Raising canes is trash
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It’s solid but ridiculously overpriced. Kwik Star makes tenders just as good at a third of the cost. Having said that, Canes fries are the worst I have ever had.
I dunno if I'd call it awful. More lacking flavor than anything else.
My beef with it is - best way I can describe it is that it's "cheap buffet chicken" - meaning even though the two times I've had it it was hot/fresh, prepared no doubt exactly how they want it prepared/fried - it simply lacks any type of discernible seasoning/flavor to it.
It's meant to be "inoffensive" to the most people possible. Like...cheap buffet food.
My beef with it is - best way I can describe it is that it's "cheap buffet chicken" - meaning even though the two times I've had it it was hot/fresh, prepared no doubt exactly how they want it prepared/fried - it simply lacks any type of discernible seasoning/flavor to it.
It's meant to be "inoffensive" to the most people possible. Like...cheap buffet food.
Tried it once and was like, meh. Never had it again.
Nah, the white meat itself is good for fast food standards. At least any time I've had it.
Breading is kind of boring. Probably healthier than most given that the white meat to breading ratio is high on the meat side. That's why I choose it.
Breading is kind of boring. Probably healthier than most given that the white meat to breading ratio is high on the meat side. That's why I choose it.
It’s good for what it is. Fried chicken strips, fries and Texas toast.
The strips have gotten smaller the past few years for sure.
The strips have gotten smaller the past few years for sure.
Tried it once. This was exactly the problem. How can you NOT at least hit it with some S&P. Bland as hell.
At some point they decreased the size of the strips. Wife and I would get it in the drive thru during Covid and they were good sized. Sometime when inflation kicked in they kicked in shrinkflation.
Pretty easy to make them at home.
Pretty easy to make them at home.
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I don’t even understand the concept of a restaurant that just serves chicken strips. Who would go there? Why? My kids might have liked it when they were 12.
Couldn’t you say the same about most fast casual places? Subs, pizzas, burritos, etc?
But those are a)real foods that adults eat, and b)offer a wide variety.
Although I will admit there is a new burrito place in town, and I’m confused at that concept, as well.
Chicken STRIPS. I mean, just chicken STRIPS! That’s something you add to your menu because you have fryers so you can put one more thing easily.
A lot of adults eat a lot of different things.
What about a place like Five Guys or In and Out? Just burgers.
I’m not understanding the point.
I have adult friends who have palates of 6 year olds. It’s incredible. Scared to try food.
My parents’ and grandparents’ generations seem to have particularly bland tastes (especially if from the Midwest). My wife and I each grew up like that. Not like it’s all bad, and some is quite good, but just generally boring.
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I saw the line wrapping around the place in Coralville for months and wondered what the phuck I was missing! Went once it died down. That was enough. One of those places I just shake my head and wonder what’s wrong with people.
I raised 2 of them and married another. Although the no longer kids are starting to expand their palates. They all still love Cane's though. I said they are expanding them, not refining them.
15 years ago I’d kill for a rc basket with all the fixins but yea it’s gone way down hill, fries always soggy.. the only thing I really like is their sauce
First, Five Guys, like most places, has several other things in the menu. Hot dogs, milk shakes, BLT’s, etc.
Second, chicken strips are a fringe menu item. To sell a fringe menu item, one favored by children, as your primary thing would be inexplicable. To sell it as your only item is bizarre.
It’s like an old SNL skit that took place in a dying mall. The only store doing well was “The Scotch Boutique” that only sold scotch tape. The humor was in the weirdness of it.
You’re going to die on this hill? Ok
Chicken fingers and fries in a box places are nothing new. It’s surprising you act so surprised.
The chicken fingers wars have been crazy in Tallahassee. Raising Caines was decent but the newest place, Huey Magoo’s is the clear winner so far. Very good.
That’s not a defense of chicken strips. It’s an indictment of boneless “wings.”
You better brace yourself because this war for sure is coming to IA, MN and WI, the drinking capital of the US. These places have a huge market for gut bombs for drunk college students and adults. They are there for the kids 11-6 and the drunks 11-2.
I'm in Delaware so I am safe for now. We did have a Raising Cane open in a nearby town, next to a fantastic Tex-Mex restaurant. That was the first I heard of it, and when I looked at the web site I was baffled. I guess you are right that there is a market for it. I certainly do not have my finger on the pulse of the nation.
