# The Carl's Jr. $6 Restaurant Cheeseburger Without The Restaurant **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027 "2001-10-02T19:26:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/1 "2001-10-02T19:26:58Z")
…i.e., Without Having To Acknowledge The Existance of Fat, Ugly, Old, or Otherwise Unhip People. I mean have you seen these adds? In the first one you see two ultra-hip looking dudes…in fact they have a skate-rattish look to them. They’re eating their burgers when — Ohmigod – the obnoxious, grossly fat waiter starts telling them about the deserts. OK, I hate it when waiters rush me, and this waiter is clearly incompetent. As far as that might have been the point of the commercial, I don’t object to it. But it seems that the producers had to get a fat actor just to make the restaurant seem sufficiently revolting. In the other one I saw, the set-up is much the same. The same two guys are having their burgers, when a whole group of —Ohmigod—_OLD PEOPLE_ gets up and walks by the two guys’ table. Of course, being old, they can’t get out of there with sufficient dispatch to please the dudes. We hear bovine mooing noises in the background. I mean WTF?!? I don’t like incompetent waiters, and I’m not a participant in the fat-acceptance movement, but come on Carl’s Jr.! Whatever happened to treating everyone with dignity? Did you have to use a fat waiter whose clothes don’t quite fit to illustrate the idea of server obnoxiousness? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/2 "2001-10-02T19:29:24Z")
You were expecting the witty cleverness of Jack In The Box? 😃 Mmmm… Carl’s Jr… Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/3 "2001-10-02T19:44:49Z")
That commercial is awful in about ten different ways. It wins the awful decathalon. The worst part about it, to me, is how loud the eating noises are. I’m not usually bugged too much by that but it’s unbearable in that ad. I can’t imagine how people who hate eating noises react to it. And also, the guys are just sitting there staring off into space. Are the singing waiters really disturbing their good time? ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/4 "2001-10-02T19:45:35Z")
I do love the birthday song one, though. It’s so marvelously creepy… ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/5 "2001-10-02T19:47:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > **Mmmm… Carl’s Jr…** Oh, so that’s what Carl calls his…err…thing. [sub]The post was brought to you by the Committee for Freudian Inferences to Anything[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![MFS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MFS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MFS)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/6 "2001-10-02T20:29:13Z")
I’ll just be glad that I have no clue as to what the hell it is you are talking about here… ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/7 "2001-10-02T20:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MFS \* > \*\*I’ll just be glad that I have no clue as to what the hell it is you are talking about here… \*\* You probably don’t watch American TV; it’s a series of TV ads that Carl’s Jr. is running. Actually I’m not sure; perhaps Carl’s Jr is regional and you have to be in the right part of the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![MFS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MFS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MFS)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/8 "2001-10-02T20:46:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by javaman \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by MFS \* > > \*\*I’ll just be glad that I have no clue as to what the hell it is you are talking about here… \*\* > > You probably don’t watch American TV; it’s a series of TV ads that Carl’s Jr. is running. Actually I’m not sure; perhaps Carl’s Jr is regional and you have to be in the right part of the U.S. \*\* it must be regional, then… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/9 "2001-10-02T20:59:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by javaman \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by MFS \* > > \*\*I’ll just be glad that I have no clue as to what the hell it is you are talking about here… \*\* > > You probably don’t watch American TV; it’s a series of TV ads that Carl’s Jr. is running. Actually I’m not sure; perhaps Carl’s Jr is regional and you have to be in the right part of the U.S. \*\* There is no Carl’s Jr. on the East Coast. This much I know. Until I moved out West I had limited knowledge of JITB and no knowledge of Carl’s Jr. \ Tis a shame Roy Roger’s is no more (except on the NJ Turnpike) \ ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/10 "2001-10-02T21:03:29Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Mr. Miskatonic** _ > > \ > Tis a shame Roy Roger’s is no more (except on the NJ Turnpike) > \ And the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Also, Carl’s Jr. are essentially the same outfit as Hardee’s, but there aren’t a whole lot of them left on the east coast, either (I see them in western Pennsylvania). Esprix ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/11 "2001-10-02T21:04:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by javaman \* > **…i.e., Without Having To Acknowledge The Existance of Fat, Ugly, Old, or Otherwise Unhip People.** What is most shocking is that, while I do not live where they have a Carl’s Jr., I can assume from visiting other fast food places THAT WE ARE THEIR CUSTOMER BASE! No chain can survive on the business that thin, young, attractive, and hip people will throw their way. No long-term sales forecasting can be made if one must hope that your chain STAYS hip. So it makes no sense whatsoever to insult us. There is always a McDonalds or Burger King or Wendy’s down the street. Dave Thomas knows what we want because he is one of us. I’m sure Carl Jr is dead because nobody starts a business like that without being one of us. ---
**Author:** ![MFS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MFS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MFS)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/12 "2001-10-02T21:16:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by **Mr. Miskatonic** _ > > > > \ > > Tis a shame Roy Roger’s is no more (except on the NJ Turnpike) > > \ > > And the Pennsylvania Turnpike. > > Also, Carl’s Jr. are essentially the same outfit as Hardee’s, but there aren’t a whole lot of them left on the east coast, either (I see them in western Pennsylvania). > > Esprix \*\* eeew… Hardee’s generally sucks… there’s one near us. I have no idea how they are still in business. ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/13 "2001-10-02T21:20:35Z")
If Carl’s Jr had Hardees Raisin and Cinnamon biscuits then I would be a very very happy man. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/14 "2001-10-02T21:20:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by **Mr. Miskatonic** _ > > > > \ > > Tis a shame Roy Roger’s is no more (except on the NJ Turnpike) > > \ > > And the Pennsylvania Turnpike. > \*\* And next to the IHOP about a half-mile from my apartment in Virginia. Come to think of it, there’s one in the other direction down by the Fairfax County Parkway, too. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/15 "2001-10-02T21:24:37Z")
You have to admit, though… the $6 Burger is _good_. ---
**Author:** ![MFS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MFS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MFS)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/16 "2001-10-02T21:31:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*You have to admit, though… the $6 Burger is _good_. \*\* but for $5 I can get a damn good burger, fries, and a pop at Fudruckers… damn… now I’m hungry. ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/17 "2001-10-02T21:33:39Z")
Actually Carl’s Jr. and Hardees must be the exact **same** resteraunt, because here in TN we have those exact same commercials. The same skate rattish dudes eating with the obnoxious (fairly creepy) waiters singing “Happy Birthday” in the backround. The ad is for **Hardees** $6 burger. I wonder at what point the “Carl’s” become “Hardees”. It is sorta like the whole “Krystal” in the south, “White Castle” in the north thing. Different names, basically the same food. ---
**Author:** ![seawitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@seawitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seawitch)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/18 "2001-10-02T21:38:16Z")
I’ve long thought that Carl’s needed to fire their ad agency. The $6 burger ads weren’t too awful - but I get sorta grossed out by the ads that show burger drippings splashing all down the actors’ clothes. And one short-lived ad that showed ketchup splashes nearly drowning the ants and beetles that were swarming over the burger eater’s kitchen floor. Yeah, that’s the response you’re looking for: _Eeeew. Gross._ ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/19 "2001-10-02T21:58:42Z")
> [@](#): > > but for $5 I can get a damn good burger, fries, and a pop at Fudruckers… > > damn… now I’m hungry. Hey, do you suspose they’ll hold up well on Fed-Ex. I had a burger form Fudruckers in NC, been hoping someone would start a chain here in Cali. ---
**Author:** ![CyberHippy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@CyberHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberHippy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027/20 "2001-10-02T22:11:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stuffinb \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > but for $5 I can get a damn good burger, fries, and a pop at Fudruckers… > > > > damn… now I’m hungry. > > Hey, do you suspose they’ll hold up well on Fed-Ex. I had a burger form Fudruckers in NC, been hoping someone would start a chain here in Cali. \*\* There was a Fudruckers in southern Cal when I was a kid - absolutely the best burger I’ve ever had in my life! Somehow they didn’t survive. I really used to love the rows of cow-carcasses in the front windows… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-carls-jr-6-restaurant-cheeseburger-without-the-restaurant/85027.md?page=2)