Was Yellow Wendy's really that much better or is this another instance of zoomer nostalgia-fagging?
Don't know dude. I never had that shit before
>>21850354>zoomerThey weren't around for Yellow Wendy.
>>21850354Zoomers never experienced yellow Wendies, and if they did they were too young to remember it.Anyway OP is a fag and I will daydream about them being thrown in a giant blender and killed beyond recognition.
I am comparing their nuggets and fries since that is what I had when it was Yellow Wendy's, but now it feels like it is similar seasoning but they put in some weird chemical filler into the breading, because it always has this chemical taste to it that it did not have even a decade ago. Have no idea if this is just changing tastes and they were always like that or if they added something the last several yearsFries have always been unremarkable from them, depends how you get them
>>21850354the fries were better than anything you can even imagine zoomnig.
>>21850416old wendys buns used to be very slightly sweet. and way more pliable than the current mass produced dry dogshit onesthe buns would soak up a thorough layer of grease from the beef and it added a distinct flavor. for me the flavor of the wendys bun soaked in grease is a unique taste that has gone away and will never come back because they don't prepare them that way or with those ingredients anymorereally, though, the critically bad buns used by wendys has to be a strategic choice made by a saboteur running (ruining) their company at the top
They had the worst fries of the Big Three by far. The burgers were the least fast food tasting of The Big Three in a good way if you know what I mean. Didn't eat nuggies then or now and I hated the Frosty and much preferred McDonald's shakes.
>>21850354Wendy's chili tasted better in a yellow paper bowl
>>21850354Haven't eaten Wendy's in maybe 20 years, but the last time they had this yellow branding in the OP and I had a bacon mushroom melt. Was great.
>>21850354Fast food in general was better back then, so yeah it was.
>>21850398>>21850400they post like they did in their zoomer echo-chambers
>>21850426their fries were always their weakest points. nowadays, they taste slightly better than before
>>21850354Nah, the early 2010's revamp Wendy's went through was the best era. Yellow era's fries were soggy as shit but everything else was fine. They're fucking garbage now.
>>21850354It was goated. All went downhill with that sea salt non sense
>>21850497>They're fucking garbage now.true that. but imo, they're still better than McD's and BK. especially considering their current state rn
>>21850354it was ok. their peak was when the hand cut sea salt fries first dropped but they immediately pulled the rug. rip Dave he’s rolling in his grave
>>21850416>some weird chemical filler into the breading, because it always has this chemical taste to it that it did not have even a decade ago.It might be yeast. So many breaded things use yeast as a flavoring now for some reason and it always tastes like shit.>Mini Chicken Tender Bites>Chicken Breast (65%), Water, WHEAT Flour, Starch, Palm Oil, Salt, Yeast Extract (Contains BARLEY), Stabiliser (Sodium Carbonates, Sodium Citrates), Garlic Powder, Spices (Contains CELERY), Acidity Regulatory (Lactic Acid, Calcium Lactate, Citric Acid), Modified Starch, WHEAT Gluten, Onion Powder, Sugar, Natural Flavourings (Contains MILK), Raising Agent (Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates, Calcium Phosphates), Fully Refined Soybean Oil, Dehydrated Chicken Powder, Smoke Flavouring. Rapeseed Oil>Rapeseed Oil, Anti-foaming Agent (Dimethylpolysiloxane).It could be something else, maybe the various sodium things. But I've definitely noticed an increasing use of yeast and things tasting worse in general.
They used to have these Asian zing nuggies where you toss the whole thing in a clamshell. That and a chocolate frosty was the go-to gma lunch after our soccer game. Better times
>>21850497>early 2010s wendysthere was a time you could get their 4 for 4 and substitute the fries for a full garden salad, which came with a dressing. the salads were incredible at the time so if you were trying to eat halfway decent at a cheap rate, substituting that for your fries in a 4 for 4 was an insane dealwendys hasn't been good, and is now actually bad, for probably over 3 years now though
>>21850354>yellow=peeYes it was better
>>21850354I never had a Wendy's burger from that era that didn't have at least one piece of cartilage in it.
Going to the local amusement park and stopping at the yellow Wendy's next door for a bacon cheddar burger and biggie fries is a core memory
>>21850591yellow on me
>>21850354The restaurant and its products used to be better and during that time their packaging happened to be yellow. This was during a time when all fast food was better value for your money compared to now, not just Wendy's. Any promotion they do with the yellow packaging is nostalgia pandering.
>>21850354The yellow has nothing to do with it.They changed their fries in 2010, turning them into soggy shit with disgusting skins left on.They changed their patties in 2012, shrinking them by about 30%.They introduced then removed apple smoked bacon in 2014.They changed their baked potatoes in 2015, reducing the size by about 40% and toppings by half.They changed their lettuce in 2025 going to from whole green to shredduce.They changed their buns sometime in this timeframe, from the white sprinkled keiser-type ones (pic related) to plain ones.What's left is a shit version of what it was 15 years ago. The yellow was LONG gone by then, gone in the 90s.At least their nuggies are still good, but they doubled the price of those in 2024.
>>21850715Their fries were always hit or miss in the Yellow era. Sometimes they were crispy with a soft interior but most of the time they were limp and soggy. When they were made right they were good. Unfortunately that didn't seem to be the norm.
>>21850584you were also able to substitute the fries for baconator fries, which was also another good alternative
>>21850719The worst part is Dave's daughter is in charge, she did all this
>if we give them too much food for that money they'll get fat!! >better rip them off instead....I wonder (((who))) could have been behind this dastardly scheme
>>21850354yellow wendy's was the best wendy's
>>21850354Stores of the Yellow Wendy's era were comfier, but the food was about the same.I'll tell you kids what peak Wendy's was though.Did you know they used to have a Salad Bar?(Pizza Hut too)Loading up an awesome salad with all your favorite toppings before your square cheeseburger was magic.
>>21850425Staged as fuck.Notice how the car intentionally left tons of room for him to run through, they couldn't have even reached the window from that far away.
>>21850473>zoomer echo-chambershow awful sounding.
>>21850354>no blue lines on the inside of the fry boxthis isn't real yellow wendy's.
Only good thing at Wendys now for price + quality
>>21850354I miss the little cups of oranges they'd sell
wendys went from being the best to the absolute worsti dont bother with it anymore since they ruined the spicy chickena few weeks ago it was the only place open when i showed uo late to a hotel and desperatwly wanted a salad after all the grocery stores were closed and it was supposedly open but no one even answered at the drive thru i even cir led around a coupke timestotally weird and creepy but on brand for shitty wendys
>>21851379worst fastfood breakfast i ever had
>>21850354>2026>still the only fast food place where you can substitute fries with a baked potato, chili or salad without getting upchargedMan I miss taking left over chili potatoes home after working night shift there.
The chicken sandwiches used to be amazing. They were thick, whole breast fillets, super juicy and flavorful... similar to Chick fil E but at least twice as good, if not three times as good. The spicy chicken sandwich was particularly divine. Now they're thin, dry, pounded out patties and the meat doesn't rip in shreds like it used to and feels more like a big chicken nugget. The taste is horrible now. The burgers are mid, they used to be huge and scrumptious but now they're just slightly better than Burger King. Anybody remember the big Wendy's chocolate chip cookies? They were fucking baller, closest to the taste I've found is Safeway bakery cookies.
>>21850419damn right
>>21850354Who gives a fuck. Are you gonna invent a time machine so you can go back?
>>21850416>they put in some weird chemical filler into the breading, because it always has this chemical taste to it that it did not have even a decade ago.ikwym. I wouldn't feed that "bread" to a wild animal.
>>21851494yes. and i will fuck your mother
>>21850354Yes.Literally everything was better lol.
>>21852238>t. zoomer who was 2 years old during this time period
>>21851460holy FUCK i'm gonna CUM
>>21850354Wendeez nuts hit your chin
>>21850354Wendy's DIED in 2013.Sorry to say, but the swapping of corporate parent companies and the way the produced and sourced their products will probably never go back to what it once was.Just a fact.
>>21851039That's hilariously untrue.It was fuckin' ARBY'S that started it all..It just went downhill from there.
>>21851355>Did you know they used to have a Salad Bar?I grew up in Dublin,OH in the 70s-80sThat thing was Amazing, and we'd go there at least twice a month just for that.You couldn't have that today anyway.People no longer have the kind of basic courtesy required not to fuck it up.
>>21850556>for some reasonThere’s a pretty interesting reason and its that yeast is an ideal organism to genetically modify to produce whatever flavor you need>step 1 identify chemical>step 2 make the yeast make the chemical>big vat of nutrients>grow and harvest yeastLike a 90% price reduction compared to extracting a flavor from nature depending on the flavorand in the US you’re allowed to call it Natural Flavor if it comes from yeast>as usual, Asimov called if first
>>21853901>Foundation poasting
>>21850354Wendy's definitely has gone downhill over the last 20 years, just like pretty much every other restaurant chain. The real low point was during the 2009 economic crash when they went bankrupt and got bought out by Arby's; the food was basically inedible for a while there.Currently the burgers are back to an acceptable level and the chili is ok, but holy fuck do those chicken nuggets suck ass. Also their chicken sandwich is dry and flavorless, and their fish sandwich is pretty poor.I go every few weeks to get a Double Baconator.
>>21851039This Anon >>21853885 has it right, the Wendy's chain went bankrupt in 2009 and Arby's bought them out.
>>21853883just right around the time they got rid of their 'old-fashioned hamburgers' slogan. curious
>>21854120yeah the baconator is really the only thing from there that's worth getting
>>21851418>i dont bother with it anymore since they ruined the spicy chickendo you remember when that happened? 2010 or before?
>>21854247yes
>>21850354anon, you know damn well quality of all food has gone down hill
>>21854122how the fuck is arbys more financially stable than wendys?i mean, arbys has some great items but...
>>21854252so somewhere around 2010? or well before? i cant really remember
>>21854247It was still tolerable until around Covid, now it’s complete dogshit. The size and quality of a mcchicken for double the price
Those were the days, huh?
>>21853883I always wondered what exactly about Wendy's burgers was supposed to be "old fashioned".
Wendys got better in the last 20 years. Not too many years ago they redid their fries to keep some of the skin which is a good thing and guarantees them to this day to be hot and crispy guaranteed no questions asked and invested in lamp units to keep them warm. They also renamed and redesigned the single, double and triple to become Dave's single , double, triple. The previous preteen Hot 'N Juicy line became thicker and they started to use bakery fresh buns which are always much softer than their previous counterparts.
>>21850354Even if the food wasn't technically better (it was the jr bacon cheeseburger has shrunk by at least a third and the bacon is much much worse now) it used to be made by people that looked like you and had a shared cultural connection so they had a much bigger incentive to make it right. Nowadays even the people working together have no incentive to care about their fellow employees and not even the employee meals are made with even a hint of love.
>>21850719>They changed their lettuce in 2025 going to from whole green to shredduceThis was the final straw for me, I've tried them a few times afterwards and it just isn't the same. The brand is dead to me and the only thing they have is the frosty and that's just because you can't really do much to fuck it up.
The new tendies are good, as is the baconator. That’s about it also why did they get rid of her in ads?
Burgers were tastier back then, definitely beefier than McDonalds or Burger King. Junior Bacon Cheeseburger was always a good deal.The fries weren't that crispy but they had a good potato flavor. Sort of like In-N-Out.
>>21854822>I always wondered what exactly about Wendy's burgers was supposed to be "old fashioned".Compared to McD's, where Dave worked before, the grind was coarser, the meat wasn't frozen, and it developed ragged edges when it was smashed on the grill. Those same ragged edges tended to carbonize too. All of which resulted in a burger that didn't appear machined like McD's did.
