ex_cathedra
2004-07-21 01:56:24 UTC
Blecch !
Granted I don't eat much fast food.But growing up in Chicago with an
Italian best freind (whose Mom was a great cook) and the first job I
ever had was at Chickies Beef on 28th and Pulaski (Which last time I
ate _there_ it was as good as it ever was...and that is a notch or two
above Potillo's USED to be with the exception of french
fries...Chickies french fries still are greasy and sorta
icky.)Chickies still hand cuts their french fries and blanches them
which is probably why.
Anyway I still reccommend Chickies beef if you aren't afraid of Mad
Cow.
(Or don't overdo the beef thang)
But this article is about Portillio's.
I don't know how long this has been going on,but they changed their
bread.Ewww
Turano and Gonnella are some of the oldest recipies for Italian
bread there are.
Nothing short of the best you can get.
All others are cheap imitations...
(Such as so called Italian bread made by Jewel for instance)
Well you may as well get your Portillo's by the pound and stick it on
some friggin Subway shite bread now.
I spoke to a manager and he claims it's still Gonnella,but Portillo's
cooks it in house now.
Portillio's used to use REAL Gonnella bread cooked in REAL Gonnella
ovens.
Then they would lightly toast the bread before making the sangwitch.
Now it's doughy,inconsistent,and flavorless.
No longer do the flavors meld together to create the Portillo's
experience.
You may as go to any hack beef place that gets their beef shipped to
them in a plastic bag because the flavor of the Portillo's beef is
overpowered by the horrendous bread they screwed up.
It tastes like brown and serve muffins that haven't been browned.
B L L E C C H !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was told by the manager that some corporate borg zombie glory
getter creature decided to make the change.
I also noticed a much SMALLER line at Portillo's.
(Which the manager agreed that the lines at Puketillo's have been
shorter.
Ha ha !
Thats what you get when you get your group think corporado's together
"brainstorming" on how to fix things that AREN'T broken.
Thats what globalism is ALL about kiddies.
Dear Portillo's...go squeeze yourself.
I will NEVER (though I don't really frequent them anymore) but
ABSOLUTLEY FER SURE never darken your door or drive through N'er again
unless you send out some free coupons along in some junk mail that
states you have gone back to the old bread,and that you have tarred
and feathered the corporate girlie man that came up with the genius
idea which is in essence the utter destruction of what set it apart
from hack beef you can get at any wanna be alleged Italin food place.
Admit your total failure and return to the original Gonnella COOKED
by Gonnella,lightly toast it..and I'll think about going there perhaps
one day again.
This reminds me of McDonalds(not that I will eat there anymore,but I
used to work at a McDonalds(the second place I ever illegally worked
before I was 16.)
Anyway I recall when the GUTLESS useless eater corporate retardo's
who have NO PASSION for the businesses they destroy "fixed"the
McDonalds burger.
Ray Crock or Portillo or even Walt Disney had the passion for the
product.
Corporadoes just have passion to justify their corporate existence.
These group thinkers TRY to justify their salaries for being the
SmArT guy(or gal) who is so wonerful that all they do is look at the
bottom lines.
The easy part.
And how much they can profit for just being there.
Praise them ...They are the HOLY corporate borg.
All knowing.
Haha
Back to McDonalds corporate hare brains in business suits.
The pencil heads at Mickey-D's decided the original burger at
McDonalds (Ray Crock's success allowed the corporate parasites to have
a host er,job) could elimnate toasting the bun on their base burger.
This toasting was instrumental to the McDonalds basic sandwich.
The toasting of the bun caused the four droplets of
mustard and ketchup (or do you say catsup?) to slide on the bun and
created the unique taste of the pre corpoate dimwit McDonalds burger.
So some useless exectutron polled the customers.
(Portillo's didn't even do _that_ to my knowldge)
They asked (or do you say assed?) the customers if they would mind if
they no longer toasted their buns.
If you never worked at an early McDonalds you wouldn't know HOW
important that was to do.
The idiot customers said ...Who cares?
Then...McDonalds sales slowly declined.
Again I stayed away from McDonalds but on one occasion I had one and
gagged.
The mustard and ketchup sunk right into the dry dry naked bun,and it
tasted NOTHING like McDonalds.
Some Industrial engineer (pinhead) must have been riding high on his
parasitic hog.
" Yippee ! My college degree and student loan was well worth it and
everyone can see !" Hahahha
I actually (foolishly) called McDonalds HQ and told them
they were committing sandwich-cide.
Of course there were heathens that still ate the Mcburgers...but for
anyone who knew what it was supposed to be was dissapointed.
Corporate worm infestation destroyed the sandwich.
Then thousands of McDogmeat employees were trained to make these
non-toasted slopwiches.
Then someone finally took my (free advice...I called McDonalds HQ many
times ,half former employee/loyalty and half of me because if I was
stuck somewhere I wanted to be able to at least eat there.
EVENTUALLY someone at McDonalds WOKE UP and they started to toast
their buns again.The original sandwich that laid the golden arch -egg.
Then thanks to the bright(j/k)Industrial corporate borg group thinkers
everyone had to be RETRAINED and the stores had to be (at great cost
to the sap stockholders LOL) fitted with EXPENSIVE new toasting
machines since the fact they no loner toasted the buns,they went all
out cutting even more corners to squeeze a penny.
I don't know why they couldn't go back to using the giant spatula for
buns,and the grill as they did in the old days. But now the bumblers
needed toasting machines...LOL People started buyin McDoggieburgers
again ....but over time the corporate screw up "mangement" <~Haha
screwed up McDonalds again in other ways. So much for McDonalds. I
now avoid them at all costs.Too many chefs spoil the broth you know?
And McDonalds is global and they have WAY WAY too many "chefs" for a
simple hangaber joint.The corporate group thinkers could never CREATE
anything.They are just the inept trying to justify their unneccesary
existence.
Now this diseased thinking has made it's way to Portillo's.(Or should
I say Poo-tillo's?) <~ Yes...that's more like it!!
Y'see...they have stores in Japan and who knows where else.
They have LOTSA Global chef's in the Kitchen now.
I exprienced my first Poo<~tillo beef today with the bastarized
Gonella bread
and as they say fool me once,shame on you.
They will not get a second chance.
WARNING Will Robinson...Portillo's
It ain't what it used to be.
I don't knw if they sell stock in Pootillo's but if they
do...well,the lines are noticeably shorter now.
Word up<~ as hepcats like Vanilla Ice and N'Sync would say.
If you noticed something different about your latest Poo-tillo Dago
beef,well it's not just one bad beef I doubt it'll ever get any
better.
Corporate screw ups usually push thr bad ideas and maintain following
their loser decisions till it's much too late.
I think Washington's group think was blamed for the soaring deficits.
Someone ought to come up with a pill for megalomania
and groupthinkers.
This would result most assuredly there will be less depressed and
anxiety ridden people in the world.
I felt ripped ff for the $12.00 spent at Poo-tillo's today ( never
really though I would ever call Portillo's Poo-Tillo's)<~ but now even
they suck.
If I warned anyone it was $12.00 well spent.
I'm sure there were many who couldn't put their finger on why their
Portillo beef tasted yukky or thought well today it just wasn't that
good,maybe tommorow or next time I'll get a good one.
Nopers.
Now that you know what the problem is it may help you to avoid them.
After eating mine I was (and still am ) VERY non-plussed.
Which was never the case with an occasional Portillo's beef.
It actually used to be a treat that was as good as it was when I was
a squirt.
Go to Chickies...they have 2 locations now to serve you =)
And they use the Gonnella cooked the old world way.
Not the Subway haha
This message was brought to you by
a former chid star of the Chicago fast food industry.
Thankyew again Portillo's useless excecutives for making the fast food
selections of Chicago even less appealing and the choices fewer.
Theres NOTHING special about Portillo's anymore.
Granted I don't eat much fast food.But growing up in Chicago with an
Italian best freind (whose Mom was a great cook) and the first job I
ever had was at Chickies Beef on 28th and Pulaski (Which last time I
ate _there_ it was as good as it ever was...and that is a notch or two
above Potillo's USED to be with the exception of french
fries...Chickies french fries still are greasy and sorta
icky.)Chickies still hand cuts their french fries and blanches them
which is probably why.
Anyway I still reccommend Chickies beef if you aren't afraid of Mad
Cow.
(Or don't overdo the beef thang)
But this article is about Portillio's.
I don't know how long this has been going on,but they changed their
bread.Ewww
Turano and Gonnella are some of the oldest recipies for Italian
bread there are.
Nothing short of the best you can get.
All others are cheap imitations...
(Such as so called Italian bread made by Jewel for instance)
Well you may as well get your Portillo's by the pound and stick it on
some friggin Subway shite bread now.
I spoke to a manager and he claims it's still Gonnella,but Portillo's
cooks it in house now.
Portillio's used to use REAL Gonnella bread cooked in REAL Gonnella
ovens.
Then they would lightly toast the bread before making the sangwitch.
Now it's doughy,inconsistent,and flavorless.
No longer do the flavors meld together to create the Portillo's
experience.
You may as go to any hack beef place that gets their beef shipped to
them in a plastic bag because the flavor of the Portillo's beef is
overpowered by the horrendous bread they screwed up.
It tastes like brown and serve muffins that haven't been browned.
B L L E C C H !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was told by the manager that some corporate borg zombie glory
getter creature decided to make the change.
I also noticed a much SMALLER line at Portillo's.
(Which the manager agreed that the lines at Puketillo's have been
shorter.
Ha ha !
Thats what you get when you get your group think corporado's together
"brainstorming" on how to fix things that AREN'T broken.
Thats what globalism is ALL about kiddies.
Dear Portillo's...go squeeze yourself.
I will NEVER (though I don't really frequent them anymore) but
ABSOLUTLEY FER SURE never darken your door or drive through N'er again
unless you send out some free coupons along in some junk mail that
states you have gone back to the old bread,and that you have tarred
and feathered the corporate girlie man that came up with the genius
idea which is in essence the utter destruction of what set it apart
from hack beef you can get at any wanna be alleged Italin food place.
Admit your total failure and return to the original Gonnella COOKED
by Gonnella,lightly toast it..and I'll think about going there perhaps
one day again.
This reminds me of McDonalds(not that I will eat there anymore,but I
used to work at a McDonalds(the second place I ever illegally worked
before I was 16.)
Anyway I recall when the GUTLESS useless eater corporate retardo's
who have NO PASSION for the businesses they destroy "fixed"the
McDonalds burger.
Ray Crock or Portillo or even Walt Disney had the passion for the
product.
Corporadoes just have passion to justify their corporate existence.
These group thinkers TRY to justify their salaries for being the
SmArT guy(or gal) who is so wonerful that all they do is look at the
bottom lines.
The easy part.
And how much they can profit for just being there.
Praise them ...They are the HOLY corporate borg.
All knowing.
Haha
Back to McDonalds corporate hare brains in business suits.
The pencil heads at Mickey-D's decided the original burger at
McDonalds (Ray Crock's success allowed the corporate parasites to have
a host er,job) could elimnate toasting the bun on their base burger.
This toasting was instrumental to the McDonalds basic sandwich.
The toasting of the bun caused the four droplets of
mustard and ketchup (or do you say catsup?) to slide on the bun and
created the unique taste of the pre corpoate dimwit McDonalds burger.
So some useless exectutron polled the customers.
(Portillo's didn't even do _that_ to my knowldge)
They asked (or do you say assed?) the customers if they would mind if
they no longer toasted their buns.
If you never worked at an early McDonalds you wouldn't know HOW
important that was to do.
The idiot customers said ...Who cares?
Then...McDonalds sales slowly declined.
Again I stayed away from McDonalds but on one occasion I had one and
gagged.
The mustard and ketchup sunk right into the dry dry naked bun,and it
tasted NOTHING like McDonalds.
Some Industrial engineer (pinhead) must have been riding high on his
parasitic hog.
" Yippee ! My college degree and student loan was well worth it and
everyone can see !" Hahahha
I actually (foolishly) called McDonalds HQ and told them
they were committing sandwich-cide.
Of course there were heathens that still ate the Mcburgers...but for
anyone who knew what it was supposed to be was dissapointed.
Corporate worm infestation destroyed the sandwich.
Then thousands of McDogmeat employees were trained to make these
non-toasted slopwiches.
Then someone finally took my (free advice...I called McDonalds HQ many
times ,half former employee/loyalty and half of me because if I was
stuck somewhere I wanted to be able to at least eat there.
EVENTUALLY someone at McDonalds WOKE UP and they started to toast
their buns again.The original sandwich that laid the golden arch -egg.
Then thanks to the bright(j/k)Industrial corporate borg group thinkers
everyone had to be RETRAINED and the stores had to be (at great cost
to the sap stockholders LOL) fitted with EXPENSIVE new toasting
machines since the fact they no loner toasted the buns,they went all
out cutting even more corners to squeeze a penny.
I don't know why they couldn't go back to using the giant spatula for
buns,and the grill as they did in the old days. But now the bumblers
needed toasting machines...LOL People started buyin McDoggieburgers
again ....but over time the corporate screw up "mangement" <~Haha
screwed up McDonalds again in other ways. So much for McDonalds. I
now avoid them at all costs.Too many chefs spoil the broth you know?
And McDonalds is global and they have WAY WAY too many "chefs" for a
simple hangaber joint.The corporate group thinkers could never CREATE
anything.They are just the inept trying to justify their unneccesary
existence.
Now this diseased thinking has made it's way to Portillo's.(Or should
I say Poo-tillo's?) <~ Yes...that's more like it!!
Y'see...they have stores in Japan and who knows where else.
They have LOTSA Global chef's in the Kitchen now.
I exprienced my first Poo<~tillo beef today with the bastarized
Gonella bread
and as they say fool me once,shame on you.
They will not get a second chance.
WARNING Will Robinson...Portillo's
It ain't what it used to be.
I don't knw if they sell stock in Pootillo's but if they
do...well,the lines are noticeably shorter now.
Word up<~ as hepcats like Vanilla Ice and N'Sync would say.
If you noticed something different about your latest Poo-tillo Dago
beef,well it's not just one bad beef I doubt it'll ever get any
better.
Corporate screw ups usually push thr bad ideas and maintain following
their loser decisions till it's much too late.
I think Washington's group think was blamed for the soaring deficits.
Someone ought to come up with a pill for megalomania
and groupthinkers.
This would result most assuredly there will be less depressed and
anxiety ridden people in the world.
I felt ripped ff for the $12.00 spent at Poo-tillo's today ( never
really though I would ever call Portillo's Poo-Tillo's)<~ but now even
they suck.
If I warned anyone it was $12.00 well spent.
I'm sure there were many who couldn't put their finger on why their
Portillo beef tasted yukky or thought well today it just wasn't that
good,maybe tommorow or next time I'll get a good one.
Nopers.
Now that you know what the problem is it may help you to avoid them.
After eating mine I was (and still am ) VERY non-plussed.
Which was never the case with an occasional Portillo's beef.
It actually used to be a treat that was as good as it was when I was
a squirt.
Go to Chickies...they have 2 locations now to serve you =)
And they use the Gonnella cooked the old world way.
Not the Subway haha
This message was brought to you by
a former chid star of the Chicago fast food industry.
Thankyew again Portillo's useless excecutives for making the fast food
selections of Chicago even less appealing and the choices fewer.
Theres NOTHING special about Portillo's anymore.