Long John Silvers is disgusting

May 2024 · 4 minute read

I was feeling hungry and nostalgic, so I ate there today. Never again. I got a fish & chicken dinner and I couldn't distinguish the fish from the chicken. They were different shapes, but tasteless except for the grease. Now I'm eating Tums because I keep burping grease batter. Even the corn was stupid. They give you one half of an ear.

by Anonymousreply 25March 7, 2021 5:19 AM

I think them and Jack in the Box are the worst offenders when it comes to selling crap they dare to call "food".

by Anonymousreply 2August 17, 2014 2:25 AM

Captain D's is even worse

by Anonymousreply 3August 17, 2014 2:28 AM

No, Captain D's tastes better than LJS. When I was a kid, it was Cap'n D's. I don't understand.

by Anonymousreply 4August 17, 2014 2:33 AM

I love me some LJS chicken planks with plenty of malt vinegar. Their fish---no.

by Anonymousreply 5August 17, 2014 7:32 AM

Their fried clams are good, but the fish is nasty. We had some coupon so we go the half fish/half chicken a while back. We got in a fight over which pieces were the chicken and which were the fish.

When I was in high school, Long John Silvers was the absolute bottom of the barrel place to work. Poor bastards would reek of grease and fish all day, and whenever someone rang that fucking bell they would have to scream "thank you" while they were shoveling fried fish into paper dishes. Only the most hardcore stoners would work there.

by Anonymousreply 6August 17, 2014 7:49 AM

Love me some LJS's. OP you're a fucking dumbass.

by Anonymousreply 7August 17, 2014 7:51 AM

Fish and chicken on the same plate? NEVER!

by Anonymousreply 8August 17, 2014 8:03 AM

LJS , chicken or fish, with a side of hush puppies.......mmm,mmm,good

by Anonymousreply 9August 17, 2014 8:20 AM

And always with extra crumbs.

by Anonymousreply 10August 17, 2014 9:59 AM

Their fish may suck, but those extra little crinkly bits are manna from heaven. And they're the only American fried fish place that knows it's important to have malt vinegar at the table.

by Anonymousreply 12March 7, 2021 2:16 AM

I love LJS's fish batter. R12 you are correct about the crinkly bits and the malt vingear.

by Anonymousreply 13March 7, 2021 2:26 AM

Corn? I don’t remember eating corn!

by Anonymousreply 14March 7, 2021 2:27 AM

We had a good LJS about a decade ago when it was brand new, but after a year the food got greasier, and they started not only charging you for the crispies but ripping off the crispy bits on your food, so you'd have bare areas on the fish or chicken, then demand you pay to get your own food back.

Stopped going there but they made the news a year or so later when their whole restaurant was flooded with sewage.

by Anonymousreply 15March 7, 2021 2:28 AM

Was it really necessary to bump this thread?

by Anonymousreply 16March 7, 2021 2:31 AM

Crunchies! My brother and I loved LJS when we were kids and it was all about the “crunchies” as we called them.

Haven’t been there since I was a teen. Damn.

by Anonymousreply 17March 7, 2021 2:32 AM

Long John Silver's was the only job I was fired from. We were instructed in the frying technique to dip the fish and your hand in the batter, then dip the fish AND YOUR HAND into 300 degree oil, and oh-so-gently release. I kept dropping the fish 2-3 inches above the oil, which blows the batter off. And that was that.

There's something special in the batter that protects the skin - we were told if we got an oil burn to put batter on it.

So, no. I don't eat that stuff.

by Anonymousreply 18March 7, 2021 2:33 AM

LJS is where I learned to pour a proper pint.

That’s the only good thing I can say about them.

by Anonymousreply 19March 7, 2021 2:39 AM

Long Dong Silver. Is Arthur Treacher’s still around?

by Anonymousreply 22March 7, 2021 2:54 AM

OP, do please tell us more about your alimentary canal.

by Anonymousreply 23March 7, 2021 2:59 AM

The corn was "stupid"? That's the adjective OP chose, out of a universe of others?

by Anonymousreply 24March 7, 2021 3:05 AM

I don't care what y'all elitest gays think, i like LJS.

by Anonymousreply 25March 7, 2021 5:19 AM

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