actually learned that al dente texture is a good thing so you don’t get limp, mushy broccoli.
Well, if they’re using lettuce instead of cabbage, then it’s definitely going to be terrible coleslaw.
The ones I get are. Not like potato chips, but with a nice, subtle crunch.
IMO, the only burger place that makes worse fries than 5 Guys is In-N-Out. Luckily, there is a Hat just down the street from the In-N-Out in Upland. 2 Double Doubles w/ cheese, then an order of fries from The Hat. Best of both worlds and feeds the car. Sure, not being able to get both at the same place is a pain. But 2 pop-ups equal the same number of outs as a well-executed double play. Just not as pretty.