The most awesome invention / product ever?

[zinfamous]

Their chicken is good, not great IMO.

I grew up eating KFC or Lee's Famous Recipe, so that's the style I prefer.

no excuse! we all pretty much grew up eating KFC and preferred it, as with many things. It doesn't intrinsically prevent you from being exposed to a better thing later, and having no choice but to change your mind because the superior thing is clearly superior to childhood tradition.

for example, we have a Gus's Fried Chicken near me. Now, I know now that this place is clearly superior to Bojangles, so I prefer it to that...but it is also a different class. This stuff is made to order and something like 70% more expensive for a comparable meal, haha. And there are, strangely, 2 Bojangles in the DC area, for some reason. A micro one at Union Station, and a full restaurant up near me in MD....but these are garbage. The full restaurant is like a converted Hardee's or something, so it doesn't have that "cafeteria style" up front like a proper Bojangles, and the people working there have no idea what they are doing...so because of all those things, I would choose Gus's over them.

 

[zinfamous]

No, just outside of Charlotte.

Northern transplant.

what--and you don't live in Cary? don't you know that this "town" was built specifically for you?

 

[UsandThem]

what--and you don't live in Cary? don't you know that this "town" was built specifically for you?

We looked at that area, but since Charlotte gets less snow, we decided to come here.

And if we go into Charlotte, that is nothing but northern transplants......many of them the New York or New Jersey variety. We don't go into Charlotte very often.

And there are, strangely, 2 Bojangles in the DC area, for some reason. A micro one at Union Station, and a full restaurant up near me in MD....but these are garbage. The full restaurant is like a converted Hardee's or something, so it doesn't have that "cafeteria style" up front like a proper Bojangles, and the people working there have no idea what they are doing...so because of all those things, I would choose Gus's over them.

I don't think you can go more than 5 minutes and not see a Bojangles down here. They are EVERYWHERE.

 

[zinfamous]

We looked at that area, but since Charlotte gets less snow, we decided to come here.

And if we go into Charlotte, that is nothing but northern transplants......many of them the New York or New Jersey variety. We don't go into Charlotte very often.


I don't think you can go more than 5 minutes and not see a Bojangles down here. They are EVERYWHERE.

Yes, and that's definitely a Cary thing, too. The town was specifically founded to house all the brand new employees for the nascent RTP, which was essentially SAS (Goodnight, the founder of SAS, "founded" Cary, I think) and Glaxo at the time, iirc.

Cary = Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. It's all New Jersey and some New England.

And there are Bojangles everywhere down there. It is a glorious thing. I tend to stop at one when driving back down, in South Hill, VA. It's a usual gas/food stop at a proper point in the trip. That one is perfectly-located, it seems. It's usually busy and I think a popular local and mid-point destination.

 

[Thebobo]

Greatest inventions ever - hmmmm:

......
2. The Amiga 1000 - best computer ever.

You betcha!
Well a maxed out toasterized A2000 works to.

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

You guys are way off.

Top 5

1) Porn on the internet
2) Free buffets at strip clubs
3) Fake IDs
4) Cars, planes and other fast machines
5) Mini skirts and bikinis

 

[brianmanahan]

what a time to be alive

i am getting this as a stocking stuffer

 

[IronWing]

where we get gravy scented candles?

 

[KeithP]

A nice, warm KFC log beats the Fleshlight experience every time.

That is a twist…normally the Fleshlight is doing the beating.

-KeithP

 

[DigDog]

i think at least 50% of humanity would vote the Vibrator as best invention ever.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

You betcha!
Well a maxed out toasterized A2000 works to.

I've got an A2000 and an A3000. I would love to add an A1000 but don't have the room and it's hard to justify.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I heard about Popeyes recently, supposedly we're getting one here. KFC went downhill in the past years, even their salads are meh now since they changed them.

There are people who go to KFC for salads?

 

[Zanovar]

i think at least 50% of humanity would vote the Vibrator as best invention ever.

haha

 

[DigDog]

i have a vague recollection that in 2017 a poll was held in Japan and they voted instant ramen as the greatest invention of the 20th century.
because, you know, fuck the radio, tv, the internet, vaccines, insuline, nuclear power, the car, antibiotics, air travel, and the panzerkampfwagen tiger ausf. b, noo. we want cheap precooked noodles, we want.

 

[Red Squirrel]

There are people who go to KFC for salads?

Only as side dishes with the chicken. They are probably a very loose definition of salad as well, I don't really know what it's actually made of if it's even vegetable product, but they used to taste good.

 

[Zanovar]

True story.after a heavy night out,ended back at this girls pad.(crashed out)beered up.on her sofa,my arm slipped down the side of the sofa and picked up a vibro.she said "thats not mine honestly"huge fucking thing.

 

[Iron Woode]

https://www.kfc.com/fire-log

It just might be.

Cold, snowy day outside and you get to come home and throw one of these in fireplace.

All that will do is make me hungrier than hell.

 

[UsandThem]

All that will do is make me hungrier than hell.

After posting this thread and discussing fried chicken, I sort of have a hankering for some now.

We're eating out tomorrow, and might just make the drive to the next closest KFC. It's a good 30-35 minutes away, and I don't go down in that area very often, but I sure as hell am not going to the crappy KFC that's like 5 minutes away.

 

[Iron Woode]

There are people who go to KFC for salads?

I have seen it many times myself. They go in and buy a bunch of coleslaw or macaroni salads and nothing else.

I remember when they sold baked beans.

 

[whm1974]

You guys are way off.

Top 5

1) Porn on the internet
2) Free buffets at strip clubs
3) Fake IDs
4) Cars, planes and other fast machines
5) Mini skirts and bikinis

And Don't forget the Microwave and even better, the Crock-Pot!!!

 

[Iron Woode]

After posting this thread and discussing fried chicken, I sort of have a hankering for some now.

We're eating out tomorrow, and might just make the drive to the next closest KFC. It's a good 30-35 minutes away, and I don't go down in that area very often, but I sure as hell am not going to the crappy KFC that's like 5 minutes away.

I have a KFC one block from my apartment and they are quite good.

We used to have Church's Chicken here and they were fantastic.

 

[UsandThem]

I have a KFC one block from my apartment and they are quite good.

We used to have Church's Chicken here and they were fantastic.

I think I've seen Church's down here when going to the airport on the west side of Charlotte, but it's in a bad area that's always on the local news about robberies, shootings, etc., so I would never stop there. I've had their food a few times in the past, and they were good.

Another downside of living in NC, is the slowness is not confined to food workers. I was supposed to have my laptop delivered on Dec 4th (coming from Tennessee), but the delivery date changed to "pending" after they missed that time. They must have stopped at the NC border, and handed the package off to the slowest package handler in the state.

In the past, it used to make me irritated when I paid to get an item quickly, but it's happened so many times in the 7 years we have lived here, I just gave up and much like Morgan Freeman said in 'Shawshank Redemption' :

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

And Don't forget the Microwave and even better, the Crock-Pot!!!

Yeah, how did guys eat before the microwave?

 

[Iron Woode]

I think I've seen Church's down here when going to the airport on the west side of Charlotte, but it's in a bad area that's always on the local news about robberies, shootings, etc., so I would never stop there. I've had their food a few times in the past, and they were good.

Another downside of living in NC, is the slowness is not confined to food workers. I was supposed to have my laptop delivered on Dec 4th (coming from Tennessee), but the delivery date changed to "pending" after they missed that time. They must have stopped at the NC border, and handed the package off to the slowest package handler in the state.

In the past, it used to make me irritated when I paid to get an item quickly, but it's happened so many times in the 7 years we have lived here, I just gave up and much like Morgan Freeman said in 'Shawshank Redemption' :

LOL

I believe Church's is from Michigan.

EDIT: research shows they are from Texas. Hmm...

 

[whm1974]

Yeah, how did guys eat before the microwave?

Simply, either their mother or GF/Wife did the cooking of course. Other then Chiefs, did you really think that before women become uppity en mass, that men actually did any cooking, or even could?