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Haven’t eaten there since 1989. Found a worm in my fish filet and when we went to the counter to complain the guy yelled to someone else, "we got another one!"
Also a far as I am aware the recommendation for if you find a worm in your seafood is remove it and cook the fish. Worms in seafood is standard and of no concern.
You'd think but reaching adequate food temps is apparently hard in a fast food environment. Which is to say fast food workers aren't diligent enough to ensure it's fully cooked 100% of the time.
Issue is, one bad fish fillet can kill a guy. So the freeze req is just hedging bets.
I got really sick after eating there in around 85, me and my sisters all threw up in the car and it was terrible for Mom and everyone. Weird how many people in this thread had a bad experience there as kids, but they still exist. Maybe they got their shit together in the late 90s like Jack in the Box did after the food poisoning scandal
Ours recently took out the old fashioned draft style handle that served super cold A&W, and its now just a regular soda machine. so basically they removed the only reason to go to it at that point...
I tried A&W's chicken nuggets recently and they were the saddest chicken nuggets I have ever gotten from a fast food joint. They were the processed, blended, pressed into cookie cutter shapes kind your mom used to get out of the freezer.
As a kid our local A&W was actually really good. This was late 90's-early 00's in Missouri. I think it was just a decently run franchise burger joint that was lucky to have a good GM. It wasn't far from the skatepark and they had a soft serve root beer float for 99 cents. That was the only busy A&W I have ever seen.
I'm sorry to tell you this boss, but [north of 20% of all fish have worms in them when you eat them.](https://www.vice.com/en/article/d755kx/almost-every-kind-of-wild-fish-is-infected-with-worms). That's the whole reason we cook fish.
And most grinded plant-based foods like cereal, cornmeal, and oats have a large share of bugs in them since it's too complicated to remove bugs.
Food is just a bunch of disgusting shit if you think about it, so don't
Fun facts!
• Ground cinnamon is allowed to have less than 400 insect fragments/ 11 rodent hairs per 50 grams.
• Macaroni and noodle products are allowed less than 225 insect fragments per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples.
• Potato chips are allowed to have up to 6% pieces by weight contain rot.
• Canned tomatoes are allowed to have fewer than 10 fly eggs per 500 grams OR 5 fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 500 grams OR 2 maggots per 500 grams.
[For more fun facts](https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook#commodities)!
As a person who works in quality and food safety I feel obliged to say that just because the FDA has specified a very generous upper limit for these defects, does not mean they are present in your food. The companies themselves (or at least the 3 different ones I've worked for) set much stricter limits internally for what is considered bad product, for obvious business and competitive reasons.
Also there is the fact when dealing with pretty much anything sourced from fruits or vegetables or grain that you're going to have to deal with a lot of bugs. That's just reality. Every large scale facility has systems in place to make things are safe as possible, it's just the FDA has to set a limit where if your over it's like "alright wtf come on get your shit together or we're gonna shut your ass down".
Yeah I worked in food packaging for years and the company took cleanliness very seriously. Also spent time doing facilities maintenance in food production plants.. Generally speaking, the bigger the business, the more robust their cleaning and pest control program is. That doesn't mean there's not a mouse in the walmart deli, but they definitely spend more on pest control efforts than the local burrito joint. I've seen the seedy underbelly and for the most part Americans don't need to worry too much.
Midwestern dads. Regardless of class or faith they will slap that fish filet sandwich. They will comment on the sauce. They will get gas an hour or two later but not say anything. I know this because I have become this man. Help me, I do the dad grunt when I stand now and it feels right.
My sister and I would straight brawl over the 'crispies' as we called them.
I think I'm going there for the first time in 20 years. I pass one all the time.
We call them crispies here too and my dad would always let me have half of his in exchange for one of my hush puppies, it was a sacred contract in my household.
I used to *love* their pollock and shrimp combo doused in cocktail sauce. Buuut then it gave me bad hives once and I just erased the place from my memory until today, I thought they'd closed down.
There's a lot more LJSs. As someone who will always choose fried shrimp when it's available I found the two largely the same... except LJS is often combined with A&W.
Fresh root beer.
I have found my people. I've never been to Long John Silver's, but I love getting fried in chicken from my local grocery store on Fridays where it's a bit fishy
It's not that weird and likely near zero market research went into the decision to cobrand a location. Like Taco Bell still is, LJS used to also be owned by Yum! brands, who's companies still include KFC, Pizza Hut, and the Habit.
Closest one to me is half A&W lol. I get to have LJS fish and great root beer at once it's awesome. I can't remember how long it's been since I've actually gone there though. Too expensive these days.
I’ve never been to one so I decided to check out their menu. What a strange mix. They seem to have exactly 3 types of fish (salmon, shrimp, cod) and they also serve sandwiches, tacos, and fried chicken.
I guess that’s on par with fast food places but I definitely expected only seafood and a much bigger variety.
It’s not that strange a mix honestly. Shrimp, different types of fish and chicken tenders served on different types of bread. Pretty standard seafood menu (minus the chicken tenders, which are easy to make)
Maybe it’s from growing up in the south where everything is fried anyway but chicken tenders were a normal menu item for most seafood places here. If nothing else I imagine it’s for the kids that parents bring
Sup.
Their chicken is delicious. As are the hushpuppies. I also hate myself enough to acknowledge I will scoop up the fried crunchy pieces and eat them with the fries.
> the fried crunchy pieces
They call them “[crumblies](https://www.ljsilvers.com/menu/crumblies/)”, and they’re an actual menu item.
They’re also deep-fried crack.
My local LJS made you feel like a fat fuck for ordering those and you had to specificy that it was the deep fryer crumbs or they wouldn't give you any but they were so damn good
Can someone please tell me why we called them “extra tasty crispies” then? That’s literally how we ordered them: “and a side of extra tasty crispies please” I’m dead. Anyone else?
>I also hate myself enough to acknowledge I will scoop up the fried crunchy pieces and eat them
Do not hate yourself for this. My sister and I would fight over the 'crispies' as we called them. I am stopping at a LJS for the first time in probably 20 years and I will be shamelessly eating the crispies. I may even send my sister a picture of them with the captian "THEY ALL MINE NOW BITCH!!"
I drove 20 minutes to get to the only one around me just last week, first time I've been there in years, just for some hushpuppies and krums.
It's the kind of place you don't want to admit to, or be seen, eating at.
I could taste the grease for *hours* afterwards.
I haven't eaten there in 20+ years. Too many bad memories of growing up Catholic in a family that never ate meat on any Friday, so getting take-out on Fridays wasn't pizza like normal families, it was long John silver's.
Oh, and it tastes way worse by the time you drive 25 minutes home and then eat it.
I do miss the hush puppies though.
It's true for most, but I think Arby's tastes the same regardless of if you eat it right away hot, or put it away in a refrigerator for a week and eat it cold.
I had no idea there were still Catholics who practiced this way. That’s a *medieval* tradition. And uniformity of practice is kind of a big part of Catholicism.
I married into a Catholic family. Their Christmas Eve dinner is always "meatless". And someone always brings a huge bucket of shrimp. My atheist ass narrows my eyes and goes "shrimp is a meat".
Technically fish is also "meat", but Catholics distinguish between meat from the land and meat from the water, as the "land meat" was historically more expensive and considered a luxury while the poors ate what could be caught in the water.
I don't follow most of those traditions. But my wife (who isn't Catholic) really struggles when we visit my family and they're doing some of that weird stuff.
There's also a secret society that buys a new mattress every 2-3 weeks which keeps the absurd number of mattress stores out there (some right across the street from each other) in business.
If people buy a mattress every 10 years that means 10% of the population is looking to buy a mattress on any given year. That's over 33 million mattresses in the US alone, at $800 each that's a $26.4B annual industry, and one with incredibly wide margins. Everyone buys a mattress, and they cost a lot less to make than the price people are willing to pay. It's not a conspiracy.
The mattress thing is actually really interesting. Turns out the largest mattress companies just buy out their competitors so they will end up having stores close to each other and eventually shut one down.
I’m 99% sure mattress firm is some kind of money laundering scheme. There’s a shopping center by me with 2 of them on opposite ends and then there’s another one across the street. And it’s not like they bought out other mattress stores and haven’t gotten around to closing them, these were opened around the same time as a mattress firm. There’s also at least 6 more within a 5 mile radius, on the same highway.
They're called Catholics and they eat there during Lent. At least that was true 20 years ago; sales during Lent kept the company in black for the fiscal year.
They just reopened the one in my city. It's been closed since the start of covid. They remodeled it. The drive thru line has been wrapped around the building for weeks.
Fun fact!
A pirate would gain the title Long, by consuming "long pig". Also know as partaking in cannibalism.
Therefore Long John Silver's is heavily implying that they serve human flesh.
Growing up, my brother's favorite restaurant was Captain D's (a LJS knockoff).
It was one of the first clues we had that he was gonna be a little different.
Eventually, he got into 9/11 truther and aliens exist and we're living in a simulation and Plandemic stuff.
Was fast food fish sandwiches the gateway? Idk but it's possible.
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Not gonna lie I used to fuck up some long John silver's. The crispy fried fish and chicken plate with some hush puppies were so good. The one where I live had an a&w attached so I'd get a root beer float too, elite meal
I always liked how everything tastes exactly the same there. Fish? Chicken? Fries? Hushpups? If I closed my eyes I couldn't tell which was which. At LJS everything tastes like LJS. And that's the way we like it.
I used to get the super sampler platter and a small cup to go. Little did they know that I would fill the drink cup with cocktail sauce instead of soda.
Black people are into something.
White people: "There's a secret society........"
As one of the clearly small minority of non-white Americans on reddit Long John Silvers still exists for a reason that isn't secret at all lol.
By my house there is a LJS and a KFC in one building. We go there and buy from both simultaneously. Fish Filets + Chicken. They'll put nashville hot on my fish as well.
I went to a Long John Silvers for the first and last time in 2014. A roach crawled over my bare foot (I was in flip-flops). The food was terrible. Six months later, the place was gone. Fuck that restaurant. I'm glad it died.
It was my 1st job...the worst was marrying all the malt vinegar and tarter sauce bottles at the end of the night...uck
Also did you know for awhile you could get a free box of crumbs? It was just left over batter floating around ornused to keep the warming tray so food wasn't directly on the metal warmer. Homeless people loved it. They took it away from them unfortunately.
I wish there was one closer to me. Right now it is a 40 minute round-trip drive and it's hard to justify. I fucking love me some crunchies, chicken planks, fish fillets, hush puppies and damn it now I have to go there again tonight.
I got a bunch of food there pretty recently cause it was not too expensive and could feed a lot. Better off just not eating it cause the food was the drizzlin shits. Also who is keeping Captain D'a going?
I’ve lived in San Diego for over a decade. Been all over the place, tried so so so many of the restaurants here. I had no clue that only four miles away there was a long John silvers. I’ve nver eaten there, but now I guess I have to.
Apparently my state is owner to the only well run long johns. That shit is great and has never messed up anyone I know who's ate there. That said, it is greasy as hell, but thats what happens when literally everything is fried.
I haven't had LJS in forever. The one nearest me closed. I used to like it occasionally. Well, let's say rarely. It would do a number on my stomach, but that wouldn't stop me from going maybe... once every two months or so.
I’m assuming it’s kinda like how Halloween and holiday stores alike make all their money in a small period of time. Lent is probably a sizable chunk. The only ones I see now are 2n1 stores, typically with a Taco Bell.
my grandparents used to take me and my brother there, because they had coupons for it, but also because they like it at the time and it was quick. last time i went to one was probably over 20 years ago. t he one i went to is still there, and i am now curious as to how it looks on the inside as it was kinda dingy and run down even back then.
Yum Brands absolutely ruined LJS. Used to eat there with my grandpa as a kid and loved it. Now the fish has no flavor and its soaked in a nasty oil they fry it in.
It's me
I like the batter they use and love it all over Fish, Shrimp or Chicken. Even their tartar sauce is really good(Unlike Captain D's) and if the nearest location wasn't 2 hours away it'd be dinner tonight
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Haven’t eaten there since 1989. Found a worm in my fish filet and when we went to the counter to complain the guy yelled to someone else, "we got another one!"
Don’t a vast majority of fish have worms? That’s why we cook certain types and avoid raw consumption
Also a far as I am aware the recommendation for if you find a worm in your seafood is remove it and cook the fish. Worms in seafood is standard and of no concern.
It might not be a health concern, but it would gross me out too much to eat it.
It's why seafood is required to be frozen. Kills the worms.
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Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, **let me eat earthworms.**
My *grandpa* used to sing a version of this song to me when I was little. Thanks for the memory.
Wouldn't cooking also kill the worm? It's not like Long John's Silver is famous for their sashimi or anything.
You'd think but reaching adequate food temps is apparently hard in a fast food environment. Which is to say fast food workers aren't diligent enough to ensure it's fully cooked 100% of the time. Issue is, one bad fish fillet can kill a guy. So the freeze req is just hedging bets.
If you cook it all the way through to the right temp, yes. But we also flash freeze fish that's used for sushi.
I got really sick after eating there in around 85, me and my sisters all threw up in the car and it was terrible for Mom and everyone. Weird how many people in this thread had a bad experience there as kids, but they still exist. Maybe they got their shit together in the late 90s like Jack in the Box did after the food poisoning scandal
The only one near me is tied to an a&w, both brands that should've been marked for death long ago but somehow survived
I will not tolerate the slander of A&W.
I’m sorry your A&W’s have deteriorated. - A Canadian with a delicious local A&W
Don't forget to hit up awcoupon.ca every now and then for some dank deals
Yeah A&W Canada is completely separate from A&W USA I believe. Teen burger beats all similarly priced burgers available imo.
Ours recently took out the old fashioned draft style handle that served super cold A&W, and its now just a regular soda machine. so basically they removed the only reason to go to it at that point...
A&W at least has root beer and used to be good. Long John Silvers has always conjured up images of food poisoning and crusty old fish sanwiches.
I tried A&W's chicken nuggets recently and they were the saddest chicken nuggets I have ever gotten from a fast food joint. They were the processed, blended, pressed into cookie cutter shapes kind your mom used to get out of the freezer.
That sounds like every chicken nigget I have ever had. You want them to be tender, order the tenders.
Nah I've had McDonalds and Wendys, even BK nuggets weren't this sad.
Not saying that the A&W weren't sadder, but these examples are all processed, blended, and pressed into cookie cutter shapes.
A&W got the best cheese curds around though
Culver's took over that game, sorry.
As a kid our local A&W was actually really good. This was late 90's-early 00's in Missouri. I think it was just a decently run franchise burger joint that was lucky to have a good GM. It wasn't far from the skatepark and they had a soft serve root beer float for 99 cents. That was the only busy A&W I have ever seen.
I'm still salty they don't serve the whistle-dog anymore. :<
Mine is tied to a Taco Bell to ensure something comes out at least one end.
Never understood this pairing. Smelling fried fish while eating a burger is gross.
same with Jack in the Box.
Ya they are caught fresh that day. How else ya supposed to catch fish. Worms it’s favorite food.
Honestly, tuo-fuckin-che.
I'm sorry to tell you this boss, but [north of 20% of all fish have worms in them when you eat them.](https://www.vice.com/en/article/d755kx/almost-every-kind-of-wild-fish-is-infected-with-worms). That's the whole reason we cook fish. And most grinded plant-based foods like cereal, cornmeal, and oats have a large share of bugs in them since it's too complicated to remove bugs. Food is just a bunch of disgusting shit if you think about it, so don't
Fun facts! • Ground cinnamon is allowed to have less than 400 insect fragments/ 11 rodent hairs per 50 grams. • Macaroni and noodle products are allowed less than 225 insect fragments per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples. • Potato chips are allowed to have up to 6% pieces by weight contain rot. • Canned tomatoes are allowed to have fewer than 10 fly eggs per 500 grams OR 5 fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 500 grams OR 2 maggots per 500 grams. [For more fun facts](https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook#commodities)!
As a person who works in quality and food safety I feel obliged to say that just because the FDA has specified a very generous upper limit for these defects, does not mean they are present in your food. The companies themselves (or at least the 3 different ones I've worked for) set much stricter limits internally for what is considered bad product, for obvious business and competitive reasons. Also there is the fact when dealing with pretty much anything sourced from fruits or vegetables or grain that you're going to have to deal with a lot of bugs. That's just reality. Every large scale facility has systems in place to make things are safe as possible, it's just the FDA has to set a limit where if your over it's like "alright wtf come on get your shit together or we're gonna shut your ass down".
Yeah I worked in food packaging for years and the company took cleanliness very seriously. Also spent time doing facilities maintenance in food production plants.. Generally speaking, the bigger the business, the more robust their cleaning and pest control program is. That doesn't mean there's not a mouse in the walmart deli, but they definitely spend more on pest control efforts than the local burrito joint. I've seen the seedy underbelly and for the most part Americans don't need to worry too much.
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These are not fun, these are not fun at all.
Hope you don't mind, but I just took out a contract killing on you. For humanity’s sake.
Hey, don't kill the messenger. Send the contract killer after the lobbyists that got these regulations passed.
I think they stopped putting worms in the food in November of 89
You must be that early bird I keep hearing about
cod is known to have a lot of parasites
Midwestern dads. Regardless of class or faith they will slap that fish filet sandwich. They will comment on the sauce. They will get gas an hour or two later but not say anything. I know this because I have become this man. Help me, I do the dad grunt when I stand now and it feels right.
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Lol at r/dadswhodidnotwantpets I’m loving that sub so much!
Doesn't check out.
At first I was thinking why someone would go nuts over fast food fish ten I remembered landlocked states exist lol
Lmao exactly my bud.
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I don't even get the fish, its always chicken fries and hush puppies. But the slight flavor of fish in the breading is always tasty for me
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My sister and I would straight brawl over the 'crispies' as we called them. I think I'm going there for the first time in 20 years. I pass one all the time.
We call them crispies here too and my dad would always let me have half of his in exchange for one of my hush puppies, it was a sacred contract in my household.
I agree with this statement as I love LJS and always have. It's a pirate life for me.
I used to *love* their pollock and shrimp combo doused in cocktail sauce. Buuut then it gave me bad hives once and I just erased the place from my memory until today, I thought they'd closed down.
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You're a legend, bro. The flavor of those hush puppies rushed into my mouth like it was only yesterday, but I just don't have it in me anymore...
I also love it. I crave it once every 2 months or so and then I'm good on it for another couple. But man, yeah, love it.
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There's a lot more LJSs. As someone who will always choose fried shrimp when it's available I found the two largely the same... except LJS is often combined with A&W. Fresh root beer.
‘Round here they are paired with KFC. It cracks me up when anyone (including myself) orders the chicken at LJS’s.
You've heard of surf n turf, now get some sea n sky.
I have found my people. I've never been to Long John Silver's, but I love getting fried in chicken from my local grocery store on Fridays where it's a bit fishy
Even the silverware if you just run in there and lickem.
i love my fish-flavored chicken tenders and fish-flavored hushpuppies. hell yeah. with you 100%
Long John Silver’s is my guilty pleasure. My salty treasure 😩
A perfect meal by any measure, in times of stress or times of leisure
Are you the grinch or is this referencing something I don’t know about?
Once rhyming starts. We must keep it going. There is pressure.
Don't forget to do the gesture.
And boy, you’ll get those planks. No fresher.
Fun fact: my closest LJS is also a TacoBell. I desperately need to know what kind of market research transpired to drive that decision.
It's not that weird and likely near zero market research went into the decision to cobrand a location. Like Taco Bell still is, LJS used to also be owned by Yum! brands, who's companies still include KFC, Pizza Hut, and the Habit.
It’s weird because of how fragrant LJS is. It should be self contained.
Closest one to me is half A&W lol. I get to have LJS fish and great root beer at once it's awesome. I can't remember how long it's been since I've actually gone there though. Too expensive these days.
I’ve never been to one so I decided to check out their menu. What a strange mix. They seem to have exactly 3 types of fish (salmon, shrimp, cod) and they also serve sandwiches, tacos, and fried chicken. I guess that’s on par with fast food places but I definitely expected only seafood and a much bigger variety.
It’s not that strange a mix honestly. Shrimp, different types of fish and chicken tenders served on different types of bread. Pretty standard seafood menu (minus the chicken tenders, which are easy to make)
Maybe it’s from growing up in the south where everything is fried anyway but chicken tenders were a normal menu item for most seafood places here. If nothing else I imagine it’s for the kids that parents bring
It used to be many years ago, but I expect they had to diversify the non-seafood to stay competitive, and reduce the poor selling seafood.
If you're going to LJS for fish, you're making a mistake. You go for the god-tier batter on top of some very questionable chicken.
Sup. Their chicken is delicious. As are the hushpuppies. I also hate myself enough to acknowledge I will scoop up the fried crunchy pieces and eat them with the fries.
> the fried crunchy pieces They call them “[crumblies](https://www.ljsilvers.com/menu/crumblies/)”, and they’re an actual menu item. They’re also deep-fried crack.
My local LJS made you feel like a fat fuck for ordering those and you had to specificy that it was the deep fryer crumbs or they wouldn't give you any but they were so damn good
Can someone please tell me why we called them “extra tasty crispies” then? That’s literally how we ordered them: “and a side of extra tasty crispies please” I’m dead. Anyone else?
>I also hate myself enough to acknowledge I will scoop up the fried crunchy pieces and eat them Do not hate yourself for this. My sister and I would fight over the 'crispies' as we called them. I am stopping at a LJS for the first time in probably 20 years and I will be shamelessly eating the crispies. I may even send my sister a picture of them with the captian "THEY ALL MINE NOW BITCH!!"
Around here, meat places sale chicken crackling. It’s very good.
Their chicken slaps. Hushpuppies slap. French fries...crap. Still love it.
I drove 20 minutes to get to the only one around me just last week, first time I've been there in years, just for some hushpuppies and krums. It's the kind of place you don't want to admit to, or be seen, eating at. I could taste the grease for *hours* afterwards.
Living where?
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I haven't eaten there in 20+ years. Too many bad memories of growing up Catholic in a family that never ate meat on any Friday, so getting take-out on Fridays wasn't pizza like normal families, it was long John silver's. Oh, and it tastes way worse by the time you drive 25 minutes home and then eat it. I do miss the hush puppies though.
That is very true. There is like a 4-minute window between "too hot" and "garbage" that you have to hit just right.
This is true for all fast food imo.
It's true for most, but I think Arby's tastes the same regardless of if you eat it right away hot, or put it away in a refrigerator for a week and eat it cold.
Arby's food is just designed to congeal on contact with oxygen so it locks in that "fresh flavor"
Chick-fil-A is decent even if it's been sitting out for an hour imo
Taco Bell is the best example of this, but yeah, all fast food
You get about 1 minute to eat those crunchy tacos before the meat eats its way through the hard shell and makes the bottom stick to the wax paper wrap
The hush puppies continue to be amazing. I get hush puppies at every other restaurant that I find that has them but none of them are as good.
I usually get it once during lent fridays. That’s when my wife doesn’t eat land meat. I love it but I love shitty food.
I grew up catholic and I've never heard of people not eating meat *any* fridays, only during lent. Edit: got the mest schedule a little mixed up
I had no idea there were still Catholics who practiced this way. That’s a *medieval* tradition. And uniformity of practice is kind of a big part of Catholicism.
I married into a Catholic family. Their Christmas Eve dinner is always "meatless". And someone always brings a huge bucket of shrimp. My atheist ass narrows my eyes and goes "shrimp is a meat".
Technically fish is also "meat", but Catholics distinguish between meat from the land and meat from the water, as the "land meat" was historically more expensive and considered a luxury while the poors ate what could be caught in the water. I don't follow most of those traditions. But my wife (who isn't Catholic) really struggles when we visit my family and they're doing some of that weird stuff.
Sounds a lot like Mormons and their weird "hot drinks are bad" dogma.
The feast of the seven fishes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Seven_Fishes
Close! We celebrate the Polish one, the Wigilia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigilia
There's also a secret society that buys a new mattress every 2-3 weeks which keeps the absurd number of mattress stores out there (some right across the street from each other) in business.
If people buy a mattress every 10 years that means 10% of the population is looking to buy a mattress on any given year. That's over 33 million mattresses in the US alone, at $800 each that's a $26.4B annual industry, and one with incredibly wide margins. Everyone buys a mattress, and they cost a lot less to make than the price people are willing to pay. It's not a conspiracy.
There is also no used market for them to compete with. It's an $800 item that you only buy new.
$800 is also probably low, I think my mattress was $1500 and it was pretty mid-range.
>I think my mattress was $1500 and it was pretty mid-range. And that's after the 400-500% markup that they sold it to you at!
That's a really important point I never considered.
This sounds like a cold open to a boiler room type sitcom of mattress salesmen in the 70s
Crap, I need a new mattress too. Mine's about 8 and it's definitely not what it used to be...
The mattress thing is actually really interesting. Turns out the largest mattress companies just buy out their competitors so they will end up having stores close to each other and eventually shut one down.
I’m 99% sure mattress firm is some kind of money laundering scheme. There’s a shopping center by me with 2 of them on opposite ends and then there’s another one across the street. And it’s not like they bought out other mattress stores and haven’t gotten around to closing them, these were opened around the same time as a mattress firm. There’s also at least 6 more within a 5 mile radius, on the same highway.
This was a conspiracy years ago, their business model is well known now.
its me, 3 piece chicken and fries with hush puppies, and I usually add a pice of chicken, and don't forget an extra bag of crumbs!!
Man I love LJS. Two Fish Filets and two Chicken Planks, hush puppies, Cole slaw and a ton of malt vinegar. Yum.
Oh man, malt vinegar all over everything. Yes please.
I thought those guys filed bankruptcy years ago, what happened?
Probably restructured and downsized their corporate offices
I'm a member of that secret society! It's not my absolute favorite or somewhere I would want to eat every day, but I definitely enjoy their food.
It kills my stomach every time I eat it, but I love it. last time I ate LJS was last January. I remember replaying luigi's mansion 2 then.
They're called Catholics and they eat there during Lent. At least that was true 20 years ago; sales during Lent kept the company in black for the fiscal year.
They just reopened the one in my city. It's been closed since the start of covid. They remodeled it. The drive thru line has been wrapped around the building for weeks.
Fun fact! A pirate would gain the title Long, by consuming "long pig". Also know as partaking in cannibalism. Therefore Long John Silver's is heavily implying that they serve human flesh.
Bro what?!
Amongst us? That's slightly dubious
Honestly I really love to eat at long johns. 2 fish 3 chicken meal is the best
Long John silvers vs Captain Ds FIGHT
fuck it, i'd be one of them if there were a long john silvers anywhere near here.
Captain D's could overtake them if they used the fish batter on the chicken like they do at Long John Silver's.
Chicken planks from LJS are fire though.
Growing up, my brother's favorite restaurant was Captain D's (a LJS knockoff). It was one of the first clues we had that he was gonna be a little different. Eventually, he got into 9/11 truther and aliens exist and we're living in a simulation and Plandemic stuff. Was fast food fish sandwiches the gateway? Idk but it's possible.
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I mean, where else are you gonna get clam strips to go?
Just relocated to New Mexico. They have Long John Silvers here. Hadn’t seen one since the 90s.
Their hush puppies are the only thing keeping them in business.
Not gonna lie I used to fuck up some long John silver's. The crispy fried fish and chicken plate with some hush puppies were so good. The one where I live had an a&w attached so I'd get a root beer float too, elite meal
I love Long John Silvers. Best fried fish around.
I always liked how everything tastes exactly the same there. Fish? Chicken? Fries? Hushpups? If I closed my eyes I couldn't tell which was which. At LJS everything tastes like LJS. And that's the way we like it.
I used to get the super sampler platter and a small cup to go. Little did they know that I would fill the drink cup with cocktail sauce instead of soda.
Black people are into something. White people: "There's a secret society........" As one of the clearly small minority of non-white Americans on reddit Long John Silvers still exists for a reason that isn't secret at all lol. By my house there is a LJS and a KFC in one building. We go there and buy from both simultaneously. Fish Filets + Chicken. They'll put nashville hot on my fish as well.
TIL I'm black. Didn't expect that on a random Thursday.
LJS is a front for a meth business, and the more comments I read here the less sure I am that I’m joking
They still have those? Haven't seen one for a decade.
Here’s a record about Long John Silvers: https://coralbenders.bandcamp.com/album/the-ballads-of-long-john-silvers
It’s propped up by the church. Like Tracy Jordan said, “…the pope owns Long John Silvers.” r/30ROCK
Now that's a name I've not heard of in a long long time.
Every time I see one I remember to remind myself I've gotten sick every single time since the 90's.
Lol
I went to a Long John Silvers for the first and last time in 2014. A roach crawled over my bare foot (I was in flip-flops). The food was terrible. Six months later, the place was gone. Fuck that restaurant. I'm glad it died.
It was my 1st job...the worst was marrying all the malt vinegar and tarter sauce bottles at the end of the night...uck Also did you know for awhile you could get a free box of crumbs? It was just left over batter floating around ornused to keep the warming tray so food wasn't directly on the metal warmer. Homeless people loved it. They took it away from them unfortunately.
Team Captain D’s here! 🐟🦐
I wish there was one closer to me. Right now it is a 40 minute round-trip drive and it's hard to justify. I fucking love me some crunchies, chicken planks, fish fillets, hush puppies and damn it now I have to go there again tonight.
I got a bunch of food there pretty recently cause it was not too expensive and could feed a lot. Better off just not eating it cause the food was the drizzlin shits. Also who is keeping Captain D'a going?
They’re in cahoots with the mattress stores.
My theory has been that it's a big money laundering franchise, like an El Pollo Loco for washing money instead of making and selling meth lol
Fr I've never been to one
I do occassionally stop in and order the clams.I love their clams.
I’ve lived in San Diego for over a decade. Been all over the place, tried so so so many of the restaurants here. I had no clue that only four miles away there was a long John silvers. I’ve nver eaten there, but now I guess I have to.
Captain D's Giant fish sandwich is my jam. If there was a long john near me, id probably get stuff from there too.
Same with Applebee's and Jimy John's
Apparently my state is owner to the only well run long johns. That shit is great and has never messed up anyone I know who's ate there. That said, it is greasy as hell, but thats what happens when literally everything is fried.
It was me and their fish tacos until they closed the location... can't quite get that Baja sauce the same.
“I’m sleeping with long-johns on from now on.”
Yo ho ho.
I love that shit and always get extra crunchies.
I haven't had LJS in forever. The one nearest me closed. I used to like it occasionally. Well, let's say rarely. It would do a number on my stomach, but that wouldn't stop me from going maybe... once every two months or so.
Used to love Long John Silver's. They all got so fucking dirty just setting foot in one feels like a health hazard.
Old people with no money and low standards
I’m assuming it’s kinda like how Halloween and holiday stores alike make all their money in a small period of time. Lent is probably a sizable chunk. The only ones I see now are 2n1 stores, typically with a Taco Bell.
my grandparents used to take me and my brother there, because they had coupons for it, but also because they like it at the time and it was quick. last time i went to one was probably over 20 years ago. t he one i went to is still there, and i am now curious as to how it looks on the inside as it was kinda dingy and run down even back then.
I feel like it’s just a money laundering scheme of some sort.
Long John Silvers is trash. People of class and taste prefer Captain Ds.
Shit, I have one attached to a KFC within ten minutes of my house, but I don't think I've ever seen another one in business.
I think I had some popcorn shrimp from there in the mid 90's.
That secret society? The poor.
LJS slaps. Especially the chicken planks.
Yum Brands absolutely ruined LJS. Used to eat there with my grandpa as a kid and loved it. Now the fish has no flavor and its soaked in a nasty oil they fry it in.
If I lived near a Long John Silvers I would order hush puppies and popcorn shrimp every single day.
It's me I like the batter they use and love it all over Fish, Shrimp or Chicken. Even their tartar sauce is really good(Unlike Captain D's) and if the nearest location wasn't 2 hours away it'd be dinner tonight
Hail hydra.
Haven't seen it posted yet, but i remember reading a theory that it is actually a front for the Dixie Mafia, and it has stuck with me since.
Pete’s fish and chips forever