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Posted: 02.09.2003 I want my baby back, baby back, baby back...
After about 100 commercials yesterday, and more today, I finally turned to Todd and asked..."Why does Chili's only advertise their baby back ribs?" I mean, they have about 50 other menu items. They've been doing this campaign since I was in high school, it seems like. We all know they have baby back ribs by now. With bar-b-que sauce. Isn't it time to share the limelight with the other food items? The commercials are no longer unique, or even entertaining.
These are the things that keep me awake at night. Pretty sad, huh?  Because it's much harder to come up with a catchy jingle. Not much rhymes with burgers, chicken sandwiches, or chips and queso. The sad thing is that their ribs really aren't anything spectacular, as ribs go. ¤ ¤ credit: dave | 02.09.03 at 11:45 AM | link- -this ¤ ¤ Great. Now I'm hungry. INSANELY hungry.... ¤ ¤ credit: Lisa | 02.09.03 at 12:04 PM | link--this ¤ ¤who cares about their food... i love their 2 for 1 margaritas! ¤ ¤ credit: jay | 02.09.03 at 12:08 PM | link--this ¤ ¤dave's so right. the jingle is all that matters. Maybe you should come up with something robyn! I know you could do it.:) ¤ ¤ credit: yoshi | 02.09.03 at 12:43 PM | link--this ¤ ¤What do any of the restaurants who have national chains advertise? Their specialties. Hooters advertises their hot wings and (of course) their waitresses. Applebee's advertises their skillet dinners. Denny's advertises their Grand Slam. Burger King is still Home of the Whopper. Each is known for their special; doesn't mean they have only that. I personally like the hole-in-the-wall mom-and-pop restaurants. Any more, the chains usually make me queasy. ¤ ¤ credit: BillH | 02.09.03 at 12:50 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Yeah, I’m hungry too now… Damn I don’t know what I want to eat? By the way Robyn - I’m back on line again and I got a new concept (Bloggers Death Match), come take a look [Mister Mittens – One ravenous pussy] -this ¤ ¤Thing is, I don't consider their baby back ribs their specialty. At all. I rarely see people ordering them when I'm there. It's always the chicken fried steak, the burgers, or the fajitas coming out of the kitchen. And Applebee's advertises different things all the time. Right now they're hawking their skillets because they brought them back. But a couple of months ago, here at least, it was their New Orleans grills. I'm just sayin' there's nothing wrong with advertising something new. The most recent baby back ribs commercials are downright dreadful -- and it just seems like they're in a rut because they don't know what else to do. Me thinks some people take my midnight rants just a weeeeeee bit too seriously though. ;-) ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 02.09.03 at 02:26 PM | link--this ¤ ¤You mean Chili's makes something other than Fajitas and commercials for Baby Back Ribs? -this ¤ ¤anytime they want to drop something on a memeber of nsync or some other crap ass band, I am all for it!! ¤ ¤ credit: Darren | 02.09.03 at 06:09 PM | link--this ¤ ¤yah..i really dont like the new one with the white guy who is rappin or whatever. I kinda like the one with the two women singing though. they sound pertty :) ¤ ¤ credit: Ruthie | 02.09.03 at 06:09 PM | link--this ¤ ¤I am with Jay on this one, the only reason to goto chili's is happy hour! (checks watch) oh yeah damn blue laws!! ¤ ¤ credit: meredith | 02.09.03 at 06:16 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Chili's has the greatest boneless buffalo wings. I want my...boneless Nah. Doesn't sound right. ¤ ¤ credit: michele | 02.09.03 at 06:36 PM | link--this ¤ ¤The only thing I like at Chili's are their Southwestern Egg Rolls. Otherwise, I avoid chain places like the plague. BTW...Crapplebee's is evil...they treat their employees like shit, and they make the cooks microwave just about everything...even steaks (they made us slap them on the grill for the last couple of minutes just so it LOOKED like it was really grilled!) Any company that gives an employee shit for needing time off for a good reason (in my case, it was because Mike had a heart attack), does not deserve to be in business. I'm going to figure out how to make Southwest Egg Rolls at home, and then I won't even have to go to Chili's...no more chain restaurants for me! ¤ ¤ credit: Christine M. | 02.09.03 at 07:03 PM | link--this ¤ ¤You don't have to make them at home! Our supermarket sells Friday's Southwest Eggrolls which are basically the same exact thing. Look for them in your frozen section! ¤ ¤ credit: michele | 02.09.03 at 07:36 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Schwan's sells an exact replica, as well. And I have the perfect knock-off of the Bennigan's Southwest Eggroll dipping sauce here. ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 02.09.03 at 07:47 PM | link--this ¤ ¤LOL @ dave! hehehe ¤ ¤ credit: Paul | 02.09.03 at 08:27 PM | link--this ¤ ¤OMG, their ribs are to DIE for. (man was that ever a gay thing to say !!!) Now I have to go get something to EAT dang it!!! ¤ ¤ credit: Zander | 02.09.03 at 11:03 PM | link--this ¤ ¤oo oo oo I want my... onion rings That works... ¤ ¤ credit: Froggie | 02.10.03 at 12:16 AM | link--this ¤ ¤I dunno, Robyn, I have to disagree. I think those commercials ARE entertaining, at least the first time. I usually sit and watch the new ones just to see what variation of the same old song they've come up with this time (and you have to admit, they have done some interesting ones...). After the first time, though, I ususally just ignore the commercial. And it certainly doesn't make me hungry for ribs. ¤ ¤ credit: Will | 02.10.03 at 04:07 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Those commercials are evil, Will. If you hear them too much, then anytime someone even SAYS "baby back ribs", you instinctively turn and reply "bah-b-q sawce" in a really deep voice, and they look at you like you're an idiot. Trust me, I know. ¤ ¤ credit: dave | 02.10.03 at 05:57 PM | link--this ¤ ¤All that work and a) I don't really care, b) I have yet to try their babyback ribs, and c) I probably never will now. :) Yeah, I hate their commercials ... there's just something about them that causes me to automatically ignore them, like most car commercials (the ones with all the numbers like such and such APR, no down payment ... blah blah blah). :) ¤ ¤ credit: ste | 02.10.03 at 10:13 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Well, thank god I live in the UK, where we don't have to put up with the likes of these adverts!! By the way Froggie, it would be better as I want my on-i-on Thats if the adverts sound anything like the fat bastard song! -this ¤ ¤
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