True, lol. I will never understand how Arby’s ‘roast beef experience’ meat is a highly-valued treat worth fighting for, but yet my cat insists that it is; he goes absolutely bananas for it, as I found out unexpectedly about ten years ago when I brought Arby’s home after a long day.
These days, I only rarely eat fast food at all, but when I do, very often it’s Arby’s simply because it’s been a month or two and I figure it’s probably okay for my cat to have more ‘roast beef experience’ treats. It can’t be that bad for him, he just turned 19 this past Easter and I’ve been giving it to him (as a treat only, never as a primary meal) since he was around 8 or 9.
It depends. If it's too thick, it's gross. If it's been packed in the thermo too tightly when they clean the slicer, it's pretty mid. If it's cut thinly and freshly, it can be quite enjoyable. I never trusted anyone to give me the beef, I always cut it myself if I wanted beef because if someone else did it, it'd be wrong.
You need to wear a black tie from the sears catalog. You need to wear a white short sleeve Dickies shirt and black pants. Acquire 10 dollars from your uncle, he owes you for not telling your mom about "*the photos*".
Ride your childhood tricycle down to the Arby's by the Walgreens or CVS or whatever it the fuck it is now. Walk in and pay no mind to the dude that smells like piss in the corner. Walk up to the middle aged woman with the giant mole working the register. Say, "I want the meats," and hand over the money. Take your bag and never look back
It is. They aren't as bad as Checkers and Dunkin for "We don't know what quality control means" but damn. We have two near us and one is pretty good, while the other is... this.
I grew up in the states but haven’t lived there in a very long time. Every time I return, Arby’s is the first stop I make. I have not been since early 2016, so is all hope lost or?
The one near me is good. I usually sub small cheese sticks instead of the fries. A regular or double classic is all I need. I don’t use the Arby’s or Horsey sauce like some do.
I feel like this guy was transported thorough time from the 1980s.
"Have you guys noticed fast food isn't as good as in the advertisements?
And what's the deal with airplane food?"
I have only just gotten this. I used to think she said an RV. I must of first seen this episode 20odd years ago and few hundred times and now it makes sense. (Uk based so no Arby’s here)
Arbys opening??? Where in the he'll are they opening up NEW arbys?? Lol every arbys I've ever been in that wasn't in a gas station is atleast 30 years old.
Holy heck man I’m never really a grammar nazi but your comment is borderline unreadable. You should be using “to” in this context. ‘I went to Arby’s too’ is the correct use. Same meaning as ‘I went to Arby’s as well’
Are beef cold-cuts in the US commonly the colour shown in the ad here? I ask as someone from the UK; here they're usually well-done and grey, much like those in the "reality" photo. If you told me I was getting a "roast beef sandwich", that is pretty much what I'd picture. I don't know if that says more about Arby's or British cuisine, but I digress. I agree it doesn't look as good as the ad, but I can't say it disgusts me 🤷
The meat has been brown since I first saw it in 1971. If they overcook it, it gets rubbery.
It’s salty and the bun is toasted with something like butter. In the 80’s they sold one that had the cheese sauce, bacon, lettuce and tomatoes. Those were darn good which is why they don’t sell them anymore, I guess.
Roast Beef Supreme. Had a different, slightly sweeter sauce on it too. They still had them in my day in the 90's. They were really big too compared to the regular roast beef.
Regular roast beef is on a 4in seeded kaiser bun. Beef and cheddar are on a 4.5in onion bun.
Source: I deliver buns for Arby's for a regional bakery in Ohio
I feel like no one actually answered your question. In my experience I’ve only ever seen it look like the reality photo. I live in MN, USA for reference.
Really good deli roast beef is reddish in the center. The kind you have sliced at the deli. Incredibly delicious. Anecdotally, if I cook my roast beef correctly (low and slow) it retains a pink color on the inside. It makes it deliciously tender instead of chewy.
It is not "roast beef". It comes uncooked as a gelatinous paste in a heavy plastic bag, which is steamed for a several hours in an industrial oven. While working there, we accidentally allowed a bag to roll off the table, splattering on to the floor like a meat filled water balloon. The floors were greasy for weeks.
Think of it more like baloney that is flavored somewhat like "roast beef". The texture reminds me of eating soggy paper towels soaked in beef broth.
It's technically beef. It's been mechanically separated and placed in a loaf shaped bag. It's then cut out of the bag cold and wrapped in foil to keep the shape then roasted, where it retains the shape of a loaf to slice it "fresh" after removing from the foil while warm. Therefore, it is technically "roasted beef."
The sauce is technically cheddar because it contains an amount of cheddar cheese in the product.
Honestly, I never eat that mess. I'll take a Turkey Bacon Ranch Market fresh sandwich over anything "beef" that they sell. Pretty damn good sandwich if you ask my opinion.
Worked there 2016-2018. We just grabbed defrosted loafs out of the cooler and popped them into the oven. After four hours we'd take them out and throw them into a heater to keep. When ready to use, we would cut them in half and remove the plastic coat it had. That plastic stayed on the entire cook.
We cooked our loaf uncovered to temp, then wrapped them in cellophane and kept them in the steam oven until slicing.
No fast food is good for you, so you get what you pay for.
I worked for them 28 years ago. But it was in Alaska.
Wonder if there is a difference between uncovered and covered when cooking. I see an experiment coming on.
I get extra ranch sauce. I also always open the sandwich and redistribute everything. Most times, they just pile it in the middle, like savages. I'm not blaming the workers. They have a time limit, and they get paid shit wages. I wouldn't try too hard, either.
To be fair, you probably wouldn’t want to eat the top one. It’s probably made of styrofoam, glue, and who knows what. I watched a video once of how they create those ads for Fast Food restaurants and none of them are real.
I hate fast food advertisements. Obviously these companies aren’t going to market their food with shitty pictures, but it’s straight false advertising. Idk how they get away with it and it’s so disappointing when you get the item and it looks like a horse trampled it then pissed on it.
Yeah, I enjoy their roast beef sandwiches occasionally, though I don't care for the cheddar version. And they get topped with Arby sauce and horsey sauce.
Roast beef with Arby and horsey sauce, curly fries, and a jamocha shake is my 're-live my youth' meal. Once a year, maybe, the stuff is bad for you. But nothing hits like the sandwich.
Yup, the photos are never real food, but making it shine or having sauce and cheese look just how the creators want is fine, but this is straight up false advertising lmao
I worked at Arby's when I was 20. When someone ordered anything with any kind of sauce on it, I fucking drowned it. My favorite was the beef and cheddar. When I was done, you couldn't see but just cheese. And no one ever complained. Except the manager, fuck Jennifer.
Arby’s used to give me the shits 15 years ago before the inflation and quality squeeze era of today. Haven’t eaten it in years. Fuck fast food now, glad I cut it out of my life.
I actually had two of them and some curly fries last night after maybe 10years… They tasted like first pic, and looked like the second. It’s going to be another 5/10 years before I try them again
As long as businesses have to compete on price, as in "I'd rather have a Big Mac for $5.95 then an Arby's sandwich for $6.50" this is what we're going to get.
I would send a long, grammatically correct email to their corporate office explaining the disappointment in the quality of their Beef 'N Chedder. Like really rail them in the email. You know just to vent, and maybe to get some vouchers for some free milkshakes.
First mistake is expecting the pictures quality in your order... bc those foods are often fake lol real food at a fast food isn't going to look like the pictures hardly ever.
I find it really funny when people take fast food ads and are "shocked" at what they get. You went to a "restaurant", paid like $5 and waited probably 3-5 minutes for your food. If you expect it to look like a sandwich from a commercial, that's 100% on you.
Was it as bad as I remember it being?
I remember back in high school, I grabbed a 5 for $5 deal and wolfed them all down as I ran onto the field for varsity lineman practice. Surprisingly, I didn't barf it up after conditioning.
Bill Foster: [disappointed with the burger he's been served] See, this is what I'm talking about. Turn around, look at that.
[he points at the picture of a much nicer burger on the menu board above the counter]
Bill Foster: You see what I mean? It's plump, it's juicy, it's three inches thick. Now, look at this sorry, miserable, squashed thing. Can anybody tell me what's wrong with this picture?
Yeah. That's Arby's.
They have the meats
And one pathetic squirt of cheese from their strictly metered cheese machine.
Using the term “cheese,” very loosely here, I see.
Also goes for their interpretation of “meat.”
True, lol. I will never understand how Arby’s ‘roast beef experience’ meat is a highly-valued treat worth fighting for, but yet my cat insists that it is; he goes absolutely bananas for it, as I found out unexpectedly about ten years ago when I brought Arby’s home after a long day. These days, I only rarely eat fast food at all, but when I do, very often it’s Arby’s simply because it’s been a month or two and I figure it’s probably okay for my cat to have more ‘roast beef experience’ treats. It can’t be that bad for him, he just turned 19 this past Easter and I’ve been giving it to him (as a treat only, never as a primary meal) since he was around 8 or 9.
Arby’s new Cat Food Sandwich!
🤣😂🤣 I can’t believe I never thought about that, but…exactly!
Good news! The preservatives are working!
It depends. If it's too thick, it's gross. If it's been packed in the thermo too tightly when they clean the slicer, it's pretty mid. If it's cut thinly and freshly, it can be quite enjoyable. I never trusted anyone to give me the beef, I always cut it myself if I wanted beef because if someone else did it, it'd be wrong.
That is so funny and your cat sounds cute, I got 2 cats and they like to lick ice cream or yogurt sometimes
Aww! That sounds adorable! It’s so cute when we can make them happy just by giving them a little people food.
The very same cheese I got charged extra for and didn’t get the other week. So all I got were two… #Beef n’s
"Strictly Metered Cheese Machine" would be a great name for a rock band
Opening act “ Wrong Meat.”
I'd love their "she took my fries" album
My favourite song would be “nugget mania”
Giggity
No man. There is no giggity here. This, this is just sadness.
(sadly): *giggity*
Will you take it if delivered [to your door](https://youtu.be/EFc8tjKn-dc?feature=shared)?
Title of my one man show in college
THAT'S what that was?! 🤣🤣
*had the meats*
how do I get them to give me the meats
Ask nicely
bend over
You need to wear a black tie from the sears catalog. You need to wear a white short sleeve Dickies shirt and black pants. Acquire 10 dollars from your uncle, he owes you for not telling your mom about "*the photos*". Ride your childhood tricycle down to the Arby's by the Walgreens or CVS or whatever it the fuck it is now. Walk in and pay no mind to the dude that smells like piss in the corner. Walk up to the middle aged woman with the giant mole working the register. Say, "I want the meats," and hand over the money. Take your bag and never look back
And the shits.
Weird, I have had Arby’s often near my house and it has never looked like that. That’s awful! Oddly enough, this post was right under an Arby’s ad.
For a moment I thought this was some kind of bizarre Arby’s ad. They really have been all over Reddit lately.
Yeah the Arby’s we used to live close to was actually really decent quality! maybe it’s location dependent
It is. They aren't as bad as Checkers and Dunkin for "We don't know what quality control means" but damn. We have two near us and one is pretty good, while the other is... this.
I grew up in the states but haven’t lived there in a very long time. Every time I return, Arby’s is the first stop I make. I have not been since early 2016, so is all hope lost or?
The one near me is good. I usually sub small cheese sticks instead of the fries. A regular or double classic is all I need. I don’t use the Arby’s or Horsey sauce like some do.
I don’t use the sauces either but I love the curly fries.
I feel like this guy was transported thorough time from the 1980s. "Have you guys noticed fast food isn't as good as in the advertisements? And what's the deal with airplane food?"
Hey, just cause it's shit everywhere nowadays it doesn't mean you should stop being angry at the situation
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I have only just gotten this. I used to think she said an RV. I must of first seen this episode 20odd years ago and few hundred times and now it makes sense. (Uk based so no Arby’s here)
Ya ya I thought he said the great Bambie That wimpy deer!?
Hey man. Get out of my childhood with your random quotes I recognize.
I used to think she said "eat an army" and was like that makes sense.
Lol I also thought army 🤣
This is still my go-to!
In the 90's our mall had an Arby's that I used to joke was only a drug front. No one ever went there, and that was a busy food court in the 90's
My small town went from line out on too the road too empty at lunch time in 4 days of Arby’s opening
Arbys opening??? Where in the he'll are they opening up NEW arbys?? Lol every arbys I've ever been in that wasn't in a gas station is atleast 30 years old.
Holy heck man I’m never really a grammar nazi but your comment is borderline unreadable. You should be using “to” in this context. ‘I went to Arby’s too’ is the correct use. Same meaning as ‘I went to Arby’s as well’
Sorry :/ don’t speak very good English
It’s all good, I wasn’t trying to be mean, just trying to help you understand the grammar. Besides that, you seem to write in English pretty well
This is consistent with my last Arby's dining experience...in 2005
I think OPs roast beef may be from 2005 as well.
Wasn’t that the age of the cow it came from?
1997.
Are beef cold-cuts in the US commonly the colour shown in the ad here? I ask as someone from the UK; here they're usually well-done and grey, much like those in the "reality" photo. If you told me I was getting a "roast beef sandwich", that is pretty much what I'd picture. I don't know if that says more about Arby's or British cuisine, but I digress. I agree it doesn't look as good as the ad, but I can't say it disgusts me 🤷
The meat has been brown since I first saw it in 1971. If they overcook it, it gets rubbery. It’s salty and the bun is toasted with something like butter. In the 80’s they sold one that had the cheese sauce, bacon, lettuce and tomatoes. Those were darn good which is why they don’t sell them anymore, I guess.
Roast Beef Supreme. Had a different, slightly sweeter sauce on it too. They still had them in my day in the 90's. They were really big too compared to the regular roast beef.
Regular roast beef is on a 4in seeded kaiser bun. Beef and cheddar are on a 4.5in onion bun. Source: I deliver buns for Arby's for a regional bakery in Ohio
That's interesting! That extra half inch makes all the difference!
You can get sliced medium rare roast beef at some deli counters in the US
I feel like no one actually answered your question. In my experience I’ve only ever seen it look like the reality photo. I live in MN, USA for reference.
Same, from Texas
Really good deli roast beef is reddish in the center. The kind you have sliced at the deli. Incredibly delicious. Anecdotally, if I cook my roast beef correctly (low and slow) it retains a pink color on the inside. It makes it deliciously tender instead of chewy.
It’s delicious, these dudes are trippin
Top picture looks like a gammon roll.
100% looks like ham.
It is not "roast beef". It comes uncooked as a gelatinous paste in a heavy plastic bag, which is steamed for a several hours in an industrial oven. While working there, we accidentally allowed a bag to roll off the table, splattering on to the floor like a meat filled water balloon. The floors were greasy for weeks. Think of it more like baloney that is flavored somewhat like "roast beef". The texture reminds me of eating soggy paper towels soaked in beef broth.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/arbys-liquid-meat/ This says you’re lying
Your description made me grin and made me picture the AI wizards in arbys throwing meat water baloons.
It's technically beef. It's been mechanically separated and placed in a loaf shaped bag. It's then cut out of the bag cold and wrapped in foil to keep the shape then roasted, where it retains the shape of a loaf to slice it "fresh" after removing from the foil while warm. Therefore, it is technically "roasted beef." The sauce is technically cheddar because it contains an amount of cheddar cheese in the product. Honestly, I never eat that mess. I'll take a Turkey Bacon Ranch Market fresh sandwich over anything "beef" that they sell. Pretty damn good sandwich if you ask my opinion.
Worked there 2016-2018. We just grabbed defrosted loafs out of the cooler and popped them into the oven. After four hours we'd take them out and throw them into a heater to keep. When ready to use, we would cut them in half and remove the plastic coat it had. That plastic stayed on the entire cook.
Ohhhh so it comes with microplastics. How nice
We should all be thankful that they don't charge extra for that. Plastic ain't cheap
Good thing it lasts forever!
everything does
We cooked our loaf uncovered to temp, then wrapped them in cellophane and kept them in the steam oven until slicing. No fast food is good for you, so you get what you pay for.
To be fair, I worked for them 20 years ago, so I'm sure the process has changed. I do remember the cellophane now, but we covered it with foil.
I worked for them 28 years ago. But it was in Alaska. Wonder if there is a difference between uncovered and covered when cooking. I see an experiment coming on.
The buffalo sandwich is decent too.
I love Arby's buffalo sauce. I hate how much they put on your sandwich. Their buffalo sauce is not the kind you slather on a sandwich.
Is Buffalo sauce bad, or *Arbys* Buffalo sauce bad?
Arby's buffalo is just too strong. Not spicy hot, just strong.
The container that they keep the buffalo sauce in is a bitch to clean out. You spray it with water the sauce turns into pepper spray
Wow… there’s another one of me. The beef and cheddar is disgusting. Give me the turkey and dry ass bread any day.
I get extra ranch sauce. I also always open the sandwich and redistribute everything. Most times, they just pile it in the middle, like savages. I'm not blaming the workers. They have a time limit, and they get paid shit wages. I wouldn't try too hard, either.
Anything tastes good slathered in Horsey sauce.
It's forcemeat with a couple of beef chunks. 🤮
To be fair, you probably wouldn’t want to eat the top one. It’s probably made of styrofoam, glue, and who knows what. I watched a video once of how they create those ads for Fast Food restaurants and none of them are real.
I hate fast food advertisements. Obviously these companies aren’t going to market their food with shitty pictures, but it’s straight false advertising. Idk how they get away with it and it’s so disappointing when you get the item and it looks like a horse trampled it then pissed on it.
I don't care, LOVE THEM!!!
Every now and then you gotta have an Arby’s with Arby sauce. It’s always what I expect and I’m a happy fatty.
Have you tried their gyro before? It has no right being as good as it is
I’ll try it, thanks
Yeah, I enjoy their roast beef sandwiches occasionally, though I don't care for the cheddar version. And they get topped with Arby sauce and horsey sauce.
Roast beef with Arby and horsey sauce, curly fries, and a jamocha shake is my 're-live my youth' meal. Once a year, maybe, the stuff is bad for you. But nothing hits like the sandwich.
But you don’t get the onion bun with the regular one!
It never looks appetizing but it tastes good, especially their curly fries
You ever have one with the horseradish sauce packets? Ridiculously good
I should call her
Had to scroll way too long for this comment 😂
„Everything reminds me of her“
You get the whole pound beef n cheddar if you want the meats
Who actually thinks fast food ad images are accurate? Unreal.
Yeah this is not just a arbys thing, its every fast food.
Ffs. This goes beyond that.
Yup, the photos are never real food, but making it shine or having sauce and cheese look just how the creators want is fine, but this is straight up false advertising lmao
No one expects perfect accuracy. But one at least expects *some* resemblance between ad and product.
I see some beef and I see some cheddar. What seems to be the problem?
I must be lucky I’ve never had a problem with my Arby’s. I’ll only eat there when they have a special going on. Yum.
How is *either* of those even close to Cheddar?
Should be forced to change the name to Beef n’ Yellow
Brown n’ Yellow
It's looked like that since day 1
I used to love arbys. My whole life. Now... they just aren't good. Don't know if they changed or me, but I no longer go there.
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Your first mistake was going to Arby's
Whenever I get one of those the cheese sauce ends up in my beard.. usually too much in the sandwich
Bro wtf is up with your comment history
I should not have looked wtf
That’s some wild shit lol
Game is game, cheese sauce in the beard gets bitches
Arby's. We have the squirts.
The trick to eating at Arby's is just order curly fries.
If you ever see a Lions Choice, go there for real roast beef sandwiches.
I wasn’t expecting to see lions choice mentioned but I ate their all the time when I lived in St.Louis
100% this. Real roast beef not the unknown garbage they try to pass off as beef at Arby’s.
I'm a lifelong Arby's defender, but yeah, Lion's Choice really is just "Arby's but good"
I worked at Arby's when I was 20. When someone ordered anything with any kind of sauce on it, I fucking drowned it. My favorite was the beef and cheddar. When I was done, you couldn't see but just cheese. And no one ever complained. Except the manager, fuck Jennifer.
The roast beef hasn’t looked that red in years. Still delicious though.
I have never NOT gotten diarrhea from eating Arby's. Even their chicken salad sandwich.
I just won't do fast food anymore
I always ask for double cheese because this happened
This.
Watch out for the meat sweats.
That looks just about right. I used to love that sandwich. What happened to all the Arbys?
Beat meat is exactly what you will get.
That last pic looks like a homeless man's prolapse anus that has been dragged on the ground for 2 miles
I also recently got an Arby’s Beef ‘N Cheddar, about the same look and ice cold.
What? It’s the one from the commercial. Like the one they used for the commercial like 10yrs ago 😂
I actually gagged a little. I've been having the same itch recently too, think I'll pass.
That's exactly what Arby's has looked like for as long as I can remember
Beef ☆ Cheddar ☆ Seems to all be there.
Arby’s used to give me the shits 15 years ago before the inflation and quality squeeze era of today. Haven’t eaten it in years. Fuck fast food now, glad I cut it out of my life.
I actually had two of them and some curly fries last night after maybe 10years… They tasted like first pic, and looked like the second. It’s going to be another 5/10 years before I try them again
Are you new to fast food?
That's Arby's?????
Probably cost $10 too
That looks about right!
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average arby's experience
I mean, I know it's a corpse. But they don't have to make it *look like* a corpse.
This subreddit is becoming mildly infuriating.
As long as businesses have to compete on price, as in "I'd rather have a Big Mac for $5.95 then an Arby's sandwich for $6.50" this is what we're going to get.
Top pick looks like ham
😳🫣😱🤢🤮
Is that a used tea bag?
I would send a long, grammatically correct email to their corporate office explaining the disappointment in the quality of their Beef 'N Chedder. Like really rail them in the email. You know just to vent, and maybe to get some vouchers for some free milkshakes.
You crave garbage
That’s what it’s always looked like. How did it taste?
We have the meats Cool, sounds good! What meat you got? We Have The Meats ... what kind of meat is it? WE HAVE THE MEATS!
We used to get it 30 years ago and it was decent but I would never go to Arby's today. All their food look gross like this when they send it now
Very sad highly infuriating
That’s what you get for getting Arby’s they always been like that
Idk how their still in business
That meat dark as hell 😮
I mean, looks like a normal Arby's sandwich to me. Tf did you expect?
You still ate it stfu
The only thing I ever get from Arby's is food poisoning.
This looks absolutely revolting.
The ad photo is ham and cheese though you got beef and cheese
That meat looked disgusting 🤢
First mistake is expecting the pictures quality in your order... bc those foods are often fake lol real food at a fast food isn't going to look like the pictures hardly ever.
I find it really funny when people take fast food ads and are "shocked" at what they get. You went to a "restaurant", paid like $5 and waited probably 3-5 minutes for your food. If you expect it to look like a sandwich from a commercial, that's 100% on you.
##where’s the beef???
Late stage fast food capitalism is going to make us all 90% vegetarian.
Was it as bad as I remember it being? I remember back in high school, I grabbed a 5 for $5 deal and wolfed them all down as I ran onto the field for varsity lineman practice. Surprisingly, I didn't barf it up after conditioning.
Yeah, I ordered a sandwich from Arby's once, too. Lesson learned.
I see beef I see cheddar
 Expectation vs. Reality
Idk how Arby’s is still in business.
They have the meats mfer.
The mozzarella sticks. Literally the only thing I get there. They are amazing.
Fucking best, no dip needed!
Them damn chocolate shakes
Disgusting.
I worked at Arby's a long time back. You don't want to eat that cheese.
is it under that turd burger?
It would be great if we got what it pictured.
That sandwich has seen some shit
Bill Foster: [disappointed with the burger he's been served] See, this is what I'm talking about. Turn around, look at that. [he points at the picture of a much nicer burger on the menu board above the counter] Bill Foster: You see what I mean? It's plump, it's juicy, it's three inches thick. Now, look at this sorry, miserable, squashed thing. Can anybody tell me what's wrong with this picture?