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Basticle posted:They're all KFC/LJS combo restaurants around here Missed opportunity for Admiral Sanders.
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there are a bunch of local chains or one-off fast-food fish places in Louisville and southern Indiana. they all look grim and dated and empty, and I always assumed they were holdovers from before Vatican II (but I didn't realize Lent was still meatless Fridays).
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Icon Of Sin posted:Speaking of Long John Silvers, how the gently caress are they not in this thread as a discussion topic? I’ve never seen anyone at any of them I’ve ever come across. I never really thought about it. The one near me closed down, it's next to the quasi-abandoned Jack in the Box, both of which I assumed was because they weren't paying enough for people to take their poo poo in a pandemic. I know I don't eat there, and haven't in over a decade, because I ended up on the toilet all night every time I did.
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Feb 10, 2022 15:45
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There's one long John silver's that I know of about 30 minutes away that has always been there afaik. Last time I drove by I didn't think there were any customers in the lot or drive thru so I don't know how they're still open.
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Feb 10, 2022 15:57
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Lakedaimon posted:I miss Arthur Treacher's. Used to eat there somewhat regularly as a kid, then I guess there was some kind of mutiny by the local franchisee and for about a decade they carried on as generic seafood joints, with the food almost exactly the same as before. And the last Long John Silver's in the area had some kind of minor grease fire and I seriously doubt anyone will spend the money to get it up and running again. It's funny, when LJS died here something similar was tried, I think like the son of the LJS franchisee took all of their locations over with some lame local name. All but one were dead in less than a month, the last one held on a while but didn't make it too much past a year. I am wondering if it is really expensive or just really hard to do a fast food fish business (makes sense that it is where I am in Arizona due to the oceans being 6 hours in Mexico or 8 hours in California away).
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Feb 10, 2022 18:05
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The last two times I've gotten LJS I've gotten sick, one more time and it's over FOR REAL The only time I eat it is when my wife wants Taco Bell, because it's a combo location and I'd still rather roll the dice with LJS than eat that dog food
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Feb 10, 2022 23:43
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I like the hush puppies at Long John Silver's.  That's one of only like, two places around me that has 'em.Eat more hush puppies, California!
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Feb 10, 2022 23:46
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Rick posted:It's funny, when LJS died here something similar was tried, I think like the son of the LJS franchisee took all of their locations over with some lame local name. All but one were dead in less than a month, the last one held on a while but didn't make it too much past a year. I am wondering if it is really expensive or just really hard to do a fast food fish business (makes sense that it is where I am in Arizona due to the oceans being 6 hours in Mexico or 8 hours in California away). Fish & chips isn't as popular here in America; which is weird since I'm pretty sure everything on the menu is deep fried. The only good thing about LJS was the bed of fried batter bits everything was served on.
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The weird thing is LJS people hate Captain D’s and Captain D’s people hate LJS. I’m in the LJS camp. Just give me a styrofoam box full of those chunks of breading. No fish. No chips, just fried breading to clog up the last open artery. I loving love LJS and even I can’t be bothered to go, so I have no idea how they stay open either.
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Feb 11, 2022 01:12
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Sekhmnet posted:Fish & chips isn't as popular here in America; which is weird since I'm pretty sure everything on the menu is deep fried. The only good thing about LJS was the bed of fried batter bits everything was served on. Not as popular, but fish and chips is still pretty popular although that probably depends on what part of the country
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Feb 11, 2022 01:25
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Sekhmnet posted:Fish & chips isn't as popular here in America; which is weird since I'm pretty sure everything on the menu is deep fried. The only good thing about LJS was the bed of fried batter bits everything was served on. I think I liked their chicken more than their fish. We have a local place that seems to be seems to have been circling the train for 10+ years, it's in a bad part of town, very dirty and like they have the cheapest condiments on earth, never been in there with anyone else, ancient CRT TV with rabbit ears. And it's worked by people in their 30s and 40s so it's not like a heritage restaurant. Food is a tier above long john silvers though and in California the grosser a fish and chips spot is the better the food, usually. This place it's not so true but there are no other options.
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Rick posted:I think I liked their chicken more than their fish. i refuse to believe that it's possible to distinguish between any of LJS's deep fried menu items with anything less than a mass spectrometer and maybe not even then
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Feb 11, 2022 02:26
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LJS fish that tastes like chicken and the chicken that tastes like fish is my favorite part about the restaurant. Just fry it all in the same oil who fuckin cares gimme those breaded bits.
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Feb 11, 2022 05:42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gs2UuMFYwI Company Man has some of the best corporate insight on youtube.
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Feb 11, 2022 08:13
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Empty Sandwich posted:there are a bunch of local chains or one-off fast-food fish places in Louisville and southern Indiana. they all look grim and dated and empty, and I always assumed they were holdovers from before Vatican II (but I didn't realize Lent was still meatless Fridays). I do get the impression the Lent thing is just because people like having an excuse to mix things up for a while.
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Feb 11, 2022 14:41
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this discussion is making me realize that chicken fingers and fries are the American fish and chips
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Feb 11, 2022 14:45
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Empty Sandwich posted:this discussion is making me realize that chicken fingers and fries are the American fish and chips Whoa. Makes tons of sense. [The Cheap Protein] deep fried + the cheap starch. Fish is cheaper if you live on an island and have (relatively) no land.
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Sorry Pelotonquote:Should there be a transaction, it could be significant, given Peloton’s market value of around $8 billion—down sharply from its high around a year ago of some $50 billion. I’ve said it before but the pandemic saved them but they still managed to gently caress things up lol.
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Mar 2, 2022 06:20
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I was expecting to see a list of assorted Russian airlines and banks in this thread by now.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I was expecting to see a list of assorted Russian airlines and banks in this thread by now. Well 700 and something of Russia’s 900 (ish) fleet of commercial airliners are leased soooo Expect some repos maybe?
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Mercury Ballistic posted:I was expecting to see a list of assorted Russian airlines and banks in this thread by now. Idk much about finance, but when 2 of your largest companies and one of your big banks get turned into penny stocks overnight, I assume things are not good https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/gazprom-lukoil-and-sberbank-are-now-penny-stocks-as-russian-companies-collapse-in-london-11646227312
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Icon Of Sin posted:Idk much about finance, but when 2 of your largest companies and one of your big banks get turned into penny stocks overnight, I assume things are not good Should we be buying the dip?
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Iron Crowned posted:Should we be buying the dip? Only if it's French onion or spinach artichoke.
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Casu Marzu posted:Only if it's French onion or spinach artichoke. I'm hearing from my people that 7-layer is holding on strong, so I'd avoid.
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Casu Marzu posted:Only if it's French onion or spinach artichoke. Incorrect, it's the jalapeno artichoke dip from Trader Joe's.  I'm obsessed with it.
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Mar 2, 2022 20:00
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Amazon is closing all of its physical retail locations (like the Amazon 4 Star stores that had appeared in the last 3 years or so) https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/2/22958745/amazon-book-4-star-pop-up-physical-retail-locations-closing
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Read After Burning posted:Incorrect, it's the jalapeno artichoke dip from Trader Joe's. Hell yes that poo poo is the bomb. It’s really really good.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Amazon is closing all of its physical retail locations (like the Amazon 4 Star stores that had appeared in the last 3 years or so) Obvious in retrospect, 4 stars is underperforming Bezo's target metric of being a 5 star man.
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Online Store expands to Physical stores. How could it have gone wrong?
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MarcusSA posted:Well 700 and something of Russia’s 900 (ish) fleet of commercial airliners are leased soooo You nailed it. https://twitter.com/Andrew__Roth/status/1499419987047587840
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https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/...ingawful.com%2F Also: Mortabis posted:I am not a lawyer, and my lawyer friends are fuzzy on this, but I think under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act and the Cape Town Treaty the lessors could be made whole with the frozen assets of the Central Bank of Russia, which are worth hundreds of billions of dollars and located in New York. Also: they probably only have a few weeks of parts on hand, which is normal. They're cut off from parts and mechanics now. Speaking of leases, the engines may be leased separately. Good luck running an airline when your "make planes go" bits are leased and only serviced in a country you can't fly to. Also: the Russian made airliner uses sanctioned parts in it's engine, so that's not an end-around to the sanctions. If these sanctions hold, it will destroy the air travel industry in Russia. https://youtu.be/yrgI4gB5W2o
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dang I can’t believe that the leopards would do this
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But but what about trust in property rights?? * conquers neighbouring country*
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https://twitter.com/bayareawriter/status/1501212871920959491 Fun reminder that this is the same company that laid off hundreds last year on a group Zoom call.
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Is there anything that mass advertises on podcasts that doesn't end up circling the drain?
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Rick posted:Is there anything that mass advertises on podcasts that doesn't end up circling the drain? I want to make a "Dollar Shave Club --> hair in the sink --> circling the drain" joke here but I am too dumb and it won't be funny. In all seriousness, though, I think they'll be around forever. "Cockroaches, Cher, and Dollar Shave Club." How are those Blue Apron/Hello Fresh, etc. type services doing?
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Read After Burning posted:I want to make a "Dollar Shave Club --> hair in the sink --> circling the drain" joke here but I am too dumb and it won't be funny. They still exist. Hello Fresh sends me an email every day and this song plays in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o (I subscribed to them for about a month in 2017)
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Read After Burning posted:In all seriousness, though, I think they'll be around forever. "Cockroaches, Cher, and Dollar Shave Club." How are those Blue Apron/Hello Fresh, etc. type services doing? Probably not as well as they were during peak pandemic. My friend was subscribed to one of those meal delivery things and once he got 50 or so recipes and knew how they turned out he just started using the grocery store pick up option or instacarting the food since even that was cheaper. Hello fresh is doing better than before the pandemic, but down from peak pandemic and it looks like its going to continue to slide for a while.  5yr stock graph.
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There were two things I really hated about Hello Fresh, it was waste (package and food), and that everything just sorta tasted the same. My roommate bought into it for a minute last year, so I can account that the packaging waste is "better," than it was before, but it's still a ton of it. They literally would give you everything you needed except for salt, pepper, and water. So for one meal you'd get a pile of packets full of things and half of them you wouldn't use the whole thing, so you'd either attempt to save a half-tablespoon of sour cream in a torn open plastic packet, or toss the whole thing. For a lot of those, I just used my already on-hand supply, because I have "southwest seasoning" and "siracha" on hand. Literally everything is wrapped in plastic of some kind, and this doesn't even account for the enormous weird gel ice packs, and insulation blankets they ship it in.
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As a shut-in, it was too much food for one person.
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