It’s Catholics. LGS makes 1/3 their yearly sales during lent.
Why do you think Catholics don’t eat meat on Fridays? The Pope owns Long John Silvers!
They do own and operate restaurants, probably near the gift shop. I bet there are more hidden in their portfolio.
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.
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.
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.
The smell of LJS actually gives me a headache. Nothing else does this to me the same way.
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
Hahahaha
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.
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
But taco bell is for when you want to see what new dorito thing they made in the past decade, or the bread taco hybrid (challappa) they have. LGS seems to have food that wasn’t invented for gamers by someone that hasn’t met a Mexican.
Basically yes, LGS is seafood for people who visit the coast once a year at best, who has never met a Marylander.
I just went on the LJS site to look for the nearest location and they have a rewards program called “Seacret Society”.
Hmmm
I love long John silvers as a guilty pleasure.
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Same, but like a once every 5 years guilty pleasure. Surely that can’t be enough to keep them in business.
I went there 3 times 7 years apart each time. Never again. Terrible every time.
Could have fooled me. All the ones that were near me are closed. I just checked, the closest one is 1.5 hrs away
The one in the photo looks delightfully old school. I bet they still have the bell you can ring by the exit door!
The bell is still there, but last year the manager filled it with cement.
If this was analogous to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, what would be the equivalent historical point?
Elagabalus? Maybe that time the title of emperor went to the biggest bidder and the guy lasted for a day? We need a Rough Roman Meme for this.Not really, he just got sick of the sound.
A sign of decay in management. The Roman Empire suffered just such a phenomenon, only with other details.
Beer battered chicken is phenomenal, and nobody else does it. I hate fish, but I love LJS!
look, sometimes I just need a box of 100 pups.
Catholics
Old people
I’m not ashamed to be part of the Long John Underground.
Genuinely wonder if it is a money laundering front at this point.
