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When I saw the McDonald's ad for their "simple chicken" or whatever it was, and saw the "glamor shot" of the chicken...I seriously thought McDonald's had started selling garlic toast. It took me a few times of seeing that ad (oh, how I love watching hockey games and how I hate that it means that the same.d*mn.commercials will be seen over and over and over. And over again) to realize it was a piece of chicken. Simple shouldn't mean unrecognizable, McDonald's.

 

 

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Most of the DQ around me do NOT have drive thru windows and are located inside strip malls in traffic dense congested areas (one is in Wrigleyville, another in downtown HP). One I know of HAS a drive thru window but is NOT new as some said all new ones have the windows. It's old but does a lot of business and a lot of its business is for the food like blizzards but also fried mushrooms, cheese stix, burgers. That might justify the window.

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Didn't Applebee's used to brand itself as being sort of a family-style restaurant? Now it looks like the company is going after the young and hip crowd who are too cool for sandwiches. Nope, they like handhelds!

 

Also, Panera has a commercial now featuring people shoveling food into their mouths like they've been stranded in the Andes mountains for months. The voice over says something along the lines of "just because it's good food doesn't mean it can't be eaten like bad food." It's completely disgusting.

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Also, Panera has a commercial now featuring people shoveling food into their mouths like they've been stranded in the Andes mountains for months. The voice over says something along the lines of "just because it's good food doesn't mean it can't be eaten like bad food." It's completely disgusting.

If I've been stranded in the Andes for months, I do not want a salad.  I would bet I would have been eating plenty of leaves and roots to keep myself alive.

 

Okay, my hatred of the breakfast defectors has grown even larger.  Ooh, there's a hash brown (patty) in your tortilla hexagon.  Now your world is complete.  I didn't understand that the sign of a quality breakfast was putting everything together.  Hang on while I pour your coffee in there too.  

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Hardee's and Carl Jr.'s have done it again in their never ending quest for artery-clogging goodness.  Voila!  The All-American Thickburger has an Angus beef patty with cheese, a split hot dog, and kettle cooked potato chips.  I saw this thing and I don't think I've ever seen anything that looked so vile since their Jalapeno Burger.

 

Are they trying to kill off their customer base?

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Hardee's and Carl Jr.'s have done it again in their never ending quest for artery-clogging goodness.  Voila!  The All-American Thickburger has an Angus beef patty with cheese, a split hot dog, and kettle cooked potato chips.  I saw this thing and I don't think I've ever seen anything that looked so vile since their Jalapeno Burger.

 

Are they trying to kill off their customer base?

Yeah, I don't get it.   I guess the customer base is men, but still -   If you were that hungry, wouldn't it be more enjoyable to have a burger, a hot dog, and chips SEPARATELY?

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Yeah, I don't get it. I guess the customer base is men, but still - If you were that hungry, wouldn't it be more enjoyable to have a burger, a hot dog, and chips SEPARATELY?

I don't know about the hot dog on the burger--other than the character of Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show used to eat bacon-burger-dogs (honestly not sure how you spell/punctuate that, but it was meant to be some sort of burger/hot dog hybrid/combo with bacon that Theo loved).

I do know, though, that potato chips as a burger topping is (or was in the last few years) a legitimate thing. I think they call it "crunchified" style & maybe "Philadelphia" style (I think that's the alternate name for it; I know I've heard 2 names for it anyway). If I remember correctly, you can get your burgers that way--with chips in the sandwich--at Bobby Flay's "Bobby's Burger Palace" restaurants.

I probably shouldn't admit this but, put some ketchup & cheese on that burger (just ketchup & cheese, besides the burger, hot dog, & chips) & I'd probably at least try it. But I don't think there are anymore Hardee's in my hometown, & even if there were, the 1 that was closest to my house was closed a few years ago, the property was sold & it's now a CVS Pharmacy.

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Also, Panera has a commercial now featuring people shoveling food into their mouths like they've been stranded in the Andes mountains for months. The voice over says something along the lines of "just because it's good food doesn't mean it can't be eaten like bad food." It's completely disgusting.

Ah, yes! This commercial makes me stabby every time I see it, and I really try not to, as their table manners are equal to pigs eating slop (yes, I've seen pigs slopped, my grandparents had them). If Panera's customers are going to be eating like that, I'll avoid the place altogether, thank you very much.

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Hardee's and Carl Jr.'s have done it again in their never ending quest for artery-clogging goodness.  Voila!  The All-American Thickburger has an Angus beef patty with cheese, a split hot dog, and kettle cooked potato chips.  I saw this thing and I don't think I've ever seen anything that looked so vile since their Jalapeno Burger.

 

Are they trying to kill off their customer base?

I saw that ad, and that was nasty!

Papa John's CEO John Schnatter continues to rub me the wrong way. His latest ad has him confessing that he went to Italy to learn how to make pizza "from a real Italian." Whatta way to broaden your worldview, John! He'll probably go to France next to learn the fine art of making French fries from a real Frenchman. *rolling eyes*

Whatever happened to his pizza knowledge from leaving Italy to the U.S. of A is anybody's guess considering his bastardized versions of real pizza.

Papa John's needs a new spokesman STAT! But he looks too much like an egotistical asshat to give up seeing himself on the tube.

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