Bojangles — Restaurant in Harriman

Life has been so good lately. I’ve been at Watts Bar Lake all weekend, cruising on jet skis with my girlfriend and soaking up the sun. Living the life. I’m headed home, see a billboard for the incredible peach cobbler at Bojangles. I’ve never really enjoyed Bojangles before but it just looked like the perfect peach cobbler that I decided to give it a chance. I pulled up to the drive thru window, gave my order to a robot, then paid my 2.18- bouncing in excitement of getting my favorite dessert. I open it up, anticipation building. The smell of cinnamon roll icing hits my nose and I hand it to my girlfriend- making her sacrifice her taste buds first. She shrugs and says it’s okay. So I take a bite. Trusting her. When I say this was the worst thing I’ve ever put in my mouth I mean it. The texture of the sticky peaches with the dry as hell biscuit and sweetness of icing that shouldn’t have been there in the first place was hell. I can’t begin to explain the anger that cascaded over my entire being. Spitting it out the window, drinking water to get the taste out of my mouth then spitting that out too. And now my mustache is all sticky, reminding me of the hell I just went through. Please save yourself. Save your sanity and your taste buds. Do not get the peace cobbler (that isn’t even really peach cobbler just a disgusting peach jam on a biscuit dryer than the Sahara desert.) Save yourself.

Lowk the chicken biscuits...

This location has not bounced back very well since COVID. Service has been really slow. Last trip I was going to go through the drive thru but after waiting about a minute or longer no one came on to take my order, so I pulled around and went inside. Waited there at the register for another 2 minutes or longer before anyone came over to take my order. I ordered three pieces of dark meat with no sides for my wife, which is her standard order. This time the employee ringing up the order stopped and said I'll have to ring that up as two thighs and a leg, I said that's fine as that is the pieces she's always received anyway. I ordered myself a chicken sandwich. The chicken sandwich was excellent. The 3 pieces of dark meat were boxed up as usual but there was no biscuit included even though she's always received a biscuit previously. Also the chicken leg looked like it came from a baby chicken. The slow service has been typical the last 3 or 4 times I've been there and one time they were out of chicken. Well, it was going to be 20 minutes while it was cooked. But fortunately they found enough cooked to fill my order. I didn't ask where they found it at, I just left grateful not to have to wait 20 minutes. I'll be glad when they fully recover from COVID because it used to be an excellent restaurant experience, but not so...

I'm no stranger to a good biscuit, I'm from Meigs county. I'm also no stranger to this specific Bojangles as I have begun to frequent this establishment more and more as the food and service have always proven to be excellent. Every. Single. Time. So I just finished a cheddar bo with added egg. I got a take out order, took it home and watched a great episode of Good Mythical Morning. I opened the aluminum foil to find... this thing. A biscuit monstrosity, the top half of the biscuit seemed to have been wadded up, thrown at the wall, the guys in back I believe played hot potato with it for a while, and then slapped it on there. On the other side of the foil was the rest of my biscuit with egg laying in shame, looking up at me. I gasped, I considered taking it back, but I'm not a quitter. Let me tell you, I've never had more fun eating a biscuit than I did with that disfigured delight. It was absolutely delicious, I pulled cheesy biscuit off the foil in chunks, then wept with joy as I devoured the other eggy half. This Bojangles will not give you what you want, they will give you what you never...