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Long John Silver's Restaurants - Oh Brother! Another Tartar Sauce review...

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Review by JAKFK on 2013-02-28
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I would've liked to rang their bell...both literally and figuratively. The chicken planks were delectable, as were the new style of fries they serve. The problem was with the tartar sauce and its consistency...or lack thereof. It had obviously been watered down, much the same way your buffet style restaurants derive pleasure from doing that to their Ranch dressing at the salad bar. Perhaps, I am just spoiled, and have become accustomed to receiving a quality tartar sauce that could stand on a spoon turned sideways. Whatever lofty ambitions they may have had at getting another patron to ring the bell as they exited the door, went down the drain when they decided to dilute my delightful dip.

In my opinion, the standard of your average fish & chips joint boils down to the tartar sauce. That is the deal breaker for me.
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Posted by trmn8r on 2013-02-28:
I ate at LJS once in my life, and it was the "planks" that led me to never return.

I don't believe they called them planks, but that describes what I was served. Bad memories.
Posted by MDSasquatch on 2013-02-28:
My wife is also a lover of the Tartar Sauce; we feel you pain.
Posted by DebtorBasher on 2013-02-28:
I noticed how thin and runny their Tartar sauce is in the little packets they give you to go. If their sauce is like that inside, then it's probably not them watering it down, but the way it is made when it's sent to them. There was hardly any pickle in the packets when I used them. I make my own Tartar sauce and keep it in a little jar.
Posted by madconsumer on 2013-02-28:
at least they did not charge you 30 pence extra for it!!
Posted by MRM on 2013-02-28:
I love tarter sauce on my fish filet! HmMmMm!!!
Posted by Mota_Manual on 2013-03-01:
Eeww GROSS! Nothing they makwe is worth eating.
Posted by Wally25 on 2013-03-01:
I ate there couple time! wasn't really worth coming back.
Posted by Old Timer on 2013-03-01:
Tarter and LJS, tarter and the FOF disaster, when does it end?
Posted by Anna Molly on 2013-03-01:
Old Timer, it never ends :(

Posted by Alain on 2013-03-01:
Nothing says "We don't care" like cruddy condiments.
Posted by leet60 on 2013-03-01:
@madconsumer - are you in Europe? While living in Germany, I was taken aback by the fact that fast food restaurants charged extra for condiments - note that is not "extra" condiments (i.e. ketchup etc.) but you are charged extra for even a single packet. I was also somewhat amused by finding McDonald's in Germany having their restrooms staffed by an attendant and that you were expected to tip the attendant to use them - which I did not mind as they were exceptionally clean and well stocked.
Posted by JAKFK on 2013-03-01:
One good thing about dining in at LJS is that they won't charge you extra for packets, since they don't give you any to begin with. Instead, they have large stainless steel containers with hand pumps on them. You give em' a push, and out comes a serving of your desired condiment.
Posted by JAKFK on 2013-03-01:
DEBTORBASHER> Please tell me that you do not carry a little jar of sauce with you in public?
Posted by CrazyRedHead on 2013-03-01:
The last time (3 years ago) I went to LJS, I got sick. I think it was the amount of grease in the food.
Posted by Laurella on 2013-03-01:
LJS has gotten so expensive recently. I used to love thier food, but the high prices are keeping me away.
Posted by Natalie on 2013-03-28:
I haven't been back since the tartar sauce change... The old tartar sauce was one of my favorite things and complemented the fish perfectly!

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