In some terrible recent news, Arby's has bought Buffalo Wild Wings.

You all know how I feel about Arby's. And for those that don't, I cannot stand that place. It is an affront to fast food, and food, for that matter. They make disgusting trash food that is too expensive for what you get. Contrary to what they say, they do not have the meats, at least not quality meats. They do not slow cook any of the BBQ they claim to in commercials. Their pork belly, I have to imagine is the kind of bacon that you can buy pre cooked at the grocery store, and then they mash multiple pieces of that together to give the image of low rent pork belly. Basically everything that Arby's does, I am against. I do not trust that place and I absolutely do not trust their food.

The problem for me, I truly, unabashedly love Buffalo Wild Wings. I go there a ton. I would say that I eat there about a dozen times a month. No bull shit. I am a big time fan of their wings. They are decent sized, they come out hot and the sauces are pretty good. When they introduced the dry rub, I grew to love BWW even more. I love all of the dry rubs, especially the salt and vinegar. That is what I order 90 percent of the time when I go there. Outside of wings, BWW does have an okay menu. I'm on the Atkins diet for 5 days a week, and when I go there on one of the rare occasions when I don't get the dry rub wings, I will order their naked chicken tenders. It is pretty much just sliced chicken breast, but they add a sauce on the side, and give me a side salad with that, I'm good. They, in fact, have a lot of Atkins options outside of wings. They have the naked tenders I just mentioned, pretty good salads, other naked chicken options, they have a lot. The rest of the menu is pretty good too. When not dieting, I am a big fan of the buffalitos, which is French fries shaped like chips. I like their nachos. They have a great hummus and veggie tray as an appetizer. They have solid boneless wings. They have good tacos. Hell, even their non chicken stuff is good. My mom loves the burgers. My kids love the corn dogs and the mac and cheese. If I had to gripe about one thing when it comes to BWW, it's the fact that they are a Pepsi establishment. Pepsi is gross. Give me Coke products any day.

But, that is my only problem, until now. I do not know what this means for BWW. How will this purchase change things? Will they start to add some kind of disgusting Arby's roast beef options to the menu? Will they use that nasty ass cheese sauce for their nachos now instead of nacho cheese? Will they try and make their "pork belly sandwich" there? Will they start to push their gross horsey sauce? I have so many questions that I fear will either, come to fruition, or never be answered.

This is a real blow to me, as far as dining out goes. I'm not a picky eater, but when I dislike a place, it is on my shit list for the rest of my life. I stated in my Arby's blog about their "venison" sandwich that Arby's made me sick a couple of times, and since the second time, I have never gone back. It helps that I have Lion's Choice here in Saint Louis too. But, you screw me over once or twice, I'm done. Is this going to happen with BWW? Are the people that used to own that franchise just going to give the keys to the people that run Arby's? If they do, that could spell doom for me. When I go to BWW after the purchase is finalized, and I will still patronize BWW, what happens if I get sick from the food? I mean, I won't deviate from what I normally order, but my order has nothing to do with the people making the food and purchasing the inventory to make said food. If it is the people from Arby's, I would almost guarantee that I will get sick and it will ruin BWW for me forever. I don't want that to happen.

As I stated above, I genuinely enjoy BWW. But this whole Arby's purchase is really going to throw a wrench in my subsequent visits. If Arby's slowly starts to take over the menu, my dozen trips a month will continue to slowly dwindle until I never go there again. I can guarantee that much. I don't like, but much worse, don't trust Arby's. They have burned me before in the past. I will be super upset if the same thing happens at BWW. This is disheartening news to say the least. I wish it weren't true, but after much research, it unfortunately is. I hope things stay the same, but I'm only about 50 percent sure that it will. Arby's bought BWW for a reason, and that reason will spell nothing but doom. This is very upsetting.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. He is mistaken on one thing about Arby's. Those curly fries are the bomb.

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