The official ATOT Fast Food discussion thread

[Xstatic1]

I have eaten at one once, it was at a shopping center in Atlanta. I had a chicken sandwich and waffle fries. I remember the waffle fries as being pretty damn tasty and the chicken sandwich as being nothing special. It was a standard chicken sandwich, not a spicy one.

I usually order their grilled chicken sandwich and have them slap on a slice of cheese. I don't care for their "regular" chicken sandwiches.

Chick-Fil-A is a license to print money. Outside of right when they open, I've never seen on which wasn't packed with customers.

Like someone else posted... good food, excellent customer service, clean restaurants... all-around win. There's only one location I've been to (in Florida) where they were sub-par, everywhere else gets a thumbs-up.

Yeah, their nuggets are the best. Are there any other fast food places that use non-processed meat for their nuggets?

CFA is in my meals-rotation. I eat there 3-4x/month. F all the other fast food's nasty nuggets (Wendy's, McD's, Burger King's).

 

[ElFenix]

we don't get Texas Pete (at Chik Fil-A) in MD! Just that stuff they call "buffalo sauce" ...it's actually OK, but I think they put eggs in that shit for some reason. Still, I eat it.

the buffalo sauce is great. texas pete is meh. people from north carolina should stop trying to mimic texas because they're failing badly. under 1,000 scovilles? lame.

 

[nakedfrog]

Flavor is more important than how hot it is.

 

[Chaotic42]

You crazy.
Overall it does sound like your experiences there are quite different than the ones here though, line isn't usually more than three deep when I go, and the cashiers are all competent. Guess those factors are probably related.

I'm not trying to be obtuse or troll here, I just genuinely don't get how their chicken is anything but bland. Maybe it's having been raised on fantastic fried chicken, maybe they add too much sugar and it kills the taste, maybe I'm just wired differently. I don't know, but it just doesn't do anything for me tastewise. The meat is higher quality than most places, but unless you get the spicy chicken with the Texas Pete sauce, it's a really boring bite. I'm not saying anyone is wrong for liking it, but I seem to have a different Chick-fil-a experience than the rest of you.

 

[ponyo]

I'm not trying to be obtuse or troll here, I just genuinely don't get how their chicken is anything but bland. Maybe it's having been raised on fantastic fried chicken, maybe they add too much sugar and it kills the taste, maybe I'm just wired differently. I don't know, but it just doesn't do anything for me tastewise. The meat is higher quality than most places, but unless you get the spicy chicken with the Texas Pete sauce, it's a really boring bite. I'm not saying anyone is wrong for liking it, but I seem to have a different Chick-fil-a experience than the rest of you.

I love fried chicken and BBQ as much as anyone having grown up in the South. Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich is not bland. It's salty and little boring but that's Southern style chicken sandwich for you. It's simple with just pickles, chicken breast, and butter toasted buns but simplicity can be a good thing.

 

[Ns1]

I love fried chicken and BBQ as much as anyone having grown up in the South. Chick-fil-A chicken s
andwich is not bland. It's salty and little boring but that's Southern style chicken sandwich for you. It's simple with just pickles, chicken breast, and butter toasted buns but simplicity can be a good thing.

IOW, bland

 

[zinfamous]

the buffalo sauce is great. texas pete is meh. people from north carolina should stop trying to mimic texas because they're failing badly. under 1,000 scovilles? lame.

it's not meant to be hot! NC BBQ > Texas BBQ! No one cares about the Alamo and Texas can suck a phatty!

 

[ElFenix]

Hot sauce isn't meant to be hot? What the shit is that?

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[nakedfrog]

I'm not trying to be obtuse or troll here, I just genuinely don't get how their chicken is anything but bland. Maybe it's having been raised on fantastic fried chicken, maybe they add too much sugar and it kills the taste, maybe I'm just wired differently. I don't know, but it just doesn't do anything for me tastewise. The meat is higher quality than most places, but unless you get the spicy chicken with the Texas Pete sauce, it's a really boring bite. I'm not saying anyone is wrong for liking it, but I seem to have a different Chick-fil-a experience than the rest of you.

It sounds like perhaps you consider all chicken sandwiches bland?

 

[nakedfrog]

Hot sauce isn't meant to be hot? What the shit is that?

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The primary factor by which a hot sauce should be judged is not "does it hurt when I poo?"

 

[JMC2000]

The primary factor by which a hot sauce should be judged is not "does it hurt when I poo?"

That's the best part of some; burns both ways.

 

[nakedfrog]

That's the best part of some; burns both ways.

I guess if you're into masochism? I do eat things on occasion that are spicy enough to make me sweat a little, and I can feel more or less where it is in my intestines on the way to the exit, but I certainly don't savor the sting ring part of the experience.

 

[ElFenix]

The primary factor by which a hot sauce should be judged is not "does it hurt when I poo?"

There's an ocean of difference between so hot it burns out your colon 2 hours later and so mild you can't taste anything. Texas Pete is the latter. At least step it up to Crystal.

 

[Ns1]

Crystal is more for the vinegar than the hot sauce IMO.

 

[nakedfrog]

There's an ocean of difference between so hot it burns out your colon 2 hours later and so mild you can't taste anything. Texas Pete is the latter. At least step it up to Crystal.

The thing is that you're wrong? I can absolutely taste something when I eat Texas Pete, and it tastes good.
Crystal, however, does not. El Yucateco is hotter than Texas Pete's, and also tastes good.

 

[ElFenix]

Texas Pete is just red vinegar.

 

[nakedfrog]

No it isn't. I don't like the taste of vinegar, yet I like Texas Pete's.

 

[zinfamous]

Hot sauce isn't meant to be hot? What the shit is that?

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not all hot sauce is meant to be numbingly, stupidly hot. Much of it, historically, is actually about flavor. It's mostly the modern capsaicin morons that have marketed these highly unnatural peppers and ridiculous scoville numbers into "Sauces" that are designed for every thing but flavor...just pain.

I like hot, but at some point people are going to realize how dumb they've been with much of this. That being said, yeah: Texas Pete never was hot (they do have newer varieties of habenero and all that, though), and was always milder than Tobasco. For what it's worth, Louisiana Crystal (far more popular among locals than Tabasco ever was), is just as mild as Texas Pete. They are nearly identical. It's just a different thing.

Flavor is important because I don't deal with unnecessary bullshit like Ketchup or Mayonnaise. I like Hot sauce on my fries because the proper one for fries provides the only thing that is ever needed on potatoes: vinegar and a little salt. Some extra cayenne without all of the flavor-murder is a nice bonus. I'm more an more convinced that the "most be hotter than Hades!" hot sauce people simply don't care about food--just like Ketchup eaters!

 

[zinfamous]

Crystal is more for the vinegar than the hot sauce IMO.

agreed. It's basically the same stuff as TP.

 

[nakedfrog]

I like Hot sauce on my fries because the proper one for fries provides the only thing that is ever needed on potatoes: vinegar and a little salt. Some extra cayenne without all of the flavor-murder is a nice bonus. I'm more an more convinced that the "most be hotter than Hades!" hot sauce people simply don't care about food--just like Ketchup eaters!

I like ketchup with my fries. Suck it.

 

[ElFenix]

crystal is 3x the scovilles of texas pete. texas pete is under 1000. that's about as mild as a pepper can get and not be a bell pepper. it's not hot, so how is it a hot sauce? again, i'm not saying it needs to be 10,000+ scovilles to be a hot sauce. not at all. but under 1000? it's not hot sauce. it's just north carolina fail. like double dipped brisket.

 

[zinfamous]

crystal is 3x the scovilles of texas pete. texas pete is under 1000. that's about as mild as a pepper can get and not be a bell pepper. it's not hot, so how is it a hot sauce? again, i'm not saying it needs to be 10,000+ scovilles to be a hot sauce. not at all. but under 1000? it's not hot sauce. it's just north carolina fail. like double dipped brisket.

I'm from NC and never heard of this. Probably something that the hillbillies in the west, that probably consider themselves Tennesseens, do. Whatever that is, it ain't right. and it ain't NC.

 

[nakedfrog]

crystal is 3x the scovilles of texas pete. texas pete is under 1000. that's about as mild as a pepper can get and not be a bell pepper. it's not hot, so how is it a hot sauce? again, i'm not saying it needs to be 10,000+ scovilles to be a hot sauce. not at all. but under 1000? it's not hot sauce. it's just north carolina fail. like double dipped brisket.

It's hot sauce, regardless of whether you think it's hot enough. I'm unaware of a universal standard that defines a a cut-off under which a sauce cannot be labeled "hot sauce". The fact that it has any scoville units at all would seem to underpin the fact that it is indeed a "hot sauce".
Taco Bell's fire sauce clocks in at 500, and I agree that it's not hot in my opinion, but it may surprise you to know that there are many people who do in fact consider it hot.

 

[ElFenix]

I'm from NC and never heard of this. Probably something that the hillbillies in the west, that probably consider themselves Tennesseens, do. Whatever that is, it ain't right. and it ain't NC.

where is mac's speed shop?

(un)fortunately the video this is from is gone

 

[zinfamous]

I'm the last person to go to bat for some of my ill-informed, un-cultured, barbaric brethren in my great home state. Shit, we don't even agree on how to properly prepare something as simple as pulled pork or whole hog.

That guy up there ^ is almost certainly a carpet-bagger from SC, as part of some nefarious ploy to infiltrate and leave a stain attached to NC BBQ. SC is getting desperate, I think.