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.
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.
Basically yes, LGS is seafood for people who visit the coast once a year at best, who has never met a Marylander.
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
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.
That’s where you buy poplars!
Fishy Joe’s
I just went on the LJS site to look for the nearest location and they have a rewards program called “Seacret Society”.
Hmmm
I love long John silvers as a guilty pleasure.
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Same, but like a once every 5 years guilty pleasure. Surely that can’t be enough to keep them in business.
Could have fooled me. All the ones that were near me are closed. I just checked, the closest one is 1.5 hrs away
The one near me is closed Sunday and Monday, but it’s still open.
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.
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.
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.
A&W are everywhere up here in Canada. And the have an impossible meat option, so we end up there reasonably often.
That stuff will make you shit worse than taco bell
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.
LJS’s chicken is way better than most other restaurants. I will die on this hill
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.
Never.
Skip.
The.
Clams.
It’s Catholics. LGS makes 1/3 their yearly sales during lent.
Why do you think Catholics don’t eat meat on Fridays? The Pope owns Long John Silvers!
They do own and operate restaurants, probably near the gift shop. I bet there are more hidden in their portfolio.
Fuck yeah! Time to join the Illuminati for a lunch date or whatever.
The one in the photo looks delightfully old school. I bet they still have the bell you can ring by the exit door!
The bell is still there, but last year the manager filled it with cement.
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.Not really, he just got sick of the sound.
A sign of decay in management. The Roman Empire suffered just such a phenomenon, only with other details.
I’m not ashamed to be part of the Long John Underground.
We als have Captain D’s which is just like LJS
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Hushpuppy underground!
