“Bob Henry, winner of an award, proud owner of a plaque, will dazzle you.”
We’ve never actually had chicken friend steak, and we won’t… We’re waiting for Bob to dazzle us.
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What was that guy doing under her desk? Talk about a relaxed work environment…
Mmm chicken fried steak… with country gravy… mm…
I love commercials like this. I’m willing to bet this place got at least a little business as a result.
If you like steak, chicken fry is worth trying at least once. I never had it before moving to the southwest, and I love it. I don’t eat it often, though–it’s pretty fattening. :X
Chicken fried steak. It’s like that biscuits with country gravy breakfast. You know it’s responsible for increasing your heart attack risk 100 fold, but it’s oh, so good and you want it anyway.
You’ve never had chicken fried steak? Never? Are you from overseas?
i’ve had the pleasure of living in the deep south for a while. i had the best doggone chicken fried steak, sausage gravy, biscuits, and grits. awesome!!!
Mmm… chicken friend steak, what a concept! Now THAT sounds delicious, unlike chicken fried steak which is OK. Not delicious, just OK.
Chicken fried steak. For those who feel regular steak is too healthy.
Best way is to sample a variety of chicken-fried steaks on a cross-country road trip. By the time you reach the opposite coast you’ll be at least 10 lbs. heavier, but boy will you feel patriotic.
What are you talking about, badvertising? This is easily the most awesomely awesome commercial I’ve ever seen. Cheezie ripoffs of popular early 80′s Michael Jackson songs? I want to eat there *now* as in, “let’s get in the car and go for dinner tonight, kids!”
This is, if I may be so bold, a truly, truly timeless advertisement.
Never having chicken fried steak = alien.
That’s seriously odd. It’s a little like never having had a hot dog. Yeah, I’m from Texas (now) but even when I lived up North I’d had it ONCE.
I think I saw chicken fried steak at my local supermarket’s frozen food (made by banquet-red box)
ah hah! [www.conagrafoods.com]
I knew I wasn’t going crazy
Mmmm…Chicken fried steak. My fraternity’s cook makes it every couple of months. Of course, it’s that prepackaged crap that you just toss in the oven or on the grill, but it’s still delicious.
I don’t know if all-you-can-eat shrimp as part of a $5.99 dinner is good or bad.
the food looks like the crap they serve at old country buffet (mmm…food poisoning).
And consumerist, I can’t believe you won’t try chicken fried steak. I just moved to the Midwest and It looked gross at first, but it was awesome when I tried it!
The world would be a better place if everyone had fun commercials like this. I want to eat there (even though the prices are probably 3x higher now).
I can empathise with Bob Henry: for I too am the proud owner of a plague.
[What do you mean that's completely a different word?]
OK. Now I have a reason to go to Twin Falls!
cronick: Not really, that restaurant has been gone for years now. Too bad really, as they had a really good breakfast buffet for 2 or 3 dollars if I remember correctly.
I think the guy on the commercial went to high school with my mom.
I had chicken-fried steak, while (predictably) travelling through the South, at a truck stop. It’s a generic piece of beef breaded and fried, like chicken. There’s not really much taste to it besides grease (what was I expecting at a truckstop?). It’ll give you your RDA of saturated and trans fats, cholesterol and sodium, if nothing else…
@clevershark: You didn’t have good chicken fried steak. Only bad chicken fried steak tastes like grease.
torta milanesa!!!!!!!!! you’ve gotta live in california for this stuff mmmmm even the mexicans fry their steak here! basically in so. cal you can get anything fried….but man the article’s chicken friend steak still sounds good.
Yum! Chicken Fried Steak!!! With Gravy or A1 Sauce? (It’s a toss up!)
I’m from Texas (originally).
How has no one commented on the guy in the mask in the first scene? WTF was that about?
You can hardly tell that cocaine was the drug of choice in the early 80′s.
“We’ve never actually had chicken friend steak, and we won’t… We’re waiting for Bob to dazzle us.”
Meg, when The Consumerist editors use the word “we”, is that really meant to be a singlular reference to yourself, or to you and your household, or all editors collectively. If the latter, do you actually check with the other editors?
And dig that word processing computer on her desk. Eight-inch floppy drives!
@ClayS: Meg has multiple personality disorder which was diagnosed after one them stabbed a guy for asking stupid questions.
Anyone know of a good place in Maryland for Chicken Fried Steak?
@faust1200:
All the editors do the same; I think its a valid question.
@updog: That’s what I was about to say. I knew I wasn’t crazy!
@ClayS: I think it’s the royal “We”. Ben has referred to his girlfriend as “our” girlfriend before.