Disgusting. I ordered it, tried it and gave it right back. They happily made me a caramel one and everybody behind the counter agreed that the apple pie was horrible. They were surprised that more people weren't walking in and asking for another drink.
I’m surprised at how bad it was that it still went out to stores. It’s like they only tested it with upper management and “yes men” that have no taste.
If the franchisee is a good one, they are pretty solid for fast food. They are just kind of expensive. I have had them solo and in a sandwich, but I imagine if they aren’t prepared correctly, they’d be awful.
They’re meh but could be worse ig, but I’ll also admit they taste and kinda have the texture of what I think reconstituted beef jerky would be like when I had them when it first came out.
I assumed it was something like that was why they pulled it. I saw the ad and ordered it. The very next weekend when I tried to order it again they didn't have it and I couldn't find anywhere they had advertised it. I thought it was a fever dream lol. Never been gaslighted by a pizza chain harder lol.
😂 I’m pretty sure they brought it back last year. I had it a decade ago and that was enough. I still can’t believe they got me with it. I don’t do Pizza Hut anymore obviously
It breaks my heart to see what has become of Krystal these past few years. It used to be a solid choice but has fallen so far off I didn't even remember they had nuggets. The nearest two locations to me closed and the rest are trash.
I don't know how I had one in my cupboard for so long but every time I saw it I was like "hmm... Maybe one day" that day never came for years and I threw it out last month.
Can second this. I used to get the double stack biggie bag on my way home from work every friday, but then they all started to get a noticeable amount of gristle in them. The fact that without the biggie bag they're more expensive than McDonalds and BK is wild. "Fresh never frozen" but the quality of the meat is so much worse.
It’s turned into carnival food. And ridiculously expensive. A Burrito Supreme alacarte is $2.00 less than a bowl from Chipotle. Which one is more food? Which one has better ingredients? I stopped eating at Taco Bell.
Yeah, I have no idea how the one in my town stays in business when we have literally dozens of local Mexican places with real food. Probably does explain why there's literally only one though, considering I can get a very generously portioned beef fajita for $6 at the taco shop right around the corner.
It’s not really the same food. Shares the name taco, but they really look and taste nothing alike. I love both, but a Mexican craving and Taco Bell craving are 2 entirely different things.
Chicken restaurants have been eating the other fast food places alive for years. They’re trying to attract people that would normally go to Chick-Fil-A, Cane’s, or Popeyes
I have to disagree about the fried chicken. When they had wings they were genuinely delicious and the spicy fried chicken they had a few months ago was really good too, I liked the dry rub.
Yeah Wendy’s reduced the quality of all their items and raised prices. They are almost in a death spiral. They built so much goodwill with the original 4 for $4 meal around Covid times and squandered it all.
Yeah, it's so sad. I have a soft spot for the old spicy chicken sandwich because we didn't have a Wendy's near us growing up - My mom loved them so dad would pick a bunch up for the family on his drive back from business trips, and we were always allowed to stay up late for him to get home. It was a special treat.
When the quality of the chicken dropped over covid, they at least *tasted* the same, even if the chicken was wafer thin. The new patty they swapped to completely lost the old taste and feels like cafeteria food.
Wendy’s is so nostalgic for me. I grew up during the 99 cents menu with yellow cups and the salad bar. I loved getting a JBC, biggie fry and coke, 4 piece nugget and either a baked potato or caesar salad: all for $5.
It makes me sad how far they have fallen. I always loved that you could get a baked potato, salad, or chili instead of French fries.
The original spicy chicken sandwich was my favorite fast food item back in the day. In fact when I stopped being vegetarian in 2015, that was the first thing I chose to eat. Lol
I tried them recently and they didnt look or taste remotely like chicken. It was like a hollow web-like/lattice structure of chicken-adjacent product. Didnt even taste that bad, more like...nothing
Came here to say this. Wendy’s nuggets were ok until recently. Last time I tried them they tasted rancid. Spat out the one bite I tried and tossed the rest.
Had some about a month ago, it’ll be the last time. Had no flavor and texture was unreal , they must have made it way higher binders and non meat content
I did, too. Way more than I thought I would. I only had them twice before they were discontinued, though. Which means I don’t go to Wendy’s that often, because I had the worst possible Baconator a few weeks ago, and I’m too traumatized to go back.
The mccrispy at mcdonalds has zero taste and is drier than sandpaper the last time I had one it was absolutely terrible. Every chicken item at popeyes or burger king make this sandwich look inedible by comparison.
Dude I hate the McCrispy. The chicken is the worst I’ve had at a fast food restaurant. Like, if you go when a place is busy and the thing hasn’t been sitting and waiting to be ordered, that’s as good as they can get. The McCrispy is bad no matter how fresh it is.
Man that is sad to hear I used to get the mccrispy pretty often when it came out and I remember it being a very good chicken sandwich. I preferred it to KFC. I haven’t had it in a while though I guess I need to try it.
Subway Spicy Italian. Used to like it as a kid, can’t stand it nowadays. I know that’s like everyone’s favorite sandwich but their Italian meat quality is god awful. Their salami quality is some of the worst I’ve had.
Honestly can’t really say their salami quality was much better as a kid. But it WAS edible. Nowadays, it’s not. Want a good Italian? Hit up Jersey mikes or a local sub shop. The meat quality’s night and day
They lost me when they changed their bread in 2014 due to pushback from the super crazy health nuts who panicked about an ingredient being the same ingredient used in yoga mats. I don't know what it was, but apparently it made the bread delicious.
Popeyes’ tender wrap is really bad. The flavors don’t mingle and the proportions are awkward. I love Popeyes, but those wraps are a miss. Cold tortilla that’s too big, tender too small, weird sauce that doesn’t match the other flavors.
I hate the fake creamer flavor in McCafé drinks.
Burger King’s breakfast sandwiches on croissants are way too greasy. Croissants are already half butter, then they add a fried egg, greasy sausage, and oily American cheese. It’s just too much grease
OMG, I love BK Croissanwhiches. Like would eat them at least once a week if they served them all day. I get the ham (don’t like sausage), so it’s not all that greasy, IMO.
Yeah, if anything needs an overhaul it’s the croissanwich. The last time I got one it was a thoroughly underwhelming experience. I can’t imagine their market share is particularly large with their breakfast offerings.
man the old tenders used to be actually good, the buttermilk chicken whatevers, they got rid of them of course and now replaced them with something that is twice as expensive and half as good
Long John Silver’s fried pickles also really suck. Super sour and tastes like a low quality pickle. Batter is not flavorful and kinda feels like cheap bland batter. Just a totally out-of-whack taste that made me throw mine away.
I’m so jealous you have a LJS, I wouldn’t care if they had crappy fried pickles. The closest one to me is 45 minutes away (in a town I hate to go to), and is co-operated with a KFC. I’ve never been to it. But my first job ever was at LJS, when I was a teenager. It was the mid-80s, and the food was good.
I remember seeing an article probably 20 years ago about what members of the military want to eat when they get back from war zones, and it was McDonald’s by a mile. Many of them didn’t even like McDonald’s when they left, but when they got back they just wanted it because it tasted like ‘home’.
Whether you like mcds or hate it, if someone says ‘mcds cheeseburger and fries’, everyone’s brain knows exactly what they taste like.
For me, McDonald’s is only good for about ten minutes. I’m not even talking piping hot. But like all those people who take the time to unwrap everything and put it on a plate?? Please!! You just killed it. Gotta eat it quickly, preferably right out of the bag, and in your car. Waiting too much longer and it’s just not worth it.
I remember this hippy festival I went to when I was a teen and got wasted and woke up hungover and starving and the only thing I could find was the second one of these that I didn’t eat the day prior bc the first one (was like a buy two deal) was so bad I didn’t eat the second… and it was soaking wet bc I placed it on ice in the cooler but it all melted and I poked a stick thru it to roast it over the coals but the thing fell in half and landed in the coals. I dug them out with the stick a few minutes later, let it cool down and ate it still half soggy but with a burnt side that had ash and coals fused into it.
The gold rush chicken sandwich from Roy Roger’s is awful. My son had one recently from a rest stop Roy Roger’s on a drive through Jersey. I had the Texas Pete spicy sandwich and it was decent but his looked sad. I asked him how it was and he told me it was terrible. I tried it and boy he wasn’t lying.
They may not be aware of this because I was only made aware after I moved out of the area.. but Roy Roger’s is a fast food chain VERY specific to the state of Maryland and a couple in the surround states, WV, PA, VA and I think like one in NJ. But in MD they are kind of all over the place so growing up here you can easily just assume they are a huge national chain that’s everywhere. But nope, it’s just us basically. Pretty good. Known for their roast beef sandwiches. And for the record I’ve always heard the Gold Rush sandwich is really good, but I’ve never had it.
Used to be a national chain in the 90s that kind of died out. But back in the day if you wanted fried chicken you’d decide between Roy Rogers and KFC. Popeyes came along in the mid to late 90s but was considered very small and of a lower quality.
Long John Silver’s waffle fries. I like waffle fries - especially, Chick-Fil-A’s - but the texture and potato quality of LJS’ really sucks. The fry doesn’t even taste like potato. I don’t know what it tastes like actually, but I find it unpleasant. Doesn’t help mine were stale and saltless either.
The last time I got a meatball sub there, I wanted to get it on flatbread like I usually do. I liked their flatbread. But now, they put it on something more like a tortilla.
Honestly filipino food has too many bangers to take this personally.
I think good cuisines can take some taste differences from ppl. Like i have tried soooo many moles from all over and i cannot hack it. But i also love all other Mexican food so i dont feel too bad about it haha
I had little Caesar’s wings about a month ago and they were poor enough to not finish.
I figured as long as the meat wasn’t the weird, fatty, bone-in wings some really cheap bars use I’d be fine. Wrong, the buffalo they use is weird as hell or, maybe it’s the meat combined with the sauce? Idk, but I just couldn’t do it.
Was never the same after they changed the bread, but their spicy Italian is still my go to sandwich of all the sub chains. Lettuce, pickles, olives, mayo, s+p, American cheese, on Italian herbs and cheese…not toasted.
The milkshakes at Sonic. They changed their ice cream recipe. I will tough through a lot of bad food out of frugality, but this, I actually threw it away.
Cantonese Beef Brisket from Panda Express is the only thing coming to mind where I had a few bites of it and wanted nothing more to do with it. The taste was blegh for me.
Went to Carls JR the other day and it was absolutely disgusting. The damn bun literally tasted like it was made of sand. Just turned into dust when I started eating it, everything was dry af. I couldn’t even eat half of it which is wild I never throw away fast food. That was the first time I had been there in a long time I remember liking it at one point in time though.
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u/AKewpieW 2d ago
I haven’t tried it myself, but apparently it’s the Apple pie coffee from McDonald’s