You just discovered a new type of guy, the Cookout guy. He is almost the same as the Five Guy or the Cracker Barrel guy, in that he waits outside of incredibly overrated food chains for hours to eat heart attack accelerant. The big difference is branding. Usually Cookout guys are younger fratty business majors who take pride in the fact that their student housing gentrified a historically black neighborhood in the state school four towns over from their parents. Sometimes, if the cardiovascular illness doesn't set in early, they blossom into five guys, middle-aged manchildren who wear tapout shirts and who have estranged wives and/or children who do not acknowledge them. If a Five Guy is really, really lucky or doesn't smoke and drink, he might make it to the ripe old age of Cracker Barrel guy, where he has developed into the type of creature whose every possible utterance is mostly racist and all facade of coherence or continuity has vanished.
Your sober friend(s) drive you there at 1am to get some food because you've been drinking/smoking/etc. It's just a cheap (or was) place to get a variety of fried/grilled food. They differ from McDonalds or other places because they grilled their burgers and they were thicker patties. It's very popular among college students.
Cheddar style burger tray with cajun fries and a chicken quesadilla + large Cheerwine. It's very good when you're drunk.
You guys are being Wojak in the corner of a party while people are knowingly eating trashy food being like "Wow, they don't know they're not enjoying it. Don't they know this is overrated?"
I haven't been to a Cookout but I'm familiar with the concept. I think adherents are so horny about it because of the weirdly large menu and it being cheap. Southerners really like when their regional things are inexplicably different than every other thing. Go to a Zaxby's, also different from other places.
Zaxby's is just a Raising Cane's rip off. It's all the same chicken tenders, toast, crinkle fries, toast, and special sauce. There's another place that does the same exact food too, I can't remember it though.
Bojangles is the southern chicken place. It's just KFC but more southern. Spicier chicken, different sides.
I think it's because people can get all of their favorite treats at the same time. It reminds me of the kids menu at a sit down restaurant but it's for everybody.
It's the only place you can get a burger, mozzarella sticks, a quesadilla, and a milkshake as one order.
All their food is clearly microwaved and they're not the best at anything they make. If you made anything they sell at home you couldn't make it worse if you tried.
It’s the only place you can get a burger, mozzarella sticks, a quesadilla, and a milkshake as one order.
That doesn't seem that unique to me? I can think of a dozen places whose menu has all of those items, including the Chinese restaurant near my college lol
It's the only fast food place where you can order two chicken quesadillas with a side of chicken quesadilla and another side of chicken quesadilla and a drink for under 10 bucks.
It's better than Christian Chicken and they got some pretty decent milkshakes.
I have been to cookout. It's like a better version of Chick-fil-A. Really good as far as fast food goes
My friend from Worst Carolina used to talk about it sometimes, I figured it was just like a beloved regional fast-food chain. I also figured that like the west coast's obsession with in-n-out that the hype was overblown.
Cookout is the shit and it's so fucking cheap. It's where I took a canadian friend in college so he could try his first hushpuppies
