# The "new" Arby's "Roastburger"--w.t.f. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 9, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850 "2009-03-09T17:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/21 "2009-03-09T19:06:28Z")
You must have gone to burger college and majored in burgers. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/22 "2009-03-09T19:25:23Z")
The Arch Deluxe lives on as the Big N’ Tasty, FTR- it’s the same sandwich, just without the weird butt-shaped bun. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/23 "2009-03-09T19:29:30Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#): > > It’s scary that it became so popular. I just read that the Baconator has been named the official burger of the Canadian Football League. And it’s not even made with **Canadian** bacon! ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/24 "2009-03-09T19:50:03Z")
> [@Influential\_Panda](#): > > Get thee to a Burger King post haste and order thyself an angry whopper. You will forgive them. Nope nope, sorry. I’ve been burned too many times. Pretty much a moot point anyway. The only time I do fast food anymore is in airports and I don’t recally ever seeing a BK in an airport. I think I’ve seen one Wendy’s in an airport. Atlanta maybe. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/25 "2009-03-09T19:55:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Get thee to a Burger King post haste and order thyself an angry whopper. You will forgive them.. I tried an angry whopper ans was severly annoyed. It wasn’t Angry, it wasn’t even midly irritated. it was perfectly content :mad: Even by the weak standards of fast food\* when it comes to making something hot it had no nothing there. \*on the 1-10 hotness scale Wendy’s spicy chicken gets a 3, Taco-bell Fire sauce gets a 4.5, and the angry Whopper wasn’t even a 1. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/26 "2009-03-09T20:01:59Z")
A couple years ago, I went to Wendy’s and got some bizarre flyer in my bag advertising their limited time fish sandwich (all the fast food places have to put out a limited time fish sandwich for Lent, it seems). I posted the text to another forum allowing me to share it with you today: > [@](#): > > Do something deliciously observant. Eat fish while keeping it real with your taste buds. Order a fish sandwich that will make you shout “Boo-ya!”. Just remember, you’re never breaking the rules when you do what tastes right > > Fish sandwich back for Lent. The whole “Rock Lent… TO THE EXTREME!” vibe was weird enough to put me off Wendy’s for a bit. I always liked the Fillet-o-Fish as my Lent-time staple anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/27 "2009-03-09T20:40:50Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > A couple years ago, I went to Wendy’s and got some bizarre flyer in my bag advertising their limited time fish sandwich (all the fast food places have to put out a limited time fish sandwich for Lent, it seems). I posted the text to another forum allowing me to share it with you today:The whole “Rock Lent… TO THE EXTREME!” vibe was weird enough to put me off Wendy’s for a bit. I always liked the Fillet-o-Fish as my Lent-time staple anyway. The “Boo ya” thing makes me want to stretch my balls until they’re wafer thin. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/28 "2009-03-09T20:45:06Z")
I swore off of limited time fish years ago. I’d hate for it to turn into sheep liver just as I’m taking a bite out of it. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/29 "2009-03-09T21:14:57Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Limited-time burgers aren’t always bad. The ones at Wendy’s are almost invariably terrific. _thinks back to the delicious bacon mushroom melt_ The Bacon Mushroom Melt was the only one I could think of that ever was good enough that I remember it fondly. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/30 "2009-03-09T21:17:18Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I swore off of limited time fish years ago. I’d hate for it to turn into sheep liver just as I’m taking a bite out of it. Oh man, I would NEVER eat fish from a fast food place. (Well Long John Silver’s once every ten years.) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/31 "2009-03-09T21:59:00Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > A couple years ago, I went to Wendy’s and got some bizarre flyer in my bag advertising their limited time fish sandwich (all the fast food places have to put out a limited time fish sandwich for Lent, it seems). In my own personal experience, all fish is limited time fish. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/32 "2009-03-09T22:04:17Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Oh man, I would NEVER eat fish from a fast food place. (Well Long John Silver’s once every ten years.) The BK Big Fish is pretty good. Yeah, I had to get fast food a couple of Fridays ago. But there is always a fish sandwich available, year-round. No, not the same one. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/33 "2009-03-09T22:23:34Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Nope nope, sorry. I’ve been burned too many times. > > Pretty much a moot point anyway. The only time I do fast food anymore is in airports and I don’t recally ever seeing a BK in an airport. > > I think I’ve seen one Wendy’s in an airport. Atlanta maybe. There’s a BK at LAX. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/34 "2009-03-09T22:34:10Z")
Before I join the fast food fish hijack, I’ll just mention that ‘WTF?’ was indeed my first reaction when I got a coupon flyer for Arby’s Roastburger recently. ‘That’s a roast beef sammitch with lettuce and tomato’, sez I. ‘What’s the point?’ Anway, on with the fish hijack. Haven’t had Burger King’s version; maybe I should try it. I actually like McDonald’s Squarefish filet sandwich, and when they came out with a double just a couple weeks ago, I thought ‘That’s the one for me!’ Except it wasn’t. Apparently, the single-patty Filet ‘o’ Fish has a precisely calculated ratio of fish, cheese and tartar sauce, and doubling the fish throws the balance completely off. Pity. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/35 "2009-03-09T22:36:28Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > There’s a BK at LAX. My one experience in LAX was … not pleasant. Come to think if it there’s a burger king in the Denver airport too. It’s outside of security. Why would I want to pay airport prices _outside_ of security. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/36 "2009-03-09T22:55:16Z")
I’m admittedly not the target Arby’s customer - Culver’s ButterBurgers are as close as I willíngly get to fast food, and I’m such a cynic I’m nearly immune to mass marketing. But I can’t see how the Roastburger spot with the greaser kid wiping his ducksass hairdo with the Brand X Burger patty - _shlorp, shlorp_ - could possibly be anything but a hideous example of advertising FAIL. Because the very name Roastburger is now, for me, indelibly associated with that cold, übergreasy, hyperdisgusting _shlorp, shlorp_, as the dead-eyed, chinless, fish-belly white youth pomades himself with burger tallow. So ram it all up your ass sideways, Arby’s. You suck, your sandwiches suck, your campaign sucks, and your creative team deserves to be locked in a burning car and driven over a cliff. ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/37 "2009-03-09T22:59:29Z")
Anyone remember the McDonalds Quarter Pounder Ranchero? It came out at some point in the 80’s, and was sort of a Mexican version of the QP. I don’t remember what all was on it, but I do remember a tortilla, some cheese that was different than the regular QP cheese, and taco sauce. I remember it as being pretty good, but I liked a lot of horrible slop back then so who knows. Going back on topic, I agree that the Roastburgers suck and were a bad idea from the start. However, they’ve been doing a lot of this type of thing lately (flatbreads anyone?). I guess they’re desperate for new things, but their core is roast beef, and there’s only so many different sandwiches you can make out of them. The roastburgers look great in the ads, piled high with juicy looking beef and fresh lettuce, tomato, etc, but what you actually get is a normal squished roast beef sandwich with extra crap on it. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/38 "2009-03-09T23:36:00Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > The Arch Deluxe lives on as the Big N’ Tasty, FTR- it’s the same sandwich, just without the weird butt-shaped bun. I thought the “Big ‘n’ Tasty” was just Ronald’s version of Jack’s “Jumbo Jack”? It’s all clown food, of course. Damn. Now I’m hungry again. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/39 "2009-03-10T00:47:05Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Correct. > > The Arch Deluxe came out years later, circa 1996. McD’s admitted that their “food” was marketed for children, and that the AD was a special burger for adults, as it had a more sophisticated flavor. > > At the time, I hadn’t been into a McD’s for years. I had spent the day at the beach, so I was famished beyond all reckoning. I would have eaten raw rat if that’s all I could have gotten. So we pull into McD’s, and I order the AD, thinking that it would taste like Food of the Gods. The cashier asked me if I wanted bacon on it. Sure! Well, it was not so much bacon as a round bit of raw fat impregnated with black bits of Pure Evil. The “special sauce” was Hitler’s Own Phlegm. The roll was baked pond scum. > > Hungry as I was, I could barely finish 1/3rd of it. The funniest part of the Arch Deluxe marketing campaign was a TV ad that instead of showing him horsing around with kids it showed Ronald McDonald playing golf (like a big boy) and other golfers commenting in hushed, admiring tones how powerful his swing was. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850/40 "2009-03-10T00:49:32Z")
> [@astro](#): > > The funniest part of the Arch Deluxe marketing campaign was a TV ad that instead of showing him horsing around with kids it showed Ronald McDonald playing golf (like a big boy) and other golfers commenting in hushed, admiring tones how powerful his swing was. Could have been worse. They could have been talking about the size of the wood he was swinging. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-arbys-roastburger-w-t-f/488850.md?page=3)