Chik•Fil•A: do you like it?

Starting this thread on a Sunday.

yes times twelve

i like it well enough. the mere mention of it doesn't turn me into a drooling id-monster the way it does with other people, but it's good.

yes

My mom's current dream is to open a Chik-fil-a franchise in her town's mall. She went to a meeting recently where people interested in a franchise got to talk to the company owner and rep for why they should be the one chosen to open the restaurant. She said that a lot of the other people spent a great deal of time telling the company owner their testimonies about their faith in God in equal measure with their love for Chik-fil-a foods. She paraphrased the typical speech as something like "I am so glad you love Jesus so much, he is our true lord and savior, he is the way the truth and the light, and I have 100 chik-fil-a sandwiches in my freezer for when I get that craving because we can't buy them here yet."

That is the exact kind of social situation that makes my soul try very hard to jump out of my skin, making me die on the spot, so I thought that was interesting.

anyway I like their Polynesian sauce

"I am so glad you love Jesus so much, he is our true lord and savior, he is the way the truth and the light, and I have 100 chik-fil-a sandwiches in my freezer for when I get that craving because we can't buy them here yet."

roffle fries

my students have abandoned their quest for girlfriends now that a Chik-Fil-A opened on campus.

chick-fil-a is pretty delicious.

i would have loved to have been at that meeting listening to people carrying on like that, i find nonsense like that irresistible.

"I have 100 chik-fil-a sandwiches in my freezer" is like the "I can see Russia from my house" of why you should run a chik-fil-a

My mom said, "I didn't think that was smart. You don't think they'd want to hear that their food encourages hoarding!"

does mcdonalds not have the ghetto chik-fil-a sandwich out there?

theres a secret chikfila in nyu, the only one in nyc

I eat there about 3 or 4 times a year, and they're never as good as I seem to remember they are.

I do like the waffle fries, tho.

The Chick-fil-A Dwarf House has a "dwarf-sized" front door that children and some little people can use to enter.

c/o Wikipedia

i had it in the philly airport for the first time a few months ago, been hearing abt this, dece imo

lol "some little people"

you must be this little to use this door (little enough to fit through)

crut don't tell me you never went thru that dwarf door

Fever otm. the chicken doesn't bowl me over but the waffle fries are a-ok

i want someone to make falafel fries -- falafel shaped like waffle fries. WOULD EAT.

I ALSO WOULD EAT.

always seemed expensive for the portion you get (I know, this makes me fat greedy American who wants as high a food quantity/price ratio as possible)

Very hit or miss. If the chicken isn't done enough or the oil isn't fresh enough, they're soggy and gross. When it's good, though, it's damn good.

For breakfast, pretty yum...but I don't worship or harbor crazy addiction

Yes, probably the best fast food ever.

love it, never had one that's soggy and gross. similar to the nyu one, there was one on the harvard campus that i used to enjoy.

Once I was eating there and they played Deskmond Dekker's "the Israelites." Among all their other Christian tunes. They're on the UT campus, so I get a waffle fries now and then and do the crossword.

John 3:16!

Oh please let this be true. I'm so hungry.

haha, i'll wait for confirmation. was just congratulating myself yesterday for having managed to maintain this boycott this long.

I don't want this to sound like Selma or anything, but sometimes my little girl will ask me, "Daddy, can we go to Chick Fil-A?" and I have to put my hand on her shoulder and say…

"How 'bout Wendy's?"

So, scratch that. Cathey sets the record, um, straight.

Chick fil-A has "made no … concessions" regarding its support of groups that oppose gay marriage, company CEO Dan Cathy said in a statement that was posted online by Mike Huckabee, denying a statement by a Chicago alderman that the company said it would reevaluate its policies in the face of a move by city officials to bar Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant there.

"Chick-fil-A made no such concessions, and we remain true to who we are and who we have been," Cathy said in the statement. "There continues to be erroneous implications in the media that Chick-fil-A changed our practices and priorities in order to obtain permission for a new restaurant in Chicago. That is incorrect."

"Dammit, we're proud to be bigots! Stop saying otherwise!"

what's up w/Cathey & Huckabee's bromance? Or is Huck a shareholder/on payroll?

One wishes he could quit the other, etc.

I don't want this to sound like Selma or anything, but sometimes my little girl will ask me, "Daddy, can we go to Chick Fil-A?" and I have to put my hand on her shoulder and say…

"How 'bout Wendy's?"

― pplains, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 5:01 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

lol

Don't really get the love, Chick-fil-A isn't disgusting or anything but if I wanted to eat fast-food chicken I'd a hundred times rather it be KFC than Chick-Fil-A.

when ppl compare kfc and chick-fil-a i have to wonder if they've ever actually eaten at either kfc or chick-fil-a.

it's like the yankee version of michael fassbender counting to three the wrong way in inglourious bastards. you'd have to be mitt romney or john updike or something to classify chick-fil-a as fried chicken.

wait

chick-fil-a spicy sandwich is delicious

BUT

they won't put mayonnaise on it for you, and you have to use packets, which is disgusting

literally everything else there is gross

on the one hand balls otm

on the other hand there is no way anybody over say 24 should not be able to rustle up something exponentially better than KFC or C*F*A in their own kitchen inside of half an hour with the added bonus that it will not make you feel like shit

when ppl compare kfc and chick-fil-a i have to wonder if they've ever actually eaten at either kfc or chick-fil-a.

I've eaten at both, at least a dozen times each, and I don't get why you'd doubt that. Both places serve battered, fried pieces of chicken. But yes, I am aware that the dish called "fried chicken" is not something that chick-fil-A serves. On the other hand, KFC does serve sandwiches with battered, fried pieces of chicken on them, and while I haven't tried them, I'm guessing they taste better than Chik-fil-A sandwiches.

there is no way anybody over say 24 should not be able to rustle up something exponentially better than KFC or C*F*A in their own kitchen inside of half an hour

perfectly true, but relevance? I don't think people are eating chik-fil-A in situations where they might otherwise be rustling in their own kitchen, I think people eat chik-fil-A because they are nowhere near their own kitchen, they are near a chik-fil-A, they are hungry, and they have to be doing something other than having lunch in a half-hour's time.

are you british? or finnish? who even uses 'kfc' as their default fast food fried chicken anyway? popeyes for christ sake.

seriously though

I am from the U S of A and when I was growing up I went to Popeye's all the time, because there was one in the shopping center by my house, but I hardly ever encounter one anymore, while KFC has become ubiquitous. But yes, I would vastly prefer popcorn chicken and a biscuit from Popeye's to anything from either KFC or C-f-A. I also used to go to Boston Chicken a lot more than KFC, but we're not going to talk about Boston Chicken, are we?

ps I also don't like in-n-out that much so have at me

side note: my son and I have an in-joke where we call dept store Macy's "Mayonnaise" and we go out of our way to avoid it at the mall.

y'all eat that shit by itself so why not whipped to creamy consistency

you put a little pepper on your mashed potatoes & butter too, why not put pepper and butter in a blender and drink it with a straw

yeah. or just throw a hamburger in a blender and drink that.

McDonalds recently came out with a a Chik-fil-A substitute (at least in my area). It's not as good and surprisingly its more expensive.

― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Sunday, September 23, 2012 3:44 AM

i was working as a temp in the test kitchen at the mcd's hq when they were doing consumer tests for these... they injected the chicken pieces with some kind of dill pickle juice

because pepper and butter lack an acid and because you don't drink butter, it's a condiment

and because a burger has a better consistency whole, just like raw eggs have a better consistency whipped

y'all dense or what

xp: You know, I went through a phase of eating McD's hamburgers for a while. I felt like they changed the flavor up every once in a while. "Last month, they were peppery. Let's make them more buttery this month."

"Let's give them a hint of pickle", etc.

i'm endorsing eating mayonnaise, i'm endorsing a little bit spread on a spicy chicken sandwich to cut the crispiness, spice and pickle

next you'll tell me you're too good for pasta salad or caesar dressing

chickens are already injected w/ juice tho, even the ones you get at the supermarket

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumping

whoops i meant to say i'm not endorsing eating mayonnaise, which i suppose is not strictly true

i do not endorse not eating mayonnaise, nor do i endorse eating plain mayo

it is disgusting. I don't want my raw egg whites whipped into anything. I don't want them floated on a cocktail or blended with vinegar. I want the sons of bitches cooked alongside their yolks, or beaten into pastry dough to be baked, or stirred into soups as they heat. take your raw egg whites back to the hell from which they oozed imo

wow

CFA is right in my building and always an option for quick food. i visited this thread to see if i can now try this joint, but if they haven't changed their policy, i'm not changing mine. don't know why i've stuck to this commitment since im sure i buy shit from horrible companies all the time.

NO to mayo as a matter of choice. yes to mayo if not avoidable during hunger event.

if it's good enough for nigel slater and jacques pepin

i love my dude j-peps but he did a lot of shit i wouldnt fuck with

did he eat at chik fil a or is this about mayo

he just never struck me as very fastidious about cleanliness when preparing poultry and shit. which is part of what made him so gangster, but im not gonna imitate him either

j pepin

2 pounds fingerling potatoes or other small waxy potatoes
1/2 cup or so extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup 1/4-inch slices of scallion, green and white parts
1/2 cup chopped onion
3 cloves garlic, mashed and coarsely chopped (1 1/2 tsp)
1/3 cup white wine
1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon-style mustard
2 to 3 tablespoons chopped chives
2 tablespoons or more coarsely chopped fresh green or purple basil, fresh tarragon, or parsley
1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more if needed
1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper (coarse), plus more if needed

j child

2 pounds large Yukon Gold potatoes, or other waxy, boiling potatoes
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
1/3 cup chicken stock or potato-cooking water
2/3 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 cup finely chopped celery
3 or 4 slices crisply cooked bacon, chopped or crumbled
2 to 3 tablespoons finely chopped pickle, sweet or dill
2 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and sliced thin
3 tablespoons or so finely chopped fresh chives or scallions, including a bit of their tender green
Salt and freshly ground white pepper
1 cup or so mayonnaise, homemade if possible
Sour cream (optional)

so which will it be, eggs cooked + raw or no eggs at all

personally i make jacques' version but i whiz the evoo, garlic, mustard, and wine with an egg to give dressing more body

from "jacques and julia cooking at home", an event i worked, my main responsibility was fetching food and water for julia's signing table, she was very gracious and gave me strawberries

she does have a french version that is much closer to jacques

the balance is a little different but

1 1/2 pounds "boiling" potatoes, all the same size and shape if possible
1 to 1 1/2 tsp per quart of water
2 Tbs shallots or scallions, finely minced
Salt
White pepper, freshly ground
1/4 cup chicken stock (or potato-cooking water)
1 1/2 Tbs wine vinegar
2 to 3 Tbs fresh parsley, chopped
2 to 3 Tbs light olive oil, optional

Wait. Saint Julia gave you strawberries?

word

i mean, i brought strawberries to her, and she was nice enough to hand some back "oh they're DIVINE"

i did something similar with j effrey steingarten once and he gave me chocolate dipped ones and brownies too, i had more time to talk to him though

he was also much more colorful

or something like brownies, i dunno it was a chocolatey thing

Eggs whipped in cocktails are magic

(A little behind here, sorry)

otm

aero thinks they're black magic

raw egg cracked onto hot rice is the best

every time i've tried that i feel sick. do you let it sit and cook a bit or just eat it raw?

if the rice is steaming hot it should be hot enough to cook the egg. i crack it on immediately into the hot rice and fork it into the steaming rice until i can't really see "raw egg" anymore, just glistening yellowish rice. at that point i believe it is techncially cooked

course i grew up eating this and steak tartare so i might have some sort of resistance to raw egg sickness

do it with a pigeon egg

they injected the chicken pieces with some kind of dill pickle juice

Sounds genius to me. Hannibal Burress would be proud.

don't know why i've stuck to this commitment since im sure i buy shit from horrible companies all the time.

My stump speech about all of this goes along with having an iPhone in my pocket built by child labor, gasoline in my car bought from men who would treat my wife as a second-level human in their country and supporting a government that actively closes down medicinal marijuana clinics. But all that said, at least I'm not getting winked at or slapped on the back for buying into those commodities. Now that it's become this whole us versus them argument – that waving around bags of chicken sandwiches has become a social statement to hate fags – I've been forced to choose a side and it ain't the one that backed up McCain Boulevard for a whole day a few weeks back.

Huckabee and I both have houses in the same town, so there's a very real chance that he'd be standing at the door, waiting to shake my hand the next time I went to CFA. Say what you will about King Abdullah, but at least he won't be waiting for me at the Mapco next time I pull in.

And leave it to ILX for turning a thread about fast-food chicken around to the glorious pros and cons of mayonnaise. Geir Hongro would be proud.

is mayo melodic?

you should go into chick-fil-a with a pride flag and buy a sandwich

this thread & the actual mayo thread are not enough mayo discussions. need to invade other threads with important mayonnaise arguments

will invade AG's poll results and talk about French sauces for Buffy DVDs

aero, i was just about to invoke you on mayo thread with:

"i am a thorough mayo skeptic, but at this point i feel like this thread is the "ccr vs whoever" polls. remember where aero said like, don't worry, the main thing here is that the 'mayo is from hell' ppl get to do the foam finger thing."

oh wow

http://cdn.cstatic.net/g/500x/http://cdn.cstatic.net/images/gridfs/507eb0be85216d2820010d82/chick-fil-a-fruitcake-2.jpg

http://eater.com/archives/2012/10/17/chickfila-claims-fruitcakes-ad-is-not-antigay-is-about-actual-fruitcake.php

figures, it's georgia.

Looking forward to the Fruitcake Shake, though.

Ugh. I ate at Chik-Fil-A to be nice to my mother. And now I have the worst case of heartburn I've had in years.

That's your soul telling you you made a mistake.

Chik-fil-a was mocked for having no flavor during the chicken sandwich wars, but only flavor can give one heartburn.

I hope this plays burns down,slowly