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I just went on the LJS site to look for the nearest location and they have a rewards program called "Seacret Society".
Hmmm
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.
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.
I went there 3 times 7 years apart each time. Never again. Terrible every time.
When I was a small child I loved Long John Silver's but now that I'm an adult I tried it once and it was so fucking oily that I feel like if they weren't in the United States they would be getting invaded by them.
I think they're in the same bucket as Red Lobster and KFC. Used to be fantastic, spent a couple of decades trimming corners until all that was left was the grease.
I looked at their location finder to see how close one is to me. The closest one is a combined LJS and KFC, so yes, in the same category.
The smell of LJS actually gives me a headache. Nothing else does this to me the same way.
I had a cat that I found in a dumpster eating a taco during a hurricane. I only found her because she was yelling at the taco while she ate it. That cat, that I have seen eat every living and non living thing imaginable, refused to eat long john silvers fish
Hahahaha
That’s where you buy poplars!
Fishy Joe's
I hate knowing that LJS still exists, but doesn't have a restaurant around me anymore.
The secret cabal is just the elderly. That's all I ever saw there when I was able to go there lol
The elderly keep many disappointing restaurants afloat.
There’s a place by my house that has aggressively mediocre food. Every dish on the menu is merely edible, nothing to rave about. The sphaghetti tasted like Chef Boyardee, the steaks are under seasoned, the fish is overcooked, burgers are decent but always dry, gyro platter and sandwich are served with watery tzatziki that ruins the otherwise pre prepared meat, and the entire breakfast menu is always served just slightly warm. This place has like 150 menu items and does none of them well.
The only reason I go there is because I take my grandfather out for dinner twice a month. I ask him where he wants to go, and half the time he wants to go there. I have taken him to good restaurants but he doesn’t like the selection. He wants to be able to pick from 200 choices in one spot, even if none of these are particularly good.
I think it's mostly just that they're cheap to operate. They don't require fancy ingredients. Their menu is limited. They need a few people to run the fryers, take orders, and clean the tables, and that's about it. They haven't changed the decor in decades. The buildings were paid off ages ago. And the property taxes are dirt cheap because the only thing sitting on the land is a Long John Silvers. If they don't cost much to operate, and enough people come in to keep the lights on, why not let them run their natural course? Sure, a LJS seems dead compared to the newest flashy restaurant in town, but that new restaurant has a ruinously expensive lease and a loan for hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment it needs to pay off. And the menu is 3x as complicated with much more expensive ingredients. The newer restaurant is hopping because if it's not hopping, it quickly closes down. It's only these dinosaurs that can keep operating even with low customer throughput.
As a non-American, I'm assuming it's a shitty restaurant?
They’re just weird because so many fast food chains come & ~~ho the~~ go in the US, it’s hard to even keep track - but Long John Silvers; a shitty fish & chips place which is never busy, never seems to have any customers at all, somehow stays in business.
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The available food is mostly things they can pop into the fryer: Think fish and chips, except you can also choose “planks” of chicken breast, or breaded shrimp, or little balls of seasoned dough called “hush puppies”.
My wife hates them, and they’re an occasional guilty pleasure for me.
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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.
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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There is one near where I work, but they are quite literally never open. They aren't out of business and their facilities are kept up, but it somehow just persists in that state.
Sounds like los pollos hermanos
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.
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Beer battered chicken is phenomenal, and nobody else does it. I hate fish, but I love LJS!
LOL this actually seems like a plausible scenario - it could be a regular meeting place for reptilian aliens, and who would notice?
Used to work at a restaurant similar to Long John silver and quite literally yes, 90% of people that attended were very elderly. Fish restaurants seem to exclusively cater to old people. I personally don't like any fish
Captain D's?
Captains cap
Bruh, I had never heard of Captain Ds until I we stationed in a foreign country (Okinawa, Japan), and my Midwest husband was like "I went to one in Indiana once". So, I'm always astounded by anyone who knows what a Captain Ds is...much less worked there.
I love long John silvers as a guilty pleasure.
I’d upvote but this was too perfect…
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I'm not ashamed to be part of the Long John Underground.
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