/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Never hurts to try it out. Why should you care about our opinion?

>>4864456

I think you're selling yourself short, anon...your opinion matters.

Cheer up.

Its extremely greasy fried food. Eh, its ok although I only go a few times a year for nostalgia. I do recomend the onion rings, some ofthe best imo.

Are you poor? --> Go
Do you have a job? ---> Don't go

Let's see
>batter containing GMO corn
>wild-caught marine fish
>GMO Potatos
>sugar beverages
>chemical blend "sauce"

Gee, OP, I guess you should try it.

>>4864471
you left out
>refuses to pay employees living wage
>anti-labor organization

>>4864471
>chemical blend "sauce"

Water is a chemical.

Show me a double blind peer reviewed study that shows that Long John Silvers is in any way distinguishable from fancy elite McCormick & Schmicks. Protip: you can't.

Long John Silvers is fucking terrible. That said I still enjoy it on a rare occasion

>>4864471

Right on brother, you really told him!

I used to work at LJS (combined with an A&W)
The fish arrived in large lightly floured slabs about 4 feet long with perforations to be separated into the appropriate symmetrical pieces. My coworkers and I would routinely have swordfights with the fish slabs.
The place was the greasiest place I had ever encountered. Within a month, my car's floormats were permanently stained black from the sheer amount of grease that accumulated every day. Even with a good cleaning every night, by 3 or 4 PM the floor in the kitchen and behind the counter would be filthy again. We would have to put like 8oz of concentrated degreaser in our water for when we did the floors. I would often slip in the parking lot after my shift because of how slicked up my shoes were. The entire LJS segment of the restaurant was just 1m x 1m slabs of lard and a complete oil-fest.
The A&W side was better, since it was just a higher-class burger joint that accumulated hardly any oils at all.

At any rate, if you do end up going to it, ask for a thing of Krums. They take the hard crispy parts that become detached from the fish and give them to you for free. Only saving grace of an otherwise mildly mediocre establishment.

>>4864471
this midset
why dont you just kill yourself.
i mean this world is shit

All the LJS around me shut down so I haven't been to one in a while, but it used to be solid. They tended to have fewer items, but the focus was on good taste, not variety. Get yourself a sampler so you can try everything.

Can't speak about the onion rings. They didn't have those last time I was there.

>>4864517
Why he has a solution to his "problem".

>>4864479
Scrumptious

Tartar Sauce
Water, Soybean Oil, Corn Syrup, Distilled Vinegar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Pickles, Modified Food
Starch, Egg Yolk, Salt, Sugar, Sucrose, Dehydrated Onion, Spice, Bell Peppers, Xanthan Gum, Sodium
Benzoate Added as Preservative, Natural Flavors, Polysorbate 80, Calcium Disodium EDTA Added to
Protect Flavor

>>4864582
>Corn Syrup
>High Fructose Corn Syrup
>Sugar
>Sucrose

I wouldn't eat it, there's no dextrose, maltose, or glucose so it must be cheap shit.

I went for the first time the other day. I got a clam strip dinner or basket or whatever they call it. When I got into my car with the food, it made everything smell like fried fish. All the food smelled slightly fishy. It didn't taste too bad, but about 45 minutes after eating I got a stomach ache and took a nap to sleep it off.

I find LJS tasty, but just like with KFC, I always regret eating it after about two hours.

>>4864651
protip glucose = dextrose

>>4864582
Okay, how should I make my tartar sauce then? This looks like a pretty standard recipe to me. Might need horseradish.

>>4864669
Umm, no, actually it doesn't. Yeah, they're composed of the same atoms, but the arrangement is different enough that certain biological processes only affect one and not the other.

>>4864479
>fancy elite McCormick & Schmicks.
lel. M&S is Black Lobster + $10 a person

Why would somebody not make tartar sauce at home? It's crazy easy.

Greasy and salty as fuck but I like the chicken and hush puppies.

>>4864682
You add Corn syrup, HFCS, Sodium Benzoate, "natural flavors", and other shit in your own kitchen? Tartar sauce should be 6 ingredients

>home made mayo
>diced fridge pickles
>a few capers
>minced onion
>lemon juice & zest
>pinch of salt

anything more than that is unnecessary and less is just lazy

>>4864699
I forgot to put optional next to the salt since the capers will bring a fair amount of saltiness to the table

>>4864699
>home made mayo

That's several ingredients right there. I certainly hope you raised your own chickens and pressed your own oil, ground your own mustard, etc.

Not to mention growing your own cucumbers so you can make your own pickles, harvesting your capers at the right time so you can pickle them, growing your own onions and lemons.

Oh, and you should probably harvest your own salt too, just to be safe.

>>4864699
Nah, I just use store bought pickles, store bought mayo, onion, horseradish, bit of lemon juice or vinegar, and bell pepper. But all food is divisible. I eat whatever, but I know what all the additives I eat are for, because I'm informed, not paranoid.

>>4864704

I certainly hope you
>raised your own chickens
yep
>and pressed your own oil
you can buy pure oils that have zero preservatives/additions

>ground your own mustard
I do. People own things called "spice grinders" these days. It's nuts I know

>growing your own cucumbers so you can make your own pickles
yep on both counts

>harvesting your capers at the right time so you can pickle them
Local co-op grocery gets them from Morocco with nothing but capers, spring water, and salt

>growing your own onions and lemons
Yes to onions, lemons from the co-op

>harvest your own salt
I buy it in blocks from France and use my mystical "spice grinder"

Try again shit tier garbage gut. Just because you love eating preservative chemicals and can't be bothered to prepare anything but a hot pocket doesn't mean we all share your laziness. Fuck off.

>>4864444
Rather than fish with batter it's more like batter with fish. The one I went to had so little fish and about an inch of batter on everything, it was disgusting.

>>4864728
>he doesn't grow his own mustard, capers, lemons, or harvest his own salt

>>4864728
Well. . . I guess everybody needs a hobby. Or a lifestyle, or maybe a religion.
>>4864444
But that aside, OP shouldn't really go out because cooking it at home is still cheaper, unless you get fried food cravings, in which case go for it.

>>4864728
Pls stop lying to us.

I like that you can get a lot of cocktail sauce.

>>4864736
kinda like how I love captian d's batter.

I could give a shit less what's inside of it, but the batter is awesome and the more of it the better because their batter is far superior to their always overcooked tasteless fish.

>>4864751
>someone has higher standards than microwave "cuisine"

>must be lying

>>4864728

I love all the delicious salty butthurt fatty mcfatfat tears you've induced with this post, anon. Well done. And congrats on actually knowing how to take care of yourself like an adult, that's something that apparently has been forgotten in this day and age.

>>4864770
>higher standards than microwave "cuisine"
Yeah, making everything from scratch/claiming to grow the vast majority of it themselves is a far different thing from "higher standards than microwave 'cuisine".

>>4864782
2 acres provides enough room for a coop and a large garden that can feed 2 adults and 2 children. Hunting and fishing can supplement protein and gets you into the wilderness for a day. If you're a pussy and can't stand things like icky poopoo guts then there are businesses that will process the carcass for you. Drop a pair and learn how to feed yourself.

>>4864798
It's surprisingly difficult to get two acres in certain parts of the world, let alone go hunting and fishing.

>>4864779
Thank you, kiddo.

>>4864798
Or, you know, work a job (which I do) that pays me money (which it does) then I can do this thing called "purchasing" which involves me trading my money for items that I want. There's this new thing called "economy" that's pretty rad, you might want to look into it.

This allows me to do thinks like hunt when I want to, not because I have to and grow a garden because I want to, not because I have to--which you cutely implied that I do neither.

Living off of the land in this day and age is retarded. It's the equivalent of living paycheck to paycheck.

>>4864822

>living off the land these days is retarded

Haha holy fucking shit. Do you watch the news? You're a delusional little critter, you. It's gonna be real funny in 20 years when you're begging people like him for food.

But don't worry, I'm sure your pwecious wittle "society" will take care of you, even though it's overpopulated, polluted and can't stop eating itself with wars and politics. I'm sure your system of not knowing how the fuck to take care of yourself in the most basic sense will work out just fine for you when your government has collapsed and abandoned you

inb4 hurr durr go back to /pol/. Open a fucking History book, sonny. Every civilization comes to an end.

>>4864822
You'll be the livestock of the survivors

>>4864835
Please remove your tinfoil hat before addressing me again.

>>4864839
I think you meant "fucktoy"

>>4864835
>Haha holy fucking shit. Do you watch the news? You're a delusional little critter, you. It's gonna be real funny in 20 years when you're begging people like him for food.

God, you're an idiot.

1) I can farm and have the land to do it on.
2) I can hunt and have the land to do it on.
3) I can fish and have bodies of water to do it in.
4) I don't ask for handouts, I work for my living.
5) I have actually undergone real training for survival.

Why don't you go jerk off over your bugout bag?

>>4864848
>5) I have actually undergone real training for survival.
Watching Bear Grylls drink piss isn't training

>>4864444
>Open a fucking History book, sonny. Every civilization comes to an end

It's cute you think that there are clear divisions that mark the 'end' of a civilization and in between are concrete ages of barbarism and anarchy before everyone goes, "Wait, let's have a civilization again."

>>4864515

I can confirm this. We serviced about 5-6 LJS stores once (replacing the mechanical locks w/ electronic ones on their safes) in our area. That floor was the single nastiest fucking place I've ever seen. The amount of shit that accumulated around the safe was incredible; it had also began to eat away at the paint and in some places began to rust the metal.

I have no appetite for LJS because of it. The store managers probably thought I was an asshole by declining free meals after we did the work.

>>4864822

holy shit I have not had LJS in like...16 years

Is the chain mostly east coast?

From what I recall I liked the hush puppies, and that they bake their fish in microwaves.

No idea what it would be like today, but I bet the portions are tinier and the ingredients are cheapened, like all fast food over the years.

>>4864878
Based on 2 summers ago, they don't microwave the baked fish, at least not anymore.
Now they have little special ovens that do them 1 at a time and clog up the entire system.

Skippit and go to Captain D's.

>>4864582
>Sugars
>Oils and other liquids
>Dried vegetables
>Common preservatives
Par for the course as far as fast food goes and the pre-made shit at the grocery store. Although "Spice" is disconcerting.

>>4864476
Aren't those true of pretty much every business in existence?

>>4864466

Except shit's expensive as fuck.

>>4864515
What kind of disgusting lazy fast food joint lets the employees mess with the food? Seriously I worked at mcdonalds for a year and I can't imagine doing anything like that.

LJS is fucking disgusting. I don't say that lightly.

>>4865097
Except McDonalds, as well as pizza joints, have come under such scrutiny for that shit they can't afford it.
For some reason fast food fish joints generally get ignored because... some fucking reason.

>>4864444
OP you've been conned, see: >>4864236

>>4864444

>>4864444

We get LJS every friday. My second wife was a devout catholic and I had to convert before we got married, and got her habit of eating only fish every friday. We'd all pack into the van and go get some super samplers. Still do. Shits great

had this last week. Forgot how much I love their chicken

>>4867333
how are their onion rings? their fries are shit

>>4867341
wasn't really that great. I wasn't the one that picked it up or I would of picked fries, I didn't even know you could change what you got. Rings were skinny and soggy

>>4864728
And yet, you'll die the same as any other human on this planet no matter what they eat.

No one here does catfish, and we don't have any fish places other than LJS

I wish they did catfish. Grandpa used to make real home caught and made catfish every time I visited. Don't think I've had it in at least 15 years, damn

It was my favorite as a kid. Probably haven't had it in 20 years.