he's definitely right wing but more importantly he's an idiot for opening a wings and fries operation and wondering why he's struggling in a totally saturated market
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Abed Ibrahim more like A Bed he made for himself lmao
aug 31, 2025, 11:05 am • 4 0 • view
i really wish more people took an interest in food the growing, preparation, distribution and economics around it and it's attendant businesses is just not something most people think about INCLUDING PEOPLE WHO OPEN FOOD SERVICE BUSINESSES like, look at that map dawg, this was never gonna work
aug 31, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, him saying Biden's health admin was worse is a tell. This dude is a moron
aug 31, 2025, 10:38 am • 30 0 • view
It's like saying "I'm selling Q t-shirts. Why do people think I'm a freak. Also they make some good points"
aug 31, 2025, 10:44 am • 20 0 • view
This guy has been getting roasted on the philly subs since he opened his restaurant. He absolutely is right wing - it's very obvious from the way he double downs whenever people have suggested different things about his restaurant
aug 31, 2025, 11:00 am • 8 0 • view
lol can't really say i'm surprised
aug 31, 2025, 11:03 am • 3 0 • view
The big tell is that he is baffled by any suggestion of leading with tallow fried foods tasting better - to him the dubious health stuff has to be front and center or the projects not worth it
aug 31, 2025, 11:05 am • 7 0 • view
Like even the suggestion to separate his hot chicken from the other places in Philly by advertising it's fried how the OG hot chicken shack used to...guy didn't even know what Prince's was. Which is where I kinda lost empathy. Just another culture vulture bastardizing black food
aug 31, 2025, 11:08 am • 8 0 • view
I don't think it's okay to send the guy death threats but I'm not sympathetic to his case. Dude opened a place called Tallow in 2025 and acted like he didn't know
aug 31, 2025, 11:13 am • 1 0 • view
He received hundreds of comments about how he'd do better with a different name. He responded to most of them explaining why those people were wrong. Hilarious to see him begging now
aug 31, 2025, 11:14 am • 4 0 • view
I'm skeptical he got death threats at all, unless he considers "haha good riddance to ur business" a threat.
aug 31, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
i don't think we should encourage him to come up with original ideas though
aug 31, 2025, 11:14 am • 2 0 • view
“We aren’t actually selling this (yet)! Also we will give you more!”
aug 31, 2025, 11:24 am • 3 0 • view
The job I just got laid off from had a spicy popcorn recipe so unfortunately I know he's kinda cooking here
aug 31, 2025, 11:16 am • 2 0 • view
It's also relevant that this is in Philly.
aug 31, 2025, 12:49 pm • 7 0 • view
i tried my first buffalo wing at Old City Pizza when I was like 7. As loyal a Philadelphian, you should just keep returning to the same place you tried your first at when you were 7 until you die afaic...
aug 31, 2025, 2:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Here's the part where I'm old. I *clearly* remember Dominos sort of propagating buffalo wings b/c the Bills kept losing in the Super Bowl. They weren't a thing befote that.
aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 2 0 • view
1. amazing lmao 2. glad i was born into a world after buffalo wings
aug 31, 2025, 2:34 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 12:25 pm • 8 0 • view
Ok but these exist and there’s one in Minneapolis that gets booked for reservations months in advance
aug 31, 2025, 3:52 pm • 2 0 • view
almost goes without saying that the most common indigenous cuisine in the USA by far is Mexican food (although tex mex obvs has more Euro influences, like cheese, wheat flour, and cumin)
aug 31, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Tex mex is kind of its own thing imo
aug 31, 2025, 3:56 pm • 2 0 • view
I mean, "purely indigenous" foods also have influences that postdate 1492 for the same reason that "purely Chinese" food might still use peppers, because actually purity is not real
aug 31, 2025, 3:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Yea I just mean that Tex-Mex is kind of its own thing within the canon of Hispanophone North American foods.
aug 31, 2025, 4:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Like imo it has the same relationship to Mexican food as Punjabi food to Indian food (highly localized regional variation from the borderlands that due to the vagaries of empire became a dominant form in the metropole)
aug 31, 2025, 4:02 pm • 2 0 • view
hey i remember this guy getting roasted multiple times in the philly subreddit. idk why he gets an article about failing, that’s just what most new restaurants do especially when their chosen gimmick is tallow instead of just being good food
aug 31, 2025, 11:10 am • 27 0 • view
he coulda done some research and tried this in hutto tx or something, get in the door early on an exurban texas pad site district near a freeway exit and you could do some real numbers.
aug 31, 2025, 11:12 am • 10 0 • view
Or bucks!
aug 31, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Also his opening hours were fucking garbage - it was like 11-7
aug 31, 2025, 10:53 am • 7 0 • view
Right! Unless you are REALLY good and/or REALLY niche, you don’t get to own a restaurant and just work the hours you wanna work and make money. You’re gonna have to be open early or late.
aug 31, 2025, 1:41 pm • 5 0 • view
Saturated fat market was right there to use
aug 31, 2025, 12:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Inside a grocery store too with national chicken chains right outside lmao. Like yeah dude I wonder why people aren't parking their car walking inside a grocery store and paying $4 more for less chicken instead of going through the Cane's drive thru.
aug 31, 2025, 12:58 pm • 5 0 • view
Why do any of these morons think any type of fried food can be healthy?
aug 31, 2025, 1:12 pm • 2 0 • view
I love my markets like my fats, saturated.
aug 31, 2025, 10:59 am • 15 0 • view
I believe he gave his tenders "epic bacon" prices, which probably also didn't help.
aug 31, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s also in Philly, I believe, which is not where I’d launch a right-coded grease shack.
aug 31, 2025, 10:57 am • 4 0 • view
Honestly think his biggest issue is having a restaurant named tallow in a city with an overall pretty low adult literacy rate (he's also in one of the poorest parts of the city!)
aug 31, 2025, 11:02 am • 1 0 • view
looking at google maps it also seems like it's in perpetual roadway construction hell, like zero foot traffic
aug 31, 2025, 11:04 am • 3 0 • view
I think the weirdest part for me was it was inside a ShopRite, which limits its hours and probably charges a jacked-up rent. Foot traffic inside is people getting groceries. If they’re getting prepared foods, it’s going to be like potato salad, not French fries which will get cold.
aug 31, 2025, 11:07 am • 7 0 • view
Says in the rolling stone article that he has a profit sharing arrangement rather than a fixed rent. But he’s still losing money.
aug 31, 2025, 12:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Or maybe it was revenue sharing. I’m not reading it twice.
aug 31, 2025, 12:11 pm • 3 0 • view
honestly that's weird to me because I've never encountered any other ShopRite in the city that leased restaurant space
aug 31, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 0 • view
True innovator
aug 31, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
Good point, I don’t think I have either.
aug 31, 2025, 11:11 am • 0 0 • view
But tallow is the magic word! Feels distantly related to the vibe physics that’ll throw the word “quantum” on theories so bad they belong on the fridge drawn in crayon
aug 31, 2025, 11:50 am • 5 0 • view
right-wingers love to call culture war bs they hate "political" and culture war bs they love "apolitical"
aug 31, 2025, 11:16 am • 10 0 • view
If his name were Johnny McIntyre, he’d have become an overnight maga smash.
aug 31, 2025, 11:32 am • 1 0 • view
What is their obsession with tallow, anyway?
aug 31, 2025, 11:50 am • 2 0 • view
Tallow tastes good, that’s the long and short of it.
aug 31, 2025, 12:02 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm sure it does, but I'm getting very strong "clogging up my arteries to own the libs" energy lately...
aug 31, 2025, 12:10 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s bc they say seed oils are poison
aug 31, 2025, 12:42 pm • 5 0 • view
I don’t know if what they say about the “hateful eight” is true or not. I don’t particularly like canola oil because it smells “fishy”, and not in a good way. I’ll use olive oil for sautéing, grape seed oil for high heat, and peanut oil for frying. I’ve cut way back on the frying.
aug 31, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Shhhh…. First rule about tricking the fashies into eating themselves to death, Is, We don’t talk about tricking the fashies into eating themselves to death.
aug 31, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
There's a saturated fat joke in here but it's Sunday and I'm not looking too hard for it.
aug 31, 2025, 10:37 am • 8 0 • view
Back in the 90s we used to joke about these guys, "Democrats and Republicans are all the same, that's why I vote Republican"
aug 31, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s literally in a plaza with a Popeyes and a Raising Canes…
aug 31, 2025, 11:21 am • 3 0 • view
Please tell me “totally saturated” was on purpose.
aug 31, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, he is closed on Sundays plus Friday and Saturday after 6 PM. Dude is trying to fail.
aug 31, 2025, 1:43 pm • 14 0 • view
hot tip for budding entrepreneurs: this might not be a good place to start a restaurant selling fried chicken strips, sandwiches and french fries
aug 31, 2025, 10:35 am • 638 19 • view
yeah someone tried to open a chicken and fries place here presumably for people who didn't want to get their chicken and fries at Chik-Fil-A just up the street and it ended about the same way
aug 31, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol there’s a wing stop in that complex too
aug 31, 2025, 1:41 pm • 18 0 • view
Average small business tyrant gets arrested counting to 21 in public
aug 31, 2025, 1:49 pm • 12 0 • view
Shows what you know! *going back to the Walgreens I own across the street from ShopRite*
aug 31, 2025, 10:37 am • 6 0 • view
but hear me out what if my chicken is apolitical? (my restaurant concept is called dog whistles)
aug 31, 2025, 11:44 am • 3 0 • view
Weirdly enough, entrepreneurship research has found that imitative businesses are more likely to succeed than truly innovative ones. I mean, think about how often you see McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King restaurants clustered near each other.
aug 31, 2025, 11:14 am • 3 0 • view
Lol
aug 31, 2025, 10:36 am • 3 0 • view
It's really hard to express how weird a location this is. For most people in the city, the only time you go anywhere remotely close to this place is if the normal way to/from the airport is all fucked up
aug 31, 2025, 11:51 am • 4 0 • view
You can’t even have your alt right hipster boutique fry shop outcompete McDonalds anymore. Because of woke
aug 31, 2025, 10:42 am • 17 0 • view
A rising tide lifts all boats /s
aug 31, 2025, 10:38 am • 2 0 • view
It's a nash equilibrium.
aug 31, 2025, 11:07 am • 4 0 • view
Clearly struggling because of woke
aug 31, 2025, 11:37 am • 2 0 • view
it's great that the "some random weirdo gets roasted on Twitter, somehow that merits a piece in huge legacy outlet" industry is alive and well tho
aug 31, 2025, 12:19 pm • 9 0 • view
Buddy this is the entire business model of Toronto Life
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't even know what that is, but it ain't Rolling Stone
aug 31, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
You'll never believe how poorly he responded when people brought this up lmao
aug 31, 2025, 11:12 am • 4 0 • view
I mean, at this point I wouldn’t even be surprised if ShopRite had a signature fried chicken sandwich. 😂
aug 31, 2025, 12:11 pm • 3 0 • view
They have rotisserie chicken dinners on sale on mondays!
aug 31, 2025, 12:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Does he fry chicken wings in beef tallow? That must be outlawed in the Bible or something
aug 31, 2025, 10:38 am • 25 0 • view
it's what popeye's does, though i think they've switched to a tallow and vegetable blend in recent years
aug 31, 2025, 10:41 am • 40 0 • view
This part of it actually delicious, and I really resent that that these nutjobs have ruined frying things in animal fat as a concept
aug 31, 2025, 10:47 am • 55 1 • view
believe me i know, ive got a big thing of costco tallow in my fridge right now and schmaltz/lard in the freezer. these people are making us look weird for being good at cooking
aug 31, 2025, 10:48 am • 112 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 11:52 am • 307 12 • view
Schmaltz is virtuous, heimish cooking fat for simple souls and tallow is decadent bourgeois wickedness and waste
aug 31, 2025, 12:19 pm • 25 1 • view
You used to just seem like a snob for buying duck fat, now people think you’re a seed oil freak
aug 31, 2025, 10:51 am • 17 1 • view
Buy duck fat and sunflower oil at the same time
aug 31, 2025, 2:30 pm • 1 0 • view
in my experience it’s wholly isolated to beef tallow because these idiots only listen to direct instructions from culture war health podcasts and shit
aug 31, 2025, 10:53 am • 16 0 • view
Yeah, this is mostly true. Also I’m assuming they think cows are the manliest animal or something so they’ve really zeroed in on that.
aug 31, 2025, 10:55 am • 3 0 • view
Going to the grocery store and buying tallow and schmaltz with the same furtive shame as a teenager buying condoms
aug 31, 2025, 2:29 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 2:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Is the costco tallow worth it? I like their leaf lard.
aug 31, 2025, 11:12 am • 1 0 • view
it's pretty good! kind of on the pricey side but is what it is
aug 31, 2025, 11:16 am • 0 0 • view
I think they'd freak out over how (I assume) we use these things, french onion soup is woke, schmaltz for gravy is woke, mixing plant and animal oils for roasting is woke, making mayonnaise and using olive oil is woke, hot water pastry for a mushroom pie is woke. So we're fine I reckon.
aug 31, 2025, 10:56 am • 4 0 • view
I work in food processing. A ton of big food brands reached out asking for our tallow process. Our engineers went into the vault. Blew the dust off of 80 year old drawings & put them into our CADD program. Easiest money we've made in decades.
aug 31, 2025, 12:29 pm • 1 0 • view
As much as I hate to say it, as someone with more than enough training and experience working in kitchens and the culinary world, a surprising number of kitchen staff from top to bottom are right-wing and somehow believe they’re going to benefit from the right winning shit-
aug 31, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
What’s next, salmon in chicken fat where does it end
aug 31, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
An In N Out moved next door to a Carl's Jr in my city and the Carl's was closed within two years, and this guy was like "watch this shit mother fucker" (trips and falls on my ass)
aug 31, 2025, 11:05 am • 16 0 • view
To be clear, this dude's stall is INSIDE A GROCERY STORE RIGHT NEAR PREPARED FOODS. There is advertising for the "world famous sides" of the prepared foods department directly over the opening he serves from. And the prep foods department is probably at most half the price.
aug 31, 2025, 11:10 am • 8 1 • view
Prep food has been a better value proposition than "fast food" for like two years now
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Fascinating how so many "small business owners" are barely sentient.
aug 31, 2025, 12:11 pm • 10 0 • view
Don't mind me just opening my chicken joint directly adjacent to the best fast food chicken places available, also my hours are bad, I'm located inside a grocery store for some reason, and all my marketing appeals to Robert F Kennedy Jr and nobody else. Why am I failing????
aug 31, 2025, 12:19 pm • 10 0 • view
Guy got his ass absolutely beat by himself
aug 31, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
thanks
aug 31, 2025, 10:38 am • 1 0 • view
There's a Popeyes just out of frame too lol
aug 31, 2025, 10:39 am • 63 0 • view
AND A WINGSTOP. This strip mall is fried chicken central. Also his location is *inside* the ShopRite.
aug 31, 2025, 10:44 am • 12 0 • view
There are five chicken stores in this plaza, and four of them have signage advertising the location outside their store…it’s so fucking funny
aug 31, 2025, 12:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Really hard to imagine a worse location in all of Philly
aug 31, 2025, 1:12 pm • 3 0 • view
There is ALSO a Wingstop at the end of the shopping center next to the Popeye's. And the grocery store he's next to sells chicken wings and also he was told all of this on Philly subreddits over a year ago and he aggressively ignored it.
aug 31, 2025, 12:31 pm • 4 0 • view
incredible. you'll never guess what popeyes fries their chicken in lol
aug 31, 2025, 10:44 am • 67 0 • view
Oh, the fried food district
aug 31, 2025, 11:57 am • 3 0 • view
And I'm not gonna bother looking up anything about this guy's restaurant but it wouldn't shock me in the slightest if chicken strips and fries at his place cost upwards of $20.
aug 31, 2025, 11:58 am • 2 0 • view
just unbelievably bad business intelligence at a rudimentary level
aug 31, 2025, 10:48 am • 3 0 • view
Literally nothing in the entire world is "apolitical"
aug 31, 2025, 10:57 am • 5 0 • view