Paying for the cheese

[MadMike]

One thing I don't understand, is why on The Simpsons Arby's treated like the worst place to eat. Like in one ep., a Lord of the Flies type ep., one of the twins (Terry? Sherry?) says, "I'm so hungry I can eat at Arbys" and the other kids are saying "ew."

That wasn't the only time. The one where Milhouse's parents split up and Kirk moved into a crappy apartment was another. A neighbor told Kirk there was a dead possum in the pool, and Kirk told him, "Throw it over the fence. Let Arby's deal with it."

Another one was the Halloween episode where Homer turned into a huge blob and started eating everything and everyone. "If I can keep down Arby's, I can keep down you!"

I searched around for a reason for them busting on Arby's frequently, but I can't find anything definite. One link said that it was nothing but silliness; another said that creator Matt Groening got horrible gas from eating there. So who knows?

[Chromatix]

I personally never liked Arby's I consider it pressed sweepings for meat.

(Or according to a friend of mine back in high school, it's baby. "Mmm Baby, the other other white meat"

The cat's in the kettle at the Peking Moon,
The place where I eat every day at noon,
They can serve you Cat and you'd never know,
Once they wrap it up in dough, boys,
They fry it really crisp in dough.
 -- Weird Al

[Mark Healey]

There are way too many fast food franchises in the US, I'm jealous.

A lot of them are regional.

What really sucks is when a regional one will advertise on national cable television channels with something that looks really good. There is only one Sonic is SoCal, (Orange County, I think) and I can't get to it.

I wonder if Jack-In-The-Box does the same thing to the eastern half of the country.

[Fenrus]

I wonder if Jack-In-The-Box does the same thing to the eastern half of the country.

They used to here... I miss Jack-in-the-box... Had one in my hometown, then moved here and there's nothin.

I went to San Diego on a trip, and the first thing I did when I got to Mission Beach was go to Jack-in-the-box.