• Vespair@lemm.ee
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    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.

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    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.

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      I think they’re in the same bucket as Red Lobster and KFC. Used to be fantastic, spent a couple of decades trimming corners until all that was left was the grease.

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        I looked at their location finder to see how close one is to me. The closest one is a combined LJS and KFC, so yes, in the same category.

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      The smell of LJS actually gives me a headache. Nothing else does this to me the same way.

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    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

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    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.

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      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

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    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.

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    Could have fooled me. All the ones that were near me are closed. I just checked, the closest one is 1.5 hrs away