As a non-American, I'm assuming it's a shitty restaurant?
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They’re just weird because so many fast food chains come & ~~ho the~~ go in the US, it’s hard to even keep track - but Long John Silvers; a shitty fish & chips place which is never busy, never seems to have any customers at all, somehow stays in business.
Could be money laundering
But their food is actually good, tho.
you must be going to different longs johns silvers than any of the ones i've been to. i haven't been in years, but it's really a "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me multiple times over the course of my childhood because my dad fell in love with you and THAT'S IT no more chances"
It's the cracklins. Little crispy fried pieces of dough? Who doesn't want those? Just ignore the offerings of frozen fish patties and go for the craving food.
yeah but you can get better hush puppies almost anywhere (disclaimer: i'm southern)
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There's a lot of truth in the bit about which one you go to....
Being a franchise, a LOT of the quality comes down to the management. My cousin was a manager and made a huge point of a meticulous tear down and cleaning of the fryers to a degree not "required". He'd budget people and hours specifically for the extra cleaning.
It showed BIG. Between the grease temperature recovering faster, excellent care about cleanliness through the shift etc, the food came out reliably fresh and not the disappointing greasy mess.
It helped that by budgeting the time instead of just forcing workers to do it while busy with customers, which also prevents being able to take the fryer offline, they workers were better treated and as result hated their job less.
I'll absolutely say this is an outlier, and that in general most fast food is terrible, especially LJS. But if you find a good location, it can be awesome... Still going to be greasy of course, but in a good way instead.
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"come & ho the the US"
How do you fick up that badly and not notice it?
How do you fick up that badly and not notice it? [emphasis mine]
lol
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The available food is mostly things they can pop into the fryer: Think fish and chips, except you can also choose “planks” of chicken breast, or breaded shrimp, or little balls of seasoned dough called “hush puppies”.
My wife hates them, and they’re an occasional guilty pleasure for me.
It's fast food that's almost all fried sea food. And they're like the cockroach of franchises, the few that are around tend to be in weird locations that have killed off everything but Long John's.
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Man, I fucking love LJS and wish I had one within driving distance.
Nothing like ordering a fish & chicken plank combo and not knowing which of the identical diamond-shaped planks is which before biting.
LJS's chicken is way better than most other restaurants. I will die on this hill
Chicken planks, fries, hush puppies, and an obscene amount of tartar sauce to dip everything into. And the crunchy little batter bits? Absolute gold.
God I could go for some right now.
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When I was a small child I loved Long John Silver's but now that I'm an adult I tried it once and it was so fucking oily that I feel like if they weren't in the United States they would be getting invaded by them.
I think they're in the same bucket as Red Lobster and KFC. Used to be fantastic, spent a couple of decades trimming corners until all that was left was the grease.
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The smell of LJS actually gives me a headache. Nothing else does this to me the same way.
It's Catholics. LGS makes 1/3 their yearly sales during lent.
Why do you think Catholics don't eat meat on Fridays? The Pope owns Long John Silvers!
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I had a cat that I found in a dumpster eating a taco during a hurricane. I only found her because she was yelling at the taco while she ate it. That cat, that I have seen eat every living and non living thing imaginable, refused to eat long john silvers fish
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I'm convinced LJS is Taco Bell for people who moved away from the coast. They know it's not sea food, but they crave it's badness for its own sake.
Here in the Midwest we even have some combined Long John Silver and Taco Bell restaurants. You can go through the drive-thru and order off of both menus. They've been slowly disappearing but for a while they were all over the place.
I’m from northern Connecticut and live in (southern, nowhere near any fished lakes) Germany. I tried seafood here a couple times when I first got here, but it’s just intolerably fishy for me, even in a taco bell sense.
Though I guess frying it does mask a lot of fishiness. And LJSs doesn’t try for the cachet of “never-frozen,” so it’s possible it’s actually fresher than what you get in a fancy inland restaurant…
I didn’t agree with you at first, but you might be on to something
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I just went on the LJS site to look for the nearest location and they have a rewards program called "Seacret Society".
Hmmm
The one nearest to me is combined with an A&W, another ancient fast food business that somehow hangs on. I've only had LJS once and it was absolutely disgusting.
A&W has really good burgers and hands down the best root beer. Used to live by one, and it was always packed at dinner time on the weekends.
A&W are everywhere up here in Canada. And the have an impossible meat option, so we end up there reasonably often.
A&W is the best of the top few major brand root beers, but there are some in most grocery stores that are much better. Virgil's and Henry Weinhart's probably the best of the easily found ones.
I went there 3 times 7 years apart each time. Never again. Terrible every time.
look, sometimes I just need a box of 100 pups.
I hate knowing that LJS still exists, but doesn't have a restaurant around me anymore.
The secret cabal is just the elderly. That's all I ever saw there when I was able to go there lol
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Could have fooled me. All the ones that were near me are closed. I just checked, the closest one is 1.5 hrs away
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I'm not ashamed to be part of the Long John Underground.
The one in the photo looks delightfully old school. I bet they still have the bell you can ring by the exit door!
The bell is still there, but last year the manager filled it with cement.
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Beer battered chicken is phenomenal, and nobody else does it. I hate fish, but I love LJS!
Count me in. Dad loved 'em when I was growing up and I occasionally go get some.
I have no idea if they still do this, but you could order a whole box of "crunchies," the little fried bits of batter that flake off.
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Hushpuppy underground!
Catholics
LOL this actually seems like a plausible scenario - it could be a regular meeting place for reptilian aliens, and who would notice?
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There is one near where I work, but they are quite literally never open. They aren't out of business and their facilities are kept up, but it somehow just persists in that state.
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Old people
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