Can anyone explain why people hate Arby’s?
I know they’re pricy… but never understood why there’s so much hate for the restaurant.
Wet ass sandwiches, as written in the ad. I don’t like Arby’s because the bread on their sandwiches is typically stale and is always served cold. Something about roast beef being wet is generally off-putting and most of their sandwiches are roast beef. I think that Arby’s being the only mainstream fast food deli has something to do with my low opinion. Hamburgers have some idiosyncrasies as well: cold cheese, lettuce is gross and wilted, different condiment defaults, ground beef is cheap and garbage tier food in the grand scheme of things. But the thing is that every fast food chain is burgers so the specific bad experiences of one chain are contrasted against the other chains. Jack in the box has greaseball burgers that have the consistency of slop, but, because they can be contrasted against Burger King, which has gimmicky food, nasty defaults, and burgers that are assembled sloppily with accoutrement splattered everywhere and cohesiveness scoring firmly in trash tier, they get a pass. I would argue that all fast food is trash food, but the illusion of choice keeps the whole house of ass-flavored cards standing. You can pick a cohesive slop (JITB) or an non-cohesive slapped together proper burger (BK). The flaws of one are mistakenly compared to the defacto standard of the competition when they should be compared to the real standard of actual good food. Arby’s doesn’t have competition in its space so that defacto standard doesn’t exist, leading people to compare it to delis that aren’t garbage tier food. There is a competition mismatch and Arby’s ends up competing against food outside of its tier, revealing it to be garbage tier. Further discussion is encouraged.
My favorite fast food restaurant TBH. I don’t get it either.
It’s pretty simple: Arby’s is gross.
I hate them because the last four times I ate there, I had diarrhea for days, all different locations. The last time I ate there, it all came out 12 minutes later. So yeah, four for four is enough to establish that their “food” is just toxic.
It’s gross? Let me restate that: It’s gross.
To be fair (in judgement on my part), last time I had a roast beef sandwich was in 2018, I’ve only bought their reubens since then.
As I replied to someone else. I’m Canadian, but have friends and family in the States. I’ve had Arby’s 5x, and it’s delish…which is why it took getting food poisoning from Arby’s all over the damn country 5 whole ass times to stop eating there.
Brah… Tim Horton’s is amazing. Thank you for giving us that restaurant.
Tim Horton’s certainly can hit the spot but the quality has been on a steady decline for about 15 years now. Their menu used to be very simple; coffee and assorted café style drinks, bakery treats, and soup and sandwich. All very simple, yet effective as the ingredients were of reasonable quality and the coffee was consistently good.
Nowadays the diversification of the menu has gotten so extreme that they can barely do any single thing right. Coffee is often burnt as machines are calibrated too hot, machines not properly rinsed after cleaning resulting in an oil slick of soap and chemicals floating in your coffer (personal experience), donuts and breads are often stale or poorly made… For years their breakfast menu’s egg was not egg at all. “Cheese and onion egg-like product” was what was on the box. Only recently have they moved to using real egg which has had a massively positive effect on the breakfast menu’s quality.
Tim’s can be good. In Canada, its often that its not. I live in a town of ~50,000. This town has more Tim Horton’s than Ottawa with over 1M people. Tim’s has a cult-like following around here. Not sure why after the years of mediocrity.
Glad you like it though. I’d love to try your Tim’s to see if there is much of a difference.
Damn I was not aware. I discovered Tim Horton’s in 2018 and it was far better than Dunkin’ Donuts, still is. If it was better than what it is now… I’d probably be overly obese by now.
Idk, it’s owned by Burger King now, which is why we’re starting to get them here in the UK. So it’s not a Canadian owned business anymore. And the coffee quality dropped basically over night after they bought it. The doughnuts are still that particular kinda trash that is exceptionally delicious. Surprisingly, the coffee at Tim’s in the UK is somehow even worse than back in Canada. Some of their food is really good, but it really depends on who makes it…which I guess is the same for any franchise.
The rumour I heard is that McDonalds snaked Tim’s coffee supplier so a massive shift in quality occurred that they haven’t seemed to recover from
Is that why McD’s suddenly got pretty good? Hmmmmmm
As far as I know, yes.
Might just be the insane amount of sodium in the meal. Arby’s is salty af. Too much salt can cause diarrhea cause your body wants to reach equilibrium and dumps water into your gut to make it isotonic.
The American physique is prepared for this salt assault by being chronically under hydrated.
Thanks now i want a beef and cheddar I reslly miss arby’s
I’m upvoting because he hyphenated wet-ass
wet ass-sandwiches
Wet ass sand-witches
wet-ass witches
I would get a smart watch tbh, I like the idea.
But do you like the idea of Apple farming your medical information? Apple sure loves that idea, that’s why they made a watch that can track your steps and read your heart rate, and blood oxygen levels, as well as monitoring sleep patterns and menstrual cycles.
Just use gadgetbridge with some huawei watch (they don’t have vendor pair)
Honestly, what I wouldn’t do for a smartwatch that could continually monitor my blood sugar. But you’re absolutely right. I want that shit going straight to my doctor. No middle men. Fully encrypted. Legally binding.
I don’t buy Apple products, fuck them.
I would buy xiaomi or something, and medical data is heavily protected by law and hardly of use to advertisers and propaggandists.
They still very much do sell it though, even if it’s “anonymized” as per their privacy policy. My sister has one of those fuckin watches, and for a week every single month, anyone connected to her WiFi gets bombarded with “feminine product” ads. This didn’t happen until after she bought the stupid watch.
While Apple claims to protect user privacy and not share personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes, their policies also state that non-personal, de-identified information may be used for any purpose.
Infact, the FTC has issued strong warnings about it and seem very pissed off about such practice. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned that anonymization is no shield for ad data collection, and that companies making such claims can be held accountable for deceptive practices. Unfortunately for us, that just means that Apple would likely face fines and penalties if found to be in violation of privacy regulations, meaning Apple doesn’t give a shit as they and other massive corpos often do.
Awe… I like Arby’s. Their curly fries are easily on my top 10 best fastfood fries.
They sell them frozen in a bag now. So you don’t have to eat something that came out of an Arby’s kitchen.
I’ve had Arby’s 5 times. In a wide variety of locations across the States while visiting friends or family. It’s delicious, which is why it took me 5 times getting food poisoning to stop eating at Arby’s.
The local Arby’s here has roaches and it’s well-known. People still go there all the time and the drivethru is always busy.
Sad fact: if one place in your neighbourhood has roaches you all got roaches.
Extra protein, amirite?
Yum yum!
The fries are fantastic but not enough to justify the wet ass sandwiches
Now these are my kind of ads 🤩
I read this in AVGN’s voice.
Jumping on the “don’t use flushable wipes” bandwagon. Seriously, they can screw your home’s plumbing up.
For anyone doubting this is even possible for a product that is mass-marketed and available everywhere, look back a little over a decade. For a hot minute we had scrubs and soaps that had tiny little plastic beads in suspension to provide some grit. All those microbeads got flushed down the drain and wound up who knows where. That is until it was made illegal.
Liquid Death? It’s just fucking water. There’s already water in your house you don’t need a fucking can with a threatening name for it.
I heard the branding was to help recovering alcoholics, so they don’t feel like they’re “missing out,” and won’t stand out so much with a scary can instead of a water bottle/glass. So they can still crack a cold one with the boys and such.
That’s pretty cute. I support this.
I’d believe this with how much I see Steve-O drinking it on his YouTube channel. The dude made a point to drive a whole ass vending machine of Liquid Death across the country to his new home lol. At his previous home in California, it was apparently up against the coping of the half pipe in his backyard so you could do trick off of it.
I hope you guys are memeing because getting passionately mad over guy branded stuff that we just find kinda neat is a new level of stupid I haven’t been exposed to yet. I want my asshole to smell like mint, so I buy dude wipes. I want canned water to cut down on plastic usage, so I buy liquid death. I want a burger that’s not made of animals so I buy a beyond burger. Beyond what? I don’t fucking know I just want a burger.
It’s not that deep.
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Why did you moo? Are you the cattle? Actual retard.
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Why ask if I am something only to then claim I am that very thing? You really have problems, guy.
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while i am a proponent that different brands of water is different and there is a difference in taste, ill never defend overpriced water.
like you arent going to give me a bottle of arrowhead water.
Arrowhead is the nastiest
bottledwater ever. If someone gave that shit to me instead of just local tap water, I’d be insulted.It is tap water.
From the rustiest taps in the world. It’s so metallic tasting, I’m surprised it’s not a brownish orange color.
I’ve heard of kids who have been too corrupted by drink marketing to drink water drinking liquid death. If it gets demographics who wouldn’t otherwise drink water to drink water I can’t get upset about it
Okay, but their teas are actually pretty darn good and not loaded with sugar. I agree about the water though.
(Although, aluminum is essentially infinitely recyclable compared to plastic, so is probably a better alternative to bottled water)
Hate to break it to you, the inside of cans are still lined with plastic. Still marginally better than plastic bottles though.
If you have a local filtered water supplier you can bring a large reusable container and refill water from there. That way you still get the filtered water taste but cut out shipping
My local filtered water supplier is the fucking city I pay taxes to and it’s just fine. I don’t understand why so many people are afraid of tap water. I can download fifty fucking years of water testing data. I can get my home water tested for free every year. And you still have these assholes out here who drink nothing but plastic bottled water because it’s $5 per case from Aldi. That shit should have at least $5 of taxes added to it which go straight to the municipal supply.
Nothing wrong with tap, it’s the best choice if your city has proper mechanisms to ensure tap water quality. Unfortunately not all cities invested in good infrastructure. Theres still a couple of US cities with either bad pipes or local water pollution
I’m not afraid of tap water but, in the city I live in, it tastes like pool water and I find that highly unpleasant.
eh I find their tall boys of sparking water have made it so I hardly drink alcohol at all now.
It’s worth $1.57 to fool my brain, and certainly cheaper than the same amount of beer.
I had heard that’s the point, to a degree, or at least to help people with a drinking problem not feel ostracized while out with friends.
Costco seltzer packs are a much better/cheaper choice.
What the hell are butthole wipes?
They are like tissues, slightly moist with ass liquid sourced from only the top export quality butts in China.
I don’t care about hoverboards, but a great side effect of their mass production is that you can get a pretty decent brushless motor now for very cheap. I also saw a video about a hack you can do to make it run better at higher RPMs. You can get one of those hoverboard motors for like $30 on ebay and pair it with a $25 ODrive clone from aliexpress. Its good for probably 10 nm of torque at 36v 10a.
I see a hoverboard at my apartment dumpsters practically once a week. I rip them open for the battery pack, its always a stack of 18650s. I guess i should start collecting the motors too?
a stack of 18650s
(you probably already know) but this is common in a lot of battery packs. Batteries for power tools are good sources for the 18650s too. I never checked but I saw someone open a Tesla car battery and they look like a bunch of 18650s inside too.
I refurbish my power tool batteries instead of buying new ones because it is so easy.
“I’m poor” in so many words
The hoverboards are for kids as far as I can tell. Childhood just isn’t the same without some way to bust your face open. Parks got nerfed by a well-meaning child safety crusade that fixed nothing and ruined playgrounds; because the problem wasn’t that the playgrounds are dangerous - the problem was that kids are stupid and clumsy so sometimes shit happens and a kid will die tragically. It’s literally unavailable, that’s what makes it an accident.
Some of these kinds of things - especially “as seen in tv” stuff advertised by fumblebums - are actually intended for people who are partially or wholly physically disabled. But if they market it for disabled people then they’ll sell less of them and the price will go up, and because we live in
Americahell, the disabled didn’t make nearly enough to survive as is. So they market it to everybody with an over-the-top ad instead. Remember the Snuggy? Literally designed for people in wheelchairs and with mobility issues.The rest is just brand awareness bullshit and market expansion. Seriously, man-wipes exist because they’d hit market saturation and are trying to squeeze out a profit increase by targeting a different demographic. Because in capitalism, the line MUST go up. Brand awareness is just a way of saying “Hey! Pay attention to me, I’m Diet Coke! Don’t forget! Are you thirsty now? Pick me!” And the quest part? Both stupid trucks work because people are dumb.
I read(yelled) this entirely in Lewis Black’s voice.
You went too far with Arby’s
I like it how Arby’s just takes a random stray
