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This is the most disgusting poll ever. Denny's = NO

I have studiously avoided Denny's since college

weirdos.

This is the most disgusting poll ever. Denny's = NO

-- HI DERE, Monday, June 18, 2007 4:42 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Granted, it is the most current disgusting poll ever, but I wonder if it would be possible to start a poll, an ever more disgusting poll, and that poll would be called MOST DISGUSTING POLL EVER.

Hmmm. . . .

I have studiously avoided Denny's since 1982, when my father was served oil & vinegar & gnat salad dressing with his salad.

denny's was a good place to 14 year olds who wanted to smoke and drink coffee to go, just fyi. though nowadays in this new horrible world you probably can't even smoke in a denny's anymore, as if it makes a difference to the dining experience.

gnats are extra protein

the dennys in my hometown smells so bad

Dan's family is very conservative; they don't enjoy eating bugs on their breakfast cereal or their salads.

I've avoided Denny's since 1995, when a drunk buffoon yakked into the "Grand Slam" that was meant for me but our crosseyed waitress mistakenly sent to his table.

that doesn't seem to be denny's fault, per se

They also served me water in a glass that had previously contained orange juice but had never been washed, plus all of our silverware was caked with food residue.

free food and oj!!

DO NOT EAT AT DENNY'S IN COLORADO SPRINGS, OR IN FACT ANYWHERE

someone got shot at our local carrows so denny's won by default, despite smelling like an open sewer

yeah in my court of law, dan, you got FREE FOOD.

plus all of our silverware was caked with food residue.

Appetizers, duh!!!!

Quite possibly the only thing our dining experience was missing in terms of the "damn, that's nasty" stakes is our waitress pissing all over the table while seating us; given its condition, I think she did that beforehand.

Oh, they also served us raw sausage.

Why do posts get eaten?

Oh, they also served us raw sausage.

"raw" ha ha no. where i come from that's called Colorado Sushi!

also remember that urine is sterile. she was probably just wiping down the tables--maybe they were out of 409?

it's amazing that Denny's is still open for business because it sounds like they've tried to kill HI DERE on multiple occasions.

Denny's is the Abu Ghraib of chain restaurants.

IMHO Carrow's is way way way worse as far as quality of food goes. Not even sure if they are a nationwide chain but they're serious sketch.

schef v v otm, except sub "perkins" as regionally appropriate

The three or four Perkins I've visisted have been fairly decent, and the food's an improvement over Abu Ghraib's, but one of them had lime-green upholstery and the hostess' name was "Charlie" (a woman).

NO WAY!!!!!!! A WOMAN NAMED CHARLIE!!! OMG YOU MUST HAVE GONE TO THE PERKINS IN BIZZARO WORLD!!!!!!!

did the FOOD order YOU?!?

do they still make that cologne, charlie? the only thing i remember about it is this weird commercial they had in the early 90s or whatever that starred ray charles and cindy crawford singing a song about the cologne. omg cindy crawford was the worst singer that ever existed, too.

that is my post, about the name charlie.

man perkins is the cat's ass, denny's is vile

if YOU were a woman named CHARLIE what Denny's Breakfast would YOU order?

if I'm not mistaken there's only one Denny's in SF and its in Japantown and serves, um, sushi (in addition to the usual Denny's fare)

the heartland scramble

OH MY GOD OK DENNY'S SUSHI, THAT IS A BRIDGE TOO FAR

did the FOOD order YOU?!?

Sunny side up!

I'm not mistaken there's only one Denny's in SF and its in Japantown and serves, um, sushi (in addition to the usual Denny's fare)

Can you order hash browns and sausage links with it?

guys the point of these places is to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes all night because you cannot get into bars, not to actually eat their terrible food!

okay apparently there are a couple other Denny's in town I don't know about but this is the only one I've ever been aware of....

Menu, cultures mix at Japantown Denny's - San Francisco
Nation's Restaurant News, June 27, 1988 by Alan Liddle

Menu, cultures mix at Japantown Denny's By Alan Liddle

SAN FRANCISCO -- Seeking visibility, the media clout of a national chain, and a concept to complement nearby businesses, a local family has opened the city's first Denny's in the Japantown strip center.

Owned by the Iwamasa family, which holds Denny's development rights for the entire city, the franchised coffee shop's American roots make it stand out in a neighborhood with close to 40 Japanese, Korean, and Chinese restaurants. The Japantown Denny's sports a one-of-a-kind decor and a menu complete with Asian and Portuguese offerings.

The Japantown Denny's sports a unique decor and a menu complete with Asian and Portuguese offerings.

The unusual characteristics of the Japantown Denny's suggest that the giant Southern California-based chain, anxious to capture ethnic neighborhood sales in the continental United States, might be trying the cross-cultural approach it fostered in such places as Japan, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii.

Denny's corporate officials were unavailable for comment.

The Iwamasas' Denny's debuted in late April at the corner of Post and Buchanan streets.

The project took two years to complete after the franchise agreement was signed and saw the unique restaurant emerge from a remodeled movie theatre.

Along with standard Denny's fare, such as the Grand Slam Breakfast, the Iwamasas' menu features the likes of Hawaiian-made Portuguese-style sausage $2.25), skewered and grilled chicken and beef yakitori sticks ($3.50), and saimin ($3.25), a light broth with noodles, ham, and fish cake.

Steamed rice outsells french fries in the Japantown restaurant, managers said, and tsukemono, a pickled salad appetizer from Japan, and kimchee, Korea's spicy fermented cabbage side dish, are available on request.

Desserts from the neighborhood's popular Yasukochi's Sweet Stop, including a concoction of sponge cake, whipped cream, and coffee candy known as Coffee Crunch ($2.75), are also served.

Department from the chain's prototypical interior, the San Francisco Denny's has rose, gray, and oyster-shell-white decor and features a 30-seat mezzanine, elaborate flower arrangements, and walls covered with gallery art, including prints by Asian women. Wooden lantern shades cover the lamps.

"We felt we needed a restaurant that would not take away from some of the local businesses," explained Ron Iwamasa, whose family leases space to other area restaurateurs.

As one of many Denny's in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the Iwamasas are counting on the chain's television and radio advertisements to get people into their restaurant.

Though they had spent little for advertising and promotions as of mid-June, the family plans to tie into Denny's summer specials campaign, which will start out focusing on chicken-fried steak, products.

"I've been told they (the chain) are going to spend about $650,000 (on media buys in the Bay Area), so it would be wise for us to coincide our (advertising effort) with that," Iwamasa said.

On the local front, he said the family would buy some radio time and run print ads in the city's thrice-weekly and ethnic newspapers.

The family, Iwamasa reported, is having some fun building word-of-mouth and interest in its Denny's: "We had a standard Grand Slam Breakfast flyer made up, but we added a pair of chopsticks to the plate. We want to arouse some curiosity."

Disappointed with initial sales at breakfast, usually a strong daypart for Denny's, Iwamasa indicated that the situation would be re-evaluated after promotional efforts are in full swing.

PHOTO: Manager Andrew Iwamasa displays a plate of Portuguese sausage, rice, and eggs.

COPYRIGHT 1988 Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group

and sometimes we used to get drunk and go to Denny's afterwards and throw up in their bathrooms

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fuck this shit, wake me when there's an IHOP poll

kimchi available upon request!

hope that reporter won a peabody for that piece

I will cleanse this thread with a picture of Waffle House chocolate chip waffles
http://www.wafflehouse.com/images/menu/c_chip_waffle_CU.jpg

A Denny's waitress:

http://ramadaoklahomacity.com/nss-folder/pictures/waitress_160.jpg

vs a Perkins waitress:

http://www.deepfriedkudzu.com/hello/305195/640/DSC09123-2006.06.18-09.59.12.jpg

I didn't know onion rings could grow acne

or liver spots.

wait that is not a waitress

IHOP v. Denny's is like Coke v. Pepsi, but with a twist of bad hygeine.

I will 4ever love both, but my digestive system is probably stoked that I haven't subjected it to anything from these places in nearly a year. Driving 2 hours to the Middle East for a show w/ friends, then eating breakfast @ 2:30 AM just outside of Cambridge as the club kids roll in RIP ;_;

IHOP pwns Denny's in every imaginable way.

That's only because you haven't had Colorado Sushi with your Rooty Tooty yet.

Why don't you ask my wife about that.

(PS plz don't she will kill me)

That's only because you haven't had Colorado Sushi with your Rooty Tooty yet/
Why don't you ask my wife about that.

Great Steely Dan lyrics.

yeas, IHOP >>> Denny's (srsly fuckin gross, dude). But Waffle House's patty melt & hash browns deal is probably my favorite menu item EVAR.

IHOP pwns Denny's in every imaginable way.

-- HI DERE, Monday, June 18, 2007 6:22 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

POLL POLL POLL xpost also waffle house too

Denny's
Embers
Perkins
Waffle House
IHOP
Bickford's
Bob Evans

WaHo wins forever (though IHOP is also good). Haven't had Denny's in a long time.

Why do posts get eaten?

In the 1994 Christmas movie The Santa Clause, the characters played by Tim Allen and Eric Lloyd eat at a Denny's restaurant on Christmas Eve after Allen's character singes their home-cooked turkey dinner. He describes the chain as an "American institution", a line which was immediately followed by an interior shot of the restaurant focusing on Japanese diners.

yeah there's a Denny's mentioned a lot in the new Murakami novel.

WTF, he singes the turkey ergo the whole thing gets thrown out? They deserve to eat at Denny's.

oh god i LOVE dennys.

why is it always hash brown OR grits?

WaHo>IHOP>Stuckey's>>>>>>>Denny's

oh god i LOVE dennys.

Do you also love dysentery? Because that comes free with every Denny's meal!

Best thing about Denny's-You can get free refills on Hot Chocolate.

YOU MEAN HOT LIQUID DEATH

No, that's the coffee.

if you guys are the same people who love arbys you are in no position to have any negative opinion on any food ever.

IHOP has crepes, so IHOP wins.

ihop waiters scare me and their pancakes are too cakey

I have never eaten at an Arby's that served me food with bugs creating an impenetrable film over the top of it. ADVANTAGE: ARBY'S

dennys has never resulted in cockroaches flying out of the kitchen into my car. ADVANTAGE: DENNYS

Ya'll just need to start cooking at home more.

That's because in Denny's, those cockroaches are in the salad dressing. Along with the gnats.

(Seriously, my father thought the vinegar in the oil and vinegar set had pepper in it until we pointed out that, unless Colorado was special, pepper doesn't have wings.)

Can we all agree that Denny's and Arby's lose?

yeah IHOP does have variety, but Waffle House has their own song(s).
plus patty melt/ hash browns (goddam I'm so going to Waffle House. soon.)

what the hell are you eating salad for?

admittedly IHOP has the best commercial right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75jiOqExVic

Arby's wins! Fuck, have you tried those new 'loaded potato bites' things?

A Huddle House, which is like Waffle House's Uptown sister restaurant, recently opened in southwest Houston. It's not bad, certainly better than Waffle House as of late.

ARBY'S IS AWESOME WE HAVE ALREADY COVERED THIS ALSO "MOONS OVER MY HAMMY."

John speaks troof.

guys the point of these places is to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes all night because you cannot get into bars

exactly. i don't think i've ever ordered an actual meal at denny's but in high school i used to hang out in the smoking room a lot

although last time i was at a diner at 2am it was here (fredneck, MD):
http://www.99w.com/evilsam/ff/wafflehouse.jpg

Waffle House is brilliant. I had some overly strong cold-ish coffee in a Denny's once on International Drive in Orlando. It was like a slow horrible journey into hell, but the hash browns were good. Though not as good as Waffle House hash browns, which were awesome. We totally need Waffle House over here.

that waffle house is lynchian

I love the word "adventure" in this poll; it is taking into account the inevitable diarrhea and/or vomiting that accompanies each dish.

While we're on the subject, could those of you in Sonic loaded areas please register a complaint re:their constant TV advertising in non-Sonic loaded areas?

MOTHERFUCKERS I CAN'T HAVE YOUR 8 BILLION FLAVORS OF FREEZY TREATS SO STOP TAUNTING ME.

ohhh don't get me started on that

Schef should we meet in the middle of the country and drive around slitting sonic corporate office throats Y/N?

y y y y y

also we should stop at a lot of sonics along the way

I have five Sonics within five minutes drive from here and I've never eaten at any of them. Their food is crap, dudes.

I've only been to a Denny's once in maybe seven years and it was in New Orleans, but Moons Over My Hammy is the only rational option in this poll.

the best part of waffle house is the syrup plate. and that secret cooking aid image posted on flickr. they have this very ornate way of telling the cooks what to make by placing silverware and jelly into certain configurations on the plates.

I have five Sonics within five minutes drive from here and I've never eaten at any of them. Their food is crap, dudes.

-- milo z, Monday, June 18, 2007 6:57 PM (2 minutes ago)

THIS IS LIKE WHAT MORBS WOULD SAY IF HE REVIEWED FOOD. TESTIMONIAL REJECTED.

yum yum, a burrito worth slashing throats for:

http://sidesalad.net/archives/SonicChiliCheeseWrapAndTaterTots.JPG

Sonic is aiight

uhh yeah, sonic has those amazing drinkz and killer TOTS

a bag of tots and i'm back in elementary school hanging out with my friends in the quad

Are there Sonics on the road between Wisconsin and NYC? Maybe I will eat at one.

hey IIIJJJ - fritos^

If IHOP doubled, covered, and (and!) smothered, then there would be no contest. Until that day, I will gladly squirt Denny's out my ass before I squirt IHOP.

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I have five Sonics within five minutes drive from here and I've never eaten at any of them. Their food is crap, dudes.

Milo, you are clearly insane. Stop talking please.

I JUST WANT TO OFFICIALLY STATE THAT IF ANYONE TALKS SMACK LIKE "ICK TATER TOTS ARE GROSS AND BAD" THEY WILL BE INSTANTLY KILLFILED.

All you can taste is the grease. It's nasty.

DID YOU NOT SEE THE CAPS LOCK MILO?

Wait, are you referring to sonic or tots?

milo go eat your not-good food, you not-good-food-eater.

its hit and miss with sonic - great or squished and greasy and cold. could go either way on any day

The worse form of torture inflicted on the American people by it's own government is allowing Sonic ads to be shown in areas where the nearest Sonic Drive-In is over 300 miles away.

I've never heard of Sonic. There ain't any in Dade County :(

There ain't ANYTHING in Dade County, is there?

We have the same yakking frat boys you do.

I'll ship a box of Sonic tater-tots next-day air to anyone who desperately needs some.

Oh, apologies, I thought Dade County was where Dade City is. I'm at the wrong end of Florida. I R foreign and stupid.

(I am in Scotland, we don't have any yakking frat boys)

I wish more - or I guess ANY other - fast food places would take a cue from Sonic on the expanding beverage menu tip. You'd think at least the blunted parachute pants wearing Taco Bell menu geniuses would be able to come up with some kind of Peacht Blasted Fonged Mega Ultra Sprite or something.

fonged!

I-SLOP!!!

denny's was a good place to 14 year olds who wanted to smoke and drink coffee to go, just fyi.

http://tinypic.com/fvl6wy.jpg

plz to save me a spot on the Sonic revenge posse

yeah i'm in too

http://www.lawrenceroadfire.org/news%20stories%20html/images_news/2004.10.07%20IHOP%20(16).JPG

The roof... is on fire?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Also, tot haters will be banned from IMM. Because I can, and we don't have time for your intolerance.

GYMNASTICS RULES!

HOW DID I MISS THIS THRWED!

OK that Dennys food looks really really bad, and it probably looks even WORSE in real life which rly is frightening.

i love their oreo cookie blaster milkshakes

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

MOMH with the unsurprising plurality

it had to, really