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

Thank you.

Wendy’s >>>>>>> Taco Bell
However, Arby’s is still where it’s at.
wendy’s is GREAT.
However, I just remembered that the worst food poisoning I’ve had recently was caused by Wendy’s. -2 pts.
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.

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.
they own tim horton’s too.
Is there a Tim Horton’s anywhere in the NYC area? I don’t even remember ever seeing one.
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
Pft yeah like I know where any of those places are.
None in Jersey either.
Is it any good?
You don’t know where Buffalo is?
xp
I was exaggerating, obv. I also know where Niagra Falls is.
We have Wendys in Aus but it is just a chain mall thing that sells icecreams, donuts, hotdogs and coffee. Possibly not affiliated.
Frosty + Fries = artery-clogging heaven
wait a min, dairy queen is AMAZING, are you on crack?
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.
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.
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.
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.
“- 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.
Every two weeks or so, they’d take my order and tell me I didn’t have to pay.
wtf, fast food buybacks?
dairy queen rocks you crack head!
Dairy Queens in big cities generally suck. The best ones are in small towns.
Are there stand alone drive-thru Chik-Fil-A’s? I’ve only seen them in mall food courts.
Yup, there are stand alone Jesus Chickens.
Any love for Sonic here?
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
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.
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’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.
sonic is great for the side stuff (tots, cherry limeade, even the ICE) but the actual sandwiches are a tad dry and underwhelming.
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.
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.
“Are there stand alone drive-thru Chik-Fil-A’s?”
HELL YES THERE ARE
To me, seeing one of those would be like seeing a free-standing Spencer’s Gifts.
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?
TWO: the urban legend that dave thomas was, in fact, severely retarded
no, that’s david thomas *ducks*
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.
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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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.
Aren’t urban legends supposed to sound plausible?
Have you seen Dave Thomas in those commercials??
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.
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.”
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.
it would have been funny if you sneezed and she said “gesundheit.”
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”
anyway i later heard she was struck by lightning on the way to the test and now writhes in hell
lol
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.
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
goddamn do i want a classic triple with cheese :(
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.
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.”

Oh noes, is she wearing a Neighborhoodie?
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.
You’re overreacting to Amon’s overreacting.
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
What if she had said, “Wish me luck on my test tomorrow!”
me: “I don’t even know who you are.”
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.
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!!!!!”

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.
WHERE DID I SAY THAT

curtis be puttin words in my mouth
chik-fil-a is tearing us apart
What’s the deal with the square meat patties up thread?
never mind
i know she was a lone nut. its all good
What’s the deal with the square meat patties up thread?
ask dave
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?”
What’s the deal with the square meat patties up thread?
ask dave
THEY DON’T CUT CORNERS
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
there should be chik-fil-a tracts 6_6
jack chik-fil-a
there should be a wendy’s over on K & 17th
/gabbneb
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.
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.
why does wendy’s chilli smell so good but taste so bad?
also, square patties are retarded unless they’re on a krystal burger.
Why?
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
There are many great reasons to visit a Wendy’s near you listed above, but also in their favor: Baked Potatoes! PO-TAY-TOES.
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
Think outside the bun, Sunny.

haha i was just coming here to post that
“ 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
SONIC!!! Las Vegas, Henderson, Kingman, Flagstaff!! Got em all mapped out. Chilicheezdogtotsgiantfuckinlimeade YEAH!