Today another new Chick Fil A opens in the upstate of South Cackalackee. I find their menu overpriced, bland and boring, traits shared by their founder. KFC's Harlan Sanders created a persona to push his grub. All S. Truett Cathy has is feigned piety and a huge Baptist following. He pushes his overpriced birds six days a week, letting his faithful drop their bucks in the collection plate on Sunday instead of in his till.
Guthrie's and Zaxby's, as well as tens of thousands of non-franchised small restaurants across the country, do chicken better.
But what really gets me is the circus that springs up around each new Chick Fil A opening. Hundreds of folks, greedy for the meager free offering, (Is this communion for the Chick Fil A believers?) camp out for days, hoping to be one of the lucky ones blessed by the new store's manager or his acolytes with coupons for a year's supply of Chick Fil A's meals. Gourmets these folks are not!
Any day now we'll read of a miraculous healing at a Chick Fil A opening.
The local fish wrap reports that among the pilgrims camping out at the new store were a couple from Florida who apparently travel the country scrounging for free Chick Fil A meals. They celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary at a Chick Fil A opening in Albuquerque NM. They proudly state that their most recent pilgrimage was their 21st opening. I wonder what life was like for them before they found Chick Fil A.
Then there's the two gentlemen from Lexington County SC area, one of whom was on his 6th pilgrimage. Two guys traveling around to chicken restaurant openings, not that there's anything wrong with that. Except that one claims to be a high school principal, and the other a teacher. With folks like these in our public schools, no wonder South Cackalackee's schools are in trouble.
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