Chicago MMXII

oh, haha, i still need to watch that whole series but that is, in fact, 1 of the 2 episodes i did see during its original run

2nd place y'all
Wuuuuuut

Nice work!

1st losers. Try harder next time

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-chicago-chick-fil-a-20120725,0,6784667.story

Been surprised that Chick-Fil-A's evangelical values are new news.

In opposing Chick-fil-A, Moreno stakes out a position likely to resonate in his hipster ward

agree with keeping them out, but lol

Cool Professor (feat. Hipster Ward)

http://blog.franchisesolutions.com/images/Fathers-Day-Ward-Cleaver.jpg

I don't think Chicken Filet's values are new news, but since they've only recently started opening stores in Chicago they are only recently local new news.

Like, Joe Moreno wouldn't be in the Trib talking about how Chick-fil-A is a homophobic organization four years ago because they didn't have a restaurants in Chicago so an alderman's views on their politics really wasn't news. Also Joe Moreno wasn't alderman four years ago, but you know what I mean.

I was thinking more about how they're all over my Facebook page this week, related to the priceless quote from their CEO last week. The Alderman story is new news, for sure.

Fuck a Mike Huckabee, deciding only after all the negative press over Chick-Fil-A that we suddenly need a 'Chick-Fil-A Appreciate Day". I mean, he was always kinda 'lol, how cute, he wants to be president' but then I remember that he is just as deserving or ire and hatred as the more obvious Repubs.

"Appreciation", I'm tired.

They've been talked about on gay news blogs size they catered for some anti-gay-marriage group for free. Can't remember the details. But then this stuff with The Muppets happened, so they're getting more attention.

I ate at Chick-Fil-A in NC bc it was a morals vacation and bc my mom needed some chicken and I'm not trying to get into real life too much with her.

*since, not "size"

Anyway GTFO of Chicago bc I'd rather they be an tasty memory.

Is it really that good anyway?

^^ thats what I've always wondered, never had it and heard more than one person be super excited we were getting one here

I haven't eaten at a Chickens Filet in way over a decade because I think their food is gross, but I had to convince my mom that they were a bad place to drink iced tea and eat fries. Apparently she has positive feelings toward the place after she tripped and fell (sound familiar?) right in front of the main window and everyone rushed out to help her. She was ok, but mostly just really embarrassed at all the attention while simultaneously being glad that someone noticed the lady who tripped and fell outside. Still, after our longtime Wendy's ban, she understood why she hypothetically shouldn't patronize the place any more.

because I think their food is gross and also i don't patronize businesses who flaunt their right wing conservative values

well, yeah, i won't be checking it out ever, i just wondered if there was any legitimacy to the claims of it being really good as far as fast food places go

I've eaten Chickens-a-Flay 3 times dating back to 1980. Instantly forgettable sandwich -- all it's good for is to keep your bowels moving.

I'd be curious to see how this flap has affected business at their Chicago Ave. store.

Probably not much.

An 'elevated' Chix Fill Eh style sandwich seems to be a perfect localvorehipsterish kind of thing, I'm sorta surprised there hasn't been a nine dollar version perfected at some Milwaukee Avenue bar.

WAIT I COPYRIGHT THAT IDEA

I've never liked their regular sandwiches but chicken biscuits for breakfast? So good. Let's just say I've wrestled with my better nature once or twice on the matter. (better nature won, btw)

I support Jeff's solution which is to encourage Biscuitville to open a Chicago location. Mrs. Winner's Chicken and Biscuits also acceptable.

Is it really that good anyway?

In the same way that Taco Bell is "good." Which it definitely is. But not as sorta-gross b/c it's just chicken.

xp - Jenny OTM about the chicken biscuit. That is pretty str8-up good.

When I was in NC there were ads in front of all the Chicks-Fil-A for a one-day promo where anyone who came in dressed as a cow got a free chicken sandwich.

The biscuit is a really good biscuit, and it's just a touch on the sweet side, not cloying just a hint of sweetness, and the chicken is juicy and fried just right and that's all it is, a just-right fried boneless chicken breast on a really good biscuit.

God, FUCK YOU CHICK-FIL-A! FUCK YOU FOREVER.

I already went off about chic-fil-a in the huckabee thread, go over there and read my opinions. Btw autocorrect changes huckabee to huckster.

Portland has a hipster biscuit place. Seems like that would do well in Chicago -- more biscuit-focused than Feed, more casual than Big Jones, more cachet than anything on the South Side.

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/food/7544899-423/soul-food-disappearing-in-chicago-as-blacks-leave.html

C-F-A was consistently a problem when I lived in NC b/c on the day I most wanted it as a hangover palliative, it was closed.

Yeh, I was wrong comparing them to Taco Bell.

Just to be clear, I have not eaten at CFA in at least eight years, and I won't eat there barring some kind of major, demonstrable preferably via a nice fat donation to a pro-LGBTQ org, public shift in their politics. But I stand by my statements re: the tastiness of their breakfast biscuits as compared to others.

As with the ARTISINAL DONUT REVOLUTION it would be great if a hipster biscuit place that did take out breakfast sandwiches would open in the Loop.

While I'm dreaming, they also see cheese grits.

sell. Not see.

The child whispered to his mother, "I see cheese grits."

tbh, the last thing this city (or any city) needs is more "artisanal hipster" anything

i'm holding out for a fast pho chain where you can add your own vegetables in the quantities that you please from a little bar. how hard could that be?

I will make that sacrifice to be able to buy cheese grits and a biscuit for breakfast before work. xp

yeah, but ime, "artesinal hipster" usually means you'll be paying $13.99 for those grits and a biscuit when it should cost like under 5 bucks

you mean

14

(those places always have round numbers and no disgraceful dollar signs)

I could do a southern breakfast place. I envision a restaurant where a Mississippian and a Britishes team up and "compete" for customers, and you can get your choice of a Full English Breakfast or a Full Southern Breakfast. "Race for Angina" is the first name that comes to mind.

housemade merrypork farms sausage and artisanal biscuit 14

(those places always have round numbers and no disgraceful dollar signs)

very good point!

tbh, the last thing this city (or any city) needs is more "artisanal hipster" anything

I know it can be a little eye-rolly sometimes when businesses go out of their way to trumpet their artisanal values, especially when there's mustache wax involved, but the concept of artisanal food (i.e., food prepared in small batches with high-quality ingredients) is a good thing, IMO.

xposts You might be OTM about the mark-up, though.

yeah, i was being a little tongue-in-cheek because i think its a little too much of "a thing" right now. i completely think it can be a good thing, it just seems to be getting touted so often that it really starts to become meaningless.

I pretty much agree with all of you about everything (and LOL at "14"). Especially WmC moving here and starting a southern breakfast place. Do the eastern NC thing and serve cucumbers and onions as a breakfast side dish.