What is your favorite meal at your favorite chain restaurant?

Aneeda72

Aneeda72

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Mine is the sampler meal at Cracker Barrel. You get a large slice of ham, a large piece of meatloaf, and a large dish of chicken and dumplings; plus your choice of three sides with biscuits/cornbread. We each get this meal, take home the leftovers, and we each have three to four meals left.

I usually have four meals, him three. 😂. It’s great for the price.
 

Aneeda72 said:
Mine is the sampler meal at Cracker Barrel. You get a large slice of ham, a large piece of meatloaf, and a large dish of chicken and dumplings; plus your choice of three sides with biscuits/cornbread. We each get this meal, take home the leftovers, and we each have three to four meals left.

I usually have four meals, him three. 😂. It’s great for the price.
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oh, that sounds so good!
 

I have a deep-seated, and probably irrational dislike of chain restaurants. And do my best to avoid them. So answering is hard.

I started eating Popeye's fried chicken in the early 70s, when it was just a single restaurant, not yet a chain, just south of New Orleans. We'd drive 2 hours from Baton Rouge just for that chicken.

Popeye's still is my favorite chain fried chicken, so that might be my choice. It is still pretty good, but not the same as the original. Don't suppose anything ever is...
 
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Aunt Mavis said:
Chik-Fil-A, chicken sandwich and 12 nuggets. Delicious bird.
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We bought some frozen chicken patties at Costco. The guy ahead of us turned and said “those taste just like Chik-Fil-A sandwiches if you cook them in the air fryer.” Great, I replied. Course, I’ve never had a chik-fil-a sandwich. 😂. But those stores always have long lines. 😊
 
Chain restaurant .. it would have to be Swiss Chalet's 1/4 chicken dinner at this time of year - Festive Meal
includes 1/4 chicken, a choice of sides (fries, baked potato, veggies, or salad), dressing, cranberry sauce,
dinner roll, and choice of pie slice.

I usually can't eat all the chicken. Sometimes, I bring it home.
 
I don't dine out much (and now, we don't dine out much), but we like to get to-go orders from Panda Express once in a while. I like chow mien, teriyaki chicken, and sweet and sour pork or walnut shrimp. Michelle likes half chow mien/half fried rice, orange chicken, stir-fry veggies and egg-rolls.

When I lived up north, I went every Saturday to get fish'n'chips from a place called Scotty's Pub, but it's not a chain. However!....a Scotty's Pub opened here in Sac a few years ago. I was SO stoked, but it shut down early in the pandemic, before I had a chance to see if it was the same Scotty's. Man, that was the best fish'n'chips ever; fish cooked to perfection in it's own skin, perfectly seasoned actual potatoes. 😋

Long John Silver's used to be pretty dang good, but it's crap now.
 
Errrm.. I don't usually eat in Chain restaurants... but in a Pub, my favourite is usually a Sunday Roast ( Beef, yorkshire pudding, Roast potatoes, veggies, beef gravy)..

In a restaurant ( not a chain).. it could be anything from something Greek..like Kleftico.. or if just a snack then I love Chicken Gyros...

In Italian.. then often.. Calamari... and or Spaghetti Carbonara...

In Spanish.. then almost always Tapas.. of some description usually Calamari, ..

In a British restaurant... there's so much choice, it's always hard to choose.. but often it would be Lamb... or steak pie for lunch... or for breakfast.. usually Eggs Benedict or even a simple bacon and egg roll..

Chinese..?.. almost always Sweet & sour king prawns, Pork dumplings... or Chicken Chow Mein... or Prawn spring rolls
 
Pinky said:
Chain restaurant .. it would have to be Swiss Chalet's 1/4 chicken dinner at this time of year - Festive Meal
includes 1/4 chicken, a choice of sides (fries, baked potato, veggies, or salad), dressing, cranberry sauce,
dinner roll, and choice of pie slice.

I usually can't eat all the chicken. Sometimes, I bring it home.
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I can get me a PO box for when you don't. :love:
 
Pinky said:
Chain restaurant .. it would have to be Swiss Chalet's 1/4 chicken dinner at this time of year - Festive Meal
includes 1/4 chicken, a choice of sides (fries, baked potato, veggies, or salad), dressing, cranberry sauce,
dinner roll, and choice of pie slice.

I usually can't eat all the chicken. Sometimes, I bring it home.
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As a former easterner who now lives in the desolate west where the chickens refused to give up their teeth, it’s almost impossible to find a Swiss Chalet. As a kid I went to the original one in downtown Toronto. I love that sauce; DH hates it but will go for one meal when we’re visiting family in Ontario.

In the US, I like the Red Lobster. By the time I’ve had the Caesar salad and extra hot rolls I barely have room for the seafood sampler. That may not be exact name.
 
hollydolly said:
In Spanish.. then almost always Tapas.. of some description usually Calamari, ..
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When I lived up in the Sierra Foothills, there was this little restaurant owned by a lady from South America. I think it was called Mi Omegas...something like that; My Friends, anyway. O M G, that was the best "Spanish" food. I'd get these big ol' hunks of prime steak that she smoked and then cooked in wonderful spices for hours, served on a bed of greens and generously sprinkled with crumbly home-made cheese, for criminy's sake.

Oh, man! I gotta go start dinner. o_O
 
Murrmurr said:
I don't dine out much (and now, we don't dine out much), but we like to get to-go orders from Panda Express once in a while. I like chow mien, teriyaki chicken, and sweet and sour pork or walnut shrimp. Michelle likes half chow mien/half fried rice, orange chicken, stir-fry veggies and egg-rolls.

When I lived up north, I went every Saturday to get fish'n'chips from a place called Scotty's Pub, but it's not a chain. However!....a Scotty's Pub opened here in Sac a few years ago. I was SO stoked, but it shut down early in the pandemic, before I had a chance to see if it was the same Scotty's. Man, that was the best fish'n'chips ever; fish cooked to perfection in it's own skin, perfectly seasoned actual potatoes. 😋

Long John Silver's used to be pretty dang good, but it's crap now.
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I love Panda’s walnut shrimp
 
We don't eat dinner out, but usually lunch at a local place called Arturo's.

If we happen to have business in the nearby city in the morning, we like to stop in for breakfast-brunch-lunch at Mimi's.

My wife joins her lady friends at Olive Garden, I'm no longer welcome to join in since their realization that I don't subscribe to their lily-white religious/fundamentalist/political world view. Not a problem for me...
 
Our family loved Swiss chalet chicken dinner, sadly they've closed the one in Victoria. My very favourite restaurant is The Mandarin, buffet, I could down all their desserts. This restaurant is not on this island but every time that I am in Toronto I make sure I visit. I've not been since covid so am overdue for a visit.
 
Since there are so many things I can't eat, I'm pretty much stuck with plain burger patties. Fast food chains are about the only places I can go. McDonald's, Burger King, A&W, Wendy's.... Such chains don't use fillers in their burgers, whereas other places might.
 
NorthernLight said:
Since there are so many things I can't eat, I'm pretty much stuck with plain burger patties. Fast food chains are about the only places I can go. McDonald's, Burger King, A&W, Wendy's.... Such chains don't use fillers in their burgers, whereas other places might.
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Not fillers per say, but, there is some additives that are kind of hard to discover without deep digging

While the Golden Arches discloses that beef is the only ingredient in their patty, they stray away from mentioning how their cattle are raised. A 2017 report by several public interest organizations, Chain Reaction III, reveals that although McDonald's announced a goal to curb the use of medically-important antibiotics in their beef supply, the company's "Vision on Antibiotic Stewardship" ultimately never established a deadline.
Other popular burger chains guilty of using medically-important antibiotics in their 100 percent beef patties include Burger King and Jack in the Box, which both failed to set time-bound commitments to ceasing use of the meds.
Fast food chains, such as Wendy's and McDonald's, have vowed to reduce their use of antibiotics on meat, but until government agencies enforce regulations against the injudicious use of antibiotics on meat, consider making your own hamburger at home with organic, grass-fed beef.

Most fast food chains are transparent about their meat's production process, but the other ingredients that go into their beef patties? It gets murky. For example, Jack in the Box states that it uses 100 percent beef in its burgers, but a comprehensive Ingredient & Allergen Statement lists a slew of other ingredients found in the patty including saturated-fat-filled hydrogenated cottonseed oil, natural flavors, corn fiber, corn starch, and sugar.

Then, there's this....
A&W also boasts that its burgers are made of 100 percent beef, but a closer look at the ingredient list reveals that the chain adds some sketchy additives as seasoning—allowing them to make good on their claim that the burger is, in fact, only ground beef. The seasoning includes ingredients such as appetite-spiking MSG derivatives, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate, sugar, cornstarch, and silicon dioxide (an anti-caking agent).

That's the reason I don't do fast food.
 
We also like Mr. Greek, and usually get souvlaki (chicken or pork), with sides (rice/potatoes/salad.
I like a lot that's on their menu, and have tried just about everything they have. It's fun when they
light the alcohol on the cheese (forget the name) and say "OPA!" while the flames almost reach the
ceiling.
 

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