Raising Canes Sucks

How are you a fried chicken restaurant and not have barbecue sauce? I don't like their specific sauce at all and there are no alternatives. I've been once and that's all I need.
 
100% agree with this. Every now and then one of their butter burgers just hit the spot, but their fries are mediocre at best and associating their cheese curds with Wisconsin should be considered a war crime. They're awful.

Growing up in WI I know a lot of people who have always treated Culvers like it's elite and I have never understood the love. I honestly prefer the food from the hot bar at a Kwik Trip/Star.
I agree with someone who said their fish sandwich was pretty good. I like their fries if they actually get them done. The chicken strips are fine, but they are just frozen, pre-breaded strips. Cane's at least marinates and hand-batters theirs. Any place that doesn't do that should be placed in a totally different category.,
 
Ya I hate ketchup. Corn syrup with red food coloring.
The wife switched over to the Heinz Simply Ketchup. Still has some cane sugar, but no corn syrup or food coloring. Still not used all that often as a condiment in our house and more as an ingredient in things like meatloaf.
 
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Ya I hate ketchup. Corn syrup with red food coloring.

This is pretty good. Barely a ketchup. More like a BBQ - Ketchup - seasoning hybrid.

 
Biscuits and red beans and rice are great. So is their blackened chicken
Biscuits at Popeyes haven't been as good when I've had them lately, and they discontinued their green beans which was my go-to side so I mostly boycott them now, although they are my second favorite a distant second to Chik.

Canes I agree is very bland without the sauce, the toast and tea are good though. My daughter absolutely loves Canes, I can't figure it out.
 
I find RC to be ok. We have a regional chain called Chicken Express that I think is better than RC; CE has really good spicy tenders without the rubber effect. Then there is a DFW chain (I think they have 4 stores) called Luci's Chicken and Rice that has really good chicken strips as well.

There are a load of "chicken" fast food chains in DFW...RC, CE, El Pollo Loco, Golden Chic, Williams Chicken, Dave's Hot Chicken, Chick-fIl-A, Zaxby's, Chicken Pulita, Pollo Regio, Luci's, Popeyes, Wingstop...probably forgot some. There are also a number of mom-and-pop places that do exclusively chicken. I'm not sure how they can all survive.
Is Church's Chicken still around, loved it when I was in Texas but that was a long time ago when Burger King was actually good and not filthy.
 
I like the Chicken and the atmosphere. It is pretty spendy.

For the $ the best place to get chicken in the DM area is Charlotte's in my opinion. One meal will take a year off your life, but damn that's good stuff.
Yeah I don’t disagree but The Chicken is also kind of its own niche too. I agree, Charlottes for sandwiches but Highlife Lounge for broasted.
 
100% agree with this. Every now and then one of their butter burgers just hit the spot, but their fries are mediocre at best and associating their cheese curds with Wisconsin should be considered a war crime. They're awful.

Growing up in WI I know a lot of people who have always treated Culvers like it's elite and I have never understood the love. I honestly prefer the food from the hot bar at a Kwik Trip/Star.

Kwik Stars food mostly stinks. Outside of some of their special apps and chicken, it's just not good. The sandwiches are almost all bad. The pizza is a mediocre frozen pizza. It's a convenience and if you had to go to any effort, they'd go out of business. I do not get how it's been built up so much.
 
Isn't all ranch crappy ranch?

No. Never had a ranch I couldn't dip food in. Some restaurants make really good house ranch. Ken's Steakhouse ranch or Newman's are probably the only one's I buy off the shelf. Would appreciate other suggestions from anyone as Ken's and Newman's aren't "great".

Now I'm reminded of the Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch commercial with Hootie. Might be the greatest commercial ever made.
 
How are you a fried chicken restaurant and not have barbecue sauce? I don't like their specific sauce at all and there are no alternatives. I've been once and that's all I need.

Really? I've never associated fried chicken with BBQ sauce. Good fried chicken needs nothing. Not even gravy.
 
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You are insane. Chick-fil-A is superior by far. It's science.
That's is literally the only thing I like about Chik-fil-A. Their chicken is gross most of the time, but the waffle fries dipped in that sauce is a winner. Good thing I can go to a store and buy it separate or I could just mix honey mustard, bbq sauce, and mayo together to make it at home. Also stumbled upon the Cane's sauce recipe last week. Mainly just mayo and ketchup with Worchestershire sauce, lemon pepper, and garlic powder.
 
Bbq sauce just masks the taste. I never have understood the need for it on everything.

You don't need it on good fried chicken but you need it on chicken that has almost no seasoning like Canes.

It's a sauce restaurant with one sauce. Having worked at Outback Steakhouse in Iowa in college I totally get that many people would love a Ranch-Dressing-Only or Bloomin-Onion-Sauce-Only restaurant (even though I don't like either of them). About half of the customers at Outback were clearly there just to absorb as much ranch dressing or bloomin onion sauce as they possibly could, the rest of the food could have been anything as long as they could consume a quart of ranch or a quart of bloomin onion sauce.

Some tables I could tell early on I just needed to bring them 4 or 5 sides of these two sauces at once, if I brought it one at a time the only thing I'd be doing was supplying them with ranch the whole night.
 
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