You must have gone to burger college and majored in burgers.
The Arch Deluxe lives on as the Big N’ Tasty, FTR- it’s the same sandwich, just without the weird butt-shaped bun.
And it’s not even made with Canadian bacon!
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Bacon Mushroom Melt was the only one I could think of that ever was good enough that I remember it fondly.
Oh man, I would NEVER eat fish from a fast food place. (Well Long John Silver’s once every ten years.)
In my own personal experience, all fish is limited time fish.
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.
There’s a BK at LAX.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.