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03-11-2021 , 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by jawhoo
Man I'm hoping chipotle for indian food. I love indian food. Don't understand why I can't get a place with a pot of butter chicken, a pot of vindaloo, and a pot of saag paneer going at all times to scoop over rice for $10.
We had a place in fairfax that did this, called Banyam Tree. Pretty decent stuff, though it went out of business for whatever reason.
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03-11-2021 , 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by whatthejish
BH,

Am I missing something? How’d you swing that for $5?
I paid $1 extra each for drink and fries.
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03-12-2021 , 12:10 AM
Everything on that menu looks awesome
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03-12-2021 , 12:14 AM
I might be 2 for $5 sour dough king'ing this weekend
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03-12-2021 , 01:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Bighurt52235
I went to BK and got a Sourdough King, Whopper, value fries and FFDP. Both sandwiches were quite large, an absurd amount for $5. Might very well have been the first time I've had Zesty sauce. Pretty damn good!

Will be trying these chickens soon.
1. Of course Zesty sauce is pretty damn good. No, it's not pretty damn good. It's ****ing GREAT!
2. How have you only had Zesty sauce for the first time tonight!?!?!?
3. ?????
4. Profit

I look forward to your Chicken Sandwich TR.
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03-12-2021 , 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by RunDownHouse.
Has anyone ever explained why, "Hand-breaded," is a good thing? The more often a task needs to be done, the more valuable automation is to quality, so for a nationwide FF company... that seems bad. Like, if there's truly a large amount of hands-on work being done at BK, does this explain why some locations are absolute garbage?


Extreme example: Handbreaded is to Popeye's Glory Sandwich breading, prebreaded chicken is to Tyson frozen chicken patties.

I worked at a Popeye's MANY years ago so I've breaded tons of chicken, tenders, crawfish, and catfish.

IF the flour is tended to and not refiltered ass, and the batter is nice and thick and mixed correctly, and the employee gives a ****, then hand breaded = glorious.

There's just a lot of room for variance though.

The chicken strip sandwiches, chicken breasts, and po boys I made for myself were leagues beyond what a customer would get.

Fresh, pure, never filtered flour, fresh, cold, thick batter. Oh man, Oh man. I weep for those sandwiches and their greatness.
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03-12-2021 , 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by RunDownHouse.
Has anyone ever explained why, "Hand-breaded," is a good thing?
Freshness?

Hand formed hamburger patties and hand breaded chicken
sounds better than pre-cooked frozen mcnuggetts and frozen bonus jack.
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03-12-2021 , 11:20 AM
The Blaze Pizza by my house only lasted ~1 year. Went there once, it was ok, but as said above, kinda soggy.

I did walk up there on Pi day during that year, about 11 AM. Thought I'd go early and beat the crowd. Nope, line out the door, down the sidewalk. Not worth the wait.
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03-12-2021 , 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00
related story: the original cart was 'taste of india'. it got successful and one of the cooks left to start their own cart 'new taste of india'. someone else spun off and started 'real taste of india'. subsequent carts were named 'original taste of india', 'new original taste of india', 'original real taste of india', etc.
NY Pizza:
Ray's. Original Ray's. Ray's Famous. Famous Ray's. Famous Ray's Original. Etc.

In Phoenix, we have the 'bertos. Julioberto's, Filliberto's, Eriberto's, Rolberto's, etc.
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03-12-2021 , 01:20 PM
In DC 2 rival former late night spots down the street from each other were named Danny's and Good Danny's
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03-12-2021 , 03:57 PM
I had a CFA spicy deluxe combo. I got sweet and spicy sriracha for the waffle fries, and goddamn is that some tasty stuff. I dumped it onto the sandwich.
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03-12-2021 , 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by jawhoo
Man I'm hoping chipotle for indian food. I love indian food. Don't understand why I can't get a place with a pot of butter chicken, a pot of vindaloo, and a pot of saag paneer going at all times to scoop over rice for $10.
Place called Naan Stop in Atlanta that is this, I remember it launching at some point between 2010 and 2012. Haven't had it in years but it was very good, super fast getting through the line and they crushed lunch in their broad st location. Was 8-10 bucks a bowl in 2010 dollars

Last edited by dmatz327; 03-12-2021 at 08:35 PM.
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03-12-2021 , 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by dmatz327
Place called Naan Stop in Atlanta that is this, I remember it launching at some point between 2010 and 2012. Haven't had it in years but it was very good, super fast getting through the line and they crushed lunch in their broad st location.
fantastic name, and it looks like they still have three locations in ATL including Broad Street. not super familiar with ATL except for the stereotypes and voting history, but i wonder if there are better parts of the country to try to launch an indian food restaurant like Naan Stop.

seems prime for an approach focused on college campuses.
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03-12-2021 , 08:47 PM
Broad Street location is a great little street for various ethnic foods, all little places with virtually no seating. Portion of GA St's campus buildings are there, I ate on broad street walking home from class and later my first employer almost every day for years lol. Lotta fantastic asian food in Atlanta's metro

It's worth a marta ride if you are ever stuck in the airport for a number of hours.

Definitely would do great anywhere with office workers/college students/foot traffic.
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03-12-2021 , 09:41 PM
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03-12-2021 , 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Bighurt52235
I had a CFA spicy deluxe combo. I got sweet and spicy sriracha for the waffle fries, and goddamn is that some tasty stuff. I dumped it onto the sandwich.

Now this meal is next to godliness.

Great work BurgHurt! Keep it up!
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03-13-2021 , 02:38 AM
These sandwiches were.... ok. But at $1 more than Popeye's, you best ****ing bring it. And they did not. Chicken was chewy. The deluxe actually kinda sucked. Save yourself, just go to Popeye's.

14 **** 29 for one meal and one sandwich.
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03-13-2021 , 03:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark_K
In LA's South Bay there was a "Indian Panda Express" at the mall. It was definitely tasty when I was in the mood but about $14/plate.

Another option I'm surprised hasn't taken off is a Curry bowl place. Different curries, different items, different heats all over rice. In Southern California, there was a chain called 'Curry House' that did this but last year (pre-covid), they all closed and weirdly disappeared.
If I wanted anything resembling real Indian food, I would avoid a place with "Panda Express" in the name.
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03-13-2021 , 03:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Sir Donkington III
Extreme example: Handbreaded is to Popeye's Glory Sandwich breading, prebreaded chicken is to Tyson frozen chicken patties.

I worked at a Popeye's MANY years ago so I've breaded tons of chicken, tenders, crawfish, and catfish.

IF the flour is tended to and not refiltered ass, and the batter is nice and thick and mixed correctly, and the employee gives a ****, then hand breaded = glorious.

There's just a lot of room for variance though.

The chicken strip sandwiches, chicken breasts, and po boys I made for myself were leagues beyond what a customer would get.

Fresh, pure, never filtered flour, fresh, cold, thick batter. Oh man, Oh man. I weep for those sandwiches and their greatness.
You can tell just by looking at the pictures. The hand-breaded stuff is "fluffy" and the ordinary is flat and crappy. Carl's has hand-breaded tenders, really good.
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03-13-2021 , 03:44 AM
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Originally Posted by pig4bill
If I wanted anything resembling real Indian food, I would avoid a place with "Panda Express" in the name.
Uh?
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03-13-2021 , 03:56 AM


He says he rated both sandwiches in the 90s/100 in previous vids.

He also said that the spicy chicken sandwich is 2.5 to 3 out of 10 on the spicy scale and that it is also SWEET.

Looks worth investigating with a purchase and may Lord Variance be on your ordering side!
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03-13-2021 , 04:02 AM
Yeah, quite possibly some negative variance. Same location (Flamingo next to Palms) as last night's winning meal. The fries tonight were noticeably worse too.

However I don't think they'll get another chance. I'll keep my chicken sammys to Popeye's and Dave's Spicy.


Thinking about Popeye's sandwiches is getting me a little randy.
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03-13-2021 , 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Bighurt52235
These sandwiches were.... ok. But at $1 more than Popeye's, you best ****ing bring it. And they did not. Chicken was chewy. The deluxe actually kinda sucked. Save yourself, just go to Popeye's.
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03-15-2021 , 02:38 PM
Food wasn't fast, but we all like burgers here.

Went to Gordon Ramsays Burger, and had this little number. The ****ing patty is pork, and it was soooo GD MF good. Onion rings were fantastic too.
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03-15-2021 , 03:16 PM
good god almighty
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