How many Chic-Fil-A sandwiches could you eat?

[gk]

Let's say you were at a magical "All You Can Eat" chick-fil-A buffet and all they had were their regular chicken sandwiches. How many do you think you could eat?

I ask this because the thing I hate about Chic-Fil-A is that their sandwiches taste so damn good I always want to eat another one.

Steph and the kids are out of town today which means my eating habits go a bit haywire. It goes like this every time:

For lunch, fast-food.
For dinner, something weird that I've never made before and don't want to try out on the kids. Usually it involves a crustacean of some sort (tonight: Cioppino!).

Anyway, for my lunch today, I drove over to the friendly neighborhood Chick-Fil-A and thought, "fuck it. No Fries. No Drink. Just gimmie three chicken sandwiches."

I just finished eating them and feel like I could eat three more. I'm sort of full, but not grotesquely full. I'd never eaten three in one sitdown. And whenever I get two I almost feel MORE hungry than when I started.

If I had to theorize, I would put my # of Chick-Fil-A sandwich limit at 6. That would come to about $19 and at that point, I should have just gone to a steakhouse and purchased a nice T-bone.

Are any of you like me? In that you A) rue Chick-Fil-A because their sandwiches are so good they make you hungrier and as a corollary (rhymes with coronary!) B) feel like you could eat them in perpetuity?

[fatmenace]

This isn't a hypothetical for me. My limit is five. I felt desirous for another one, but felt something bad would happen if I did so. I don't eat five regularly, usually two, plus their incredible fries. But one time I had five coupons for a free chicken sandwich. A prudent (or thin) person would have spaced those out. Not me. All five at once. No regrets.

[gk]

Wow 5. Maybe someday I'll get there...

By the way, here's a fun fact: Those three Chic-fil-a sandwiches I ate? Still altogether healthier than a single burger from Five Guys Burgers and Fries. (I don't think Five Guys has made it down to Texas yet, but you've been warned. Makes In-N-Out look like a salad bar.)

[fatmenace]

There's a Five Guys in the Arbor now. Also, In-N-Out is heading to Dallas.

South Austin has a Taco Bueno now, too.

[finkle]

i hear there's another five guys being built somewhere nearby.

i refuse to sign my contract for the world federation of eating, so i would be disqualified from this chick-fil-a thing.

["Redneck" Johnson]

South Austin has a Taco Bueno now, too.

I got to do that shopping center. Apparently Bueno had some non-complete contract with Taco Cabana that is expiring now.

Carl's Jr is making inroads in town here too. But the developers I work with say that Chic-Fil-A is just money right now. If you're applying for a new franchise there's something like a 7 year wait for it. The day a location opened at another center I did in Cedar Park, the line of cars at the drive-through wrapped around the building twice. And it's always packed.

[finkle]

and the moral of the story is....


hire cows, not celebrities, to do your advertising

["Redneck" Johnson]

I think the real moral is that if you make good food, advertising takes care of itself. We're all talking about Chic-Fil-A here.