Arby's (pseudo-split)

[St_Zartan]

Maybe rapists sleep at the Super 8 after pushing their Ford Pintos back from Arby's.

I'm starting to think that I'm the only person on the face of the Earth who doesn't think of Arby's as some sort of despicable hell-pit. There's probably a sound reason for this, but it is severely off-topic.

The reason you do not dislike Arby's is because their sandwiches are thick and juicy and flavorful. And do not even get me started on the curly fries. My only complaint about Arby's is that the nearest one is like, forty-five minutes away, so whenever I am fated to be in that neck of the woods, I always end up making a complete pig of myself and feeling just vile for about three hours afterwards.

[CortJstr]

Every single time I eat something from Arby's my stomach gets upset and I have to lie down. That never happens at any other fast food places.

[sjlimmer]

You must not forget the Jamocha shake.  I don't care how stupid the name is, it is the most beautiful "partially gelatinous gum-based beverage"* one can find.  My childhood provided scores of happy memories of junior roast beef sandwiches and shakes....

No wonder I'm such a fat bastard.

*apologies if this isn't 100% accurate, I'm doing it from memory and I haven't had any coffee yet this morning.

[Limmo]

Arby's is nasty.  Pre-processed roast beef loaf that's only +/- 1% sawdust per ounce.  Blecch. Which doesn't mean that I don't wind up eating there a few times a year, but that's only because of the wife person.

There's a chain on the East Coast called Roy Rogers that kicks the collective ass of Arby's seven ways to Sunday.  Or at least it did back in the 80s.

Those green remembered hills...

[V-Adore]

All I really have to say about this topic: I like Arby's. I like roast beef sandwiches, and Arby's's (... er... those sandwiches which are from Arby's, to clarify) have given me nothing to complain about. My condolences to those who have had poor Arby's-related experiences.

I've eaten at Roy Rogers once or twice. It didn't really impress me either way.

[CortJstr]

There's a chain on the East Coast called Roy Rogers that kicks the collective ass of Arby's seven ways to Sunday.  Or at least it did back in the 80s.

I'm fairly certain that Roy's didn't start selling roast beef until they merged with Hardee's. Prior to that they were burgers and fried chicken.

[jough]

Roy Rogers' is my favourite fast food place of all time, next to Gino's.

Anyway, they're all but gone from these parts, but they used to have this "Fixin's Bar" where you could just LOAD UP on lettuce, tomato, onions, pickels, etc. and make essentially a salad burger.

And when I was a kid I had this little "Buckaroo Card" which enabled me to get a free soft drink with any sandwich purchase.  I think it was good until I was 12 years old, and I remember using it once after I was 12 and feeling really guilty and afraid that they'd catch/card me.

[Limmo]

Roy Rogers' is my favourite fast food place of all time, next to Gino's.

Anyway, they're all but gone from these parts, but they used to have this "Fixin's Bar" where you could just LOAD UP on lettuce, tomato, onions, pickels, etc. and make essentially a salad burger.

Dude. And the Double-R-Bar Burger!  A cheeseburger with sliced ham on top of the patty.  Throw a pile of pickles on at the Fixin's Bar and turn into a pillar of salt before you're done eating!

Actually, I must have blocked this out: I found one on the 95 in either southern Pennsylvania or Maryland when I was back east in October.   I made it through one bite of my Double-R-Bar and threw it away.  It made Sbarro's seem appetizing.

Memories, misty watercolor mem-- alright, I'll stop.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Curly fries kick ass.  And those "Market Fresh" sandwiches, on multi-grain bread, aren't half-bad.

Weird Arby's experience some years ago:  I get up to the register and place my order, which includes curly fries.  A girl from the back comes up and says to the girl at the register, "I told you we were out of curly fries."  "What!?" I ask.  "Well, I'd have to make them," says fry cook girl.

"What, you mean like peel the potatoes and stuff?"

"No, they come in a bag."  

I turned around and announced to everyone waiting in line (a couple hours before closing time), "Sorry folks, they're all out of food and DON'T FEEL LIKE MAKING ANY MORE."

I got my curly fries.

(And yes, they were girls, high school girls, not womyn.)

[AugustWest]

I got my curly fries.

And what's more, you also got the USRDA of both phlegm AND saliva!

[V-Adore]

With all due respect, Carlos, you probably got somebody's LiveJournal nastygram of the day -- and you may very well have deserved it. My first thought on that matter is that fry-cook girl was pointing it out not because she didn't want to make the fries but because, if she didn't make it clear that they were out and had to make more, everyone who had ordered curly fries would have been bitching at the poor girl on the register about WHERE THE HELL ARE THEIR CURLY FRIES, THEY ORDERED TEN MINUTES AGO, DAMMIT?!

(Yes, I have a friend in food service. Sometimes it shows.)

[andalucia]

A cheeseburger with sliced ham on top of the patty.

Well, that's just appalling.  I was stricken with an attack of "Can they DO that??" upon reading that post.
And I'd concur with V-Adore regarding the curly-fry incident.  Being a teenagey type, I have a LOT of friends in the "fast food industry" (which makes it sound like some sort of dirty euphemism, but alas no), including one who works at New York Fries.  Apparently fry work is not nice work.

[Limmo]

Well, that's just appalling.

No, that's just yummy-numptious.  Or at least, it was at one point.

Besides, I'm glad I don't have access to such a thing these days, given that am I what is known in the parlance of our times as a "fat fuck."

[sjlimmer]

Well, that's just appalling.

No, that's just yummy-numptious.  Or at least, it was at one point.

Besides, I'm glad I don't have access to such a thing these days, given that am I what is known in the parlance of our times as a "fat fuck."

This is the same reason why it is for the best that I no longer live in my old home-town:  Now I don't have access to Crown Burger.  If ham on a burger is good, pastrami on a buger is as near orgasmic as I could want my food to be.

And their shakes and fries kick ass, too.

Time to stop thinking about this, I'm drooling....

[CortJstr]

Now I'm flashing back to the Gusburger eating contest from school. That's a burger "all the way" with a fried egg on top.