Grossest American Chain Restaurant

IHOP has always been known as I-SLOP in my neck of the woods.

def. gone down a notch or two: ihop, chili's, sizzler

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4632991n?source=search_video

Denny's is like the nastiest place on the face of the Earth

I'd imagine K-Lo's kitchen takes the cake, so to speak.

kitchen? is that what you call it?

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i'd so much rather go to denny's than any of these. ruby tuesday chilis applebees can rot in hell

i chose Applebee's mostly for selling something called a "wonton taco"

The nastiest food experience I've ever had was in a Denny's; it involved oil and vinegar carafes that had a thin film of dead gnats floating on top of the liquid inside them and undercooked food served on unclean plates with unclean silverware and water served in unclean glasses. It was beyond vile.

xp: woah that is compelling evidence tho

I don't know what Dennys considers coffee these days, but what I used to drink there late nights was better than Starbucks.

i wanna heart Denny's simply b/c of their Nannerpuss and Paulie Walnuts ads.

wonton tacos:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q--bapvYnos/RvtwhMK60AI/AAAAAAAACOg/l0ukqP_mtW8/s400/Tuna+Taco+23082007498.jpg

wtf is that

do not wont

needs cilantro

it looks like an overstuffed fish taco.

when i was a little kid i wanted to go to red lobster so bad bcuz i had seen and ad for this like ten kinds of shrimp served ten different ways type deal & one of the ways was with lemon and garlic and theyd toss the shrimp as it glistened it seemed like the most fukken delicious thing ud ever taste. but my mom wouldnt take me cuz she thought these type a places were gross & unhealthy but i still think red lobster mb tastes p good.

havent eaten @ any of the places so i cant judge

The ever-present lemon hovering the Red Lobster shrimp looks tasty.

Red Lobster: A Good Value or Ghetto?

when I was a kid, Red Lobster was where lower middle class people celebrated high school graduations and took people on first dates. I imagine it is like Applebee's or any of these other casual dining places today.

Can't wait to see the results on this.

Red Lobster gets my vote. I fucking hate seafood.

Macaroni Grill. I fucking hate macaroni.

i got ecoli from baja fresh in 2006

i knew that there was a story in the archives that accounts for Dan's aversion to all things Denny's -- and here it is:

The year was 1982. My family was in Colorado Springs visiting my oldest brother at the Air Force Academy. Before heading over to the campus, we stopped at the Denny's next door to our hotel where we underwent a series of horrifying restaurant experiences:
- The silverware at our table was CAKED with food; it looked like the previous diners had eaten their meals and then reset the table with their used cutlery. We asked for more silverware but it took them three attempts to find some that was actually clean.

- Shaken, I went to take a drink of water. My mother abruptly shouted, "DON'T DRINK OUT OF THAT!" and grabbed my hand. Puzzled and slightly shocked, I took a closer look at the glass and finally saw the ring of orange juice pulp around the inside of my glass.

- At this point, most of the family had lost their appetites, but my dad is stubborn and wanted to eat right then. He ordered a salad with oil and vinegar salad dressing. He had poured on the oil and was going for the vinegar when my middle brother said, "Dad, before you do that, what's on the top of that vinegar?" Dad glanced at it and said, "Oh, that's just pepper." My brother said, "Since when does pepper have WINGS?" Dad put his gnat-topped vinegar carafe back on the table and ordered the check.

We walked out of the restaurant and went straight to McDonald's. I think I've set foot in Denny's maybe once since then (the whole "we don't like black people" thing from the early 90s was an unnecessary nail in an already-sealed coffin as far as I was concerned).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:14 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

The lobster pizza @ Red Lobster if fucking awesome, btw. Pretty much the only edible thing on that menu.

I've been drafted to eat there tonight. Seriously considering a salad one of those...

salad and one of those

I don't know what Dennys considers coffee these days, but what I used to drink there late nights was better than Starbucks.

otm if starbucks cut the shit and started serving good ol coffehouse coffee (even as a novelty or whatever) i'd be as much a sb stan as the next guy

when I was a kid, Red Lobster was where lower middle class people celebrated high school graduations and took people on first dates. I imagine it is like Applebee's or any of these other casual dining places today.

kind of gross snobbery here.

also, that Heart Attack Grille place is repulsive on so many fucking levels.

Careful. I kind of got dumped on for pointing out snobbery in this thread.

ha i had no idea red lobster was not a big deal until i was well into my 20's (it was kinda moot, there was only one close to where i grew up and we went there maybe twice, when i was young). i went to one a few years ago on vacation, well i guess the blinders are off but i can get with those biscuits all day

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

BTW, what the hell is Clam Jumpers?!?

hahaha glad im not the only one who keeps misreading it as that!

oh ok, it's got a California Gold Rush theme going. don't get the point of that -- what do they do, serve baked beans and black coffee over an outside fire to capture that '49 prospector vibe?!?

all you can order is sourdough

I wanted to start a fad diet based on only eating stuff like bacon, beans, hardtack, and coffee cooked over an open fire. Part of the deal is you'd have to carry all your supplies with you in a leather saddle bag all day.

when I was a kid, Red Lobster was where lower middle class people celebrated high school graduations and took people on first dates. I imagine it is like Applebee's or any of these other casual dining places today.

― richie aprile (rockapads), Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:33 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Red Lobster was definitely a "good report card" dinner when I was a kid

No snobbery intended by my Red Lobster post. My family was in that group. The first time I ate at Red Lobster, it was a big deal. Now it's basically fast food. Times change.

Red Lobster was too spendy for my parents, who still celebrate their anniversary by going to Burger King and sharing one Whopper.

Red Lobster's still ridiculously overpriced for frozen food.

I agree with this order.

All the bad Denny's stigmas about racism and putting pork in that muslim guy's food totally skewed the results of this poll imo. Denny's food is just bland and lame and crappy. so many of these other places on this list are totally GROSS gross

when i was a little kid i wanted to go to red lobster so bad bcuz i had seen and ad for this like ten kinds of shrimp served ten different ways type deal & one of the ways was with lemon and garlic and theyd toss the shrimp as it glistened it seemed like the most fukken delicious thing ud ever taste. but my mom wouldnt take me cuz she thought these type a places were gross & unhealthy but i still think red lobster mb tastes p good.

Man, I remember being totally entranced by that ad too! Also, I vividly remember like my 9th or 10th or 11th birthday when I closed my eyes in the back seat all the way to my birthday dinner, then I opened them and we were at Red Lobster and I was all
http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/24/hooray.jpg

i *know* my parents took me to red lobster at some point because i remember the decor, but i don't remember the food at all. if anything says "celebration" on this list for me, it's being in college and GETTING A RIDE to the TGIF at the mall on a friday night or whatever, and sharing one of those big hot wing/mozz stick plates.

man, i remember me and my deepest crew all rolling into chili's on the last day of junior year and having serious convos re: our new lives a high school seniors over nachos and root beers

denny's is strictly a "last resort" option -- like when i'm superdrunk late at night and NEED cheese fries, or when i was in student dirtbag paper-writing mode and wanted something quick that i didn't have to think about too much. last time i went to one, it was next door to the hotel where i was staying, and it was the only food in walking distance.

i think of high school when i think of Denny's at all. although i grew up in NJ (a state well-known for having lots of diners), interestingly enough there was no diner in my hometown when i was a teenager so you had to drive 10 minutes to get to the nearest one. and right across the street from that diner was a Denny's (next to the local fleabag/crackhouse hotel LOL). so it was 50-50 on whether we'd hang @ Denny's or the diner. i think it depended on how destructive we were feeling on that particular night -- the diner was actually kind of nice & the Greek dudes who ran the joint were kind of scary, so if we were in a "don't give a fuck" mood we went to Denny's.

Denny's food is just bland and lame and crappy. so many of these other places on this list are totally GROSS gross

― go haim on em (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:20 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark

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