EARTH IS WEIRD PLACE

you know I kind of thought "why does that pastor look like Joe Torre" and then I realized he's wearing a scarf.

there was a magazine ad where simms and torre looked even more like the sonic guys than they do there, which is where I first realized this

Umm why would anyone NOT rep for Sonic?

STILL HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED SONIC, YOU GUYS! ;_;

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sonic = tease

dudes, i love the sonic commercials.

also, i love tots.

Me and Jesse and some other Chilxors are pals with one of the women in a Sonic commercial except I've never seen hers because it doesn't air in Chicago.

bnw gets it

are the sonic ad cast all chicago improv people?
those guys up there have apparently done 115 of them

that is like a lifetime of sonic products to shill

Our friend is a Chicago improv person. I don't know about the rest of the actors, but I do recall her saying that the ads are all improv.

The guy she works with in the commercials is currently an LA improv guy.

oh is she the one who has to deal with the weird nebbish? he's all "you got a raspberry iced tea, what does that say about YOU?" and she sez "that I'm an ADULT" hilarious

ok not really hilarious but decent enough for teevee trying to sell me things I can never have

My latest fave involves a secret dude hiding in the backseat of T.J. and Pete's car.

have not seen!!!

Yeah, their national campaigns have been pissing me off for years now: don't remind me of your tasty shit if you're not prepared to sell it within 50 miles of where I live!

(That said, I am actually considering a trip out toward Philly to hit the nearest Sonic: NYCILXors please contact if interested)

I can't wait until I go home for thanksgiving so I can have SONIC. FUCK TURKEY.

plz tell me FUCK TURKEY is but one of an amazing array of delicacies that Sonic has to offer

fuck turkey is actually the one lyric that had to be excised from daft punk's "teachers" prior to release

FUCK TURKEY
IN THE HOUSE

saturday, when i was at sonic getting a strawberry cream pie milkshame (OMG ACTUAL TYPO), err, milkSHAKE, i saw them pimping their new fried delight: macaroni and cheese bits. yeah, breaded mac and cheese bites.

^^^ omg

fried things let me eat you

She did one commercial with another woman (friend is Indian, other woman was white, they were supposed to be "Latina" she said... yeesh) and then just filmed another but I don't know what that one was about.

This is friend's headshot: http://www.stirfridaynight.org/images/headshots/sayjal_joshi.jpg

I don't need Sonic's weird-ass inventions or fruit-syrup ice-buckets: just give me a bacon cheeseburger, some salty fries, and a straight chocolate malt.

sucks to live in a city where people care about being fatasses :D

ha! bnw otm.

nabisco, totally. their breakfast burrito is nasty. it has tots in it, which i think would be a good thing, but no, it's just weird and makes me die a little inside.

NB i used to live 3 blocks from a sonic, and had never had previous exposure to one (i.e. moved halfway across the country). those were dangerous times (for my colon).

TJ Jagodowski is a Chicago improv dude. I've seen him perform at iO.

My bad. I thought you were talking Molly Erdman.

I tried their weird fried cheesecake things last summer. no thanks anyway, but plz give me all the foot-long chili cheez dogs + tots + Route 44 limeade which is to die for.

Aw fuck the commercials are the WORST THING about Sonic. Not too crazy abt the Full Throttle slushee either.

Those cheesecake things sound the yumtacular bizarre of the world of unusual fried things. So do the mac 'n' cheese bits! But they also sound like they could def. be disappointing of even gross. Tell me how these food items are.

Could someone recommend me the secret yum foods of the Sonic menu? I usually get route 44 limeade and then can't figure out any food items because their menu is so busy and overflowing and kind of sort of barely like another language. "Texas Toast"? I'm not that crazy abt hot dogs in general, so they're out (unless like they are extra awesome), and I didn't like their popcorn chicken or cheese sticks (*cries,* normally cheese sticks are my faves!). This thread is making me want to eat there tonight.

if you live near a sonic and don't go down the menu and try everything then you suck

seriously going to sonic and getting the same stuff everytime, when it's not like a once-every-six-months-or-more kind of experience, that is just wrong

"Texas Toast"?

Texas Toast is not even close to like barely another language.

the cheesecake things were stickier than I wanted them to be, also did not like the fake neon red "dipping sauce" stuff.

There are many delightful toothsome things at Sonic, but sometimes you have to be in the mood for them. Like Frito pie.

there isnt a sonic w/in hundreds of miles of ny yet those commercials are on all the time. why? also i hate them so much. i have never eaten the sonic.

Same thing in Chicago! I have no idea where the closest Sonic is. The only one I've ever been to was on a family vacation in, like, Mississippi.

T.J. Jagodowski is awesome.

I know what Texas toast is but when it's mangled with 136 other menu options, half of which have registered trademarks next to them, they're hardly words anymore.

yeah maybe you just need to focus when you get to the Sonic

FOCUS ON SONICS

omg frito pie

Sonic is pretty much an infrequent experience for me bcz I've been like in love with Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich + baked spud combo. NOM. AND, like I said, I can't figure out a goddamn thing to eat there! Maybe I'll get the mac 'n' cheese bits & report back, unless someobne warns me in the next 1.5 hours.

Waht is zees Frito Pie?

Your friendly neighborhood Sonic locator.

Coneys
Extra-long with cheese and chili, Coneys are a traditional SONIC® favorite!

Try These Add Ons:
Hot Chili, Crispy Bacon, Cheese

This sounds decent:

Bacon Cheeseburger TOASTER® Sandwich
Single meat, Bacon, Dill Pickle, Onion, Lettuce, Tomato, Cheese, an Onion Ring & Hickory BBQ sauce

Frito pie: layer of Fritos, topped w/chili, topped w/ cheez/onion/jalapenos/sour cream, in one of those paper boat things

possibly created by Daisy Dean Doolin, right after the Frito was invented.

someone needs to create a formula for how frequently ILX threads turn into discussions about fast food.

http://www.sonicdrivein.com/images/menu_promo_extraLongBaconCheddarCheesesteak2.jpg

HOLY FUCKING POOP

What, you think you have to go to Philadelphia to get a quality cheesesteak? Just swing by any SONIC® (including the Philadelphia locations) and order a big, hearty, meat-lovers sandwich—juicy steak smothered with smoky cheddar cheese, crispy bacon, grilled onions and mayonnaise. Only SONIC® makes it extra long. Because we know that the regular amount of flavor just won't cut the mustard ... I mean mayo. There's no mustard. Forget I mentioned that.

See this is why their menu is kind of like a baby mushroom trip for me.

OK, here is the closest Sonic to me:

601 NORTH MATTIS AVENUE
CHAMPAIGN, IL 618212451
(217) 356-1230
Drive-Thru Available
131.03 miles

it's worth it jaymc

I don't know why you would read any of that. It says "extra long bacon cheddar cheesesteak." the rest of the copy is totally superfluous.

But I don't think half these things are on any cheesesteak I've ever had! juicy steak smothered with smoky cheddar cheese, crispy bacon, grilled onions and mayonnaise

Bacon & mayonnaise?

They're just making crap up!

I would like to kick any non-poultry sandwich with mayo on it in the neck.

I hate to tell you this, people who live in Sonic-less parts of the world, but Sonic's food is awful. Top to fucking bottom.

even the Texas Toast can't hold a candle to the sublime Whataburger Texas Toast.

I hate mayonaisse to, Dan! I hate it so much! I thought that was the funniest facet of Undercover Brother bar none. Hot dogh w/cheese sauce doesn't need mayo.

too, too, I hate it TOO

you people do not like bacon with mayo?
fuck you people. just fuck you.

omg there's a Sonic® 10 miles outside of Portland and now i know.

Whataburger is pretty shit, INMFFO

portland it is

I don't get Whataburger at all. Maybe if those bastards served breakfast all day! Their chicken & honey biscuit looks awesome but yeah like I'm going to drive there before 10:30 a.m. to eat it.

Whataburger makes the only good fast-food chicken strips + great fries.

Basically, it is drunk food A+++++. The burgers might suck, I dunno.

oh okay right on i was just talking about Whataburger's burgers.

they should have wmataburgers
for on the trains
get it

*badabump*

I stopped at a Sonic a couple weeks ago and was so overtaken by the itis afterwards that I took a stealth nap at the table for 45 minutes before I could summon up the gusto to bike the 2 miles home.

lol u did it wrong it is a drive in not a bike in
u supposed to fall asleep at the wheel

phil simms looks v. grandmotherly in that pic

Sonic has helped make me the fat tub of goo I am today. The burgers, coneys, onion rings and tots are good, the fries are meh, the limeade is good, the breakfast burritos are GODAWFUL.

the breakfast burritos are GODAWFUL.

amen.

but Sonic's food is awful. Top to fucking bottom.

BLASPHEMY.

while doing a search for SONIC TOT, i came up with this:

TOTREJECTION.COM

SONIC Drive-In Map
850 CROSSINGS BOULEVARD
MORGANTOWN, PA 19520
(610) 286-3610

110 fucking miles

Sonic was responsible for the most awful vomit-related night of my life, involving myself, my dad, and my pregnant mother doing some pretty impressive floor-ruining tag-team chunk-blowing.

I will admit, however, that this was in 1993 Clarksville, TN, where the only health code regulation seems to have been "If you could keep the excrement levels to less than 10%, we'd really appreciate it. Y'all."

note to self: do not eat in clarksville

Especially not in 1993. Gah.

Ha, it's nice to live in a location where I can just saunter down the street to Sonic and get one of those Apple/Cherry -ades. It makes up for not being able to go to Boston Market, those weird adult Chuck E. Cheese places where adults play racecar video games all night, and (goddammit) Krystal Burgers.

In many restaurants in Little Rock, those big toasted pieces of bread are called "Texarkana Toast". We also play a form of poker called "Texarkana Hold-Em". HATERZ ROLL.

It was down by Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old, old cottonfields
with toast

'adult Chuck E. Cheese' = Dave & Buster's?

Boston Market veggies are so good.

Yeah, Dave & Buster's. It's like Applebee's meets Showbiz, right?

I also miss Ember's in a weird sort of way.

does dave and buster's have an animatronic jug band? 'cuz if so, i'm there.

xp - yeah, that's about right - TGI McFunster's plus drunk people playing skeeball.

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i hav had fried mac & cheese while drunk in columbus, it is fantastic while drunk in columbus

this thread has def convinced me to head to the nearest sonic asap

FUCK TURKEY
IN THE HOUSE
YEAH

mmmmmm, tot abuse

Ha! I did not make it to Hot Doug's for duck-fat-fried fries last week, but I DID hit that Sonic in Champaign - NOM NOM NOM. Also, Steak N Shake. And the mighty White Castle. This is what the midwest means to me: greasy drive-in/thru foods.

why the hell does minnesota get a shit ton of 'sonic' commercials
when the closest one is in sioux falls, south dakota?

also, phil simms' hair > everything

what is FUCK TURKEY