I hate them because the last four times I ate there, I had diarrhea for days, all different locations. The last time I ate there, it all came out 12 minutes later. So yeah, four for four is enough to establish that their "food" is just toxic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As I replied to someone else. I'm Canadian, but have friends and family in the States. I've had Arby's 5x, and it's delish....which is why it took getting food poisoning from Arby's all over the damn country 5 whole ass times to stop eating there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Might just be the insane amount of sodium in the meal. Arby's is salty af. Too much salt can cause diarrhea cause your body wants to reach equilibrium and dumps water into your gut to make it isotonic.

The American physique is prepared for this salt assault by being chronically under hydrated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, could be, for 2 or 3 of the instances. There was a few times I was ill for over a week though, which is definitely food poisoning.

[–] StaySquared -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Brah... Tim Horton's is amazing. Thank you for giving us that restaurant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tim Horton's certainly can hit the spot but the quality has been on a steady decline for about 15 years now. Their menu used to be very simple; coffee and assorted café style drinks, bakery treats, and soup and sandwich. All very simple, yet effective as the ingredients were of reasonable quality and the coffee was consistently good.

Nowadays the diversification of the menu has gotten so extreme that they can barely do any single thing right. Coffee is often burnt as machines are calibrated too hot, machines not properly rinsed after cleaning resulting in an oil slick of soap and chemicals floating in your coffer (personal experience), donuts and breads are often stale or poorly made... For years their breakfast menu's egg was not egg at all. "Cheese and onion egg-like product" was what was on the box. Only recently have they moved to using real egg which has had a massively positive effect on the breakfast menu's quality.

Tim's can be good. In Canada, its often that its not. I live in a town of ~50,000. This town has more Tim Horton's than Ottawa with over 1M people. Tim's has a cult-like following around here. Not sure why after the years of mediocrity.

Glad you like it though. I'd love to try your Tim's to see if there is much of a difference.

[–] StaySquared 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn I was not aware. I discovered Tim Horton's in 2018 and it was far better than Dunkin' Donuts, still is. If it was better than what it is now.. I'd probably be overly obese by now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it was quite good back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk, it's owned by Burger King now, which is why we're starting to get them here in the UK. So it's not a Canadian owned business anymore. And the coffee quality dropped basically over night after they bought it. The doughnuts are still that particular kinda trash that is exceptionally delicious. Surprisingly, the coffee at Tim's in the UK is somehow even worse than back in Canada. Some of their food is really good, but it really depends on who makes it....which I guess is the same for any franchise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The rumour I heard is that McDonalds snaked Tim's coffee supplier so a massive shift in quality occurred that they haven't seemed to recover from

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that why McD's suddenly got pretty good? Hmmmmmm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

As far as I know, yes.

[–] Rustmilian 3 points 2 weeks ago

Arby's

[–] TheLowestStone 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's pretty simple: Arby's is gross.

[–] Censored 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's gross? Let me restate that: It's gross.

[–] StaySquared 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

To be fair (in judgement on my part), last time I had a roast beef sandwich was in 2018, I've only bought their reubens since then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wet ass sandwiches, as written in the ad. I don't like Arby's because the bread on their sandwiches is typically stale and is always served cold. Something about roast beef being wet is generally off-putting and most of their sandwiches are roast beef. I think that Arby's being the only mainstream fast food deli has something to do with my low opinion. Hamburgers have some idiosyncrasies as well: cold cheese, lettuce is gross and wilted, different condiment defaults, ground beef is cheap and garbage tier food in the grand scheme of things. But the thing is that every fast food chain is burgers so the specific bad experiences of one chain are contrasted against the other chains. Jack in the box has greaseball burgers that have the consistency of slop, but, because they can be contrasted against Burger King, which has gimmicky food, nasty defaults, and burgers that are assembled sloppily with accoutrement splattered everywhere and cohesiveness scoring firmly in trash tier, they get a pass. I would argue that all fast food is trash food, but the illusion of choice keeps the whole house of ass-flavored cards standing. You can pick a cohesive slop (JITB) or an non-cohesive slapped together proper burger (BK). The flaws of one are mistakenly compared to the defacto standard of the competition when they should be compared to the real standard of actual good food. Arby's doesn't have competition in its space so that defacto standard doesn't exist, leading people to compare it to delis that aren't garbage tier food. There is a competition mismatch and Arby's ends up competing against food outside of its tier, revealing it to be garbage tier. Further discussion is encouraged.