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Skriven 2013-09-18 20:44:21 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 4748 av Dave Drum (70489.cooking)
Ärende: Fats Food
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Hi Dave,

 DD> and I ain't been impressed with either. Nor with Chick-Fil-A who have
 DD> pretty much been run out of town by better (Popeyes) chicken. Carl's

 RH> Ever have Zaxby's chicken? It's more of a southest chain so probably
 RH> not but it's like C-F-A. Chicken is good but the dipping sauces aren't
 RH> that great, IMO. We first encountered them in Savannah; there's one in
 RH> WF now.

 DD> Never even heard of Zaxby that I remember until you just mentioned
 DD> them.

They're really big in GA and SC, moving into NC, and I think they're in
FL as well. It's a new-ish chain, trying to be cute by calling their
salads "Zalads" and so forth. Cutsey doesn't attract me to a place, good
food does. Their standard dipping sauce is OK in limited quantity but
you can go as hot as nuclear (with several steps between standard and
nuclear) if you want. Steve usually goes for the 2nd from the top in
hotness so he can have some other taste to his food besides hot. (G)

 DD> Jr. is Hardee's here (and in your current home area). Of course
 DD> Hardee's came out of the Carolinas and bought out the Sandy's fats

 RH> I think Zaxby's and C-F-A are better than Hardee's for chicken.

 DD> Heck, even Kentucky Fried Colonel is better than Hardee's for fried
 DD> chicken. Although their dollar-menu spicy chicken sammich is pretty
 DD> good.

Good, but not great.


 RH> Hardee's is out of Rocky Mount, NC, not that far from here. They had a
 RH> good roast beef in the mid 70s but I think Arby's put them out of
 RH> business on that.

 DD> What did in their roast beast business was going to portion controlled
 DD> chunks of beef that had been pasted together with food glue - instead
 DD> of the original plan of using actual roasts as they came off the beef
 DD> animal. And moving the slicer out of the public view. I knew some
 DD> people who would order a roast beef sandwich instead of a hamburger -
 DD> just to watch that slicer operate.  Bv)= Hardee's got into the roast
 DD> beef business when they bought the Roy Rogers Roast Beef chain -- to
 DD> get their fried chicken recipe. My take on the Hardee's chicken was
 DD> that it was waaaaaaaaaaaay too salty. Even for me - and that's saying
 DD> something.

I never had the fried chicken there in the 70s, went there for the roast
beef because Arby's hadn't come to coastal NC yet. And, yes, it was fun
to watch the slicer slice your beef as you waited.

 DD> food burger snatchers. Then they were gobbled up by Carl's Jr.s who
 DD> made an attempt to re-brand the burger snatchers after re-vamping the
 DD> menu (for the better). All of the re-branded locations are now tax
 DD> services, Payday (LEECH loans) or Title Loan (slightly more up market
 DD> than payday loans) thieves. The Hardee's that remained as Hardee's
 DD> putter along with their better than the offerings of the Clown or the
 DD> Crown. Our local Franchisee for Hardee's is a direct descendant
 DD> (grandkid, I think) of Carl Karcher - who founded the Carl's, Jr.
 DD> chain

 RH> Being a college/seminary town, we've got a lot of fast food places. Not
 RH> as many fast loan places; found them near the military installations.

 DD> One of the things that I would regulate the snot out of if I were ever
 DD> in a position to do so.The main difference between the Leech Loan
 DD> places and a Mafia loan shark is that they won't send Vito and Carmine
 DD> around to kneecap you. They'll use lawyers and sheriff's deputies to
 DD> take everything you own or are likely to have a hope of owning.

Keep your nose clean and a handle on your finances & you'll never need
one of those loans.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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