I miss Del Taco… do they still have their Macho Tacos or Big Fat Tacos?

We have a chain up here, Taco Johns, that can be decent if you find a well managed one. I enjoy their “Meat & Potato Burrito”… basically just a burrito that they stuff their seasoned tator tots in.

They also have a good puréed jalapeño salsa.

Popeye’s is good as well, but Chick-fil-A takes the crown for my tastes as well.

Chalupas haven’t tasted right for a couple years. Cold and stale tasting now. They used to be my favorite item there, and now I never order them.

I just did a search on reddit about this to see if I could find reasons from actual TB employees. It sounds like they are saying that in new oil (when they are fried) they are supposed to be in for like 50 seconds but that is too long if the oil is old/used, so they pull them out after 40 seconds hence the raw and stale.

No clue if its accurate or not, but seems feasible anyway?

And Arby’s fish sandwich is good too…

… but it’s not Filet O’ Fish good!

Had Chick-fil-A breakfast for the first time the other day. They were giving away free chicken biscuit sandwiches as a promotion, so I ordered the spicy chicken breakfast burrito (egg, tots, chicken) meal which came with a drink and order of tots… and of course the free chicken biscuit sandwich. Food and service was great, and was pleasantly surprised that they gave me packets of real honey… many others are passing off ‘honey sauce’ these days which is just high fructose corn syrup.

Ha. You are hopefully aware how ridiculous it sounds to say someone would eat someplace merely to boycott the people who won’t eat there because they are boycotting it?

I have literally not experienced a cleaner fast food chain with better service and in every location I have been to than Chick-fil-A. And their food is good as well. There’s your explanation.

Also… multiple downvotes… because I mentioned Chick-fil-A? Talk about triggered.

Somehow managed to miss the Raising Canes thing, actually had to look that up. But yeah, no. I won’t eat at Canes because I refuse to pay those kind of prices for chicken fingers and then be told you can only have this one type of sauce because its the best sauce, a perfect sauce, everybody really wants this sauce.

You may want to examine your “obvious”… its leaking.

Do people actually still love Taco Bell? Since they changed their chicken (many years ago) and started using doritos around and inside their burritos for texture or something, the only things I can even enjoy on their menu these days is the steak quesadilla and chili cheese burrito. And it is all overpriced for what it is.

Still haven’t even tried Shake Shack.

To be honest, I have never ordered it because it didn’t look good. Now I am curious.

Its way too expensive for what it is.

“Oh, but we have free peanuts and we give generous portions of fries!”

You serve a fast food burger, fries, and a drink for more than $20 you filthy animals.

So I decided to do a side by side test for supper: Chick-fil-a vs Popeyes, both classic and spicy sandwiches. While I have had them both many times separately, I had never tried them at the same time. The odd thing was I always thought they were more similar than they actually are.

Both great sandwiches, but really different:

Popeye’s uses a higher quality bun and butters both sides lightly with mayo, and Chick-fil-a just goes dry. Both have pickles.

I think the breading on the Popeye’s spicy sandwich was the same as it was for the classic (but had spicy mayo) whereas the Chick-fil-a breading itself is what makes it spicy. Also, for the first time I noticed that the Chick-fil-a classic breading tasted a bit like KFC original recipe to me. Breading was more uniform on the Chick-fil-a sandwiches.

The chicken from the Chick-fil-a sandwiches were definitely more uniform thickness (but thinner) than Popeyes.

It seemed like the sandwiches I got were good representations, both were great. Wouldn’t hesitate to eat either… not sure I would choose/prefer one or the other any longer either.

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Ha. In ma belly!

Yeah, unfortunately I had already polished them off when I realized I should make a post about it in here. Sorry about that… showing the sandwiches would have been WAY better.

But pickles… they’re… important. And tasty!

Not even pickled herring??

I am gonna pay the price for these shenanigans some day… but that day is not today.

I went to a place up here called Chi Maek Korean Fried Chicken. I swear that menu you posted is the same one at this place.

Minneapolis area.

But making a Pollo Loco ‘skin burrito’ always puts a smile on my face!

So I decided to go to Taco Bell tonight and try out their new “Cantina Chicken” menu items. They left me a bit confused to be honest.

My memory isn’t that great… but I feel like several (maybe more than that) years ago they completely changed their chicken, which was pretty widely regarded as a big move toward better quality chicken, etc. That being said, while it may be that their new chicken was better quality, I think I preferred the old chicken because I no longer ordered or wanted their chicken items.

But the Cantina Chicken taste wasn’t new to me somehow - either it is more like the old Taco Bell chicken or it tastes more like some other fast food restaurant’s chicken (Del Taco maybe?) that I am already familiar with.

Anyone else try it yet? Am I nuts? Well… okay maybe that’s a given… but have any of you had it and recognized it?

That’s a step in the right direction for sure. The prices for what you get without using their app are nuts.

I went there myself a couple days ago because once a week on their app I can cash in the 30% off deal. It is for mobile orders only, but at 30% off that makes the price make more sense.