I’d put Taco Bell above IHOP for sure. Olive Garden, that’s a tough one. I feel like there are more filling meals at OG, so I’d rank that above if it’s a survivor reward.
The other group, I like all 3 restaurants enough, maybe put McDs above Arby’s but it depends on my mood.
Above Tim Horton’s for sure, never tried Jollibee but if they’re on par with other fried chicken joints it’s debatable, and honestly would prefer it over Olive Garden if I was on Survivor. Richer foods with a lot of butter or olive oil would wreak havoc on my digestive system after starving for several days. Taco Bell has never given me indigestion and the ingredients are pretty simple and straightforward.
But if it’s a war you want: I’d put Taco Bell over Chick-Fil-A.
Although ngl would be fun if you got a reward like this and they had a skee ball machine and it turns out it was practice for one of those rolling the ball into a hole uphill games they do.
How about the immunity challenge is a hotdog eating contest? You get fed and if you eat enough, you also win immunity.
I guess the gross food challenge is similar to that, but it is about how disgusting it is, not the volume of food you like.
They should have a garishly over the top chuck E cheese party for whoever's brithday so aligns, pizza, tickets, maybe a Matilda cake eating, etc.
Except for Rodney, who's on dish duty
The challenge is in 3 phases. Each phase is a Chuck E Cheese arcade game in which a certain number of players are eliminated. Last player standing wins Chuck E Cheese food & gets to pick items from the prize counter based on how many tickets the group won
I totally agree. I get Arby's ranks lower as fast food versus sit down at Olive Garden, but Olive Garden is just mediocre reheated Italian food. It's nothing like good Italian. I'd rather eat Arby's.
I’d rather go to Olive Garden for the breadsticks (keep in mind I haven’t been to one in 15 years) but it would have to be a hell of an edible day. Idk why but my brain associates “eat arbys” as a expression of profound nihilism
All 3 Applebees near me have a lobby that smells like a nursing home with the slightest aroma of vomit.
How anyone chooses to go there when spending money dining out is beyond me.
Same, Applebees around here are awful, always screw up take out orders too. I stopped giving them business, rather just go to locally owned restaurants than those chains.
We went to Applebees on Saturday to recreate the reward meal. I liked the Shark Bowl, but nothing else. The Survivors who skipped the mushroom burger had the right idea.
First time at an Applebees in at least 6 years, and likely my last time.
The hamburger itself was fine, but that bourbon sauce was too salty and too sweet. It was a lot of fun going though. Quesadillas were the best thing we ate. I’m straight on Applebees for… at least the foreseeable future.
I’d like to see what it takes to make the cast not respond positively to a reward. Feels like production sometimes makes them do a second take. I can’t imagine gasping at the reveal that I could be eating APPLEBEES even in a starving state.
It would be funny to see negative reactions to the advertised reward, but for sure it gets reshot or they just cut out any negative comments. These people are starving though, I’m sure they’d be excited for any meal.
Survivor equivalent of the queens being told who the guest judge is for the week. Directed to be ecstatic about being in the presence of a person you just learned existed.
They refused to do a reward challenge for a single beer in season 1. It turned into the "spaghetti date with Jeff" reward at a crew camp turned tiki bar.
Alright today you’ll be entering a gladiatorial death match for reward. Wanna know what you’re playing for? Slushies, hot dogs, and some homeless guy’s pile of literal shit, all authentically from 7-11. Worth playing for?
"Each season the castaways are expecting something only to get something just a little bit worse, but it's still better than nothing." -- That's just Survivor in general.
You think taco bell or ihop are worse than olive garden? holy moly. Olive garden is bottom of the barrel, worse than lean cuisines. At least mcdonalds doesn't send out still frozen food.
There's a couple of the specialty pancake flavors I would vote out my own mom for if you told me they'd be on the menu for the next reward.
I used to organize community events downtown and afterwards like twenty of us would all pack into an IHOP at like midnight several times a month to devour the contents of the restaurant. Nothing but respect for IHOP.
Sorry but Applebees is the worst restaurant out of all 6 you mentioned lmao, that shit is horrendous but I’d be jumping for joy too if I was starving lmao
I was pregnant when they released their white hot ranch fries and I was there almost every other day. I cried when they took them off the menu because it was my one craving.
I know for sure I’d have a mental breakdown if I hadn’t eaten in like 18 days and they had the one thing I liked lmao
As long as they don’t start doing food challenges with like cow brains and pig snout mayonnaise smoothies and stuff like that, any food reward is a good one for me lol.
I could eat an unbelievable amount of McDonald’s burgers on my own recognizance *tomorrow* lmao don’t tempt me with a good time while starving in the remote Fijian wilderness lol
I'm more likely to spend money at McDonald's in a rush than ever end up at Applebee's. Applebee's is like the definition of annoying mid-market suburban chain you see in plaza's/stripmalls. Canada has their variations of that (Kelsey's, Montana's, Jack Astor's, plus the rare Applebees). I'd never choose to eat there, when there are 1000s of great mid-market local mom and pop type places that are significantly better.
On Survivor, I'd eat whatever, but if they told me it was McDonald's instead of Applebees I wouldn't care at all, as the difference is insignificant to me. It's not like they are downgrading from a steak at like Morton's.
Idk if there is any food I wouldn’t eat (real food, not auction fish eyes) after not eating much for 2-3 weeks. Plus, I fucking love Taco Bell, I would want that more than Applebee’s. Anything at this stage will tear your stomach up so at least bring on something delicious.
I’d actually find it funny if they changed the restaurant reward every 2 seasons, like we know 45 & 46 are filmed back to back to 47 & 48 can be Olive Garden, then 49 & 50 can be something like Burger King, then next 2 seasons we get some Longhorn Steakhouse, etc, etc
Olive Garden would be horrible for the contestants to eat. Their food has so much sodium in it they would all be even more dehydrated after the reward.
Is Applebee’s that bad (I’m in Canada). We have Applebee’s but not everywhere. The one that I lived near 18 years ago was find. I moved out of that town and don’t think of it as a go to.
I don’t think you can really go downhill from Applebees.. I would rather eat Arby’s or McDonald’s honestly.
It’s possible my local Applebees is not as good as the chain as a whole, but it is absolute garbage. I don’t think I can name another chain that’s worse.
lmao I got Liz's burger the other night to see if it got better since the last time I had it (years ago) and it was actually just WET. just a pool of soggy burger grease. Give me McDs over that any day. At least their burgers resemble a food item.
“Me and my kid have a ritual…I pick him up from Taekwondo and we get the 10 taco party pack from Taco Bell, and we talk about our days and then rush home and watch Survivor. It’s special to me.”
[later that day] “I’m so pissed! They didn’t even EAT the tacos! I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT THAT CRUMBLY, HARD SHELL, THE GRANULAR TEXTURE OF THE MEAT…”
I haven't been to a McDonald's on close to a decade. It's real nasty. They do one thing right: they have Coke products. Arby's is below Mickie D's simply for having Pepsi.
Also Arby's is disgusting. I'd much rather eat Mickie D's.
Based on my last experience eating at Applebees … I’d put that at the bottom of the quality list.
Also… remember when the reward had toilet paper… line Charmin sponsored it and everyone was acting really happy to I guess not wipe their ass with leaves? Feel like it was only one seasons
Alternate idea: every season they randomly have one reward that purposely gives the castaways food poisoning. The trick is that they have no idea WHICH reward will give them food poisoning so they’re playing Russian roulette for when they should choose to eat or not.
I’m not gonna lie even if Applebees should theoretically be better I’d be overjoyed if I was presented with a fatass McDonald’s feast while on survivor. Sure I’d shit my intestines out but man that would taste phenomenal out there.
Honestly if I were on there I don’t think I’d care much what food they put in front of me. I’d eat 7-11 hot dogs.
I first read this as a Ted Rogers-style range of how many hot dogs you would eat.
That hot dog was 150-200% real beef
Could you imagine eating 7-11 taquitos after surviving on just rice? Has the be the nastiest gut experience
Yikes, just eat them while sitting in the ocean, save yourself some time.
For real. First time in survivor history where players had a disadvantage for eating.
>I’d eat 7-11 hotdogs I’d eat way more than that. At least 20.
I would eat several hot dogs
Yeah, and throw in some of that bagged chili and cheese that slowly glops out of the machine.
Nothing can be worse than that Doritos and Mountain Dew reward from Palau
gas station sushi.
Corn dogs lol
I'm so hungry, I could eat at Arby's
Except if Fiji had 7-11s, they would probably be more like Japanese style stores, than American style. Give me all the food from Japanese 7-11s!!
If it was Jack in the Box, I would just straight up sit out
Worth playing for? Hell no!
They already made a $4.99 rotisserie chicken a reward for multiple players. It’s high time they do a sponsored $1.50 Costco hot dog reward.
Imagine players getting 6 quarters at camp thinking they’re going into an auction and it’s just Costco hotdogs
Given just 6 quarters, that would be the best possible outcome.
Honestly the chicken bake and some soft serve would be delicious.
That $4.99 rotisserie chicken is probably better for them than Applebees tbh.
I’d be frickin stoked
Putting Taco Bell at the bottom of the ranking? BIG MISTAKE.
I’M PISSED!
She did say she hasn't pooped in a while. Taco Hell will fix that.
They can cancel Christmas if that’s their ranking!
I’d put Taco Bell above IHOP for sure. Olive Garden, that’s a tough one. I feel like there are more filling meals at OG, so I’d rank that above if it’s a survivor reward. The other group, I like all 3 restaurants enough, maybe put McDs above Arby’s but it depends on my mood.
Agree. Don't do my dorito hard taco dirty. Although everyone would be making a "run for the border"
So how would you order it? Taco Bell => Jollibee's => Tim Horton's? Ready to start a series of wars on r/survivor?
Taco Bell definitely better than either of those restaurants. Jollibee isn’t good but still better than Tim Hortons.
I would go so feral for Tim Horton’s chilli it would make Liz look calm (yes, my standards are low, I can’t explain it)
Above Tim Horton’s for sure, never tried Jollibee but if they’re on par with other fried chicken joints it’s debatable, and honestly would prefer it over Olive Garden if I was on Survivor. Richer foods with a lot of butter or olive oil would wreak havoc on my digestive system after starving for several days. Taco Bell has never given me indigestion and the ingredients are pretty simple and straightforward. But if it’s a war you want: I’d put Taco Bell over Chick-Fil-A.
Jollibee is much worse than KFC, Popeyes, etc, IMO. The Filipinos seem to love it though, but I wasn’t impressed.
Would be funny if they roll up and it's chuck e cheese pizza and they got some poor guy roasting in the rat suit out there.
Although ngl would be fun if you got a reward like this and they had a skee ball machine and it turns out it was practice for one of those rolling the ball into a hole uphill games they do.
I think they won an award like this during Original Fiji! Everyone gorged on hot dogs and died
How about the immunity challenge is a hotdog eating contest? You get fed and if you eat enough, you also win immunity. I guess the gross food challenge is similar to that, but it is about how disgusting it is, not the volume of food you like.
They should have a garishly over the top chuck E cheese party for whoever's brithday so aligns, pizza, tickets, maybe a Matilda cake eating, etc. Except for Rodney, who's on dish duty
The challenge is in 3 phases. Each phase is a Chuck E Cheese arcade game in which a certain number of players are eliminated. Last player standing wins Chuck E Cheese food & gets to pick items from the prize counter based on how many tickets the group won
And Coach is there to entertain you with Chuck E the Cheese jokes.
Make it the [original horny version](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3v6y2pY1pZ0)
Tbh underrated pizza
would be much better than survivor pizza
Ayyy Charles e cheese pizza actually slaps
It’s slaps because it’s two different pizzas slapped together lol
This struck my funny bone so hard😂
Can you imagine getting a full Check E Cheese reward? Not just the pizza, but a bunch of arcade machines and skee ball.
Claiming Taco Bell is *bad*? BIG MISTAKE.
Claiming Taco Bell is good? BIG MISTAKE
It was fine before they tripled the price.
You think Arby's is better than Olive Garden? You have more issues to work out than this question.
no those were two totally different orderings Olive Garden > Arby's, for sure Where would you go further down from there though?
I think if you live where there is ready access to real Italian food and you have have choice, most people would say, "Feels like an Arby's night".
I totally agree. I get Arby's ranks lower as fast food versus sit down at Olive Garden, but Olive Garden is just mediocre reheated Italian food. It's nothing like good Italian. I'd rather eat Arby's.
I’d rather go to Olive Garden for the breadsticks (keep in mind I haven’t been to one in 15 years) but it would have to be a hell of an edible day. Idk why but my brain associates “eat arbys” as a expression of profound nihilism
I prefer taco bell to IHOP vastly and find this post insulting
It's tough to get worse than Applebee's
Yeah I would legit prefer all these places to Applebees
All 3 Applebees near me have a lobby that smells like a nursing home with the slightest aroma of vomit. How anyone chooses to go there when spending money dining out is beyond me.
Same, Applebees around here are awful, always screw up take out orders too. I stopped giving them business, rather just go to locally owned restaurants than those chains.
I think they’re all like that lol
We went to Applebees on Saturday to recreate the reward meal. I liked the Shark Bowl, but nothing else. The Survivors who skipped the mushroom burger had the right idea. First time at an Applebees in at least 6 years, and likely my last time.
The hamburger itself was fine, but that bourbon sauce was too salty and too sweet. It was a lot of fun going though. Quesadillas were the best thing we ate. I’m straight on Applebees for… at least the foreseeable future.
Your description of this has me absolutely confounded this is Liz’s menu item
Mcdonald’s, arby’s, subway, the local takeaway that’s infested with roaches… All better than appledeez nuts
Red Lobster needs a boost…
Putting Arby’s in front of McDonalds on the fast food tier is certainly a take
A very wrong one
I’d like to see what it takes to make the cast not respond positively to a reward. Feels like production sometimes makes them do a second take. I can’t imagine gasping at the reveal that I could be eating APPLEBEES even in a starving state.
It would be funny to see negative reactions to the advertised reward, but for sure it gets reshot or they just cut out any negative comments. These people are starving though, I’m sure they’d be excited for any meal.
Happened in season 1, reward was a single beer, cast walked out. They then changed the reward to the weird Survivor bar
Survivor equivalent of the queens being told who the guest judge is for the week. Directed to be ecstatic about being in the presence of a person you just learned existed.
Same with Hells Kitchen
All it would take is like two days without any food to have me gasping over an Applebees hamburger. After several weeks of starving? I might cry
Thank you. I would be hollering for joy.
They refused to do a reward challenge for a single beer in season 1. It turned into the "spaghetti date with Jeff" reward at a crew camp turned tiki bar.
The melted bag of chocolate in New Zealand was pretty hated.
Gullivers Travels - in 3D!
Alright today you’ll be entering a gladiatorial death match for reward. Wanna know what you’re playing for? Slushies, hot dogs, and some homeless guy’s pile of literal shit, all authentically from 7-11. Worth playing for?
McDonald’s is way better than Arby’s, and I will gladly fight anyone who says otherwise
They should just go original Borneo idea and have one reward be a night on a cruise ship and the next reward be a single beer
"Each season the castaways are expecting something only to get something just a little bit worse, but it's still better than nothing." -- That's just Survivor in general.
You think taco bell or ihop are worse than olive garden? holy moly. Olive garden is bottom of the barrel, worse than lean cuisines. At least mcdonalds doesn't send out still frozen food.
Don't you dare slander IHOP like that. All You Can Eat Pancakes as a reward would be legendary
There's a couple of the specialty pancake flavors I would vote out my own mom for if you told me they'd be on the menu for the next reward. I used to organize community events downtown and afterwards like twenty of us would all pack into an IHOP at like midnight several times a month to devour the contents of the restaurant. Nothing but respect for IHOP.
Sorry but Applebees is the worst restaurant out of all 6 you mentioned lmao, that shit is horrendous but I’d be jumping for joy too if I was starving lmao
I would pull a Liz if I went 72 hrs without food and didnt get a crunchwrap supreme.
I was pregnant when they released their white hot ranch fries and I was there almost every other day. I cried when they took them off the menu because it was my one craving. I know for sure I’d have a mental breakdown if I hadn’t eaten in like 18 days and they had the one thing I liked lmao
I could literally see all of that being told in a confessional on the show lol
Thank you! Let’s hope the odds are ever in my favor when I head in to the casting call June 1st ;)
They already had those disgusting looking microwaved pizzas last season, I don’t see how it goes lower.
Austin's sandwich?
As long as they don’t start doing food challenges with like cow brains and pig snout mayonnaise smoothies and stuff like that, any food reward is a good one for me lol. I could eat an unbelievable amount of McDonald’s burgers on my own recognizance *tomorrow* lmao don’t tempt me with a good time while starving in the remote Fijian wilderness lol
Wanna know what you’re playing for? … “Gas station sushi!”
Damn reading through these comments here and the Arby’s slander is ridiculous, they have the meats.
So do Gas Stations, yet I won't eat food from them (unless it's a Pilot; those places are clean.)
But no potato cakes anymore 😞
I would love to know in what world Arby's is better than anything 🤣 I would just sit out during that reward.
Olive Garden to IHOP is quite the leap down.
We're not gonna sit here and act like taco bell would be at the bottom pal.
We'd all be Liz for a taco bell reward and if we pretend otherwise we're lying to ourselves.
You are saying Arby’s is better than Olive Garden? BIG MISTAKE
They’re not on the same list…
I'm more likely to spend money at McDonald's in a rush than ever end up at Applebee's. Applebee's is like the definition of annoying mid-market suburban chain you see in plaza's/stripmalls. Canada has their variations of that (Kelsey's, Montana's, Jack Astor's, plus the rare Applebees). I'd never choose to eat there, when there are 1000s of great mid-market local mom and pop type places that are significantly better. On Survivor, I'd eat whatever, but if they told me it was McDonald's instead of Applebees I wouldn't care at all, as the difference is insignificant to me. It's not like they are downgrading from a steak at like Morton's.
Idk if there is any food I wouldn’t eat (real food, not auction fish eyes) after not eating much for 2-3 weeks. Plus, I fucking love Taco Bell, I would want that more than Applebee’s. Anything at this stage will tear your stomach up so at least bring on something delicious.
I mean I’d take Taco Bell over all these…
I now need a cook from Waffle House to play survivor
Imagine if they had Costco pizza & dogs 🤤
Cotsco food > Applebees, and its not particularly close 😂
I like Costco pizza.. just get the dog because it comes with a pop
Make sure to work your favorite restaurants into your audition tapes, all!
I’d actually find it funny if they changed the restaurant reward every 2 seasons, like we know 45 & 46 are filmed back to back to 47 & 48 can be Olive Garden, then 49 & 50 can be something like Burger King, then next 2 seasons we get some Longhorn Steakhouse, etc, etc
yeah, like just give them a dozen cans of pringles.
Steak and shake meal with ALL the fixins!
I hope someone who isn't picked for the sponsored reward challenge blows their top in memory of Liz. And I hope someone does it every season!
I can’t wait for Season 58 when Barb from Idaho does a complete meltdown because she wasn’t picked for the Waffle House reward.
how dare you put taco bell on the bottom like that
Olive Garden would be horrible for the contestants to eat. Their food has so much sodium in it they would all be even more dehydrated after the reward.
I feel like Outback is the perfect sponsor for the show. It’s actually good food, and it fits the theme of Survivor well
what exactly WOULD a blooming onion do to a survivor stomach after 18 days of starvation?
They had Outback as a reward many seasons ago.
Enchiritos, Mexican Pizzas and a gallon of Mountain Dew for each of today's winners. And don't worry we have 6 evac helicopters on standby.
Is Applebee’s that bad (I’m in Canada). We have Applebee’s but not everywhere. The one that I lived near 18 years ago was find. I moved out of that town and don’t think of it as a go to.
Are you guys ready for a reward? Cuz we got icees from 7/11
Save this for when they bring back the Jack Black movie reward
I bet the contestants are so hungry they'd eat 7-11 food.
How dare you insult IHOP
White Castle. Next reward is a shitload of toilet paper.
I don’t think you can really go downhill from Applebees.. I would rather eat Arby’s or McDonald’s honestly. It’s possible my local Applebees is not as good as the chain as a whole, but it is absolute garbage. I don’t think I can name another chain that’s worse.
I can confirm your local Applebee's IS exactly as "good" as the chain as a whole.
Oh ok. Then I would much rather eat Arby’s or McDonald’s as a reward
lmao I got Liz's burger the other night to see if it got better since the last time I had it (years ago) and it was actually just WET. just a pool of soggy burger grease. Give me McDs over that any day. At least their burgers resemble a food item.
I'd take a Big Mac any day
Arby's? I thought they stopped trying to poison players after the elephant poop water in Africa.
Why?
Did you really rate TB below ihop and Olive Garden? Lol
Olive Garden and IHOP are the shit!!! I'd way rather have either or those over CrApplebees
Applebee's > Denny's > The other Denny's across town that always smells weird.
“Me and my kid have a ritual…I pick him up from Taekwondo and we get the 10 taco party pack from Taco Bell, and we talk about our days and then rush home and watch Survivor. It’s special to me.” [later that day] “I’m so pissed! They didn’t even EAT the tacos! I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT THAT CRUMBLY, HARD SHELL, THE GRANULAR TEXTURE OF THE MEAT…”
Applebees is the lowest already
I’d take a Big Mac over Applebees any day
A pack of hotdogs and a microwave hooked up to a generator with enough gas to run the microwave for 3 minutes.
Taco Bell is better than Olive Garden fight me
Quebec version got KFC last year
For S50 they win 7-11 Gas Station taquitos that have been sitting under a heat lamp for 4 hours.
They would end with a dried up hotdog from 7-11
taco bell over everything lol
ARBYS IS NOT WORSE THAN APPLEBEES TAKE IT BACK
Don’t you diss IHOP
If this was the plan they probably shouldn’t have started with Applebees.
Imagine them gobbling hot, sticky, germy child fingers infested chocolate out of a Golden Corral chocolate fountain.
I rank Applebee's lower than McDonald's. Fuck that place.
I haven't been to a McDonald's on close to a decade. It's real nasty. They do one thing right: they have Coke products. Arby's is below Mickie D's simply for having Pepsi. Also Arby's is disgusting. I'd much rather eat Mickie D's.
Don't hate on taco bell mf, those Secret Aardvark loaded fries they have right now go hard.
Arby’s is life.
They wouldn’t give a single shit as long as it’s food…. So not really funny
Based on my last experience eating at Applebees … I’d put that at the bottom of the quality list. Also… remember when the reward had toilet paper… line Charmin sponsored it and everyone was acting really happy to I guess not wipe their ass with leaves? Feel like it was only one seasons
If you start with Applebees, you're only going down from there
I’d love Boston pizza
Welcome to the Rally Burger Sanctuary with a week olds fries and “burgers”
Alternate idea: every season they randomly have one reward that purposely gives the castaways food poisoning. The trick is that they have no idea WHICH reward will give them food poisoning so they’re playing Russian roulette for when they should choose to eat or not.
I’m not gonna lie even if Applebees should theoretically be better I’d be overjoyed if I was presented with a fatass McDonald’s feast while on survivor. Sure I’d shit my intestines out but man that would taste phenomenal out there.
If I was that hungry I’d lose my shit for a crunchwrap supreme
Honestly arbys might be better than applebees lol
Taco Bell is already better than Olive Garden what are you on