Best Chain Restaurants in America
Mar 16th 2005, 9:11 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by tomelina
What about the burgers Carl's Jnr have been coming out with??
Pastrami burgers - And a picture at the end of a double meat patty with loads of pastrami slung on it.
The Jalapeno - Same with loads of Jalapenos - If you want to enjoy heartburn before your heart attack
And some other totally gross, piled high burgers whose name escapes me? Have you seen those ads?
I can see it now on TV;
Voiceover guy: "New from Carl's Jnr. The steaming turd burger"
And a burger splats down with 3 1/2 pound meat pattys and a great steaming turd on top ...........
Pastrami burgers - And a picture at the end of a double meat patty with loads of pastrami slung on it.
The Jalapeno - Same with loads of Jalapenos - If you want to enjoy heartburn before your heart attack
And some other totally gross, piled high burgers whose name escapes me? Have you seen those ads?
I can see it now on TV;
Voiceover guy: "New from Carl's Jnr. The steaming turd burger"
And a burger splats down with 3 1/2 pound meat pattys and a great steaming turd on top ...........
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Mar 16th 2005, 9:25 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
After being here a while, I tend to find the chain everything, not just restaurants, does make the place a bit bland. Most noticable in the commuter suburbs - where all the towns just look like one never ending conveyor belt of billboards and chain signs as you drive by. Red Lobster, Taco Bell, Mac Ds, Target, Best Buy, Staples, KMart, Walmart, Outback, TGI Friday, Ruby Tuesday, Hardees, Olive Garden, Carrabbas, Walmart, etc etc etc etc.......all blurs into one as you drive through "Anywheresville"!
I don't mind the food at many chains, but the production line living sometimes gets a bit thin. It is great when you can find the places that are one of a kind.
I don't mind the food at many chains, but the production line living sometimes gets a bit thin. It is great when you can find the places that are one of a kind.
Mar 16th 2005, 9:26 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
These are all the same business group...
Outback Steakhouse
Carrabba's Italian Grill,
Lee Roy Selmon's,
Cheeseburger in Paradise,
Bonefish Grill and
Paul Lee’s Chinese Kitchen.
Outback Steakhouse
Carrabba's Italian Grill,
Lee Roy Selmon's,
Cheeseburger in Paradise,
Bonefish Grill and
Paul Lee’s Chinese Kitchen.
Mar 16th 2005, 9:27 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by BritGuyTN
grits are like savoury semolina
95% of the time they taste nasty
the other 5% is pretty good
to be on the safe side i would leave well alone
95% of the time they taste nasty
the other 5% is pretty good
to be on the safe side i would leave well alone
Mar 16th 2005, 9:29 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by Ray
These are all the same business group...
Outback Steakhouse
Carrabba's Italian Grill,
Lee Roy Selmon's,
Cheeseburger in Paradise,
Bonefish Grill and
Paul Lee’s Chinese Kitchen.
Outback Steakhouse
Carrabba's Italian Grill,
Lee Roy Selmon's,
Cheeseburger in Paradise,
Bonefish Grill and
Paul Lee’s Chinese Kitchen.
Red Lobster,
Olive Garden,
Bahama Breeze,
Smokey Bones Barbeque & Grill
Mar 16th 2005, 9:31 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by Dan725
After being here a while, I tend to find the chain everything, not just restaurants, does make the place a bit bland. Most noticable in the commuter suburbs - where all the towns just look like one never ending conveyor belt of billboards and chain signs as you drive by. Red Lobster, Taco Bell, Mac Ds, Target, Best Buy, Staples, KMart, Walmart, Outback, TGI Friday, Ruby Tuesday, Hardees, Olive Garden, Carrabbas, Walmart, etc etc etc etc.......all blurs into one as you drive through "Anywheresville"!
I don't mind the food at many chains, but the production line living sometimes gets a bit thin. It is great when you can find the places that are one of a kind.
I don't mind the food at many chains, but the production line living sometimes gets a bit thin. It is great when you can find the places that are one of a kind.
However, here in the US the buildings have no character to start with.
Back on topic..... anyone for grits?
Mar 16th 2005, 9:35 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by Bob
red lobster is a bit kack, but I don't think there in maine anymore...and olive garden is shite too....maraconi grill is slightly better for the price at least...hmmm....
outback isn't bad, but it's a bit to themey...if that's such a word
outback isn't bad, but it's a bit to themey...if that's such a word
Red lobster in Maine is coals to Newcastle as far as I'm concerned!!!!
Don't like Ruby Tuesdays much any more. Macaroni Grill has wonderful bread that they will sell for a buck a loaf. Outback a bit overboard with the cutesy Oz slang, but love that Victoria's filet. We eat at Crackerbarrel every Friday night-husband likes their Fish Fry special.
In the Midwest always liked Bob Evans.
Mar 16th 2005, 9:38 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by NC Penguin
Carl Jnr (out west) = Hardees (in the South).
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Many years ago before they got bought out, Roy Rogers used to have the BEST fast food hamburgers I have ever had. And NO they weren't Trigger burgers-
Mar 16th 2005, 9:40 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by tomelina
Yes, Italy is only second to France for it's food IMHO.
Mar 16th 2005, 9:42 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by cindyabs
We eat at Crackerbarrel every Friday night-husband likes their Fish Fry special.
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Mar 16th 2005, 9:45 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by Eskimo
so that famous arse of yours is where you are now currenlty talking from ? French cooking is soooooo 1970's darling
Italians good too mind. I think one thing they have in common is that both culture's seem really proud of and take care of their food. Here it just seems slopped on and pile it as high as you can.
Mar 16th 2005, 9:57 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by Eskimo
it reminds him of that home cooking from the Birmingham riviera
Mar 16th 2005, 10:05 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by cindyabs
Indeed it does-they don't serve mushy peas so i don't order it,
Mar 16th 2005, 10:20 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by tomelina
No faggotts either? Probably best to ask in a hushed voice for those in the US.
or at least here in Georgia!
Mar 16th 2005, 10:27 am
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Re: Best Chain Restaurants in America
Originally Posted by SarahUK
Anyone noticed how at a lot of these chain restaurants always have the A/C cranked up to max and you go in and you're freezing your nips off the entire meal? My husband and I won't go back to Don Pablos Mexican Cantina because we froze all the way through our fajitas! If we lived in Florida, fine but up here in PA it can be snowing outside and you go into Ruby Tuesdays and the A/C is on top speed! Same with Old Navy actually, its like a fridge in there.
