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But their food is actually good, tho.
you must be going to different longs johns silvers than any of the ones i've been to. i haven't been in years, but it's really a "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me multiple times over the course of my childhood because my dad fell in love with you and THAT'S IT no more chances"
There's a lot of truth in the bit about which one you go to....
Being a franchise, a LOT of the quality comes down to the management. My cousin was a manager and made a huge point of a meticulous tear down and cleaning of the fryers to a degree not "required". He'd budget people and hours specifically for the extra cleaning.
It showed BIG. Between the grease temperature recovering faster, excellent care about cleanliness through the shift etc, the food came out reliably fresh and not the disappointing greasy mess.
It helped that by budgeting the time instead of just forcing workers to do it while busy with customers, which also prevents being able to take the fryer offline, they workers were better treated and as result hated their job less.
I'll absolutely say this is an outlier, and that in general most fast food is terrible, especially LJS. But if you find a good location, it can be awesome... Still going to be greasy of course, but in a good way instead.
Popeyes is this way too. One of their newish spicy chicken sandwiches, out of a well-run Popeyes? It's legitimately a culinary delight, I would eat that sandwich over almost any I've ever had anywhere, not even just similarly priced ones.
Poorly run ones, though, that same marvel of sandwich engineering is wholly forgettable. At best. Tell your cousin there's a Popeyes near me that needs his brand of TLC!
It's the cracklins. Little crispy fried pieces of dough? Who doesn't want those? Just ignore the offerings of frozen fish patties and go for the craving food.
yeah but you can get better hush puppies almost anywhere (disclaimer: i'm southern)
The hush puppies, yes, absolutely. I don't know many places that have the little fritters available by the tubload though. They're what potato chips dream of being.
the last LJS I went to the fish was sopping wet in oil and still it was cold and the fish was semi-raw
never again
I'm guessing that they didn't cook it at the right temperature. They probably would have wanted you to let them know so they knew there was an issue.