Seriously. I've been boycotting Chick-Fil-A since I was in high school. There was one next to a Subway that was always closed when I passed it. A little Internet research later, and I learned that they spend corporate dollars on lots of regressive causes.
I ate there once in my life: I met an executive for the company at a corporate retreat who gave me a stack of "free food" coupons. The chicken was... meh. Arby's has better chicken.
I am surprised that the Internet is just now noticing how bad this company is though. The '90s called: they want their outrage back.
I love how people JUST realized Chick-fil-a was evil. This has not been a secret. It has been public knowledge that they have been this way for many years. If you were willing to support them then, why not now?
The reason you shouldn't eat there is that no matter how good it tastes, it's poisonous fast food. You shouldn't eat fast food ever unless it's an emergency situation, no matter whether or not the chain is evil or not. Also, all fast food chains have a lot of evil going on, even if its not bigoted religious evil.
Yeah you're right, they've always been obvious super christian. The fact that my super intense crazy christian former boss ate there every single day should have been a sign to stay away. :-P I think the recent controversy is more about the fact that the owner openly said that stuff and has no shame and no intention of removing support of the anti-gay organizations (like some other businesses have done recently.) Yeah yeah its their right to be hateful, they are a private business, whatever.
Anyway, I must go on a quest to recreate the chik-n-mini. I've heard rumors of a certain dinner roll in the freezer section (the kind that's all stuck together and you bake them) that tastes exactly like the chik-n-mini biscuit.
It's really hard though because the local franchises usually do a lot of good for the community. It's a non-shitty job for high school kids, they have a lot of college funds, and they provide sandwiches at food drives if you donate food. EDIT: They also donate a lot of equipment like computers to public schools.
If you want a reason to hate it, you should know they use MSG in their breading mixture.
Here is a solution. Remove yourself from temptation. Move to upstate NY. There are no Chick-fil-a restaurants up here.
Truth! I have never eat at a Chick-Fil-A mostly because I have never seen one. Even in my travels to Florida and Seattle and Michigan I have never seen one. I think spending most of my life in NY and CT has been a major factor in this.
And fast food isn't evil, people just eat waaaaaaay too much of it on average. Example, a McD's double cheese burger is 500 calories, by itself.
This. McDonalds won't kill you; you can lose weight while still eating a Happy Meal every day. It's the American attitude that McDonalds isn't a meal unless you wash back your McGangbang and Large Fry with a 24oz of Coke that makes McDonalds "poisonous."
Also, @Andrew: MSG doesn't have proven toxicity in humans at food levels, but that's a different conversation. Some of the best restaurants in the US use MSG.
I'd only ever seen one in Michigan and one in DC. If they hadn't had such a weight of regressive action as a company, I still would never have eaten at one again, so mediocre was the food.
I used to only go to chik-fil-a like twice a year, same as the all the other fast food chains that I don't eat much at. Thing is though that we just moved, and there is a chik-fil-a down the street, right on my commute. I started getting chik-n-minis every other week for breakfast as a treat. Now my treat is forbidden. ;-; Anyway, this weekend, chik-fil-gay experimentation will take place.
Chick-Fil-A isn't just an east coast chain, it's a southern east coast chain. They get pretty hard to find as you get north of Maryland and so. There are a couple of them here in Mass, but they're way up near the NH border, where I rarely go as I live close to the RI border.
Chick-Fil-A isn't just an east coast chain, it's a southern east coast chain. They get pretty hard to find as you get north of Maryland and so. There are a couple of them here in Mass, but they're way up near the NH border, where I rarely go as I live close to the RI border.
True that. I've never personally seen one in CT, NY, NH, MA, NJ, PA, DE, DC, or MD. Didn't even see one in VA either, but I've only been to VA in Busch Gardens area and DC/Crystal City area.
There was a Duchess I think in Shelton, CT. Might still be there. They had a Magic Sword arcade machine. Loved it. The machine is almost definitely not there anymore.
One of the NYU Dining Halls contains the only Chick-Fil-A in Manhattan. Students started boycotting them right when (conveniently) I got rid of my meal plan. As a result, I can say I have been boycotting them for two years.
There was a Duchess I think in Shelton, CT. Might still be there. They had a Magic Sword arcade machine. Loved it. The machine is almost definitely not there anymore.
I saw the Duchess twice during my wander-aimlessly-in-a-car phase in my early twenties, but never went there and could never find it again or remember where it was.
There was a Duchess I think in Shelton, CT. Might still be there. They had a Magic Sword arcade machine. Loved it. The machine is almost definitely not there anymore.
I saw the Duchess twice during my wander-aimlessly-in-a-car phase in my early twenties, but never went there and could never find it again or remember where it was.
There are quite a few of them, that's just the only one I remember.
True that. I've never personally seen one in CT, NY, NH, MA, NJ, PA, DE, DC, or MD. Didn't even see one in VA either, but I've only been to VA in Busch Gardens area and DC/Crystal City area.
There are apparently some in VA as my wife said she used to go to them all the time growing up (she grew up in the DC area in northern Virginia). There are also a couple in Maryland as I've seen them advertised on road side signs (the blue ones that say "Food Next Exit") while driving up from visiting my in-laws. They aren't off I-95 though -- they're off some of the less prominent interstates.
I've eaten at Chick-fil-a once, when I got free food for dressing up in a cow costume. I met a family that came all in costume and sang a song together, and they included me in their video. Then I walked around the mall (it was in a food court) in the costume, which was fun.
I have never seen a Chick-Fil-A north of the Mason-Dixon (I'm not saying there aren't any, because I haven't been to any states west of Connecticut north of it). My only experiences with the franchise are the recent controversey and eating at one in Florida 5 or 6 years ago. I'm having trouble giving a damn.
I don't really care what Chick-Fil-A's stances are, they've got the right to free speech as much as an individual.
But for God's fucking sake do those Democrats HAVE to fucking be so rough on the company? Chicago's mayor is threatening severe economic punishments on them if they try and open stores, and California is basically saying "Don't even think about coming here."
Jesus whatever happened to the party of tolerance?
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I ate there once in my life: I met an executive for the company at a corporate retreat who gave me a stack of "free food" coupons. The chicken was... meh. Arby's has better chicken.
I am surprised that the Internet is just now noticing how bad this company is though. The '90s called: they want their outrage back.
Anyway, I must go on a quest to recreate the chik-n-mini. I've heard rumors of a certain dinner roll in the freezer section (the kind that's all stuck together and you bake them) that tastes exactly like the chik-n-mini biscuit.
It's really hard though because the local franchises usually do a lot of good for the community. It's a non-shitty job for high school kids, they have a lot of college funds, and they provide sandwiches at food drives if you donate food.
EDIT: They also donate a lot of equipment like computers to public schools.
If you want a reason to hate it, you should know they use MSG in their breading mixture.
Also, @Andrew: MSG doesn't have proven toxicity in humans at food levels, but that's a different conversation. Some of the best restaurants in the US use MSG.
http://duchessrestaurants.com/
There was a Duchess I think in Shelton, CT. Might still be there. They had a Magic Sword arcade machine. Loved it. The machine is almost definitely not there anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Sword
God that website is terrible.
yep
But for God's fucking sake do those Democrats HAVE to fucking be so rough on the company? Chicago's mayor is threatening severe economic punishments on them if they try and open stores, and California is basically saying "Don't even think about coming here."
Jesus whatever happened to the party of tolerance?