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.
Never.
Skip.
The.
Clams.
My great aunt gets their fish catered for her family Christmas party every year
What does the fish eat?
Genuinely wonder if it is a money laundering front at this point.
I don’t think I’ve ever even seen one. Are we sure they’re real?
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.
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
That stuff will make you shit worse than taco bell
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.
That’s where you buy poplars!
Fishy Joe’s
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.
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
But taco bell is for when you want to see what new dorito thing they made in the past decade, or the bread taco hybrid (challappa) they have. LGS seems to have food that wasn’t invented for gamers by someone that hasn’t met a Mexican.
Basically yes, LGS is seafood for people who visit the coast once a year at best, who has never met a Marylander.
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.
Last time I went years ago someone was shooting up in the bathroom.
Was a very long john silvers experience. Remember the food always beeing of a greasy quality similar to jack in the box.
Like it has no right to be as delicious as it is.
Can’t believe you met Long John Silver himself! 🤩
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
…i haven’t eaten long john silvers in at least fourty years, but i always liked their crispies…
Catholics
As a non-American, I’m assuming it’s a shitty restaurant?
Yeah, it’s very low quality. When I lived there, I’d get recommended LJS because I’m British, and they wanted to get my opinion on their fish and chips.
They stopped talking about it after all the complaints. I don’t think I’ve ever finished a meal when I’ve given them chances, always ended up tossing most of it in the bin.It’s fast food that’s almost all fried sea food. And they’re like the cockroach of franchises, the few that are around tend to be in weird locations that have killed off everything but Long John’s.
The available food is mostly things they can pop into the fryer: Think fish and chips, except you can also choose “planks” of chicken breast, or breaded shrimp, or little balls of seasoned dough called “hush puppies”.
My wife hates them, and they’re an occasional guilty pleasure for me.
Hah
Found you :
They’re just weird because so many fast food chains come & ho the 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.
Could be money laundering
But their food is actually good, tho.
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
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”
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.
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!
“come & ho the the US”
How do you fick up that badly and not notice it?
How do you fick up that badly and not notice it? [emphasis mine]
lol
Eek. I have no idea. I’ll blame autocorrect.
They are not. The food is deep fried. The fish and chicken look and taste alike. You have to really pay attention to tell the difference. I really miss the local one. I would only eat there a few times a year but it was a nice option.
Americans don’t eat a lot of bseafood fast food or even in general. These are also not in every city like other chains so the locations are really far apart. They have a reputation of being a little sketchy/dirty. As others have mentioned you almost never see cars in the driver through or parking lots. With all that combined it’s hard to imagine how they stay in business.
Understatement to be fair. Its beyond lowest tier seafood
