How Is That Chain Still Open?

[Vic Mackey 47,038]

Captain Ds. They make Long John's seem like Pappadeaux.

[Party_Taco 3,729]

Chili’s is fantastic and I appreciate that they recent went back to their roots and ditched the wacky menu items.

Chips+salsa is like crack, burgers and fries are on point and the beers are always frosty.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

Every time I've ever eaten at Chili's I feel sick afterwards, like my body is telling me that what I just ate wasn't real food. 

I hope your husband took good care of you

[Vic Mackey 47,038]

Not sure if they still have the Big Mouth Burgers but those were really good. You get one of those and fries for like $8.

[NorthLoop 14,205]

1 hour ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

2 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Every time I've ever eaten at Chili's I feel sick afterwards, like my body is telling me that what I just ate wasn't real food. 

I hope your husband took good care of you

Right after I cried about my fake peanut allergy

[gsoda3 3,262]

back in the day we'd take turns ordering a skillet queso for the table.  it was a great place to hang out for a couple hours at a time.  that's probably why they hate high school kids. 

[Underdog 28,639]

Yanks up in NY like to put sausage gravy on their CFS, Chili's near our house was the only place we could find it with cream gravy only.  Of course, since they found out why we came there they have  discontinued the CFS on their menu.   Fuckers. 

[bluto 4,929]

Chili's is an offender of the see through wet chips... when it's a good batch though, I can hammer through queso and salsa. I'm parched for a few days after due to the salt 

[RDCanecutter 26,443]

Anybody mention Pizza Hut yet? I see lots of other businesses operating inside the distinctive buildings that are abandoned Pizza Huts, and it always surprises me when I see an actual Pizza Hut. The last time I ate in one was the week Michael Jackson died, I don't hate his music, and I don't hate Pizza Hut, but the combo of non-stop Michael Jackson music plus the rubbery Pizza Hut thingadoodle was too much.

[AustinMT 952]

2 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

Chili’s is fantastic and I appreciate that they recent went back to their roots and ditched the wacky menu items.

Chips+salsa is like crack, burgers and fries are on point and the beers are always frosty.

You must have an amazing palate 

[WhatTheBuck 28,781]

19 hours ago, utee94 said:

So you hate fried chicken?  You think naked skinless grilled chicken is superior?  Lulz.

Do you drench your fried chicken in sauce?

Who said anything about skinless? Chicken wings shouldn't be breaded. Ideally they should be deep fried with the skin on, covered in Buffalo sauce, and served with a side of blue cheese dressing. And they shouldn't be too big. The wing is just a delivery vehicle for the sauce. Every bite should reach to the bone. 

Hooters sucks. Their hotel-casino in Vegas is the ultimate in sore thumb doesn't-belong-here pitifulness. 

[WhatTheBuck 28,781]

35 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Anybody mention Pizza Hut yet? I see lots of other businesses operating inside the distinctive buildings that are abandoned Pizza Huts, and it always surprises me when I see an actual Pizza Hut. The last time I ate in one was the week Michael Jackson died, I don't hate his music, and I don't hate Pizza Hut, but the combo of non-stop Michael Jackson music plus the rubbery Pizza Hut thingadoodle was too much.

Pizza Hut was awesome back in the day. Their pan pizza crust was buttery and a crunchy golden brown. Their gradual descent into suckitude began in the early 80's when they replaced their pizza ovens with a conveyor belt oven. It's been a long, slow accumulation of little sacrifices of quality in favor of convenience and reduced cost. Death by a thousand cuts. 

I always liked the thousand island dressing on their salad bar. And their croutons.

[Underdog 28,639]

Grew up with a Hut just down the street from my house, wife recently ordered  one from PH last week, just had that craving I guess.  I miss Godfather's, hit up the one on Wm. Cannon/Manchaca during my Church's days a lot, they had Donkey Kong also. 

[Guest Lobo]

So many of you guys live in one of the all-time great cities for food of all kinds and you're drawn in by the salsa at Chili's.  That's incredible to me.  Oh wait, they have cold beer...unheard of in the modern Texas era.  Literally a hundred restaurants within the Austin city limits with great chips and salsa and cold beer and you guys fawn over Chili's.  Makes perfect sense.  You probably bitched when Wal Mart/Home Depot pushed out the local Mom n' Pop hardware store in your town growing up.  'Cause great plywood at Home Depot.

Edited August 5, 2018 by Lobo

[Orange&White 5,528]

17 minutes ago, Lobo said:

one of the all-time great cities for food of all kinds

Ummmm....not really

[Vic Mackey 47,038]

So many of you guys live in one of the all-time great cities for food of all kinds and you're drawn in by the salsa at Chili's.  That's incredible to me.  Oh wait, they have cold beer...unheard of in the modern Texas era.  Literally a hundred restaurants within the Austin city limits with great chips and salsa and cold beer and you guys fawn over Chili's.  Makes perfect sense.  You probably bitched when Wal Mart/Home Depot pushed out the local Mom n' Pop hardware store in your town growing up.  'Cause great plywood at Home Depot.

Quit over exaggerating

[RDCanecutter 26,443]

Isn't all exaggeration, by definition, going over?

[Brisketexan 105,142]

So many of you guys live in one of the all-time great cities for food of all kinds and you're drawn in by the salsa at Chili's.  That's incredible to me.  Oh wait, they have cold beer...unheard of in the modern Texas era.  Literally a hundred restaurants within the Austin city limits with great chips and salsa and cold beer and you guys fawn over Chili's.  Makes perfect sense.  You probably bitched when Wal Mart/Home Depot pushed out the local Mom n' Pop hardware store in your town growing up.  'Cause great plywood at Home Depot.

Lotsa hipsters think it’s an all time great. We invented the taco and shit, didn’t you hear?

The truth is...I’ll put chili’s chips and salsa up against most anyone’s. Add a cold beer, and it’s a fine choice. Not a Michelin Star, but fuck - chips and salsa and a beer, and you’re bitching about it.

[RDCanecutter 26,443]

1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Pizza Hut was awesome back in the day.

I enjoyed me some Pizza Hut back in my teens. Ours had a big chunky shit-talking waitress who would put my smartass Beavis self right in my place. My poor mom adored her for that, and looking back, it was necessary for the public good.

There was a better pizza place on the other side of the river, but we never went there. This was right after my parents' divorce. Looking back, if it was like every other restaurant on that side of the river, my dad had probably banged one or more of the waitresses.

Edited August 6, 2018 by RDCanecutter

[Larry T. Spider 1,746]

I have an old hs friend that delivered pizzas for Pizza Hut in NW Austin for years. It was insane how busy he was. I would go meet him for beers at puckers when he got off and it was like he just ran a marathon. I think their shit sucks but clearly a lot of people with the means to afford something else think it’s good.

[Guest Lobo]

53 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Lotsa hipsters think it’s an all time great. We invented the taco and shit, didn’t you hear?

The truth is...I’ll put chili’s chips and salsa up against most anyone’s. Add a cold beer, and it’s a fine choice. Not a Michelin Star, but fuck - chips and salsa and a beer, and you’re bitching about it.

Not bitching about it.  Just a really weird thing to head out of your house for.  You're voluntarily going to a shitty chain with bad service, no eye candy, worse food, and no soul to eat something (chips and salsa) and drink something (cold beer) that you can literally get almost anywhere else in town...and more importantly, something you can easily get at home.  Do they not sell salsa at the store where some of you live?  

[Stunns38 3,460]

Of course, since they found out why we came there they have  discontinued the CFS on their menu.   Fuckers. 

Yeah, this one was a head-scratcher. Was a decent CFS in a place where there were no other options. Crossed the river to Jersey to go to that Chili’s in Secaucus once or twice a year.

[Beau Vine 54,230]

3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Anybody mention Pizza Hut yet? I see lots of other businesses operating inside the distinctive buildings that are abandoned Pizza Huts, and it always surprises me when I see an actual Pizza Hut. The last time I ate in one was the week Michael Jackson died, I don't hate his music, and I don't hate Pizza Hut, but the combo of non-stop Michael Jackson music plus the rubbery Pizza Hut thingadoodle was too much.

Was waiting for someone to mention this.  

My hometown Pizza Hut is seriously fucking good.  I don't know about the rest of them.  

[Party_Taco 3,729]

Lotsa hipsters think it’s an all time great. We invented the taco and shit, didn’t you hear?

The truth is...I’ll put chili’s chips and salsa up against most anyone’s. Add a cold beer, and it’s a fine choice. Not a Michelin Star, but fuck - chips and salsa and a beer, and you’re bitching about it.

Seriously... it’s just uber simple comfort food and you tards are bloviating about palate.

I’d put the high end restaurants on my list up against anyone on this board, holding back those Michelin starred as a courtesy, and would absolutely dominate. Hell, I spent most of my summers in France as a kid, so we’d drop into L’Auberge on a Tuesday...

No one here is trying to say that Chili’s is better than your favorite burger or Tex-mex joint, but it’s fairly consistent, deeply satisfying and very accessible.

Calm the fuck down and focus your ire on Long John Silvers or something.

[CooterBrown 18,012]

Yanks up in NY like to put sausage gravy on their CFS

Only thing wrong with that is a Texan didn’t think of it first.

[Deej 76,793]

56 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Was waiting for someone to mention this.  

My hometown Pizza Hut is seriously fucking good.  I don't know about the rest of them.  

I quit Pizza Hut when they stopped making the Priazzo.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Deej

[Jack Straw 2,954]

3 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I always liked the thousand island dressing on their salad bar. And their croutons.

This cracked me up

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

6 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Right after I cried about my fake peanut allergy

fake? ok dumbass. 

[WhatTheBuck 28,781]

9 minutes ago, Jack Straw said:

This cracked me up

My dad used to like thousand island dressing. My parents divorced in 1973 and if we had thousand island dressing in my mom's refrigerator it was only in those first few years after the move. I haven't had it anywhere other than Pizza Hut since then. I ate there a lot in the 80's. I grew up in a really small town and that was the place to be on Friday nights after the high school football game. 

I've only been there a handful of times in the last 20 years. Each time I've been disappointed by the pizza but very much enjoyed my salad with thousand island dressing. That didn't seem to change much. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,907]

As near as I can tell, everyone on this board falls into one of four categories:

1. Those that only eat $200 meals at 5* restaurants
2. Those that think Chili’s is Haute Cuisine
3. Those that only eat barbecue or gumbo that took them 24 hours to prepare
4. Me

[Party_Taco 3,729]

Am I you, NMaS? It this me?!

[gsoda3 3,262]

Not bitching about it.  Just a really weird thing to head out of your house for.  You're voluntarily going to a shitty chain with bad service, no eye candy, worse food, and no soul to eat something (chips and salsa) and drink something (cold beer) that you can literally get almost anywhere else in town...and more importantly, something you can easily get at home.  Do they not sell salsa at the store where some of you live?  

Last weekend my wife and I grabbed a twenty piece mcnugget meal on the way home from nobu. If it tastes good it tastes good.

[Incredulity 11,674]

Chicken Nuggets are the thing that taught me, most singularly, about diminishing marginal return.  I was only 11 or 12 and didn’t quite grasp it, but later in economics class, there it was.

Edited August 6, 2018 by Incredulity

[Trey3216 15,346]

5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Do you drench your fried chicken in sauce?

Who said anything about skinless? Chicken wings shouldn't be breaded. Ideally they should be deep fried with the skin on, covered in Buffalo sauce, and served with a side of blue cheese dressing. And they shouldn't be too big. The wing is just a delivery vehicle for the sauce. Every bite should reach to the bone. 

Hooters sucks. Their hotel-casino in Vegas is the ultimate in sore thumb doesn't-belong-here pitifulness. 

You don’t put Louisiana Hot sauce on your fried chicken?   It’s delightful 

[WhatTheBuck 28,781]

16 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

You don’t put Louisiana Hot sauce on your fried chicken?   It’s delightful 

Does the fried chicken you're describing come slathered in sauce before you sprinkle your Louisiana hot sauce on it? Glistening, dripping, covering your fingers? And then you add hot sauce?

We were talking about Hooters wings, not sauceless, battered fried chicken like you'd get at KFC or Popeye's. Who orders just wings there?

If I order a 4-piece at Popeye's I'll get it spicy and ask for a leg, a thigh, a breast, and a wing. The wing will come all in one piece, not split into drumette and flapper, and there won't be sauce of any kind on my chicken. Then I might sprinkle some habañero Tabasco on it. But that's a totally different thing than soaking breaded chicken wings in a buttery sauce before serving. That's just gross. 

[SHOOTER12 8,810]

On 8/3/2018 at 12:47 PM, RDCanecutter said:

Most meth heads don't have 12 dollars. Respect.

...and you would know this how?🤣

[Underdog 28,639]

9 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

 

Only thing wrong with that is a Texan didn’t think of it first.

 

No. 

[lateshow 1,304]

On 8/3/2018 at 9:06 AM, SHOOTER12 said:

I read an article a few weeks back about McD's soft drink process.  How they use different types of syrup containainers etc, all lines are refrigerated etc so it would taste better.   Wish I had paid closer attention to it now.,   But have to agree McD's cokes are da bomb.

Again, it's all about the brix. 

[Zepol87 9,186]

So you guys are saying when you travel for work to some shit ass town in the midwest you are above eating at Chili's? Hell no, it is boring but simple and you know what you are getting

[Vic Mackey 47,038]

So you guys are saying when you travel for work to some shit ass town in the midwest you are above eating at Chili's? Hell no, it is boring but simple and you know what you are getting

[Greggo] small town in the midwest [/Greggo]

[RDCanecutter 26,443]

5 hours ago, SHOOTER12 said:

...and you would know this how?🤣

Cuz y'all always wantin to go halves with me on meth, but then you say you'll pay me tomorrow!

[Guest Lobo]

5 hours ago, lateshow said:

Again, it's all about the brix. 

Hans?  

[SHOOTER12 8,810]

3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Cuz y'all always wantin to go halves with me on meth, but then you say you'll pay me tomorrow!

How bout trading you some tacos for it?    The next day of course.

[RDCanecutter 26,443]

9 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

How bout trading you some tacos for it?    The next day of course.

Ooh, maaan... that makes it all mathematical and probabilistic... dadgummit...

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

I am fully expecting the same kind of push back as with Chili’s, but I can not comprehend how Casa Ole is still open.

 

[Knoxtnhorn 5,976]

I thought Taco Bell was bad until I ate at Taco Casa.  I think I still have stomach issues from that mistake from a year ago.

Also, for you youngsters, there 2as a time when Little Caesar's was not that bad.  I worked at one during high school.  My diet basically consisted of Pizza! Pizza! and crazy bread during my junior and senior years.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

I thought Taco Bell was bad until I ate at Taco Casa.  I think I still have stomach issues from that mistake from a year ago.
Also, for you youngsters, there 2as a time when Little Caesar's was not that bad.  I worked at one during high school.  My diet basically consisted of Pizza! Pizza! and crazy bread during my junior and senior years.

Hell, out in Cypress, in the 80s this was one of the only options. Especially for a young family with 3 kids (I was one of those kids). The two pizzas came in a cardboard and paper sleeve.

[South Austin 52,508]

46 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Also, for you youngsters, there 2as a time when Little Caesar's was not that bad.  I worked at one during high school.  My diet basically consisted of Pizza! Pizza! and crazy bread during my junior and senior years.

There was one outside of Camp Lejeune, NC and growing up we’d pick up pizza from there once a month. I remember it as pretty damn good but haven’t had Little Caesar’s in almost two decades.

[Js1 85,338]

19 minutes ago, South Austin said:

There was one outside of Camp Lejeune, NC and growing up we’d pick up pizza from there once a month. I remember it as pretty damn good but haven’t had Little Caesar’s in almost two decades.

I remember eating it a lot as a kid.  Quite a few in the burbs.

Now? They all in the hood.

[Knoxtnhorn 5,976]

And it's horrible. No food should be compared to cardboard unless it's Little Caesar's pizza crust.

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