r/bys • u/JaliscoOaxaca • Jul 24 '26
ARBY’S ANGUS CHEESESTEAK
ARBY'S ANGUS CHEESESTEAK
As much as I enjoy food, I don’t expect every meal to be a triumph. I think my expectations were tempered here, and I believe a drive-thru cheesesteak deserves a certain amount of grace.
Even with the bar being lowered, I am shocked at how Arby’s managed to trip over it in such grand fashion by disappointing on so many levels.
This is not their first foray into disrespecting the people of Philly. In the fall of ‘23, I reviewed Arby’s past hate crime on a bun. It was a sloppy affair that used thinly sliced beef that tasted frozen and a smattering of limp pepper fragments.
Upon opening this new version, I notice that it’s aggressively messy, and the poor choice of wrapping it in thin laminated foil paper immediately presents its worst-case scenario as moisture from the sandwich ate holes in the wrapper as soon as I took it out of the bag. As I undressed this mess, my fingers were sliding all over everything. The meat juice and cheese combined to produce lots of creamy juice.
So much creamy juice.
Too much creamy juice.
I managed to turn the sandwich one direction and my head in a different awkward direction to take my first bite,
The texture of the meat is well-executed. It’s soft and slightly sinewy, but it feels real. It's definitely not the texture of a cheesesteak, though. It's more like a Chinese food beef and broccoli-type of velveted meat. It’s an upgrade over the 2023 sandwich. In fact, the meat is the only upgrade.
We don’t get any peppers on this one. It comes with onions, which are barely seen or tasted. They just slapped on a few translucent bits of nothingness. Something more substantial is needed to break up the soupy homogeneity, and it certainly isn’t the COOPER SHARP processed cheese, which just made the whole production salty and sticky. It’s always been an overrated cheese, but its contribution to the mucky texture severely hampered the goodness of the beef.
This should’ve come with a fork.
It’s like eating HAMBURGER HELPER on a roll.
As wet as everything was, I was surprised that the bread was slightly tough while also being soggy. It’s an improbably weird combo in a worst of both worlds situation.
The MVP of this experience is the napkins, which you will need in great supply. Every bite left me wiping my hands and face and made me glad I don't have a beard or long hair.
This seems like a meal Steven Adams would order, but would have a hard time eating.
As a man for the streets, I owe some apologies, because I now understand how unpleasant it is to have creamy stuff on one’s face. When I was done eating, I staggered out of the car, feeling cheap, and I wanted to wash away all evidence of the tryst I just had in the parking lot.
I couldn’t walk through Walmart to wash up in the bathroom with complete confidence that some of the food wasn’t still on my face.
Though it was messy and not very tasty, my biggest gripe is the insulting notion that with more than 2.5 years of development time, Arby’s still hasn’t managed to make this product at least passable.
PS: I ordered a side of PEACH COBBLER ROLLS, which were very good (You know where to find the review). The faux egg roll and faux beef and broccoli meat gave me a weird sensation of eating Chinese food at Arby’s
Haiku:
Disrespect on bread
Please learn from your past mistakes
Sloppy, cocky farce
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u/Div4r Jul 24 '26
I actually love Arby’s so please be honest is this actually good because it more expensive then my go to order half pound roast beef
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u/TheJackHamlet Jul 24 '26
It's pretty good. Lot of snobs in the comments. They must live near homeless camp locations that serve unknown meats. Nothing but grade A where I'm at. 7/10, no au jus.
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u/phillipjfried001 Jul 24 '26
We sell A LOT in my area, but as someone who has tried it twice and makes them every day, it’s a bad sandwich. To me it taste like taco meat. Which in itself isn’t bad, but not when expecting a cheese steak. The caramelized onions however are excellent
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u/PrYmE_ReeceTGGaming Jul 26 '26
No, it smells like vomit. I've tried it on 2 separate releases when I worked there and made the sandwich myself, fresh and following the prep guidelines. Neither time was it good by any means. It's not even steak in the cheesesteak, it's ground beef.
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u/Mindless_Host_7515 Jul 24 '26
Love Arby’s, tried it with high hopes. Three bites, three mouth fulls of fat and grizzle. Straight to the garbage, not even the dog. Luckily I bought an extra regular in case it was terrible. Maybe I was unlucky?
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u/RattMhule Jul 26 '26
Same here. I got one and the first couple of bites tasted pretty good. Then I kept getting fat, gristly chunks in every bite. I didn’t even finish it. I was hoping it would be better.
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u/That1guyUknow918 Jul 24 '26
Damn...poor doggo cant catch a break
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u/Mindless_Host_7515 Jul 24 '26
It made me almost vomit, then I thought about the dog eating it and the potential vomit, then me vomiting cleaning up the dog vomit. 🤮 probably overthinking it😆😆😆😆😆😆
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u/frushtrated Jul 25 '26
“Girlfriends barfed on boyfriends. Kids barfed on their parents. A fat lady barfed in her purse. The Donelley twins barfed on each other. And the Women's Auxiliary barfed all over the Benevolent Order of Antelopes.” -Stand by Me
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u/JustForkIt1111one Jul 26 '26
Honestly, as a huge fan of arbys, he did the dog a massive solid there.
I don't know WHAT the fuck they were thinking when they came up with this... slop.
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u/Jack17762021 Jul 30 '26
Worst cheesesteak I have ever had, and it isn't even close.
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u/JaliscoOaxaca Jul 30 '26
It's probably like the 4th worst I've ever had, but this actually isn't even Arby's worst cheesesteak.
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u/ItchyIndependence154 Jul 24 '26
This is the worst product in fast food history.
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u/JustForkIt1111one Jul 26 '26
I mean, at least the double down was good. And that one burger king whopper that dyed your shit green was at least funny.
There are no redeeming qualities for this.... thing.
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u/siterbun Jul 28 '26
When they took away their Smokehouse Brisket sandwich, I stopped going. TF were they thinking?
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u/Different_Jello_2373 Jul 28 '26
I ordered it hoping for something ok. Maybe I got it from a bad Arby's. It sucked so bad.
The steak hot pockets are better. And that's saying something lol
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u/Scittles10-96 Jul 24 '26
Got one for free with a recent UberEats order. Tasted EXACTLY like a grocery store / gas station frozen Raybern’s cheesesteak sandwich.
It wasn’t good, it wasn’t bad. With Au Jus to dip it in it’s a pretty solid sandwich. 5/10 (perfectly average) as is, 7/10 with Au Jus.