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December 13, 2004

Carl's Jr. and the French

The French are suing Carl's Junior. Carl's Junior is one of my favorite fast food restaurants, but unfortunately it does have any franchises for several hundred miles from where I live now. Carl's Junior made a commercial that made fun of the French for surrendering so often. Its motto: "Don’t be a big chicken. Eat one." So in typical French fashion, instead of taking up arms against Carl's Junior they are filing a class action lawsuit.

The worst part of the suit is the Orwellian language of the lawyers doing the suing: "The actions of Carl’s Junior in these commercials are blatantly racist and a violation of the intent of the United States Constitution’s First Amendment regarding the use of Free Speech." After all, we know the first amendment has nothing to do with protecting offensive, controversial, or unpopular speech.

Update: Dangerous Dan informs me that there is a Carl's Jr in San Antonio. After visiting Carl's Junior's website I found one lone Carl's Junior on the way south side of San Antonio, with the nearest other locations being near Dallas, El Paso, and Brownsville. Why the hell didn't anyone tell me this before?!? I knew there was one in Wichita Falls and even made some friends stop there about two years ago so we could eat there on a road trip.

To sum up, screw the French. In the next week or so I will be eating at this restaurant and will see if it is as good as the others in California I grew up on. I will not order the offending chicken sandwich since ordering chicken at Carl's Junior is like ordering a hamburger at La Madeline. You go to Carl's Junior to get a big hunk of ground beef covered in BBQ sauce, cheese, bacon, and maybe an onion ring or two.

Posted by Pete at December 13, 2004 10:05 AM

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Posted by: Dangerous Dan at December 13, 2004 12:30 PM