We are counting the hours until our first Popeyes opens.
Aren't they taking orders for their fried whole turkey and fixings or something like that? I'm curious as I like Popeyes.
Don’t know. Hasn’t opened yet. Any minute.
I’m dreaming about basic chicken sandwich.
Theirs is uniquely good for sure. I've tried some other ones but meh... not good.
Me too. Worth every penny.
@GaryPoole Run for the bathroom!!
@GaryPoole - for a national/regional chain hands down, 5 Guys.
But my definition of fast food is that it is delivered to in in less time than it takes you to eat it. Only Blackies Hot Dogs fits this and is actually good.
But having only 1 food on the menu and decades in the business allows you to have exactly the right amount of food ready at exactly the right times.
You walk in, they ask 'how many and what do you want to drink" before you even get to the counter.
@GaryPoole White Castle, America's first burger chain. Long Live Sliders!
Raising Canes (chicken fingers)
'Now if we're talking chicken sandwiches, Popeye's all the way.
@GaryPoole: Does Waffle House count?
@thedisasterautist Waffle House fits in the diner category, not fast food. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
@GaryPoole: Okay. Then I will have to go with Zaxby's.
Tasty chicken and crinkle-cut fries.
Can't go wrong there.
@GaryPoole @thedisasterautist Who does make these rules?
I find culture and language fascinating in this way, there is this subconscious gestalt that exists by which we interpret elements of our world.
This is one of the reasons why I love GIF’s so much. The first forms of writing were pictographic. The world now has a unified meta-culture via the internet and mass communication, enabling a new form of pictographic communication.
@NiveusLepus @GaryPoole: Well, Gary made the rules about his question. He asked specifically about fast food. For myself, I was unsure whether or not Waffle House qualified, seeing as how WH is usually classified by the majority of people not as fast food but, as he said, a diner. I asked for clarification so I could answer his question properly.
@thedisasterautist @GaryPoole This is fair! I should have looked further back. This is the result of me not looking before I leap. ^_^
@NiveusLepus @GaryPoole: The first writing was indeed pictographic, but the foundation was spoken language of some kind. Humans had to communicate on the go, i.e., when they didn't have cave walls, rocks, or sand/mud to draw/etch on/into. The pictographs represented the spoken words/terms/phrases, and later written language was developed therefrom.
@NiveusLepus I think the accepted distinction between fast food and diners are drive thru windows and table service. A fast food place has the former but not then latter, while a diner is the reverse.
@GaryPoole @thedisasterautist But Chik-fil-a and a few other fast food restaurants do offer a type of table service.
@NiveusLepus by table service, I mean severs who bring menus to you, take your order, and then deliver your food to your table.
“So what important thing did you chat about on #CoSo today?”
“Well, we had a long discussion on the differences between fast food places and diners.”
“Umm… okay.”
😎
@NiveusLepus @GaryPoole: Waffle House doesn't have drive-thrus, and Waffle House's food preparation is different from McDonald's, Chik-Fil-A, Little Ceasar's, KFC, etc. Hence, diner.
@thedisasterautist @GaryPoole I feel like we are all working on a philosophical treatise on American Restaurants.
@NiveusLepus @GaryPoole: It's already a well-established set of distinctions. I learned it by the time I was an eighth-grader or maybe a ninth-grader, and I lived in a rural mill town.
@NiveusLepus @GaryPoole: That said, I do often pick up on various distinctions in all manner of things quite quickly, including languages and usages, including subconventions, regionalisms, etc.
@GaryPoole I don't tend to eat fast food but the one I will eat more than anything when out and about and just desperate for something that quick is In n Out. I'm not a typical SoCal person who swears it's the best thing out there--it's not, it's basic--but it's cheap and it doesn't upset my stomach so it's a win.
As a kid and teenager, it was all about McDonald's. Nowadays when I very rarely eat fast food, when I do I like to make a run for the border.
#TacoBell