I didn't claim they were "stale". I said that I found them fundamentally inedible. It's not a freshness issue. I simply don't like the product.
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I guess we can no longer have it "our way" at Burger King
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You said they're "like eating dried up cardboard or leather shoe laces". Sure sounds like a description of stale fries to me!
I wouldn't know. I don't eat stale fries.
The point I was trying to make is that they were sans grease and flavor free.
Apparently you do (and didn't know it) based on your description 😂 But whatever adjective want to call them, I'm sorry you've had such bad luck with fast food fries. My local joints' fries are nothing like that. My only real complaint with my local Wendy's is they're constantly screwing up my orders. I don't have that issue (at least not nearly as frequently) with other fast food places in town.
Dude. I've watched them come right out for the fryer, boxed, and put on my tray. I simply don't like the product, whether it is 1 second old, 1 minute old or 1 day old.
Ok, then either the specific Wendy's stores (and others you mentioned) are doing something DRASTICALLY different in how they make their fries then the ones I've been to do, or you're grossly exaggerating in your description of them. Even accounting for nuances in personal taste, we're clearly not describing the same product. Not even close.
Ok, every Wendy's I happen to go to, which at least 6 or 7, somehow make fries differently.
Not sure what room for exaggeration there is when their change in fries has moved Wendy's from my TOP CHOICE for burger and fries, a place I ate WEEKLY, FOR YEARS, to "no go, won't eat there for free", but sure.
By the way, the chicken nuggets at Wendy's totally suck too. I tried getting them instead of the crappy fries a few times. I couldn't eat them either...so I gave up on Wendy's.
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Well it has to be one of those explanations. I may not be a connoisseur of fast food fries, but I'm pretty sure I'd be able to detect "dried cardboard" or "leather shoe laces" 😄 That's a pretty extreme description. And I don't even put anything on my fries--just eat them plain, so it's not like I'm doing something to "cover up" their true texture.
Two people look at the same woman.
One says "she is hot".
The other says "she's gross."
Not the same thing. Food texture is not nearly as subjective as something/somebody's looks. If someone says a piece of chicken is like rubber, anyone should be able to detect that to at least some degree. I don't think anyone's gong to say, "No, it's melt in your mouth tender" (assuming it's the same piece of chicken, of course). They might say, "Yeah, but I don't mind it. I like chewy chicken" though 😉
REALLY? Some how the taste of something in your mouth is LESS subjective than the attractiveness of women?
You're off your rocker man (;
In a related note, not sure which is more gross, the fries at Wendy's or the latest picture of Madonna that I saw a little while ago....but I'm leaning toward the fries, since I would have a go at Madonna in a pitch black room....not so much for the fries.
No, you just didn't read very carefully. We're talking about texture, not taste. Describing fries as dried cardboard or leather shoelaces describes their texture, not their taste (at least, texture is the major part of it).
Dude. Seriously. 50 different People can interpret "texture" 50 different ways. Go to a wine tasting some time and watch them fall all over themselves to give different sophisticated sounding descriptions of "texture". You're not going to get the same answer from everyone.
My comment about tasting like shoe leather or cardboard was clearly about TASTE, as I later clarified for you anyway.
In related news...it's not fast food, but you know who has good fries? Red Robin.
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Ok, you got me. I have no idea what the food I eat tastes like to me.
In other news....What I think makes a good fry? If you leave a batch on a paper towel for 10 seconds and they leave a huge greasy spot behind when you remove them.
Not what I said at all. And, again, we're talking about texture, not taste. If one person is sincerely describing a french fry as having a shoe leather consistency, there's no person on the earth (assuming they don't have some sensory disorder) that's going to pick up that same fry and not be able to detect at least to some degree a shoe leather consistency. So assuming you're not exaggerating for effect, then I must conclude we're eating fries made in 2 different ways from different Wendy's locations.
And with that, we're done here. May your future be filled with grease-spot-leaving fries (which the Wendy's fries I get do, btw).
I never said anything about the consistency of shoe leather.
I never said anything the "texture" of anything.
I said Wendy's fries lack grease and are flavorless, and compared their flavorless flavor to what I imagine cardboard and shoelaces taste like. Maybe they don't taste like that...I've never eaten cardboard and shoelaces. But you seem intent on ignoring obvious hyperbole for some reason and insist on focusing on "texture", which I never commented on.
No tacos?
But I do have to say that I ran into some really amazing 'mexican food' in interior Mexico, and STILL can't remember what it was, but it was AMAZING. Delicious! Oh, wow... But it was a family cooking, and wasn't any kind of chain or restaurant. I was a little apprehensive, but survived to kick my butt that I can't remember what it was. DOH!
ha! No. I would have settled for anything recognizable. I did try one place, ordered by pointing at a picture on the menu....got it front me...looked at it....I just couldn't. Waste of money.
After wondering around long enough, I found at KFC, and let me tell you, I spotted that sucker from a mile away and made a beeline for it.
Confucius say, "Beware of strange food".
I was a little apprehensive, but it had lots of cheese on it, and I refuse to abandon cheese. It was also 'vegetarian' which I found interesting. It sort of looked like a plate of dumplings, but made of what looked like tortilla kind of wrap.
Muy delicioso
They had a meat version, but the veggie version was good. And I survived. The restaurant at the hotel was likely more sketchy than this place was. They were cooking for themselves and their staff. Poisoning them usually doesn't work out well in the long or short run. But, yeah there has been 'food' I've passed on... (It's not a good idea to pass on food that the spouse creates. Just saying. Unless you don't value your future)
But did I miss the actual issue in there. If they at least wrote we are sorry you think there are too many sesame seeds that means they actually read into your feedback.
EDIT: Reread and there is no mention of what the issue is.
Why would they repeat the issue back to me? I obviously know what it is, so they don't need to reiterate it. They say "this" (obviously referring to the issue I described to them) is a known issue. That's definitely a specific response. They're not going to tell everyone that that something's a known issue if it isn't.
Customer Feedback: "Hey, Burger King. All my meals should be free, yet your app is still charging me money!"
BK: "This is a known issue that our engineering team is working on".
LOL!
An article on Olive Garden said the game they play. Their 'all you can eat pasta' starts in a HUGE bowl, but the second request comes in a smaller bowl, and each successive serving might come in a smaller bowl still. Apparently it's up to the restaurants, but the idea is to limit/eliminate people taking servings home. Yet some of their franchisees openly allow customers to order another serving, and take it home.
But funny story, the local Wendy's where I went to high school had an 'all you can eat' salad bar. Being a hungry power lifter and runner, I LOVED their salad bar, often getting 4 or 5 refills, until one day I was *BANNED* because I 'ate too much salad' in their 'all you can eat' salad bar. Apparently that was all I could eat. Sure, I was keeping the salad bar fresh! I usually steered clear of the weird extras, and thought I was 'eating cheap' from their point of view. *shrug* Like the joke about 'all you can eat'. 'But I've only had one serving!' Yeah, and that's all you can eat!!
We always have it their way.
But funny story, the local Wendy's where I went to high school had an 'all you can eat' salad bar. Being a hungry power lifter and runner, I LOVED their salad bar, often getting 4 or 5 refills, until one day I was *BANNED* because I 'ate too much salad' in their 'all you can eat' salad bar. Apparently that was all I could eat. Sure, I was keeping the salad bar fresh! I usually steered clear of the weird extras, and thought I was 'eating cheap' from their point of view. *shrug* Like the joke about 'all you can eat'. 'But I've only had one serving!' Yeah, and that's all you can eat!!
We always have it their way.