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Could have fooled me. All the ones that were near me are closed. I just checked, the closest one is 1.5 hrs away
The one near me is closed Sunday and Monday, but it's still open.
I just went on the LJS site to look for the nearest location and they have a rewards program called "Seacret Society".
Hmmm
That’s where you buy poplars!
Fishy Joe's
I went there 3 times 7 years apart each time. Never again. Terrible every time.
There is one near where I work, but they are quite literally never open. They aren't out of business and their facilities are kept up, but it somehow just persists in that state.
Sounds like los pollos hermanos
I hate knowing that LJS still exists, but doesn't have a restaurant around me anymore.
The secret cabal is just the elderly. That's all I ever saw there when I was able to go there lol
LOL this actually seems like a plausible scenario - it could be a regular meeting place for reptilian aliens, and who would notice?
Used to work at a restaurant similar to Long John silver and quite literally yes, 90% of people that attended were very elderly. Fish restaurants seem to exclusively cater to old people. I personally don't like any fish
Captain D's?
When I was a small child I loved Long John Silver's but now that I'm an adult I tried it once and it was so fucking oily that I feel like if they weren't in the United States they would be getting invaded by them.
I think they're in the same bucket as Red Lobster and KFC. Used to be fantastic, spent a couple of decades trimming corners until all that was left was the grease.
The smell of LJS actually gives me a headache. Nothing else does this to me the same way.
Man, I fucking love LJS and wish I had one within driving distance.
Nothing like ordering a fish & chicken plank combo and not knowing which of the identical diamond-shaped planks is which before biting.
LJS's chicken is way better than most other restaurants. I will die on this hill
Chicken planks, fries, hush puppies, and an obscene amount of tartar sauce to dip everything into. And the crunchy little batter bits? Absolute gold.
God I could go for some right now.
I had a cat that I found in a dumpster eating a taco during a hurricane. I only found her because she was yelling at the taco while she ate it. That cat, that I have seen eat every living and non living thing imaginable, refused to eat long john silvers fish
Hahahaha
The one in the photo looks delightfully old school. I bet they still have the bell you can ring by the exit door!
The bell is still there, but last year the manager filled it with cement.
If this was analogous to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, what would be the equivalent historical point?
Elagabalus? Maybe that time the title of emperor went to the biggest bidder and the guy lasted for a day? We need a Rough Roman Meme for this.
Not really, he just got sick of the sound.
A sign of decay in management. The Roman Empire suffered just such a phenomenon, only with other details.
Beer battered chicken is phenomenal, and nobody else does it. I hate fish, but I love LJS!
I'm convinced LJS is Taco Bell for people who moved away from the coast. They know it's not sea food, but they crave it's badness for its own sake.
Here in the Midwest we even have some combined Long John Silver and Taco Bell restaurants. You can go through the drive-thru and order off of both menus. They've been slowly disappearing but for a while they were all over the place.
I’m from northern Connecticut and live in (southern, nowhere near any fished lakes) Germany. I tried seafood here a couple times when I first got here, but it’s just intolerably fishy for me, even in a taco bell sense.
Though I guess frying it does mask a lot of fishiness. And LJSs doesn’t try for the cachet of “never-frozen,” so it’s possible it’s actually fresher than what you get in a fancy inland restaurant…
I didn’t agree with you at first, but you might be on to something
As a non-American, I'm assuming it's a shitty restaurant?
Understatement to be fair. Its beyond lowest tier seafood
They’re just weird because so many fast food chains come & ~~ho the~~ go in the US, it’s hard to even keep track - but Long John Silvers; a shitty fish & chips place which is never busy, never seems to have any customers at all, somehow stays in business.
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Hushpuppy underground!
That stuff will make you shit worse than taco bell
I'm not ashamed to be part of the Long John Underground.
I have no idea if they still do this, but you could order a whole box of "crunchies," the little fried bits of batter that flake off.
we called them crumblies and its the only reason id consider going to ljs
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