# Unrealistic Hardee's biscuit commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033 "2014-09-10T00:05:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/1 "2014-09-10T00:05:09Z")
I just saw a Hardee’s commercial in which a woman is bragging about her skill as a biscuit maker. She lifts a sheet of biscuit dough off the biscuits she’s cut. There is about a half-biscuit’s diameter of dough left between each hole where the biscuits were cut. No one would last in a restaurant with that much waste, and everyone knows re-rolled biscuit dough scraps doesn’t make biscuits as good as the first-cut ones. On the other hand, I chuckled since it reminded me of a certain Green Acres episode. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/2 "2014-09-10T00:20:24Z")
That commercial was the first one I ever saw on the SEC (Southern Football) Network. I paid attention because Southern biscuits are straight from Heaven, but then they tacked on at the end a promo for their fried baloney and Velveeta biscuit sandwich, and I had to laugh. Yeah, theat’s the SEC. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/3 "2014-09-10T01:11:12Z")
when I worked at Hardee’s we put the excess biscuit dough in the fryer and made donuts ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/4 "2014-09-10T01:15:35Z")
Note for those from outside the U.S.: “biscuits” in this thread are similar to scones (but less sweet), and not cookies or crackers (“biscuits” in the British sense of the word). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/5 "2014-09-10T01:23:15Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > I just saw a Hardee’s commercial in which a woman is bragging about her skill as a biscuit maker. She lifts a sheet of biscuit dough off the biscuits she’s cut. There is about a half-biscuit’s diameter of dough left between each hole where the biscuits were cut. > > No one would last in a restaurant with that much waste, and everyone knows re-rolled biscuit dough scraps doesn’t make biscuits as good as the first-cut ones. What’s odd about the commercial (if I remember correctly) is that when they show her cutting the biscuits, they are close together like you’d expect. But then when they show her lifting the excess dough off, the biscuits are suddenly farther apart. > [@](#): > > On the other hand, I chuckled since it reminded me of a certain Green Acres episode. Head gasket! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/6 "2014-09-10T01:27:48Z")
That’s the one! ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/7 "2014-09-10T01:33:21Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > That commercial was the first one I ever saw on the SEC (Southern Football) Network. I paid attention because Southern biscuits are straight from Heaven, but then they tacked on at the end a promo for their fried baloney and Velveeta biscuit sandwich, and I had to laugh. Yeah, theat’s the SEC. The most famous place to go for fried baloney is in Montreal. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/8 "2014-09-10T14:45:43Z")
Y’know, it’s funny… I think I’ve only seen two episodes of Green Acres. But one of them was the one with the head gasket. ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/9 "2014-09-10T15:20:41Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > The most famous place to go for fried baloney is in Montreal. Wait…there is MORE THAN ONE fried baloney place in Montreal? I live in Texas and I don’t know of even ONE fried baloney place! ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/10 "2014-09-10T15:25:29Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > The most famous place to go for fried baloney is in Montreal. That surprises me. I’d have thought it would be in Newfoundland. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/11 "2014-09-10T15:26:36Z")
Speaking of unrealistic commercials, who the fuck thinks that Coors Light is harvested in remote mountain ranges by ice climbers, who then transport specific customer orders through a “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”-like portal? Impossible!! ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/12 "2014-09-10T15:40:49Z")
> [@Reno\_Nevada](#): > > Wait…there is MORE THAN ONE fried baloney place in Montreal? > > I live in Texas and I don’t know of even ONE fried baloney place! Not that I know of. I’m saying that one of the most famous fried baloney joints happens to be located in Montreal. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/13 "2014-09-10T15:49:24Z")
Clearly if the biscuits were all cut side by side there’d be nothing left but those little concave sided diamond shapes and they couldn’t be lifted in a sheet. Doesn’t matter because I’m not eating anything from Hardee’s. I don’t even know where one is if I wanted to. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/14 "2014-09-10T15:54:08Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > That surprises me. I’d have thought it would be in Newfoundland. ANYwhere down East, but, yeah, you’ll get fried bologna with breakfast everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/15 "2014-09-10T15:56:46Z")
Now I’m hungry for biscuit dough. ---
**Author:** ![nate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nate/32/13085_2.png) [@nate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nate)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/16 "2014-09-10T17:19:29Z")
Maybe they ball up and re-flatten the leftover dough(??). ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/17 "2014-09-10T17:50:17Z")
> [@nate](#): > > Maybe they ball up and re-flatten the leftover dough(??). That’s what I would imagine a Hardee’s biscuit maker would do. When my Mom made Christmas cookies as a kid, the dough outside the cut out shapes got reballed/reflattened until there wasn’t enough dough left to make a cookie. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/18 "2014-09-10T17:51:34Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Clearly if the biscuits were all cut side by side there’d be nothing left but those little concave sided diamond shapes and they couldn’t be lifted in a sheet. Doesn’t matter because I’m not eating anything from Hardee’s. I don’t even know where one is if I wanted to. It’s Carl’s Jr. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/19 "2014-09-10T18:08:59Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > That’s what I would imagine a Hardee’s biscuit maker would do. When my Mom made Christmas cookies as a kid, the dough outside the cut out shapes got reballed/reflattened until there wasn’t enough dough left to make a cookie. I imagine a Hardee’s biscuit maker is a machine. > [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > It’s Carl’s Jr. Don’t know where one of those is around here either. I did go to Carl’s Jr. in CA back when. They weren’t bad for fast food. I liked their burger with barbecue sauce and an onion ring, the Great Western Burger or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033/20 "2014-09-10T18:16:33Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I imagine a Hardee’s biscuit maker is a machine. Am not! I was a Hardee’s biscuit maker 20-some odd years ago. Sixteen year old kids were a lot cheaper to acquire and maintain than machinery, and I don’t imagine that’s changed much since then. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrealistic-hardees-biscuit-commercial/698033.md?page=2)