Poll of the Day > Sports Discussion Topic #174: The Big League Boys

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Culver's used to have fried chicken that I thought was pretty good. The burgers are a bit greasy for my liking. The soups and chili are pretty good.
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Don't they have frozen custard at Culver's?

Yes. We got chicken strips and cheese curds. Omg the cheese curds

The burgers are at about Wendy's level to me, but that's an extremely high compliment because I dearly love Wendy's.

Is Culver's fast food? I've never heard of it.

It's a regional chain that serves burgers and fries and stuff along with frozen custard. Their burgers are called butterburgers, I guess because the buns have butter on top or something. Greasy deliciousness.

Fuck the Red Sox. How dare they score off my son Shohei.

I called my friend in New York today on my way home with Bojangles and him talking about how he missed Bojangles had me thinking: Are there any good chains based in the North? I know the Midwest has some good stuff, the South has a bunch of fried chicken things, and I think even the West Coast has some stuff. I couldn't think of anything for the North.

There's a higher-end burger chain called The Habit over here that calls all their burgers charburgers and I feel like a goof saying that out loud when I order one.

I'm sure there are plenty of good chains in the northeast. Shake Shack is a new York chain

I'll tell my friend to check it out

I'm gonna be in Sacramento for a few days next month and my only goal is to scratch in n out burger off the ol bucket list

Are you gonna chill with Ultima

What brings you to Sacramento? There is nothing there.

Work. I'm dreading it.

SkynyrdRocker posted...

Hey Socky do you have Culver's in Minnesota? It's so good. When we went to a Packers game last fall we went there for lunch and I liked it so much we had it for dinner too.

Yeah there's Culver's here. I've only been there like 2 times ever.
Better beef makes a butter burger better

SkynyrdRocker posted...

I called my friend in New York today on my way home with Bojangles and him talking about how he missed Bojangles had me thinking: Are there any good chains based in the North? I know the Midwest has some good stuff, the South has a bunch of fried chicken things, and I think even the West Coast has some stuff. I couldn't think of anything for the North.

I've only had Bojangles at the Charlotte airport a couple times, but it's v good.
Raising Cane's is also incredible. Those are all from other places tho.
DQ is from here, but it's just mediocre. It's decent if you want to go to a place that has okay chicken strips and okay ice cream

Raising Cane's is great. I really love DQ ice cream but I don't actually know their hot food very well.

I'm a recently converted Caniac

There's a BJ's by my hotel too. Is that important to the California experience too @Ultima_Dragoon

YES!
1-0 Golden Knights!
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BJ's is not special at all. It's basically a little better than Applebee's or Chili's but with much better beer.

Good to know. I'll have to see what else is out there and maybe then send you more Q's

Raising Cane's is god-tier. We had one in Charlottesville and it was amazing. Probably the restaurant I miss most from UVA

5 days ago a new Raising Cane's less than a mile from my house (the old one is less than 2 so it's not that much different, but still). Maybe I should go there today. Box combo, replace the cole slaw with an extra toast, and extra Cane's sauce.

One thing I like about Cane's is that they know they make chicken fingers very very well, and that's the only thing they do. They don't clutter up the menu with extra crap that's not going to be as good just for the sake of having a little variety.

STLCards1991 posted...

Raising Cane's is great. I really love DQ ice cream but I don't actually know their hot food very well.

DQ ice cream is good, but do they have Coldstone where you guys live? that ice cream is incredible

Sub extra toast in for cole slaw. You are a mad genius.

There's a Cane's right on the way home from work but I haven't gone yet. I have a long commute and I'd have to dine in because otherwise it'd be sitting in my car for like half an hour, and then I'd be eating an early dinner. But it does sound like something I might do tonight after all this chat. I probably don't have the courage to make that big sub like you though and I'll just throw the slaw out like I always do.

MNTwins1991 posted...

STLCards1991 posted...

Raising Cane's is great. I really love DQ ice cream but I don't actually know their hot food very well.

DQ ice cream is good, but do they have Coldstone where you guys live? that ice cream is incredible

They do have Coldstone and we (the family) love it. It's my favorite I guess chain ice cream but I'd probably take ted drewes frozen custard over it. I think the best ice cream I've ever had though was this gelato spot in Toronto that I'm sure @Zeeky_Bomb knows because we discussed it afterward. The name escapes me right now

There's no extra charge to sub extra toast for the slaw! 2 toasts and 2 sauces is living large my friend.

something funny from the Wild game is that the loudest cheer of the night came when they showed Cousins on the jumbotron. The Wild didn't score a fucking goal so what else is there to cheer for

here's the video that was shown on the jumbotron
https://twitter.com/Vikings/status/986429182430334977

MNTwins1991 posted...

STLCards1991 posted...

Raising Cane's is great. I really love DQ ice cream but I don't actually know their hot food very well.

DQ ice cream is good, but do they have Coldstone where you guys live? that ice cream is incredible

It was okay. We had more around here but a lot of them closed down. The ice cream I like best is from The Chocolate Shoppe. It is based out of Madison, but has locations in several states.
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On the subject of sauce for chicken, do you guys put sauce on your chick fil a sandwiches? I'm on the fence about it. I like to dip the waffle fries in chick fil a sauce and sometimes I douse the chicken on the sandwich too, but I can never decide if it makes it better than just the pure chicken/bread/pickles combo. Also, I recently read something on thetakeout where they said the best part of a chick fil a sandwich is opening the foil package and all the heat and smells come out. I don't know if it's the *best* part but it's definitely an ineffable quality that none of the many, many chick fil a knockoffs can match because they just stick it in a cardboard box.

The only chickfila near me is in a food court on campus so I very rarely get to go, but here's what I like to do. You guys are going to think I'm a freak, but I like to get the spicy sandwich, take the pickles out, put ranch on top of the chicken, then eat the sandwich.

Unrelated chick-fil-a story: there are hardly any of them here in MN, but my mom really likes the polynesian sauce from there. One day I thought I'd be nice and bring her back some, so I put like 20 of the little containers in my backpack (in a separate pocket) and somehow they all ruptured and leaked everywhere. So that's how I ruined a backpack with chick-fil-a

you know I really hate to be the guy who complains about officiating and how it affects the outcome of the game, but this wasn't called last night.

https://streamable.com/ykf2d

The guy should have been give a 5 minute major, tossed from the game, and gotten a suspension of at least a game or two, but it wasn't even called at all. And then right after this, the Jets scored and Morrissey had an assist. NHL officiating has gotten really bad

I do think you're a freak, but mainly because ranch sucks. The best chick-fil-a item is just the basic chicken sandwich, and I like to dip it in the sauce rather than pouring it on top. It isn't like my top favorite food, but I get so hungry so quickly thinking about that sandwich.

I remember when I was in like 8th or 9th grade we went on a short weekend outing in the summer and I packed my stuff in my backpack, but I left my deodorant in there and it melted and destroyed the bag.

NOTE: this may be my brother's story and I accidentally placed myself in it after a decade+, which is the kind of disclaimer you only have to make if you know he's going to read this.

MNTwins1991 posted...

The only chickfila near me is in a food court on campus so I very rarely get to go, but here's what I like to do. You guys are going to think I'm a freak, but I like to get the spicy sandwich, take the pickles out, put ranch on top of the chicken, then eat the sandwich.

Unrelated chick-fil-a story: there are hardly any of them here in MN, but my mom really likes the polynesian sauce from there. One day I thought I'd be nice and bring her back some, so I put like 20 of the little containers in my backpack (in a separate pocket) and somehow they all ruptured and leaked everywhere. So that's how I ruined a backpack with chick-fil-a

I don't agree with your choices but I respect your right to make them. I'm sure it tastes good anyway, I just wouldn't do it and I don't like their spicy as much as their regular sammie.

Also at my mom's house there are 100,000 chick fil a sauce packets in the kitchen

I put mayo on my Chick-fil-a sandwich. I wish the grilled chicken sandwich also came in spicy.
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STLCards1991 posted...

NOTE: this may be my brother's story and I accidentally placed myself in it after a decade+, which is the kind of disclaimer you only have to make if you know he's going to read this.

Well now I feel less bad for mixing you guys up over the years if even you can't remember who's who

You know we had to do it to em after all this discussion

https://imgur.com/gallery/jR8au

The only chicken places around here are KFC and Popeye's. It looks like the closest Chick-fil-a is 30 minutes away but I've never gone and I'm sure it's better than KFC at the least so I'm probably missing out.

Avs are only down 1-0 after the first period, but they looked completely overmatched. It's gonna be bad if all the periods go like that. And none of the other series made it to 2-2 yet which I realize logically means nothing for this one, but I still get the feeling that doesn't bode well

Welp, I'm getting ready to climb aboard the Vegas bandwagon

Lol I just saw the twins score. It was 0-0 until the 14th and now it's 1-1 in the 15th. People might as well have gone to a soccer game

Geez Nationals....leading 4-2 heading into bottom of the 8th, and give up 9 runs (including a grand slam). Smh
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The Cards got postponed again because it snowed in Chicago. I'm watching Pokemon season 1 on Netflix instead. Just watched the lt surge one and have moved on to the first one starting the Pokemon Snap protagonist

Man, my computer has been slow as fuck today and I'm hoping it didn't catch something from a streaming site

Streaming hockey?

Also the Sharks swept the series which is pretty cool, but I'm nervous because the Ducks took 5 penalties per game so I'm not sure how the Sharks will do against a team that isn't constantly shooting themselves in the foot.

CaptainHammer posted...

the first one starting the Pokemon Snap protagonist

That guy was a total dork.

So the Indians Twitter account posted this screenshot of a fan's reaction to the game on Reddit.
https://twitter.com/Indians/status/986819574799765504?s=19

But what actually happened is they created a new account, made that post, then took a screenshot and pretended it was something funny a fan wrote. You can tell because the delete/edit button is there and those only show up for your own posts. It's also a brand new account with a very generic name

Nothing on this planet is worse than sports team Twitter accounts. I especially like how right in the replies they start tweeting at the Astros mascot, an account that is probably controlled by the same person who runs the Indians account

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

Streaming hockey?

Porn actually

Well you had it...uh....coming