• @[email protected]
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    321 month ago

    I’m convinced LJS is Taco Bell for people who moved away from the coast. They know it’s not sea food, but they crave it’s badness for its own sake.

    • desktop_user [they/them]
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      21 month ago

      But taco bell is for when you want to see what new dorito thing they made in the past decade, or the bread taco hybrid (challappa) they have. LGS seems to have food that wasn’t invented for gamers by someone that hasn’t met a Mexican.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        Basically yes, LGS is seafood for people who visit the coast once a year at best, who has never met a Marylander.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 month ago

      I’m from northern Connecticut and live in (southern, nowhere near any fished lakes) Germany. I tried seafood here a couple times when I first got here, but it’s just intolerably fishy for me, even in a taco bell sense.

      Though I guess frying it does mask a lot of fishiness. And LJSs doesn’t try for the cachet of “never-frozen,” so it’s possible it’s actually fresher than what you get in a fancy inland restaurant…

      I didn’t agree with you at first, but you might be on to something

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      101 month ago

      Here in the Midwest we even have some combined Long John Silver and Taco Bell restaurants. You can go through the drive-thru and order off of both menus. They’ve been slowly disappearing but for a while they were all over the place.

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    221 month ago

    I just went on the LJS site to look for the nearest location and they have a rewards program called “Seacret Society”.

    Hmmm

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    Could have fooled me. All the ones that were near me are closed. I just checked, the closest one is 1.5 hrs away

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    131 month ago

    The one nearest to me is combined with an A&W, another ancient fast food business that somehow hangs on. I’ve only had LJS once and it was absolutely disgusting.

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      101 month ago

      A&W has really good burgers and hands down the best root beer. Used to live by one, and it was always packed at dinner time on the weekends.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        61 month ago

        A&W is the best of the top few major brand root beers, but there are some in most grocery stores that are much better. Virgil’s and Henry Weinhart’s probably the best of the easily found ones.

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        A&W are everywhere up here in Canada. And the have an impossible meat option, so we end up there reasonably often.

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    591 month ago

    Man, I fucking love LJS and wish I had one within driving distance.

    Nothing like ordering a fish & chicken plank combo and not knowing which of the identical diamond-shaped planks is which before biting.

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        221 month ago

        Chicken planks, fries, hush puppies, and an obscene amount of tartar sauce to dip everything into. And the crunchy little batter bits? Absolute gold.

        God I could go for some right now.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    The one in the photo looks delightfully old school. I bet they still have the bell you can ring by the exit door!

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      The bell is still there, but last year the manager filled it with cement.

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        31 month ago

        If this was analogous to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, what would be the equivalent historical point?
        Elagabalus? Maybe that time the title of emperor went to the biggest bidder and the guy lasted for a day? We need a Rough Roman Meme for this.

    • SnowboardBum
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      21 month ago

      Cap D’s offers baked, and blackened versions of their food. LJS is just about all totally fried. Cap D’s is much better, but that isn’t hard.

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      11 month ago

      Funny, I live in California where there’s are some LJS’s, but I’ve never been to one. There are no Captain D’s here, but I’ve eaten in one a few times because I used to travel to Alabama for work. It was honestly fine. It was basically just what I expected from the phrase “fast food fish and chips.”

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      31 month ago

      One of our captain ds is now a ‘make your own’ burger joint that ALSO, strangely enough, never seems to be busy but stays in business. There must be some sort of curse lingering in the very asbestos of the ceilings.

      The only other one is the last of its kind in at least a 50 mile radius.

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    11 month ago

    We are the Chicken Plank Collective.

    We meet every other Wednesday

    If you are chosen by the ring of the bell, you get a 6 piece hush puppies for free.