While wondering what to do with my $6 worth of coupons for providing
feedback about the quality of corn in my $1 TV dinner, I thought of
Pot pies and .... their fried chicken! At $5 for maybe 5 pieces of
chicken in the late 80's, it was a splurge for me. But those things
reheated pretty damned good the Delonghi convection toaster oven.
And that puddle of grease they left behind on the cookie tray meant
you were about to have meal fit for a 15th century king, just
without women cooling off your high blood pressure with palm fronds.

So where do get this nowadays? I looked it up. I had to laugh shen
I saw the stats regarding reviews.

https://www.banquet.com/fried-chicke...ed-chicken-box

120 1-star reviews which all say basically the same thing: "WTF
happened? Used to be good, but now $10 for 2-3 pieces of slimy
green-skinned shit I can't even tell is or ever was chicken?". And
there's actually over 300 of those, not just 120.

And there's another 320 more 1-star reviews at Walmart.com. Customer
service stopped responding to complaints on the website 4-5 months
ago. But they still sell it at Walmart! How does a company still
justify selling that shit? Are you trying to go bankrupt? And
that's nor very good for Walmart, either. But selling shit doesn't
stop people from shopping there, apparently.

What they did for my $.10 corn complaint was send me $6 worth of
"Brown 'n Serve" sausage coupons, and two $.50 for anything else.
Their BnS sausages taste like they were made from some alien animal
(mechanically separated turkey) and take just as long to reheat as
cooking fresh sausage. So $10 worth of fried chicken complaint
coupons oughta clear the shelves of sausages and put them in Chapter
11. In an ideal world, at least. I'd rather eat Hot Pockets, but I
can't imagine what they woudl taste like now after 35 years of
cheapening.

Are there any Banquet product left out there worth trying? I had a
$.25 pot pie last week (on clearance, half prce). Just as horrible
and cheap as I remember, just only half the size. Cardboard tray,
not aluminum.

-sw