The mystery is deep
I don't know of one still in existence, so I looked it up. It' has no locations on their map
https://www.ljsilvers.com/locations
and this in their rewards
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I don't know of one still in existence, so I looked it up. It' has no locations on their map
https://www.ljsilvers.com/locations
and this in their rewards
There’s one two blocks from my house. I go there a lot. It’s falling apart and it’s run by some really sketchy looking people who are always super nice to me. I hope it stays in business forever.
Your local weed man went into business for himself.
Tbh solid way to clean your money, nobody's looking twice at the books of a dated long John silvers.
Isn't it owned by the same company that owns A&W (and one other place that I can't remember?)
And it's 2026, so that company is probably owned by PepsiCo or some shit.
Pepsi is why we had Taco Bell and Long John's mashups.
Also, the Kentacohut. KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, all under one roof.
There ARE Long John Silver / A&W mashups. Also, I forever think this song [video] when I hear A&W.
Our local LJS closed a few years ago.
Its a fish restaurant now.
I really love Long John Silver's chicken actually. I know it's primarily known for fish, but their chicken is probably my favorite chicken. The food is greasy as hell though.
Less greasy than Capn D's, at least in my area. I've never tried the chicken, but fish n fries are a delicious heart attack in a bag.
If you've tried their fish you've basically tried their chicken. Due to them being fried with the same batter in the same oil, they taste nearly identical. The fish doesn't really taste like fish and the chicken doesn't really taste like chicken - both taste like batter and grease that's been reused one too many times.
I love it.
They used to do $5 plates, too, with two pieces of fish or chicken with fries, creamy coleslaw, and a few hushpuppies, with tartar sauce. I haven't been in quite some time, so that probably went away?
I haven't been there in a decade if not longer. My family used to buy their giant boxes of fried chicken or fish when I was a kid, never tried anything else.
Checking online, that $5 plate you mentioned is now $12 at my local LJS.
Yeah, it's probably been about 8-10 years since I went, too. I guess it's still not too bad of a deal, considering how crazy prices are. Better if they pay decent wages, but... It's ljs.
What bastardised version of Fish & Chips is that supposed to be.
Yankee, like everything else we bastardized. 😂
If it doesn't come drenched in vinegar & mushy peas on the side im not touching it.
Idk about the peas, but in little paper cones with salt flakes and acv, along with the scrambler, spun sugar, the whip, and cocked-up sites as yellow tin duckies scrolled along are some happy memories I've not had in a few decades. Thanks, mate.
Their batter is the same for the fish and just kicks on chicken. I'll admit, I like their chicken far above their fish.
I guess it stands to reason that the chicken is good cause the fish was garbage.
There is one in my hometown that i think pretty much has to be a front because i have never seen anyone actually inside the place and its in a seaside town with local fish and chips chain locations that have MUCH better food for the same price.
There’s actually one near me, about 15 minutes away
Same, though mine has an A&W with it.
It’s funny that their website shows none though. The whole site seems a bit buggy for me.
My wife has eaten their food before, I have not.
must be buggy. or maybe your ad blocker is causing a glitch? for me it shows the locations, broken down by state.
The site is definitely buggy. I zoomed into an area that I know has one, but it did not show until I searched for the city.
If you tap the link there’s a lot of them across the state.
My local one had an A&W in there. They actually remodeled the whole building but when it reopened the A&W was gone. I liked having a hot dog with my chicken.
Nearest to me is an hour away or more. It's probably saving several neighbors from triple bypass surgery because of it, tbh.
Yum, hushpuppies and fried fish.
My town also has a long John silvers KFC combo. I have been there once in the past 10 years when my friend's grandpa insisted on going
I still recognize their buildings, even after repurposing.
Carrying on the role of Pizza Hut before them
Old timey White Castles too.
Sucks to be in an area that never had these to begin with, cuz I've never seen one. I like weird “obsolete” architecture like this, but businesses typically don't bother adapting buildings the way they used to anymore. Only new buildings get any personalization, and it tends to be minimal these days. Like a Mexican restaurant bought a building that used to be a supper club*, and they didn't even bother to re-paint the interior, so it just looks like a lightly mexican-themed supper club now. Just no effort at all anymore.
*For those not in areas with proper supper clubs, which is the vast majority of the world since they are almost exclusively found in the Midwest US (the UK version of them is something entirely different, and I've no idea how common they are), they are cozy little dinner spots where you are more or less expected to sit and have a few drinks and socialize before your meal, such that they don't really have music, take your order at the bar, and you move to the table when your meal is ready. Typically the best food around without breaking the bank, especially in small towns, most have a salad bar, decent community environment, reasonable prices sort of thing, so very very popular. In Wisconsin at least, always fish fry on Fridays, and prime rib on Saturdays and often Sundays, but can’t get those things the rest of the week. Just how they operate. Sometimes a limited fish fry is available on Wednesdays, though.
They used to be fun, they were made to look like a seaside shanty, with the wood decks and piers and ropes. Inside they had nets and treasure chests and everything was dark wood made to look like a galley on a pirate ship and you could even get a pirate hat. Now they look like a school cafeteria.
I eat at Long John Silvers whenever I'm in the area of it. It's one of my favorite fast food places alongside Culvers. If they opened one in my town I'd probably eat it daily/weekly.
Culvers is delicious but oh so not good for you.
Rarely is any food I like good for me.
Its a big reason why I hate the fact yay I became allergic to fish
Serious answer, this seems to be a case of the company partially liquidating and turning over control of many existing restaurants to their respective franchisees but retaining key locations for the company.
This would explain why a lot of them are run down and haven’t updated their design aesthetic since the early 2000s.
When I was young, my dad, my mom, and I would go visit my aunt (dad's sister) who lived in Florida every few years for a week or two. My dad's parents would spend a good chunk of their winter down there as well. During our overlapping visit, my parents would usually take at least one night and go out for a nice meal for just the two of them. I'd roll with Grandma and Grandpa to Long John Silvers.
I have a handful of memories 30+ years later of my grandpa and many more years of memories with my grandma, but those dinners out are probably the strongest memory I have of the two of them together and the only one I can think of that is the three of us.
I usually regret the decision a few hours after visiting, but a chicken dinner with fries for slaw (with vinegar splashed on top) and a few hush puppies clog my arteries and fill my heart every few months or so...
i was okay with it in the 80s
This is a running joke in my friends group. Me had a big storm role through about 5 years ago and it totalled our local LJS. We all assumed that was the end, but nope, they rebuilt and are still operating. I haven't been in many years, but I enjoy it.
I'm pretty sure they make all their money during Lent and it sustains their business for the rest of the year.
Does it include 4 stoned teenagers and a talking dog?
I haven’t eaten at Long John Silver’s in over 30 years. I was just a young kid then and I didn’t even like seafood. I did like their hush puppies.
What I remember most was the decor. It was a core memory for me. The place was decorated like you’d expect to see in Treasure Island. Tropical island theme, shipwrecked cargo and nautical imagery. It’s really what a family restaurant should be!
Now I love seafood but LJS doesn’t seem to exist in Canada anymore? Makes me quite sad, even though it sounds like their food was bad anyway. I really love a good fish and chips. Maybe some other restaurant would step up with that style of decor?
I'm convinced it's a front for money laundering
Maybe, but it's still owned by Yum! Foods Inc. afaik who also own Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, A&W, and KFC, so maybe it's just on razor thin margins lol.
Apparently it hasn't been owned by them since 2011?
Well damn! News to me! Looks like they also sold A&W and picked up something called Habit Burger.
I pass by an A&W/LJS combined location when I take my animals too the vet in the next town over. One of these times i will stop for some hush puppies.
Psst... I'll give you a $10 if you give me some fish, but don't tell anyone that you passed it along to your fish-vendor.
They sell a bunch of fried shit, who doesn't like fried shit
Me. With a few exceptions like fries. LJS has awful fries and awful everything else.
Silver's has the finest fast food chicken in America. Their fries are wack though.
There is one in winnemucca Nevada. I stop there every time I drive I80. Gotta get them crumbs.
Will you share the handshake with us?
Go to one. Get some hushpuppies and see the superior side dish.
I tried those once and cracked a molar on one. Had to get a crown.
So, obviously, never going there again.
Arthur Treacher’s was better.
I haven't had Long John Silver's in a while. They closed all the locations in my city, but we found a new-ish, clean, shiny one in Asheville, NC.
The fish and chicken planks are god-tier and I regret not giving them more business when we still had them. Now all we have is Captain D's, which is a poor facsimile for Long John Silver's.
Catholics who don't eat meat during Lent.
Hate to break it to you buddy, but despite what some religious whack-a-doos tell you, fish is meat.
I mean it's pretty obvious what they meant especially if you have a pretty basic cultural background.
Right, but it's still all arbitrary bullshit, which I think might have been their point
That indeed was my point.
Are you aware that the word meat is also use to describe the fleshy part of an edible plant?
How a word is used matters. For Catholics, it is carne, any warm blooded land animal.
When using the word, different people mean different things. Catholics are not making scientific statements when talking about meatless Fridays. Scientists are not trying to upset culinary experts who include fleshy edible plants.
There's one in Hillsboro Oregon
did not expect to see one in this thread I can drive to
Go for it! And if you change your mind, it's attached to a taco bell.
I'd have to drive past so many of the best places ever to eat weird ass fish. I think I might pass 😂🫣
yooo, i've been there, a favorite of my mother, for the love of god, if you're going to go, go early, i've had spotty luck of getting anything off the LJS menu after 8pm
There was a fish and chips place in town that I was curious about and went there one day. It was full of old people. The food was bland and boring. They had a deep fried chocolate bar for dessert so I ordered one and the batter was the same bland batter they used on the fish.
Seemed like most the other people there had a regular customer relationship with the servers, so it's probably one group of old people keeping each location in business.
Gus fring works there
As for who is keeping them in business, the short answer is Catholics. https://youtu.be/K2CdLu7Q7js
It's old people
The very crappy one near me closed and so did my backup near my parent's house, now I have to drive an hour to reach one
Here's a good, quick case study of LJS. There's another channel I like better, but his LJS episode is quite dated. https://youtu.be/tgZsUKHovQQ
Long John Silvers. I wanna say I've never heard of it but it rings a bell.
Congressional fundraising
My wife likes the chicken.
Same for my wife and me. Chicken with their tartar sauce.
Alfie's couldn't say the same unfortunately.
I fuck with Long John Silvers, it pretty good.
They are still around me, but I've never spoken to anyone who has ever eaten at one.
I like Long John Silvers.
I'm that guy
You must eat there a lot, to keep the entire chain open by yourself. Now I'm seriously thinking about hitting a LJS this weekend.
What's your favorite menu item?
Old/obese people