Arby's is okay I guess, I like their iced tea. Burger King Express makes good burgers, but shitty friesDunkin Donuts not really a place for mealsKFC Express joek optionPanda Express orange chicken doesn't even qualifyPizza Hut Express could be okay i guessSbarro is ... fuck noSubway, please see aboveTaco Bell Express gives people diarrhea
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
I love Taco Bell, but would not dare eat it during the workday.
Your food court is very chainy. Mine is mostly locally-owned places with a few exceptions (Checkers, Chick-fil-A, Subway, Dairy Queen).
― God is great. God is good. And people are crazy. Amen. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
None of the above - eat elsewhere - but Subway is the least unhealthy of these options.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
xp There are some nonchains down there but I omitted them because then it would be really obvious where I work and I am pretending it is possible to still remain semi-anonymous on the internet. There's a hot beef/gyro place, a weird fucking creepy coffee shop and a sketchy soup and sandwich place that some googling reveals are both owned and operated by Sodexo, a cheesesteak place that is closed for health code violations, an actual for real decent burger place (local chain), and a hit or miss sushi place. Oh and a completely horrid "Cajun" place that is indescribably disgusting.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh and a completely horrid "Cajun" place that is indescribably disgusting.
i used to live near one of these. they never had any customers. i went in there once and they seemed annoyed that they had to break away from whatever they were up to in the back room.
― trudy campbell, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
i love token Other fast food stalls in food courts.
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
mongolian bbq ftw
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
brazilian churrasco stall ftw
― trudy campbell, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
tibetan momo stall ftw
― tanuki, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
What makes a person look at these options and go "zomg so unhealthy"? It's pretty obvious the thread is not about health food.
dayo OTM re: Arby's
― OH NOES, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
Subway meatball with lotsa veggies imo.
You know that Arby's roast beef is totally processed, right?
― wrinklepause, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
It's pretty obvious the thread is not about health food.
What you eat everyday is not about your health? Subway may well be the best-tasting of those too, if you order right.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
xp (it's cool, guys, I work in downtown Chicago so I pretty much never eat in the food court of our building unless I specifically want Taco Bell or Panda Express or mozzarella sticks from Arby's.)
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:12 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
I came here to say you forgot Mongolian BBQ~!!
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
is mongolian BBQ the one where you point at a bunch of shit and they put it on a big griddle and squirt a lot of sauce at it?
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
Da.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I've ever admitted this on ILX but I hate Subway so much. It's so bland and disappointing. Every time I eat a Subway sandwich I just get sad.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, December 29, 2011 7:00 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
tough but fair
― Cooper Chucklebutt,
i lol'd because it's so, so true. i end up eating at subway about once a week due to my own food court situation and yeah, i derive almost zero pleasure from it.
jenny, is this the food court i would be eating at too if i landed that one job? fuck, dude!
― Z S, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
If you aren't putting oil and vinegar on yr Subway sandwich, which is either a cold cut trio or a BMT on classic Italian, IMO you are doing Subway wrong. I don't think any of their other sandwiches are particularly tasty but those two are great with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, bell peppers, provolone, salt & pepper and oil & vinegar.
― OH NOES, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
I got an 'avocado sandwich' at a HK subway once and they only spared me half an avocado, and they pasted it onto that awful fast food restaurant shredd lettuce, and mealy tomatoes, and they put cheese on it (36 calories)
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
really though, could not spare a whole avocado
xp Different building, but you can get to this food court from where you would be working through Chicago's network of underground tunnels. I would recommend instead taking those tunnels to Macy's and checking out the food court on their seventh floor, which is really good.
However if you are ever in serious need of one of those Taco Bell burritos with Flaming Hot Cheetos in it or you want to try Arby's reputedly delicious chicken tenders, you know where to go.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
I think I have done everything possible to make Subway palatable and it always ends in despair.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
If you aren't putting oil and vinegar on yr Subway sandwich, which is either a cold cut trio or a BMT on classic Italian, IMO you are doing Subway wrong
Exactly what I was going to say
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
Except I order (I haven't eaten subway in years) the (probably fake) chicken
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Friday, 30 December 2011 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
I cannot imagine ordering anything but a traditional roast beef sandwich from Arby's. It's like ordering a steak at a seafood restaurant; it I probably still good but why go there if you're not in the mood for their raison detre
― OH NOES, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
U should order one thing from every place listed here and have a Xmas feast
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
return to work to work throwing the feast onto yr colleagues until they are slathered in all the wonders of the food court
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
fast food shredded lettuce evokes a unique note of helplessness
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
When I was a kid I would've killed to eat an Arbys but my hippie snob parents wouldn't let us eat fast food but then o heard it was garbage so I never tried it as an adult so it still seems so mysterious to me
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm so hungry I could eat at arby's
*kids gasp and recoil in horror*
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to make it rain shredded lettuce all over the data entry department.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
― OH NOES, Thursday, December 29, 2011 7:56 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
that's the thing though - they realize this so they made their chicken tenders extra nice, it's the 'move' to 'pull'
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
everybody realizes that iceberg lettuce is the worst of all the lettuces. and then they shred it
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
nobody wants to eat lettuce the color of a highlighter
the whole concept of arbys freaks me out, like how their logo is a big brown hat and they serve roast beef, dont think ive ever had it except maybe like french fries at a rest stop once
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
fight back against shredded iceberg. get spinach leaves on your subway instead.
― trudy campbell, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda dig shredded lettuce *shrug*
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:05 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
cosign
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
my standard subway these days: six-inch turkey, wheat bread, no cheese, spinach, tomatoes, pickles, oil/vinegar, salt/pepper. it's boring but it does the job.
― trudy campbell, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
arby's fries are also otm, what other fast food chain is brave enough to offer curly fries as the default standard
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
very glad that trudy campbell is saving 36 calories
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
It doesn't matter what kind of leaves you put on a Subway sandwich because it will all end up tasting like boredom and bad choices.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
36 calories adds up! for instance 36+36+36+36+36+36+36
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
trudy campbell can't taste the cheese anyway under that nasty bread
― trudy campbell, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
Man ive never eaten at like half of these (well i havent eaten at most of them but im assuming express locations are basically the same as non express ones) im really missing out
subway is p gross but its just wood pulp and recycled stuff so i figure it cant hurt me too much
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
Panda is the best of those by far.
― Jeff, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
that's racist
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
(sorry just wanted to say that out loud)
1. establish subway as a giant worldwide restaurant chain2. advertise3. do not spare a whole avocado. only use half4. profit
― Z S, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
Arby's Roast Beef consists entirely of Beef and a Self-Basting solution
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
my man!
― nuhnuhnuh, Friday, 30 December 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
xp
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It feels like an Arby's night.
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
#2, super size, hurry up I'm starving
― wrinklepause, Friday, 30 December 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
sorry just an attempt to get that out of my FUCKING HEAD
― wrinklepause, Friday, 30 December 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 31 December 2011 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
I always eat in whatever Asian place has bourbon chicken (cuz there's always one!)
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, 31 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
I think Panda Express is overpriced but its usually the best-tasting of the food court choices, IMO. It is kind of like a giant pile of salt, though.
― Frobisher, Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
The Oh and a completely horrid "Cajun" place that is indescribably disgusting has bourbon chicken.
You know what tho, I never thought it was such a bad place. I've eaten there a couple of times.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
I miss the DQ.
― Jeff, Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Arby's Market Fresh sandwiches used to be the shit (relative to other fast food options).
― milo z, Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
Their Jamocha shakes are good. Also, the jalapeno poppers.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, the terrible Cajun place has bourbon chicken and is run by Asian people.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
The line is crrrrrazy long unless you get there at 11.
Didn't we meet there at like 1 PM one time, and it was practically empty? (Actually, I can't remember if you were there or not -- I know Jesse and n/a and Sarah were.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Can you hear me....Can you hear me fappin....
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
I was not there in that fateful day. I believe it is possible but I stand by my caution that most days the line during peak lunch hours is prohibitively long.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
It's because a specific cashier is painfully slow.
― Jeff, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
GD, why are my posts fro Zing not showing up.
I said earlier that the according-to-Jenny shitty Cajun place had Bourbon chicken and it was run by Asians. And I thought that overall it was not such a bad place.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, my post did show up. Please forgive and disregard me.
Their macaronic and cheese tastes like dishwater. Unforgivable IMO.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
It's New Years Eve, let's not fight.
― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/files/original/mouth+shut.jpg
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 1 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Surprised there were no secret shame votes for Taco Bell.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Sunday, 1 January 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
At the food court at the local mall, there are four or five restaurants that usually have someone giving out free samples on a toothpick. Sometimes when i'm hungry i'll walk through and eat one of each. I'm so cheap....
― Everything else is secondary, Sunday, 1 January 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
that is just a smart way 2 be proactive abt portion control imo
― j crunchwrap supreme, Sunday, 1 January 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link