Catholics
I just went on the LJS site to look for the nearest location and they have a rewards program called "Seacret Society".
Hmmm
That’s where you buy poplars!
Fishy Joe's
Man, I fucking love LJS and wish I had one within driving distance.
Nothing like ordering a fish & chicken plank combo and not knowing which of the identical diamond-shaped planks is which before biting.
LJS's chicken is way better than most other restaurants. I will die on this hill
Chicken planks, fries, hush puppies, and an obscene amount of tartar sauce to dip everything into. And the crunchy little batter bits? Absolute gold.
God I could go for some right now.
When I was a small child I loved Long John Silver's but now that I'm an adult I tried it once and it was so fucking oily that I feel like if they weren't in the United States they would be getting invaded by them.
The smell of LJS actually gives me a headache. Nothing else does this to me the same way.
I had a cat that I found in a dumpster eating a taco during a hurricane. I only found her because she was yelling at the taco while she ate it. That cat, that I have seen eat every living and non living thing imaginable, refused to eat long john silvers fish
Hahahaha
There is one near where I work, but they are quite literally never open. They aren't out of business and their facilities are kept up, but it somehow just persists in that state.
Sounds like los pollos hermanos
The one in the photo looks delightfully old school. I bet they still have the bell you can ring by the exit door!
As a non-American, I'm assuming it's a shitty restaurant?
Understatement to be fair. Its beyond lowest tier seafood
The available food is mostly things they can pop into the fryer: Think fish and chips, except you can also choose “planks” of chicken breast, or breaded shrimp, or little balls of seasoned dough called “hush puppies”.
My wife hates them, and they’re an occasional guilty pleasure for me.
It's fast food that's almost all fried sea food. And they're like the cockroach of franchises, the few that are around tend to be in weird locations that have killed off everything but Long John's.
Yeah, it's very low quality. When I lived there, I'd get recommended LJS because I'm British, and they wanted to get my opinion on their fish and chips.
They stopped talking about it after all the complaints. I don't think I've ever finished a meal when I've given them chances, always ended up tossing most of it in the bin.They are not. The food is deep fried. The fish and chicken look and taste alike. You have to really pay attention to tell the difference. I really miss the local one. I would only eat there a few times a year but it was a nice option.
It's Catholics. LGS makes 1/3 their yearly sales during lent.
Why do you think Catholics don't eat meat on Fridays? The Pope owns Long John Silvers!
They do own and operate restaurants, probably near the gift shop. I bet there are more hidden in their portfolio.
I'm convinced LJS is Taco Bell for people who moved away from the coast. They know it's not sea food, but they crave it's badness for its own sake.
Here in the Midwest we even have some combined Long John Silver and Taco Bell restaurants. You can go through the drive-thru and order off of both menus. They've been slowly disappearing but for a while they were all over the place.
I’m from northern Connecticut and live in (southern, nowhere near any fished lakes) Germany. I tried seafood here a couple times when I first got here, but it’s just intolerably fishy for me, even in a taco bell sense.
Though I guess frying it does mask a lot of fishiness. And LJSs doesn’t try for the cachet of “never-frozen,” so it’s possible it’s actually fresher than what you get in a fancy inland restaurant…
I didn’t agree with you at first, but you might be on to something
Beer battered chicken is phenomenal, and nobody else does it. I hate fish, but I love LJS!
I love long John silvers as a guilty pleasure.
I’d upvote but this was too perfect…
Same, but like a once every 5 years guilty pleasure. Surely that can't be enough to keep them in business.
I'm not ashamed to be part of the Long John Underground.
Hushpuppy underground!
The one nearest to me is combined with an A&W, another ancient fast food business that somehow hangs on. I've only had LJS once and it was absolutely disgusting.
A&W has really good burgers and hands down the best root beer. Used to live by one, and it was always packed at dinner time on the weekends.
A&W is the best of the top few major brand root beers, but there are some in most grocery stores that are much better. Virgil's and Henry Weinhart's probably the best of the easily found ones.
A&W are everywhere up here in Canada. And the have an impossible meat option, so we end up there reasonably often.
look, sometimes I just need a box of 100 pups.
That stuff will make you shit worse than taco bell
Count me in. Dad loved 'em when I was growing up and I occasionally go get some.
I have no idea if they still do this, but you could order a whole box of "crunchies," the little fried bits of batter that flake off.
we called them crumblies and its the only reason id consider going to ljs
Old people
My parents used to take me there as a kid for the all you can eat peel and eat shrimp. Holy fuck the amount of shrimp I could eat, baskets everywhere… I still love shrimp and prawns, more than crab even (I apologize to all my Maryland family).
Genuinely wonder if it is a money laundering front at this point.
We als have Captain D's which is just like LJS
One of our captain ds is now a 'make your own' burger joint that ALSO, strangely enough, never seems to be busy but stays in business. There must be some sort of curse lingering in the very asbestos of the ceilings.
The only other one is the last of its kind in at least a 50 mile radius.
Cap D's offers baked, and blackened versions of their food. LJS is just about all totally fried. Cap D's is much better, but that isn't hard.
Funny, I live in California where there's are some LJS's, but I've never been to one. There are no Captain D's here, but I've eaten in one a few times because I used to travel to Alabama for work. It was honestly fine. It was basically just what I expected from the phrase "fast food fish and chips."
My great aunt gets their fish catered for her family Christmas party every year
What does the fish eat?
Last time I went years ago someone was shooting up in the bathroom.
Was a very long john silvers experience. Remember the food always beeing of a greasy quality similar to jack in the box.
Like it has no right to be as delicious as it is.
Can't believe you met Long John Silver himself! 🤩
I don't think I've ever even seen one. Are we sure they're real?
My partner randomly had a craving for it, and for the life of me I cannot understand why. We had to drive way the heck out of our way to go get some, and it was the most hilarious experience to observe from the car. Two new friends, four fish fillets, and apparently some very odd looks as the offered drugs were rebuffed, my partner comes back in and off we go, leaving the strange place tucked in the corner of two apartment complexes behind.
Fuck yeah! Time to join the Illuminati for a lunch date or whatever.
