Milwaukees Best Light said:

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Enjoy supporting LSU football. Maybe wash it down with Tito's vodka.

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Well, any Ags going to step up and fill the void?

Cane's is pretty much run out of Plano now anyways, employ plenty of Ags there.

Laynes at tuckerton/Fry in cypress is great.

We should rank every location

chicken has bones.

HTH

Bruce Almighty said:

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I've never been to Laynes, but Canes sucks. They don't season their chicken.

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+1

The sheer volume of posts arguing over which one is better, however, establishes beyond doubt that Laynes also sucks. If it is not immediately and obviously superior to Cane's, it cannot be good.

Cane's is fast food for people with the palate of a toddler.

fc2112 said:

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chicken has bones.

HTH

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So do cows.

HTH

Bruce Almighty said:

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fc2112 said:

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chicken has bones.

HTH

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So do cows.

HTH

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So do people

HTH

Dave's Hot Chicken beats both of them.

Jollibee is better too.

gggmann said:

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Jollibee is better too.

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Hands down, the best fast food fried chicken.

YokelRidesAgain said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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I've never been to Laynes, but Canes sucks. They don't season their chicken.

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+1

The sheer volume of posts arguing over which one is better, however, establishes beyond doubt that Laynes also sucks. If it is not immediately and obviously superior to Cane's, it cannot be good.

Cane's is fast food for people with the palate of a toddler.

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Bruce Almighty said:

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gggmann said:

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Jollibee is better too.

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Hands down, the best fast food fried chicken.

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We have a new one close to us. And they di have real fried chicken, so I want to try them.

Layne's is halal so they cater to terrorists.

In this economy they should take whatever catering gigs they can get

Laynes started spiraling the second they decided to cash out.
The demise was gradual...then it was SUDDEN.

BoxingAg84 said:

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Laynes started spiraling the second they decided to cash out.
The demise was gradual...then it was SUDDEN.

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Did they cash out in the 90's? It was garbage when I was at A&M from 01-06.

Jugstore Cowboy said:

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BulldogAg said:

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Jugstore Cowboy said:

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It was never that great; it benefitted from location, cheap prices, and limited options.

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And the crack sauce until Cane's copied it.

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They both copied it from Guthrie's.

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I thought it was Zaxby's?

But I've I've seen multiple theories on who originated the chicken tender combo formula.

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Guthrie's started in the 60s. I am assuming they had the sauce back then, but I could be wrong.

Then Zaxby's in like 1990 (I believe UGA students,) Layne's in 1994 (Michael Layne, Georgia graduate that moved to College Station) and then Cane's in 1996 (LSU.)

Some of the new Layne's locations are really good. Plano far surpassed any Cane's, Zaxby's or Guthrie's I have ever been to.

Disappointed that the location on Texas has low quality. Hopefully Mike Garrett (owner) sees this

Nasty looking. It was perfection back in the 2000s. what happened?!

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FatZilla said:

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Was in Cstat today at lunch and stopped in for some good chicken and this is the pathetic quality we get now. Its not even strips anymore, its oversized nuggets. This is not worth $9.

Last time I stop in here.

Yes, the name fits.

Rant over.

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The original Laynes was never good.

The new franchise locations are way better.

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Yeah the original location was so bad that people bought franchises for it.

Derp!!

The original was once incredible and I'll forever be convinced that the Cane's dude ripped it off on one of LSU's visits to Kyle in the early 90's.

no

TXAG 05 said:

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BoxingAg84 said:

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Laynes started spiraling the second they decided to cash out.
The demise was gradual...then it was SUDDEN.

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Did they cash out in the 90's? It was garbage when I was at A&M from 01-06.

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I disagree. We used to go there after every home game in 06. That was PEAK Layne's.

BoxingAg84 said:

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TXAG 05 said:

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BoxingAg84 said:

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Laynes started spiraling the second they decided to cash out.
The demise was gradual...then it was SUDDEN.

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Did they cash out in the 90's? It was garbage when I was at A&M from 01-06.

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I disagree. We used to go there after every home game in 06. That was PEAK Layne's.

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I guess every single time I went there was an "off" day. I never had a meal there that looked as good as the picture in the OP. It was always tiny, dried up, over fried and tasted like burned oil. Maybe we just have different taste in chicken

TXAG 05 said:

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BoxingAg84 said:

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Laynes started spiraling the second they decided to cash out.
The demise was gradual...then it was SUDDEN.

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Did they cash out in the 90's? It was garbage when I was at A&M from 01-06.

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I'm just sad that I never got to try Fowl Digits in the era of the Chicken Strip.

Ok, Human.

Smells fat in here.

NoahAg said:

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Smells fat in here.

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Most places thay expand to chains and get bought out by investors or PE rapidly move to getting their food and ingredients supplied by gigantic vertically integrated restaurant supply corporations that re-engineer and make the food items in mass production for frozen shipping and reheating or quick air or convection oven cooking. It becomes extremely generic because it's all made using very similar processes and inputs at a few production plants, no matter which chain restaurant you go to.

Tastes like capitalism

Only if there's market demand for cheap mediocre food, but legions of cookie cutter chain restaurants exist so the market gets what it wants.

There is a Laynes in Cinco Ranch .. it's also crap

There is a Layne's in Pittsburgh (son is a Jr at Univ of Pitt) and its pretty bad. Too bad too because he liked telling people that it started in CS, etc. We went last year after a Pens game and I don't think he'll go back.

Jugstore Cowboy said:

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It was never that great; it benefitted from location, cheap prices, and limited options.

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It benefitted from College Station's endless search for some sort of food tradition.