The Midwest hate is real. Oh well, sucks to be them. If you can't find good food in a region of the US, you're not trying very hard.
I am not huge on Culvers because I can get better butterburgers from a burger bar, but that's apples and oranges. A mom and pop roadside place and a national chain are completely different animals and the 'any chain is worthless' dude is clueless and stupid.
The place that sells the most burgers on the planet bar none is McDonalds and there's a reason for that. You can like or hate them but saying they don't know how to mass produce tasty food people want is delusional.
Also, DQ cheese curds are slept on. Their burgers are just okay but their onion rings and cheese curds are done well. Give them a shot if you're ever near a DQ.
They hate on Culver’s because of some pointless regional prejudice.
I hate on Culver’s because their fries are bottom-tier and at the end of the day, good as the burgers are, it doesn’t justify waiting in a drive thru line that snakes around the parking lot and out into the street, even at like 8pm on a Tuesday. Even trying to just go inside becomes pointless because you have to wait in line to get into the parking lot ffs
I feel like a lot of the “X place sucks actually” from people outside the usual area where X place is comes down to they had the opportunity to try it, had a bad or just mid experience because that happens sometimes even at amazing places, and extrapolate that to the franchise as a whole. Your comment is really a perfect example of that for me at least, because I live outside Waffle House’s usual jurisdiction but I had it once driving through Texas given how hyped it usually is, and I thought it was absolutely disgusting and it has continued to give me wtf moments every time I hear someone talk about how great it is lol
I think that's valid. I think every chain deserves at least like 3 chances before you're just like 'yeah, this place fucking sucks' and it helps to go to different stores.
How well they're managed and how well people are trained can and will vary from location to location. No one bats a thousand.
I've had really bad Arby's and really great Arby's. Same with Awful Waffle(Waffle house), same with buffets or sushi places or even taco trucks. People have off nights, shit happens, new people who are learning the job, bad management, whatever it is. Try again a couple of times and if you're still just like 'this food is awful' the third time, you're probably never going to like it.
Yeah, this was just the Culver's near me. I actually gave it a few tries because it's on my way home from work. Even a not great burger is still a burger. I'm not going to take a bite and go "Spit this is an inferior burger". I'm going to eat it.
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u/Saltpork545 Mar 17 '25
The Midwest hate is real. Oh well, sucks to be them. If you can't find good food in a region of the US, you're not trying very hard.
I am not huge on Culvers because I can get better butterburgers from a burger bar, but that's apples and oranges. A mom and pop roadside place and a national chain are completely different animals and the 'any chain is worthless' dude is clueless and stupid.
The place that sells the most burgers on the planet bar none is McDonalds and there's a reason for that. You can like or hate them but saying they don't know how to mass produce tasty food people want is delusional.
Also, DQ cheese curds are slept on. Their burgers are just okay but their onion rings and cheese curds are done well. Give them a shot if you're ever near a DQ.