33 grams of trans fat alone! WTF?! Why is this even legal?
Haven't eaten LJS in good long time. Used to when I was a kid though. I guess that's what happens when you're born in Ohio. I just remember thinking how cool it was that they had a food item called 'hush puppies'. I thought they were on the edge of bankruptcy for a while there? Guess they weathered the storm.
Oh my God, you should have been in Chicago during the tail end of the M. Daley administration, what with the foie gras ban. People were going nuts over that! It's funny how we tend to vote so solidly Democrat, yet we seem to be one of the nexuses of Tea Party jibber jabber (my former district pre-2010 voted in deadbeat dad-cum-terrible human being Joe Walsh, probably because of all of the old fucks in Lake County thinking he was the singer of the same name).
Unfortunately in the US I believe the limit is 0.5 grams per serving. This of course, is pretty absurd, when 1) any trans fat is harmful, and 2) a serving size is an arbitrary unit of measurement. There is enough evidence to ban trans fat. But it's cheap, so we are still sold it. I eat fast food about twice per year, but I wish they would go back to animal fat for the fryers. It's a whole other world of flavor.
I'm surprised that Long John Silvers still exist. I remember seeing them as a kid, but I can't recall the last time I saw one.
There was an A&W in the town I grew up in with those old school drive up stations where you order your food via a speaker box and people come out and put a tray on your half rolled down drivers side window. -How odd. It was really cool as a kid though. The floats were great.
Yep. Get mini corn-dogs, fried cheese curds, and a couple gallons of fresh root beer every time I drive up to the cabin. Love A&W haha.
The only one they have where I live is at the Mall of America and I'm not ashamed to say I've eaten there once... or twice... or possibly more. But yeah, this is a bit disgusting. I've only gone there in the past for the shrimp or clam baskets and hush puppies. Hush Puppies are friggin delicious. Their fish is atrocious though.
Until I moved to the south I had never had hush puppies. Every BBQ place down here serves them though and they can be quite good.
I can confirm (we called 'em 'crumblies', and often had to make them on purpose, they were so popular). I worked in one for a year or so, way back around 1980. Nasty place to work, you feel greasy after a shift no matter how hard you scrub (probably because of the polyester uniform that doesn't breathe at all). Ick, I can still remember that feeling. At least they had good grease filtering and changing practices, at the one I worked at - better than most, anyway.
Crumblies. Of course. The crack cocaine of the fried fish world. Given what we now know about the depth of food science and product engineering, combined with a knowledge of how transfats and sugars affect emotional and physical health, it's like fast food chains are drug cartels. It's the basis for the next Breaking Bad, or Mad Men, I'm telling you guys.
I've had the displeasure of eating at one once. I was on an all day field trip in elementary school, and we stopped there for a meal (the 80s or early 90s were not cool in some ways). It was horrible, but I remember it well since I vomited violently as a result. Haven't been back since for obvious reasons.