Popular snacks/restaurants/drinks you hate

[GTO]

Whipped cream. Hard pass

 

[Icky_Mettle]

Great Plains.

 

[Die4Cy]

I get people like Cane's because it's a mountain of food for $12 and they really just want to drink punchbowls of that sauce...but I don't like that sauce and I swear their chicken doesn't even have a pinch of salt and pepper.

I have a new one near me I'd probably get all the time if they could add even a pinch of seasoning and/or get bbq or some other sauce options. As it is I never go there.

Cane's is the most pedestrian thing ever. When you find yourseld on the fence about whether the (checks notes) TOAST is the best thing on the menu, you're really, really getting by on hype.

 

[dahliaclone]

Great Plains.

I absolutely love it but I also absolutely understand how someone hates it.

 

[dahliaclone]

Cane's is the most pedestrian thing ever. When you find yourseld on the fence about whether the (checks notes) TOAST is the best thing on the menu, you're really, really getting by on hype.

This is how I feel about In and Out and Five Guys. All hype and zero substance.

 

[NWICY]

Then you might as well drink Hot chocolate.

That's the great thing about casey's/kwikstar 24oz cup half hot chocolate half coffee. YUM!

 

[NWICY]

I absolutely love it but I also absolutely understand how someone hates it.

Did Great Plains just last weekend, usually go once a yr during BB season with friends.

 

[NWICY]

I really think In-n-Out is popular with locals because, it's probably 40% cheaper than our local McDs or Chic-Fil-A prices. Then non California residents try it and wonder what's the big deal. I constantly see lines down the block for the drive through and I think it's more about "only place i can feed my family of four under 50 bucks" than it is about "world's greatest burger".

There's a McDs near me charging $4.99 for a medium french fries. Depending on the McDs location I wouldn't be shocked if it cost 2x what In-n-Out costs.

Whaaaat? McD's is cheaper than inn-n-out? I always thought they were supposedly pricey never been to one. Be-Bops is my go to fast food burger.

 

[dahliaclone]

Did Great Plains just last weekend, usually go once a yr during BB season with friends.

We stop there on the way back from the big 12 tourney every year.

 

[Big Daddy Kang]

Ranch, hard boiled or fried eggs, mayo, mushrooms, cottage cheese, pickle herring, bologna.

That's a Sumner Sandwich!

 

[NWICY]

I like Cane's but I go like once every year or two because no one else in my family likes it. It's good chicken strips. The sauce is tasty but not worth a long drive or a wait.

The fact I love to share though is how freaking profitable they are. If you're going to buy a franchise, RC is about as good as it gets. And just about every one I've ever gone to is slammed no matter the time of day.

The Dirty Dodge just got a chick-fil-a, it seems popular lines weren't crazy when I went by today.

 

[madguy30]

Said it before: mustard on its own. If it's mixed into something it's better but by itself should be outlawed.

KFC. Liked it as a kid but had it maybe two years ago and it was awful and expensive.

 

[madguy30]

Buffalo wings or just wings in general.

Really anything that requires a lot of work to eat and alcohol wipes.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Whaaaat? McD's is cheaper than inn-n-out? I always thought they were supposedly pricey never been to one. Be-Bops is my go to fast food burger.

Yeah, that’s really the deal with In-and-Out, it’s relatively cheap. I went to one in San Francisco a couple of years ago - it’s pretty good fast food, nothing special or exceptional, but its very affordable (and fast, they have the serving down to a science).

 

[NWICY]

Oysters. They look how I imagine Jabba the Hutt’s boogers

I wasn't on the oyster band wagon until this summer fresh grilled oyster and fresh oyster shooters are pretty darn good. The oyster shooters I had came with a white wine,vinegar, garlic, shallots type muddle you dipped them in before eating I was skeptical but I liked them.

 

[throwittoblythe]

The Dirty Dodge just got a chick-fil-a, it seems popular lines weren't crazy when I went by today.

I’m sure the newness is a big factor.

Here’s the secret to chic-fil-a though: they keep that line moving. It’s why they have people walking around with menus and taking orders. The whole point is to keep the line moving.

My point is: don’t let the line deter you. It doesn’t take nearly as long as it appears. Of course the first month might be extra-busy. But pretty much every location will have a line at peak times.

 

[KidSilverhair]

KFC. Liked it as a kid but had it maybe two years ago and it was awful and expensive.

KFC has gone down the crapper quality wise. As a kid, when my folks would get a bucket of KFC for us to have in the station wagon at the drive-in movies, it was a special treat. When my kids were young in the mid to late 90s, it was still really good. Since then it’s turned into a tasteless shadow of its former greatness. And their potatoes and gravy - which used to be addictingly delicious - is horrible pasty glop now.

 

[JP4CY]

You know why I like in n out? Because the workers appear to give a ****. Looks like a place where you work hard, they pay you decently, and the good is atleast on par if not better than similarly priced places.
Same reason I like Costco, Trader Joe's, Kwik Star, Scheels.

 

[madguy30]

You know why I like in n out? Because the workers appear to give a ****. Looks like a place where you work hard, they pay you decently, and the good is atleast on par if not better than similarly priced places.
Same reason I like Costco, Trader Joe's, Kwik Star, Scheels.

For fast food I'd put Culver's in there too overall.

 

[HFCS]

I really like Canes. It works for them particularly because they have such a limited menu. The quality of the meat/strips is hard to beat.

I get that people want more spice or seasoning, but that is not what it is. I think they could please more people if they had a spicy option, but then they would be going against their philosophy of the limited menu.

I do think they could add a couple sauces too, that would not really be going against their limited menu, and would make more people like it.

The quality of the strips are far better than most out there, but the lack of options for spice or sauce does turn some off.

I like their sauce, but I do also wish they had other options sometimes.

The one thing you cant argue with is their popularity or success, they apparently are doing something right. Just like I dont get the hype for Chick Fil A but they must be doing something right, by how successful they are.

If you happen to not like that sauce it's kind of like being gluten and dairy free at a pizza place.

I can tell it's fresh chicken (very fresh by fast food standards) and a good value, being somewhat of an amateur chef I can also tell it's not seasoned or brined AT ALL and the flavor all comes from the sauce. People will say "other food is just too salty" and that's not the case, their chicken doesn't have the basic seasoning that pretty much all professionally prepared food has. I'll agree with anybody that something like KFC is an inedible salt bomb, that's not what I'm looking for either.

To me it seems like such a waste, just season it a TINY bit and/or have more than one flavor of sauce. The fries were really average too. It's a lot like In-n-Out to be honest. Limited menu and no obnoxious national ad campaigns, very fresh, somehow the fries are objectively not good despite being fresh made, an incredible value vs competition, not a wide variety of flavors.