This was one of the best episodes I’ve listened to. Hearing these guys give their thoughts on certain foods/restaurants reminded me on how much I love the hills I will die on episode. I hope we can see episodes with this kind of debatable topics more often soon
Also I know I have no sway in any of this, but I hope that the animation team does Mark's Popeye experience because I was fucking dying of laugher from that and I'd also like to see Bob's Jack in the box experience. Please and thank you.❤️
Yeah, he literally inhaled his food. Anything that doesn’t taste like how a thermonuclear bomb sounds tastes bland to him. He’s not exactly the best judge of food here.
So going into the chick fil a part, I worked there for awhile, and my main reason for hating the fries is because they are FUCKING ANNOYING to get into a carton. Because they still make you use the fry scoopers that are intentionally designed for STRAIGHT, SKINNY fries. You basically have to shove your hand into it to get a decent number of fries in there
@@benjaminramsey498 yea, their complaints werent with the individual staff or managers or anything, if I remember correctly they even acknowledge that chick fil a staff are treated well. Their problems were with the big wigs at the company who put the funds into anti-LGBT groups. The people who work at chick fil a’s are mostly good people, but the people running the company who make the most profit are kinda dicks
Question for you: so I went to my first Chick-Fil-A in Manhattan in last February, but they wouldn't allow to eat on site, only for pick-up or delivery. I was like: "wait, they have a full floor above them, and a staircase to go up there, but they won't allow you to access it?" Is it the same thing for all Chick-Fil-A locations in the big cities or is it different elsewhere?
@@potrelviewer9536 that was a thing when i worked there but that was because it was in 2020 during the pandemic lol It would be weird if they were still blocking it off, but maybe at that location it was more profitable to dedicate their staff to drive through
Damn it I wanted this to be a 3 hour episode but this is definitely gonna be divisive episode. More than the episode where the guys die on their hills. 🤣
I worked at cane’s for a short while, and I can say cane’s always makes fresh food. Everything from the chicken, to coleslaw, to the fries, everything there is fresh and made that day, coleslaw probably made the day before. And I love how customizable the menu is. Like you can literally replace anything with anything there. For example, I don’t really like coleslaw, so I usually ask for extra fries, and it’s easily done. There’s a whole button on the computer for replacing items and it’s pretty cool.
Can confirm 👍I was part of the morning shift so I made the coleslaw and lemonade fresh by hand every morning. The chicken came on the truck raw and was marinaded daily for 24 hours before use too
I used to work at a Canes for awhile, and while I didn’t have a good time working there at all I will still say it’s still many tiers above most fast food places. The employees are required to cook a big batch of chicken and if that batch isn’t on peoples plates within the next 10 minutes it gets thrown out. They usually make the batch according to how busy it is rather than other fast food places just making a ton of something, letting it get cold and continuing to serve it anyway. Their chicken is always perfectly cooked too. Personally I prefer Popeyes more (when the service is gonna be decent) but canes is up there. I also tried to find out what the recipe was for the sauce since it’s made in house, but the spices they use come in a sealed unlabeled bag. All I can remember is they use ketchup, Mayo, and Dijon mustard as part of it.
I used to work at Canes too and I completely agree. Work environment is pretty crappy but the food and service from a customer perspective is pretty damn good. The worst part abt working there for me was that there were no breaks. I'd come there after a long day of school, work till 11, and wasn't allowed to take a single break to eat 💀
I definitely agree Cane's is overhyped, but I still love their food. I'm a simple gal, it doesn't take much to satisfy me, and I think their food is better than a lot of other fast food places. It was also just a couple blocks from my apartment senior year of college, and was on my way from home work. I used to work until about 10:30pm/11:00pm, and Cane's was one of the few places still open. I wouldn't always get a true dinner, and if I did, I'd still get off work hungry, so I often stopped by Cane's on my way home. It was something that I'd always looked forward to after work. I agree it's nothing super, but like I said, I'm a simple gal, and their food is good, and I could always count on Cane's to have my back after a long, late night at work. I'd put it in A-teir.
I like raising cane a lot. cane's sauce is great, the fries are great, I get extra toast cause I don't like coleslaw. I like the chicken tenders, it's super juicy and never dry, but it lacks flavor. I know it's supposed to be dipped in cane's sauce, but it's just plain by itself. that and the lack of verity, I'd give it a high B
Canes has the most consistently good chicken tenders I've ever had. Have I had better? Yeah. Have I had worse? Plenty of times. Canes is like Subway or Domino's for me. It's close by and I know the food will be decent and filling.
Hang on, he hasn't tasted food correctly until recently? What in the world happened to him? Did he lick a soldering iron in his youth to see how much his tongue could take?
@@SeenAGreatLight lmao no! mark mentioned in a podcast episode that he’s just been chewing food and not fully tasting it. so, he’s been going on a mission to retry a bunch of food. he has discovered that there’s a lot of food that he either likes now and didn’t before or doesn’t like now and liked before.
Honestly, I feel like Mark’s opinions on fast food are completely flawed. He’s arguably the healthiest of all three of them, and when you hear his takes on this episode, they barely have any substance to carry his points. I mean, he said Cane’s is a D because he doesn’t care for the hype, but his explanation was way more suited at a C. It just sounds like he’s in denial about it.
The fact that I work at Cane’s makes Mark’s opinion so much funnier because I have to constantly deal with people who overhype a restaurant with like 4 items in the menu
Another good episode 🤣👏. Also Mark as much as I'm a huge fan of yours, I honestly love Cane's and have it at S Tier. And I also agree that Taco Bell is pretty much it's own entity of fast food.
I actually genuinely enjoyed this longer episode. I'd really wanna hear more long episodes. It was good fun. I loved the conflict of opinions here with a light hearted topic.
When I lived in Ohio, I'd drive about an hour and the Canes always had a line that wrapped around the building. When I moved to Texas, I was so shocked that one there was 3 in town but also never had to sit in line more than maybe 10 minutes. When I'd tell people about it they looked at me like I was stupid. It's goof, it's joined Mcdo and Whataburger on my late night snack selection since they're open til 2am
I'm sad there was no Hardee's/Carl's Jr since that was definitely a fast food staple. Great episode though! Really enjoyed the longer format and stories that went with each restaurant 🙌
From across the pond, this isn’t relevant to me, but if I ever visit America one day, at least you have given me recommendations. Really enjoyed the episode though. You three always put a smile on my face.
i love cane’s. it’s insane, i’m very picky with what i like, but their chicken every single time i’ve had it was so fucking good. it’s also reliable, like, i know it’s gonna be good, and that makes me love it more. and cane himself is adorable. plus there’s a cane’s like RIGHT next to my highschool so it’s very convenient to stop by afterwards and get food, lmao
I went there for the first time on the way home from a trip, and it was honestly really good in my opinion I love the way they bread their chicken and the toast is phenomenal
I’m going to Purdue for school, and they have a Canes on campus, and I absolutely love Canes. I see an addiction coming. My brothers already had an addiction to it, eating it at least 5 nights a week when it was less than a mile from his old house
YES! My school also has a canes on campus and we can use meal swipes to get our meal for free. It's so amazing. The only issue is that it was a little bit far from my dorm since our campus is huge, but it was right next to the building I had lab in so every week after chem lab I would eat there
This was hilarious to me cause I'm a worker at Cane's and I showed this to my Manager and he literally said "it's fine if he gives it a D tier, cause that's how I also feel about his Content" lmao
Bob dissed Chick Fila for having soggy fries but praises Canes for crispy fries? Which Canes is he going to that doesn't have the most soggy fries out there
@@SeenAGreatLight he admitted to it awhile ago. 😂 He said he just would chew a couple times before just swallowing his food and never really tasting it.
It would be fun to see one episode like Hired or Fired from Samwitch on Twitch. The host and audience would know the topic(s) but the two competing wouldn’t. Similar to Wade’s Secret Words, the host would ask vague questions to the contestants about the “unknown” topic. Winner could either be which answers were the funniest or actually aligned with the topic(s)
I definitely agree that Cane’s is WAY over hyped. There is no spice. Everything tastes so bland. I think this is why so many people like it, there is no flavor to offend anyone with. While the sauce is pretty good, it shouldn’t have to be dumped on everything to make the meal taste good.
Heard so much about it, the one closest to me is always packed with cars outside on the street. My dad loves them. I went there and got incredible small chicken and it didn't feel special. From my experience, it's overrated but it could be just a bad experience
This whole restaurant episode just made me feel terrible because my garbage, middle of nowhere, retirement town doesn't even have half of the restaurants that made it in this episode. Things like this just always make me feel left out :(
Same! I've never even heard of this place before. At least half of the places they talk about in this episode I've never been to. The only "fast food" places in my town are Denny's, McDonald's, Burger King, Wendys, Little Cesar's, Domino's, Arby's, and a KFC/Taco Bell joint location. There's a few more options if I go to the nearest city (which can be anywhere from 40 to 60 minutes away), but a lot of these still aren't available.
As someone who used to work at Cane's, I can confirm that the chicken isn't processed. It's marinated for 24 hours before it's even cooked. You can also ask for "naked bird" which is just the chicken without breading. And tbh, if I didn't have such a bad experience working at the second location that i did, I'd probably rate it S myself. Also, everyone's favorite thing at Cane's is usually the toast or the sauce. The sandwich is literally 3 chicken tenders in between sesame seed buns with lettuce and canes sauce on the buns (you can also ask to have on toast instead of the regular bun if you like). And the toast is just bread that's been grilled with garlic butter on it. You can also ask for it to not be buttered. One last thing, there's also a honey mustard dipping sauce too if you like that. Everything that Cane's has is on the menu in the drive thru (you literally just have to look) except the ketchup and hot sauce but that's cuz they don't charge for them. There's not secret menu or anything. And if people have questions, feel free to ask. I can answer most things about Cane's. I worked there for a year and it's one of the simpler fast food chains in terms of the food
I feel like people hyped it up too much for me too. I would rather make crinkled cut fries and chicken tenders at home in my fryer tastes exactly the same in my opinion. I have a few family members that are super in love with Canes. Hope everyone is doing good take care ❤️
Not a huge Raising Cane's fan. Price is good for what you get, which is a simple layout done well. The idea of them being D-tier is ludicrous though. They are overhyped, I agree. I think Zaxby's is better, but I go to Cane's more often for price and location convenience. I'd have been cool with B-tier.
@@admiralAlfonso9001 I like the #3 I think it is. It has tenders and bone in /boneless wings, toast, fry’s and sauce. I dig the teriyaki but they have a lot of sauces. They used to have killer fried mushrooms but swapped them for fried pickles which are still pretty good.
I tried zaxbys for the first time today and in my opinion It was ok I got the 3 nibblerz mini sandwich things, chicken was fine but it didn’t taste as fresh as canes and it felt more processed. The bread was so thick it gave me a mini headache, I got white cheese curds with ranch and that was good though. (Though not as good as culvers cheese curds) The zaxbys sauce was just ok to me. Maybe I just went to a bad zaxbys or I didn’t pick something good off the menu but I don’t really want to go back there again. If you think it’s good then I’ll believe you and just assume I went to a bad one
I mean I do think the tenders are "just fine", but when you compare Cane's "just fine" tenders to everywhere else's dry, overly-breaded, overly-spiced chicken fingers for the price and convenience of a drive-thru... Cane's is comparatively S-tier, even if their chicken fingers are a bit bland without the sauce; they're at least not shittily seasoned.
Raising Cane's is awesome overall besides the fact that I just don't like coleslaw in general, but their Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce is DEFINITELY S-TIER, TO SAY THE LEAST! Great video here too guys, had me cracking up!!
My dad had Five Guys when he was driving trucks. It was the worst burger he’d ever had and he hated all the grease his burger had. I went to Five Guys after hearing it’s amazing from Mark, Bob, and Wade for a burger as well, and it was the BLANDEST burger I’d ever eaten before in my entire life. Dripping with a half cup of grease, but there was no flavor to the burger. Five Guys is F Tier to low D. But only if I’m hungry enough and there’s no other places open to me accept the Nothing Burger from them.
Nope, I'm 100% with you. Same with Golden Chick. Everyone hyped GC up so much when our town first got one and I was SO disappointed when I finally got a chance to try it. Cane's is ok, but definitely also severly overrated. With so many chicken options out there, I just can't wrap my head around everyone worshiping Cane's like they do.
Literally! They have like no options, it takes forever to get your food, it’s always way too busy, the chicken isn’t the best, and I just don’t like the sauce. It’s too peppery
@@oopstb I'm sure there's some good locations, but damn the few experiences I've had with that place is not good xD loooooong ass wait times for something that taste worse then the damn Walmart deli
Thank you Mark for saying it! Everyone played Canes to me like it was this god level thing. Went there with such high expectations. Ate...and it was decent but like. The way everyone screams its glory is like. Ok i get it...its chicken tenders in a southwest ranch sauce? Guess thats pretty good. But i wouldn't pay 11 or 12 bucks just for some tenders.
Guess i found my hill to die on. after hearing about raising canes for months. that is was the best I was excited one opened near me at least on my route to work so one day I got off work i went there. it being still relatively new it was busy. Like crazy busy as the drive through line went past the parking lot so I didn't even try to get into it I just found some decent parking and got in line that had built up outside the restaurant. My hopes were high I was excited to finally get to try it. I got the strips that came with the bread and fries and sauce. man was I disappointed with my 16 dollars worth of food. The fries were cold and soggy, the bread wasn't good. at least to me I am not a big bread fan so that can be her nor there. but the sauce is garbage to me. there are much better sauces out there like Kinders sauce. and the chicken strips were mediocre. sure not bad I have had worse. but not worth the 16 dollars I spent on them. raising canes is over rated in my books. its just above Denny's and other low tiers like that.
I go to Raising Cane's at least once a month to buy a large amount of the sauce just to put on my own chicken. So I only actually eat there once a month but I use their sauce on pretty much every chicken from every other place
I was waiting for them to do Culver’s for the entire episode and when wade mentioned it my heart leapt two feet from my chest before coming back and then I was duly disappointed by mark now knowing of Culver’s
culver’s is my favorite fast food restaurant because they honestly never miss and they’re always super friendly no matter where you go. i guess it’s that midwest charm
TIL there's a place called Canes that serves chicken apparently.Yes, I live in the US and have been to the biggest major metropolitan area in 9 different states (WA, ID, OR, CA, MA, PA, NV, MN, CO). This has completely escaped my consciousness somehow until now, I'm the same age as Mark, so that's over 30 years of obliviousness.
As someone who's never been to a raising cane's because the nearest one is over 100 miles away, I think Lee's famous recipe is good stand in from what I can imagine
5:35 I agree with Mark, In and Out is not worth the hype and anyone who says it is is lying to themselves my brother bought into it from his friends when we went to California a few years ago and it was not only a long ass wait the food in my opinion is not good. I don’t like fixings on my burger so no letuce, no Mayo, no special sauce, no toasted bun. You can’t even ask for a burger with how you want. So I did not have a great time and all because my brother insisted on getting it and I don’t even think he really liked it either and my parents weren’t in great mood while we got it.
Canes is pretty good the chicken tenders are pretty delicious. But to crave canes chicken idk how i crave it. But i am always happy how delicious it is. If I wanted chicken tenders or fried chicken at a fast food restaurant canes is 2nd on my list of getting chicken tenders. Now in Kentucky i only know 1 canes on bardstown road right next to the baxter theater. That is the only one I know. But its pretty good I will give them extra liking on the chicken chicken whats your picken. I love it when they say that. But I would rank it a B or a C on my list of fast food places.
I get what Mark is talking about. An In-N-Out burger opened in Austin a while back and there was a ton of hype. I went there with some friends and it was ok but not worth the wait. There are so many better burger places.
As someone who worked at Zaxby's during the first time I tried Canes...I felt conflicted. I liked it but I prefer Zaxby's any day. Our tenders I prefer Our toast I prefer Our fries I prefer I'm tied on the sauces Canes coleslaw I prefer Oh also Zaxby's cheddar bites..yummy
Mark has a point however I do enjoy cane's more than most restaurants even though I've only had it a few times but if s tier is like addiction mode then I'd say b. At least until I try the rest of the menu
@@battlekrusher4997 I like KFC's chicken better, because Caine's is pretty much all about the sauce. The Texas toast and Coleslaw is at least high A but the fries are low mid tier at best.
It was but then they began to cut the chicken strips in half and charge even more for smaller strips. I stopped going there but man it was bussin. That bread too 😋
just because there isn't a full version of this episode on youtube im going to put this here.... 1:21:06 (spotify) I was hearing this while I was with my Whataburger uniform, I had seen what the guys from the afternoon do.. it isn't great, so yeah, it makes sense they don't give you good enough food... they can take half an hour per order, and if you ask for any item of breakfast, even if its as simple as a biscuit sausage, they just don't do it because they "don't know" how to do it, they don't even bother ask about it. I (graveyard shift, 11pm - 6 am) had to clean their shit (cus they leave a mess everywhere), restock for my shift and do burgers at the same time, if they see you struggling they don't care, managers from the afternoon are terrible, they just want to get paid and hook girls. So... yeah, buy Whataburger in the graveyard shift, we can sometimes be just 2 workers in the whole building, but we can get your food in 5 min or less and keep it clean, plus, the fryer will be recently clean (because we are who do that, and is not the job of our shift... plus we are all girls, female power i guess xD) and if you come by areound 5 am, the grill will be recently clean, I like to have it as clean as possible. At least my coworkers and I care about the food we give to our customers, sometimes we even give extra food or do special "1 time" food cus we aren't actually allowed to do that just for you to pay less for the same money. And idk which one did you go, but for me, I prefer whataburger more than any other burger in my city, in and out is the only one that I could say is the same for me. Mcdonnald's I just go there for the frappé, burger king becuase it was the best option when I lived at México, carls jr close down when I was a kid, but it was way better than burger king. Jack in the box and wendys I like it, but is not the same-
Mark is far more generous to Cane's than I am. I have had them several times, and I think for one that they are overpriced. The best that I have had from them is D tier food. Most of everything that I have had from them is F tier.
If you have an apple phone a podcast app is usually included with the phone and it is free there, most podcast apps it is on is free to use I’m pretty sure.
Canes is only around B-tier for me. They're alright. Always get soggy fries there with maybe a few that are crunchy and okay. And honestly their toast always tastes like it was frozen before they toasted it 😂
I made the mistake of listening to the full podcast last night after dinner in bed. after 10 minutes I was out in the car driving to the local fast food restaurant
I’ve never had cane’s (there’s one close to where I live that we just barely got in the area like a few months ago, but I am NOT waiting in that impossibly long line), however, I understand mark’s feelings about it, because that’s the way I feel about in-n-out and chick-fil-a. Take away the sauce everyone’s so crazy about and what are you left with? The most unremarkable burgers and bland fried chicken in the fast food world. And that’s not even getting into the whole hypocritical faith bs with chick-fil-a. So ultimately, I’m with mark on the “not worth the several hour long lines” thing.
Nah, I love the food even without the sauce. I never use sauce with fast food, but Cane's is easily my favorite chicken tenders. As a tip, ask for the toast buttered-both-sides and it makes a very nice open face sandwich.
I've never tried Cane's before but, looking up on Google Maps, I have one thats like a 15 minute drive away. I should go there just to see who's more correct. XD
Despite it being Mark, who swallows his food whole, im actually glad im not the only one who doesnt like Canes. I dont ever get any flavor beyond the peanut oil. The chicken is well cooked, juicy, but 0 flavor. The sauce is good though!
Probably gonna die for this, but I agree with Mark. First time the family asked if I liked it I went, "it's just chicken" it tasted fine but to me it's just some chicken. I could go anywhere to get some chicken, like target which has some awesome fried chicken, at least the one near me does
I like hearing Mark rant about this stuff so passionately while also knowing he admitted to not eating food correctly and just swallowing it
In his defense he didn't realize it was wrong at the time.
You know it's a good episode when you really want to jump in and argue along with them.
OH absolutely. And on that note, Mark is absolutely right, Raising Cane's is overhyped blah, okay chicken that's not worth the hype.
This was one of the best episodes I’ve listened to. Hearing these guys give their thoughts on certain foods/restaurants reminded me on how much I love the hills I will die on episode. I hope we can see episodes with this kind of debatable topics more often soon
Definitely
This is the same for me! Would love to them topics and potentially do a video game, movie related tier list or anything else along those line
Also I know I have no sway in any of this, but I hope that the animation team does Mark's Popeye experience because I was fucking dying of laugher from that and I'd also like to see Bob's Jack in the box experience. Please and thank you.❤️
Popeye's food is pretty good, but my local drive-through takes about 90 minutes to get through.
@@TheRedwater357 agreed
When you realize that up until recently, Mark chews his food like maybe twice and then swallows it whole, you understand why he put Cane's so low.
That explains a lot honestly
Yeah, he literally inhaled his food. Anything that doesn’t taste like how a thermonuclear bomb sounds tastes bland to him. He’s not exactly the best judge of food here.
literally when I saw the thumbnail I was like "shut up mark you don't even chew!" 🤣
It amazes me how legitimately smart and exceptional Mark is and then simultaneously how dumb he can be. xD
Having a real dog as their mascot makes it immediately A tier, and their sweet tea and food pushes it to S for me
So going into the chick fil a part, I worked there for awhile, and my main reason for hating the fries is because they are FUCKING ANNOYING to get into a carton. Because they still make you use the fry scoopers that are intentionally designed for STRAIGHT, SKINNY fries. You basically have to shove your hand into it to get a decent number of fries in there
Lol 😂 honestly
@@benjaminramsey498 yea, their complaints werent with the individual staff or managers or anything, if I remember correctly they even acknowledge that chick fil a staff are treated well. Their problems were with the big wigs at the company who put the funds into anti-LGBT groups. The people who work at chick fil a’s are mostly good people, but the people running the company who make the most profit are kinda dicks
Question for you: so I went to my first Chick-Fil-A in Manhattan in last February, but they wouldn't allow to eat on site, only for pick-up or delivery. I was like: "wait, they have a full floor above them, and a staircase to go up there, but they won't allow you to access it?" Is it the same thing for all Chick-Fil-A locations in the big cities or is it different elsewhere?
@@potrelviewer9536 that was a thing when i worked there but that was because it was in 2020 during the pandemic lol
It would be weird if they were still blocking it off, but maybe at that location it was more profitable to dedicate their staff to drive through
Damn it I wanted this to be a 3 hour episode but this is definitely gonna be divisive episode. More than the episode where the guys die on their hills. 🤣
For sure, like I strongly disagree with chipotle, it’s not food
They don't upload to YT go to a streaming service
@@kurtgobang it’s a podcast
I worked at cane’s for a short while, and I can say cane’s always makes fresh food. Everything from the chicken, to coleslaw, to the fries, everything there is fresh and made that day, coleslaw probably made the day before. And I love how customizable the menu is. Like you can literally replace anything with anything there. For example, I don’t really like coleslaw, so I usually ask for extra fries, and it’s easily done. There’s a whole button on the computer for replacing items and it’s pretty cool.
Can confirm 👍I was part of the morning shift so I made the coleslaw and lemonade fresh by hand every morning. The chicken came on the truck raw and was marinaded daily for 24 hours before use too
When you hear workers say the food is good, it's good.
I used to work at a Canes for awhile, and while I didn’t have a good time working there at all I will still say it’s still many tiers above most fast food places. The employees are required to cook a big batch of chicken and if that batch isn’t on peoples plates within the next 10 minutes it gets thrown out. They usually make the batch according to how busy it is rather than other fast food places just making a ton of something, letting it get cold and continuing to serve it anyway. Their chicken is always perfectly cooked too. Personally I prefer Popeyes more (when the service is gonna be decent) but canes is up there.
I also tried to find out what the recipe was for the sauce since it’s made in house, but the spices they use come in a sealed unlabeled bag. All I can remember is they use ketchup, Mayo, and Dijon mustard as part of it.
I used to work at Canes too and I completely agree. Work environment is pretty crappy but the food and service from a customer perspective is pretty damn good. The worst part abt working there for me was that there were no breaks. I'd come there after a long day of school, work till 11, and wasn't allowed to take a single break to eat 💀
Yebwyi yeah
its ketchup mayo worcestershire sauce and pepper and maybe something else? i dont watch them make it lmao
@@PaleoEntertainment yeah that pisses me off, you dont get a break unless you opened the store, you're closing or labor is high
Probably has nutmeg, cayenne, garlic, and onion powder as the seasonings for the sauce.
I definitely agree Cane's is overhyped, but I still love their food. I'm a simple gal, it doesn't take much to satisfy me, and I think their food is better than a lot of other fast food places. It was also just a couple blocks from my apartment senior year of college, and was on my way from home work. I used to work until about 10:30pm/11:00pm, and Cane's was one of the few places still open. I wouldn't always get a true dinner, and if I did, I'd still get off work hungry, so I often stopped by Cane's on my way home. It was something that I'd always looked forward to after work. I agree it's nothing super, but like I said, I'm a simple gal, and their food is good, and I could always count on Cane's to have my back after a long, late night at work. I'd put it in A-teir.
I like raising cane a lot. cane's sauce is great, the fries are great, I get extra toast cause I don't like coleslaw. I like the chicken tenders, it's super juicy and never dry, but it lacks flavor. I know it's supposed to be dipped in cane's sauce, but it's just plain by itself. that and the lack of verity, I'd give it a high B
I personally love Cane's and I wouldn't mind it being S-Tier.
Hard agree
Mega agree
Same i have it at least four times a month
@@Naurdagnor thanks for correcting me. I just edited it.
I love it, but mainly for there sauce and bread
I need the episodes posted here ahhh helps me stay awake while driving home
Canes has the most consistently good chicken tenders I've ever had. Have I had better? Yeah. Have I had worse? Plenty of times. Canes is like Subway or Domino's for me. It's close by and I know the food will be decent and filling.
Well I know where I’m going for lunch now!
Damn Wade is such a good host!!! Like immediately made my day, right after I just started the episode!
after hearing mark talk about how he hasn’t truly tasted food until recently, his opinions on food lose a lot of weight
I wish I could lose a lot of weight
Hang on, he hasn't tasted food correctly until recently? What in the world happened to him? Did he lick a soldering iron in his youth to see how much his tongue could take?
@@SeenAGreatLight lmao no! mark mentioned in a podcast episode that he’s just been chewing food and not fully tasting it. so, he’s been going on a mission to retry a bunch of food. he has discovered that there’s a lot of food that he either likes now and didn’t before or doesn’t like now and liked before.
Honestly, I feel like Mark’s opinions on fast food are completely flawed. He’s arguably the healthiest of all three of them, and when you hear his takes on this episode, they barely have any substance to carry his points. I mean, he said Cane’s is a D because he doesn’t care for the hype, but his explanation was way more suited at a C. It just sounds like he’s in denial about it.
The fact that I work at Cane’s makes Mark’s opinion so much funnier because I have to constantly deal with people who overhype a restaurant with like 4 items in the menu
Another good episode 🤣👏. Also Mark as much as I'm a huge fan of yours, I honestly love Cane's and have it at S Tier. And I also agree that Taco Bell is pretty much it's own entity of fast food.
I actually genuinely enjoyed this longer episode. I'd really wanna hear more long episodes. It was good fun. I loved the conflict of opinions here with a light hearted topic.
Then go listen to the full episodes!
When I lived in Ohio, I'd drive about an hour and the Canes always had a line that wrapped around the building. When I moved to Texas, I was so shocked that one there was 3 in town but also never had to sit in line more than maybe 10 minutes. When I'd tell people about it they looked at me like I was stupid. It's goof, it's joined Mcdo and Whataburger on my late night snack selection since they're open til 2am
only in ohio
I'm sad there was no Hardee's/Carl's Jr since that was definitely a fast food staple. Great episode though! Really enjoyed the longer format and stories that went with each restaurant 🙌
hardee’s will always have a special place in my heart for their cinnamon rolls alone
When working at canes you could make garlic fries by putting the garlic butter for the toast onto the fries and letting it melt.
And it was God tier.
From across the pond, this isn’t relevant to me, but if I ever visit America one day, at least you have given me recommendations. Really enjoyed the episode though. You three always put a smile on my face.
CANES IS GOLD!!! I’ve eaten it in the car while listening to this podcast so often!
i love cane’s. it’s insane, i’m very picky with what i like, but their chicken every single time i’ve had it was so fucking good. it’s also reliable, like, i know it’s gonna be good, and that makes me love it more. and cane himself is adorable. plus there’s a cane’s like RIGHT next to my highschool so it’s very convenient to stop by afterwards and get food, lmao
I went there for the first time on the way home from a trip, and it was honestly really good in my opinion I love the way they bread their chicken and the toast is phenomenal
I’m going to Purdue for school, and they have a Canes on campus, and I absolutely love Canes. I see an addiction coming. My brothers already had an addiction to it, eating it at least 5 nights a week when it was less than a mile from his old house
Omfg he ate it every week? That’s so unhealthy 😱😂
YES! My school also has a canes on campus and we can use meal swipes to get our meal for free. It's so amazing. The only issue is that it was a little bit far from my dorm since our campus is huge, but it was right next to the building I had lab in so every week after chem lab I would eat there
I went there once a couple years ago, it was pretty good but not enough to wow me, but the lemonade was fantastic
This was hilarious to me cause I'm a worker at Cane's and I showed this to my Manager and he literally said "it's fine if he gives it a D tier, cause that's how I also feel about his Content" lmao
This made me laugh more than I should because I love the sass your manager has ha ha 😂
i hope you guys can mark all this short with which episode its come from..
help
Bob dissed Chick Fila for having soggy fries but praises Canes for crispy fries? Which Canes is he going to that doesn't have the most soggy fries out there
Canes in Louisiana off the charts. I would drive 20 mins and wait in the long line for some canes myself
Is this channel not going to have anymore full podcasts?
I really enjoyed this episode good topic Wade 🙂❤️
Wait, has Mark tried Cane's now that he's chewing food? Would that change anything, I wonder?
...Now that he's chewing food. He didn't *chew* before?
@@SeenAGreatLight he admitted to it awhile ago. 😂 He said he just would chew a couple times before just swallowing his food and never really tasting it.
It would be fun to see one episode like Hired or Fired from Samwitch on Twitch. The host and audience would know the topic(s) but the two competing wouldn’t. Similar to Wade’s Secret Words, the host would ask vague questions to the contestants about the “unknown” topic. Winner could either be which answers were the funniest or actually aligned with the topic(s)
I definitely agree that Cane’s is WAY over hyped. There is no spice. Everything tastes so bland. I think this is why so many people like it, there is no flavor to offend anyone with. While the sauce is pretty good, it shouldn’t have to be dumped on everything to make the meal taste good.
Louder for the people in the back!
@@lydiasullivan4156 I'm afraid he won't be able to repeat it. The Cane's Syndicate snipers have taken care of the problem.
Heard so much about it, the one closest to me is always packed with cars outside on the street. My dad loves them. I went there and got incredible small chicken and it didn't feel special. From my experience, it's overrated but it could be just a bad experience
I love the great point that Canes posts handsome dog pictures in their restaurant and it makes their restaurant attractive 😂
This whole restaurant episode just made me feel terrible because my garbage, middle of nowhere, retirement town doesn't even have half of the restaurants that made it in this episode. Things like this just always make me feel left out :(
Same! I've never even heard of this place before. At least half of the places they talk about in this episode I've never been to. The only "fast food" places in my town are Denny's, McDonald's, Burger King, Wendys, Little Cesar's, Domino's, Arby's, and a KFC/Taco Bell joint location. There's a few more options if I go to the nearest city (which can be anywhere from 40 to 60 minutes away), but a lot of these still aren't available.
As someone who used to work at Cane's, I can confirm that the chicken isn't processed. It's marinated for 24 hours before it's even cooked. You can also ask for "naked bird" which is just the chicken without breading. And tbh, if I didn't have such a bad experience working at the second location that i did, I'd probably rate it S myself. Also, everyone's favorite thing at Cane's is usually the toast or the sauce. The sandwich is literally 3 chicken tenders in between sesame seed buns with lettuce and canes sauce on the buns (you can also ask to have on toast instead of the regular bun if you like). And the toast is just bread that's been grilled with garlic butter on it. You can also ask for it to not be buttered. One last thing, there's also a honey mustard dipping sauce too if you like that. Everything that Cane's has is on the menu in the drive thru (you literally just have to look) except the ketchup and hot sauce but that's cuz they don't charge for them. There's not secret menu or anything. And if people have questions, feel free to ask. I can answer most things about Cane's. I worked there for a year and it's one of the simpler fast food chains in terms of the food
I feel like people hyped it up too much for me too. I would rather make crinkled cut fries and chicken tenders at home in my fryer tastes exactly the same in my opinion. I have a few family members that are super in love with Canes. Hope everyone is doing good take care ❤️
I live in illinois and there was a 200ish line of vehicles for canes that just recently opened up, it’s ridiculous.
bob's fridge was my first video for distractable and I'm so glad!!!
I thought an animation already came out for this episode.
Mark has lost some points in my eyes for not bending down to our fast food lord and sovereign.
The picture Mark sent in discord is definitely a Stephanie Soo mukbang 😂
I listen to this podcast since episode 1 ❤
Not a huge Raising Cane's fan. Price is good for what you get, which is a simple layout done well. The idea of them being D-tier is ludicrous though. They are overhyped, I agree. I think Zaxby's is better, but I go to Cane's more often for price and location convenience. I'd have been cool with B-tier.
Thank you!
I’ve seen zaxbys before but I’ve never gone to one before, if I went to one what is the best thing(s) to get?
@@admiralAlfonso9001 I like the #3 I think it is. It has tenders and bone in /boneless wings, toast, fry’s and sauce. I dig the teriyaki but they have a lot of sauces. They used to have killer fried mushrooms but swapped them for fried pickles which are still pretty good.
I tried zaxbys for the first time today and in my opinion
It was ok
I got the 3 nibblerz mini sandwich things, chicken was fine but it didn’t taste as fresh as canes and it felt more processed. The bread was so thick it gave me a mini headache, I got white cheese curds with ranch and that was good though. (Though not as good as culvers cheese curds) The zaxbys sauce was just ok to me.
Maybe I just went to a bad zaxbys or I didn’t pick something good off the menu but I don’t really want to go back there again. If you think it’s good then I’ll believe you and just assume I went to a bad one
I mean I do think the tenders are "just fine", but when you compare Cane's "just fine" tenders to everywhere else's dry, overly-breaded, overly-spiced chicken fingers for the price and convenience of a drive-thru... Cane's is comparatively S-tier, even if their chicken fingers are a bit bland without the sauce; they're at least not shittily seasoned.
Raising Cane's is awesome overall besides the fact that I just don't like coleslaw in general, but their Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce is DEFINITELY S-TIER, TO SAY THE LEAST! Great video here too guys, had me cracking up!!
My dad had Five Guys when he was driving trucks. It was the worst burger he’d ever had and he hated all the grease his burger had. I went to Five Guys after hearing it’s amazing from Mark, Bob, and Wade for a burger as well, and it was the BLANDEST burger I’d ever eaten before in my entire life. Dripping with a half cup of grease, but there was no flavor to the burger.
Five Guys is F Tier to low D. But only if I’m hungry enough and there’s no other places open to me accept the Nothing Burger from them.
Finally, I thought I was the only person on the planet who didn't care for Cane's
you are not. You ARE wrong, though. jk but not jk
Nope, I'm 100% with you. Same with Golden Chick. Everyone hyped GC up so much when our town first got one and I was SO disappointed when I finally got a chance to try it. Cane's is ok, but definitely also severly overrated. With so many chicken options out there, I just can't wrap my head around everyone worshiping Cane's like they do.
Agreed, "here's some old toast and dry chicken, enjoy!"
Literally! They have like no options, it takes forever to get your food, it’s always way too busy, the chicken isn’t the best, and I just don’t like the sauce. It’s too peppery
@@oopstb I'm sure there's some good locations, but damn the few experiences I've had with that place is not good xD loooooong ass wait times for something that taste worse then the damn Walmart deli
DANG we missed out.... we needed Mark to do a Canes video like how he did Timmy Hortons..
Thank you Mark for saying it! Everyone played Canes to me like it was this god level thing. Went there with such high expectations. Ate...and it was decent but like. The way everyone screams its glory is like. Ok i get it...its chicken tenders in a southwest ranch sauce? Guess thats pretty good. But i wouldn't pay 11 or 12 bucks just for some tenders.
Guess i found my hill to die on. after hearing about raising canes for months. that is was the best I was excited one opened near me at least on my route to work so one day I got off work i went there. it being still relatively new it was busy. Like crazy busy as the drive through line went past the parking lot so I didn't even try to get into it I just found some decent parking and got in line that had built up outside the restaurant. My hopes were high I was excited to finally get to try it. I got the strips that came with the bread and fries and sauce.
man was I disappointed with my 16 dollars worth of food. The fries were cold and soggy, the bread wasn't good. at least to me I am not a big bread fan so that can be her nor there. but the sauce is garbage to me. there are much better sauces out there like Kinders sauce. and the chicken strips were mediocre. sure not bad I have had worse. but not worth the 16 dollars I spent on them. raising canes is over rated in my books. its just above Denny's and other low tiers like that.
I go to Raising Cane's at least once a month to buy a large amount of the sauce just to put on my own chicken. So I only actually eat there once a month but I use their sauce on pretty much every chicken from every other place
I was waiting for them to do Culver’s for the entire episode and when wade mentioned it my heart leapt two feet from my chest before coming back and then I was duly disappointed by mark now knowing of Culver’s
They never mentioned Huey magoos
As a Culver's employee myself, I'd rate the place S-tier on treatment of guests and employees alone. I love it. :)
culver’s is my favorite fast food restaurant because they honestly never miss and they’re always super friendly no matter where you go. i guess it’s that midwest charm
Soooo... is this "take your time eating food" Mark, or "shovel it down without even tasting it" Mark?
Raising Cane’s in Louisiana is the BEST!! I’m willing to drive out and wait in line for Cane’s.
I get Canes when I can and once bought Canes every Wednesday for me and a couple co workers I enjoy it that much
The only Canes near me had soggy chicken when I went. :(
TIL there's a place called Canes that serves chicken apparently.Yes, I live in the US and have been to the biggest major metropolitan area in 9 different states (WA, ID, OR, CA, MA, PA, NV, MN, CO). This has completely escaped my consciousness somehow until now, I'm the same age as Mark, so that's over 30 years of obliviousness.
Raising Cane's is the full name
Shift manager here! Put whole package hot sauce in canes sauce! ❤️
As someone who's never been to a raising cane's because the nearest one is over 100 miles away, I think Lee's famous recipe is good stand in from what I can imagine
It's more closer to Zaxby's or Guthries as all three are based around the sauce hype
Even their chicken fingers and fries look near identical lmao
I've never tried it but my sister started working there so I sure I will sometime
5:35 I agree with Mark, In and Out is not worth the hype and anyone who says it is is lying to themselves my brother bought into it from his friends when we went to California a few years ago and it was not only a long ass wait the food in my opinion is not good. I don’t like fixings on my burger so no letuce, no Mayo, no special sauce, no toasted bun. You can’t even ask for a burger with how you want. So I did not have a great time and all because my brother insisted on getting it and I don’t even think he really liked it either and my parents weren’t in great mood while we got it.
Love Cane’s. Grew up without it and fell in love with it when I visited Texas. Sauce is goat.
Canes is pretty good the chicken tenders are pretty delicious. But to crave canes chicken idk how i crave it. But i am always happy how delicious it is. If I wanted chicken tenders or fried chicken at a fast food restaurant canes is 2nd on my list of getting chicken tenders. Now in Kentucky i only know 1 canes on bardstown road right next to the baxter theater. That is the only one I know. But its pretty good I will give them extra liking on the chicken chicken whats your picken. I love it when they say that. But I would rank it a B or a C on my list of fast food places.
I get what Mark is talking about. An In-N-Out burger opened in Austin a while back and there was a ton of hype. I went there with some friends and it was ok but not worth the wait. There are so many better burger places.
Name some
@@EliB207 Five Guys, Whataburger.
Are there not going to be full episodes here anymore?
no there isn't
they said on a livestream that its because they need everyone to move to spotify so they can compete with other podcasts
this podcast is the only reason I have Spotify
As someone who worked at Zaxby's during the first time I tried Canes...I felt conflicted. I liked it but I prefer Zaxby's any day.
Our tenders I prefer
Our toast I prefer
Our fries I prefer
I'm tied on the sauces
Canes coleslaw I prefer
Oh also Zaxby's cheddar bites..yummy
Mark has a point however I do enjoy cane's more than most restaurants even though I've only had it a few times but if s tier is like addiction mode then I'd say b. At least until I try the rest of the menu
Mark needs to really try Zaxby's some time, sadly there's no locations in Ohio as far as I know but it's really good stuff
In which we learn Mark might be a picky eater. 😂
had a feeling after i saw the way he “eats” takis 💀💀
@@unlikeli We should send Amy a card that says, "We're sorry you have to see how Mark 'eats' Takis." 😂
Raising Cane's is S-tier as hell. They came from out of nowhere, served one thing, did it well and have God-tier sauce.
@@battlekrusher4997 I like KFC's chicken better, because Caine's is pretty much all about the sauce. The Texas toast and Coleslaw is at least high A but the fries are low mid tier at best.
It was but then they began to cut the chicken strips in half and charge even more for smaller strips. I stopped going there but man it was bussin. That bread too 😋
just because there isn't a full version of this episode on youtube im going to put this here....
1:21:06 (spotify) I was hearing this while I was with my Whataburger uniform, I had seen what the guys from the afternoon do.. it isn't great, so yeah, it makes sense they don't give you good enough food... they can take half an hour per order, and if you ask for any item of breakfast, even if its as simple as a biscuit sausage, they just don't do it because they "don't know" how to do it, they don't even bother ask about it. I (graveyard shift, 11pm - 6 am) had to clean their shit (cus they leave a mess everywhere), restock for my shift and do burgers at the same time, if they see you struggling they don't care, managers from the afternoon are terrible, they just want to get paid and hook girls. So... yeah, buy Whataburger in the graveyard shift, we can sometimes be just 2 workers in the whole building, but we can get your food in 5 min or less and keep it clean, plus, the fryer will be recently clean (because we are who do that, and is not the job of our shift... plus we are all girls, female power i guess xD) and if you come by areound 5 am, the grill will be recently clean, I like to have it as clean as possible. At least my coworkers and I care about the food we give to our customers, sometimes we even give extra food or do special "1 time" food cus we aren't actually allowed to do that just for you to pay less for the same money.
And idk which one did you go, but for me, I prefer whataburger more than any other burger in my city, in and out is the only one that I could say is the same for me. Mcdonnald's I just go there for the frappé, burger king becuase it was the best option when I lived at México, carls jr close down when I was a kid, but it was way better than burger king. Jack in the box and wendys I like it, but is not the same-
Canes and Culvers are my two favorite fast food places
Mark is far more generous to Cane's than I am. I have had them several times, and I think for one that they are overpriced. The best that I have had from them is D tier food. Most of everything that I have had from them is F tier.
Unfortunately im going to move away from Arizona/the west coast soon so i wont have canes anymore ;(
I’m surprised that Bob and Wade didn’t ask Mark :“But did you taste it, properly?” When he said what he said about raising cane’s
I don't know if I have a Cane's near me. There probably is.
This podcast made me very, very hungry!
Can we please get full podcasts back on youtube? I can't afford the apps.
If you have an apple phone a podcast app is usually included with the phone and it is free there, most podcast apps it is on is free to use I’m pretty sure.
@@BobBob-zg5lz Thanks. But I don't have an apple phone, and I dont have enough space on my android for a podcast app.
I’ve driven 5 hours for canes because there wasn’t any in my state and I wanted some. ( I was already going to the state but I really wanted it)
Canes is only around B-tier for me. They're alright. Always get soggy fries there with maybe a few that are crunchy and okay. And honestly their toast always tastes like it was frozen before they toasted it 😂
As someone who eats canes quite a bit, I have to agree with Mark. But I like the bread, I don't know why though😅
I made the mistake of listening to the full podcast last night after dinner in bed. after 10 minutes I was out in the car driving to the local fast food restaurant
I work at Canes in Cleveland Ohio if Bob ever wants some free toast and fries👀👀👀👀👀👀
I’ve never had cane’s (there’s one close to where I live that we just barely got in the area like a few months ago, but I am NOT waiting in that impossibly long line), however, I understand mark’s feelings about it, because that’s the way I feel about in-n-out and chick-fil-a. Take away the sauce everyone’s so crazy about and what are you left with? The most unremarkable burgers and bland fried chicken in the fast food world. And that’s not even getting into the whole hypocritical faith bs with chick-fil-a. So ultimately, I’m with mark on the “not worth the several hour long lines” thing.
Nah, I love the food even without the sauce. I never use sauce with fast food, but Cane's is easily my favorite chicken tenders. As a tip, ask for the toast buttered-both-sides and it makes a very nice open face sandwich.
@@tracyblanchard7663 that’s cool. I’m glad you enjoy it, just expressing my thoughts on this stuff.
@@benjaminramsey498 don’t worry, I only got a bone to pick with the people running the company. You’re cool.
I’ve never had canes before I don’t have it where I live at all
I've never tried Cane's before but, looking up on Google Maps, I have one thats like a 15 minute drive away. I should go there just to see who's more correct. XD
Despite it being Mark, who swallows his food whole, im actually glad im not the only one who doesnt like Canes. I dont ever get any flavor beyond the peanut oil. The chicken is well cooked, juicy, but 0 flavor. The sauce is good though!
A cane’s opened recently near me
It was okay
I would definitely put it in high d low c
Anyone else wonder if this is Blueberry 2.0: Did Mark try Canes while chewing and tasting? instead of swallowing whole
Probably gonna die for this, but I agree with Mark. First time the family asked if I liked it I went, "it's just chicken" it tasted fine but to me it's just some chicken. I could go anywhere to get some chicken, like target which has some awesome fried chicken, at least the one near me does
How come you guys stopped posting on youtube?