Toast me some Wendy's, I mean, have a toast with me to Wendy's

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I don't know why the worst fast food joint (beat barely by Dairy Queen) is always getting ILX hooplah. Well, I do know why, but I can only handle so much.

A cheap and yummy meal(ish thing) can be purchased with speed from the one restaurant sponsored by Pippi: WENDY's. Dollar menu with a fucking baked potato, yummy chili, chicken nuggets almost as good as the Fil-A at half the price, history of pleasantly mild-mannered advertisements.

Please raise your al-anon O'Doull's or sparkling cider with me in a toast to Wedny's.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:29 (seventeen years ago) link

oh p.s. the first sentence is referring to Taco Bell

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://adweek.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/chili_finger_1.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.wendysrecruitment.hospitalityjobs.hcareers.com/public/profile/wendysrecruitment/image.gif

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Wendy's >>>>>>> Taco Bell

However, Arby's is still where it's at.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

wendy's is GREAT.

― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link

However, I just remembered that the worst food poisoning I've had recently was caused by Wendy's. -2 pts.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I had Chik-Fil-a last night MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!1! But Wendy's, yes excellent. Arbys is my stop of choice for in-car eating while driving, just a regular Arby's, no sauce = no worries about dropping sandwich accoutrements down your cleavage while hauling past semis on I-90.

― jaq (jaq), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.danielgreeneartist.com/graphics/clients-davethomas.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I did in fact eat a Wendy's Frescata sandwich today - turkey, roasted peppers and basil pesto on some surprisingly good bread. Fast food drive-thru is always a last resort for me, but Wendy's is definitely among the best options. Plus they own Baja Fresh which has to be the BEST fast food I've ever had.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

they own tim horton's too.

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there a Tim Horton's anywhere in the NYC area? I don't even remember ever seeing one.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:07 (seventeen years ago) link

tim horton's in new york state:

Albion
Amherst
Batavia
Brockport
Buffalo
Canandaigua
Cheektowaga
Clarence
Depew
East Aurora
East Rochester
Fredonia
Gates
Geneseo
Geneva
Grand Island
Greece
Hamburg
Hamburg
Henrietta
Irondequoit
amestown
Lackawana
Lakewood
Lancaster
Lewiston
Lockport
Niagara Falls
North Chili
North Tonawanda
Olean
Orchard Park
Penfield
Rochester
Silver Creek
Springville
Tonawanda
Victor
Warsaw
West Seneca
Williamsville

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Pft yeah like I know where any of those places are.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

None in Jersey either.

Is it any good?

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

You don't know where Buffalo is?
xp

― ian (orion), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I was exaggerating, obv. I also know where Niagra Falls is.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

We have Wendys in Aus but it is just a chain mall thing that sells icecreams, donuts, hotdogs and coffee. Possibly not affiliated.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 9 December 2006 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Frosty + Fries = artery-clogging heaven

― milo (milo), Saturday, 9 December 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link

wait a min, dairy queen is AMAZING, are you on crack?

― j.d. (j.d.), Saturday, 9 December 2006 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a spicy chicken sammich & fries just last night. I like Wendy's okay, but not as much as my wife -- shit, she'd eat there five or six times a week if I didn't object.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 9 December 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The spicy chicken is good but I stopped eating that sort of thing when I found out the fried chicken sandwiches are just as bad for you in every way as the burgers. I don't know why I thought they weren't, but I guess chicken just sounds healthier than beef.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 9 December 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Things I like about Wendy's:
- The cattle corral that insures you'll not "pick the wrong line" like at McDonald's.
- The Frosty.
- Being able to pick your side if you're just not in a fry-munching mood that day.
- The jazzy ketchup pumps like you see in catfish places.
- The tables with the old 1910 advertisements for hair tonic on them.
- The strange fact that almost every franchise has a solarium.

I used eat lunch at a Wendy's behind the Kinko's I worked at. Every two weeks or so, they'd take my order and tell me I didn't have to pay. Though that was over ten years ago, I still feel some sort of weird brand loyalty to Wendy's.

It was almost like they adopted me.

― PPlains (PPlains), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried the vanilla Frosty a couple of weeks ago. It seemed wrong on just about every level (before and after).

- The jazzy ketchup pumps like you see in catfish places.

Another reason I love Captain D's, condiment pumps. But that's for another thread.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 9 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"- The tables with the old 1910 advertisements for hair tonic on them."

They got rid of those at my local awile back. They were awesome though. There was even an ad for a Shakespeare production starring Edwin Booth (brother of John Wilkes). A similar table popped up at a local BBQ place, but it just isn't the same.

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Saturday, 9 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Every two weeks or so, they'd take my order and tell me I didn't have to pay.

wtf, fast food buybacks?

― obi strip (sanskrit), Saturday, 9 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

dairy queen rocks you crack head!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Dairy Queens in big cities generally suck. The best ones are in small towns.

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Are there stand alone drive-thru Chik-Fil-A's? I've only seen them in mall food courts.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup, there are stand alone Jesus Chickens.

Any love for Sonic here?

― patita (patita), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah. My mom backed into another car in the parking lot of one awile back. The store manager was a witness and told the police it was her fault (we were in a parking space and the other car was heading for the drive-thru), so we never ate at that location again.

And that's my Chik-Fil-A story.

X-post

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I've had some great DQ food but they always tend to be so slow and understaffed that I'm boiling with rage by the time I get out of there.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 9 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Any love for Sonic here?

You kiddin'? There's been a lot of orgasmic Sonic talk the last few months. Jaq is the queen of Coney + Tots.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i've still never eaten at a sonic even though i lived down the street from one last summer. chik-fil-a is teh awsum but i try not to put too much money in the jesuschicken coffers.

― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Saturday, 9 December 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

sonic is great for the side stuff (tots, cherry limeade, even the ICE) but the actual sandwiches are a tad dry and underwhelming.

― j.d. (j.d.), Sunday, 10 December 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know why I thought they weren't, but I guess chicken just sounds healthier than beef.

surely the FRIED part was a tip off.

The grilled chicken would be better.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 10 December 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

my two favorite things about wendy's:

ONE: the fact that the burgers are square b/c they don't cut corners.

TWO: the urban legend that dave thomas was, in fact, severely retarded and had major facial reconstructive surgery to "look normal" and the voice in the commercials was overdubbed.

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 10 December 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"Are there stand alone drive-thru Chik-Fil-A's?"

HELL YES THERE ARE

― aidsy (aidsy), Sunday, 10 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

To me, seeing one of those would be like seeing a free-standing Spencer's Gifts.

― PPlains (PPlains), Sunday, 10 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

TWO: the urban legend that dave thomas was, in fact, severely retarded and had major facial reconstructive surgery to "look normal" and the voice in the commercials was overdubbed.

-- max (mreadn...), December 10th, 2006.

Aren't urban legends supposed to sound plausible?

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

TWO: the urban legend that dave thomas was, in fact, severely retarded

no, that's david thomas *ducks*

― boo you whore (get bent), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Wendy's was founded by Dave Thomas and Robert Barney in 1969 and was named after Dave's second daughter, Melinda Lou Thomas, then 8 years old, whom her older siblings nicknamed "Wendy" (originally "Winda", stemming from the child's initial difficulty saying her own name), as Thomas stated in his A&E Biography show.

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Winda
1 up, 1 down

Glass insert placed into building wall penetrations.

Ya dun dropped da pistol when ya dun busted da winda
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― boo you whore (get bent), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

People ragging on Chik-Fil-A b/c of Christianity depress me. If anything, Chik-Fil-A discourages Christian fundamentalism b/c it makes me want to bow down and worship a chicken-bestowing pagan god.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 10 December 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Aren't urban legends supposed to sound plausible?

Have you seen Dave Thomas in those commercials??

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

We have Wendys in Aus but it is just a chain mall thing that sells icecreams, donuts, hotdogs and coffee. Possibly not affiliated.

New Zealand has them both (and no I don't think they are affliated) and let me tell you burger-Wendys craps all over icecream-Wendys.

― Webber (Webber), Sunday, 10 December 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

People ragging on Chik-Fil-A b/c of Christianity depress me. If anything, Chik-Fil-A discourages Christian fundamentalism b/c it makes me want to bow down and worship a chicken-bestowing pagan god.

i didn't have any problems w/ their affiliations until a glazed-eyed cashier there once asked me to pray for her to pass a test she was taking the next day. i told her "no, sorry."

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Good grief. Thank God you didn't sneeze or your sensibilities really would've been offended.

Excuse me. Thank goodness you didn't sneeze. Whew. Close one there.

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

it would have been funny if you sneezed and she said "gesundheit."

― boo you whore (get bent), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

am i reading you right PP? you're saying it's ok to ask customers to pray for them? she's lucky i didn't say "gimme my food and go study for your test ya fucking moron"

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway i later heard she was struck by lightning on the way to the test and now writhes in hell

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link

lol

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

you're saying it's ok to ask customers to pray for them?
Unless it's a requirement for me to enter the restaurant and get my fried goodies, or she's rude about it, yes.

― milo (milo), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link

well its not like i complained to the manager about it. nor is what she said in any way similar to muttering a "gawd bless u" after a sneeze. it was creepy and made me think twice about going there again. in any case i'm not gonna argue about religion on the internets. dave thomas is god btw

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

goddamn do i want a classic triple with cheese :(

― ian (orion), Monday, 11 December 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude it's not like Chik-Fil-A only hires god-fearing Christians. You'd probably be just as likely to get that same cashier at friggin Wendy's.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

That's probablt true curtis, but this is interesting too:

Home schoolers have caught the attention of the Society for Human Resource Management, which publishes HR Magazine. They report that employers who have hired home schoolers are generally enthusiastic about them. Chick-fil-A®, a nationwide fast food chain, is so happy with its home school hires that it actively recruits them.

And as we all know (from watching Wife Swap and Trading Spouses,) "home schoolers" is code for "creepy fundies."

― ian (orion), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

source:
http://www.hslda.org/courtreport/V18N4/V18N401.asp

― ian (orion), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://x86.xanga.com/f79b54fac173534325799/b23757435.bmp

― ian (orion), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh noes, is she wearing a Neighborhoodie?

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

am i reading you right PP? you're saying it's ok to ask customers to pray for them? she's lucky i didn't say "gimme my food and go study for your test ya fucking moron"

What if she had said, "Wish me luck on my test tomorrow!" I mean, did she sincerely request that you drop to your knees and strike your breast right there inside the chicken restaurant?

I mean, I wasn't there or anything, but the fact that her action got so stuck in your craw might imply that you're overreacting a bit to this.

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

You're overreacting to Amon's overreacting.

― ian (orion), Monday, 11 December 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

ha no shit i'm overreacting. grow 1 sense of humor. that you're reading into my being creeped out by her request as "having my sensibilities offended" shows a bit of overreaction on your own part. (haha xpost)

curtis, you're in complete denial about chik fil-a

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:08 (seventeen years ago) link

What if she had said, "Wish me luck on my test tomorrow!"

me: "I don't even know who you are."

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I know Chik-fil-A is a Christian-based company but the fact that it took some random cashier to convince you of that doesn't say anything about the organization as a whole. The people I know who worked at Chik-fil-A weren't religious by any stretch.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean if some dude at Kroger said "pray that I pass my driver's test tomorrow" I wouldn't be like "man, I didn't realize until now what a creepy fundamentalist Christian organization Kroger is!!!!!"

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.milesofsmilespro.com/images/jpg%20files/pchick.jpg

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't care two shits about the cashiers, it's the corporate pumpage of million$ to crazies/fundies/operation rescues that makes me not eat there.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link

WHERE DID I SAY THAT

http://d94132.u23.simplenet.com/images/MakeYourOwn/Peller-Clara.jpg

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link

curtis be puttin words in my mouth

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

chik-fil-a is tearing us apart

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:29 (seventeen years ago) link

What's the deal with the square meat patties up thread?

― sgh (sgh), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:55 (seventeen years ago) link

never mind

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 11 December 2006 07:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i know she was a lone nut. its all good

What's the deal with the square meat patties up thread?

ask dave

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 07:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Popular belief is that she lost her role with Wendy's after she appeared in a dog food ad, proudly proclaiming "I found the beef!" The actual reason for her termination from Wendy's was an ad for Prego spaghetti sauce in 1985 in which she exclaimed "I found it!" and "I finally found it!", in reference to "Where's the beef?"

― amon (amon), Monday, 11 December 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

What's the deal with the square meat patties up thread?

ask dave

THEY DON'T CUT CORNERS

― max (maxreax), Monday, 11 December 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Those insane double melt jalepeno things are the goddamn bomb and you people are making me want one and there's nothing near me but a stupid McDonald's ;_1

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Monday, 11 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

there should be chik-fil-a tracts 6_6

― clevo lk (clevo lk), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

jack chik-fil-a

― boo you whore (get bent), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

there should be a wendy's over on K & 17th

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

/gabbneb

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Those insane double melt jalepeno things are the goddamn bomb and you people are making me want one and there's nothing near me but a stupid McDonald's

ie I'm not going on a half hour walking tour to get to a Wendy's on my half hour lunch break?? That's not helpful at all.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Monday, 11 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

they don't allow fast food places where i live. there is a dairy queen though. they got in under the wire. only open in the summer though. everytime i go off-island i have to eat my weight in Mcdonalds EVEN THOUGH I DON'T REALLY NEED OR WANT IT. it's like tradition. and my stomach takes 2 weeks to recover every time.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

why does wendy's chilli smell so good but taste so bad?

also, square patties are retarded unless they're on a krystal burger.

― sunny successor (katarina), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Why?

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I never eat fast food that often until I go to texas for work-stuff, and man chik fil-a is GENIUS.

whoever said baja fresh is the best fast food ever is OTM, their burritos are soooo delish that when I am through eating one I AM DEPRESSED THAT THE FUN IS OVER

― maunders (maunders), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

There are many great reasons to visit a Wendy's near you listed above, but also in their favor: Baked Potatoes! PO-TAY-TOES.

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Why?

-- I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (crumpw@bellsouth.net) (webmail), Today 7:08 PM. (Rock Hardy) (later)

you cant fit a square patty in a round bun

― sunny successor (katarina), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Think outside the bun, Sunny.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7268/nasvy7.jpg

― and what (ooo), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i was just coming here to post that

― strongo (temp.) (sandboxhulkington), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

" goddamn do i want a classic triple with cheese :(

-- ian (dr.carl.saga...) (webmail), December 11th, 2006 4:55 AM. (orion)"

otm!!!! best thing abt them is they don't put mayo on the burgers so I don't have to say no mayo every time (AND EXPEND ALL THAT EXTRA ENERGY IN MY QUEST 4 BURGER)

" am i reading you right PP? you're saying it's ok to ask customers to pray for them? she's lucky i didn't say "gimme my food and go study for your test ya fucking moron"

-- amon (...) (webmail), December 11th, 2006 1:38 AM. (amon)"

i hope ur next sandwich gives u aids imo

― aidsy (aidsy), Monday, 11 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

SONIC!!! Las Vegas, Henderson, Kingman, Flagstaff!! Got em all mapped out. Chilicheezdogtotsgiantfuckinlimeade YEAH!

― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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