I have been working on this video for like two years, I think about Mr. Delicious at least once a week. He sells aluminum siding, but also goes to Bora Bora with…sex workers? Maybe? He’s on his second marriage. He spends too much time at a bar called The Rusty Anchor. He is both effete and signals that he is wealthy while also being working-class? He also likes to read ROMANCE NOVELS WHILE EATING RAX?! So I guess that’s what in the suitcase???
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I really don't think Mr. Delicious would be as meme worthy as these comments think he would today.
LOL! We had a Rax near us growing up, I loved the salad bar but never really ate anything else there. My mom liked it because it wasn't just some garbage burger chain. At some point after Rax was gone, and a couple other restaurants tried their luck in that location, it finally became an Arby's! LOL
If only they used a pedophilic clown or creepy king character instead….
what the hell did I just watch
I have never heard of this restaurant before. I don't think we ever had this in Missouri. The entire thing seems like a deep cut Surrealist fake out done by some renegade art student who was given way too much power.
Unironically love this
Your video is inaccurate dogshit.
Brandon groomers love mr d
I used to live by one of the few Rax still around, the inside didn't look much different than they do in these ads, haha. It was kinda like stepping into a time capsule. The food is pretty good too.
Rax would be a great name for a Hooter's style restaurant of which there are many now.
A Rax commercial with Mr. Delicious and the tagline “You can eat here” is beyond parody. It’s what I would imagine Adult Swim would make as a parody fast food commercial.
NEVER heard of rax LMAO!!
"ads were bad" you take that back! Yes they were always cringe but in ways that still make them interesting compared to all the Superbowl ads since like 09'
Never heard of this place.
Have you seen the latest ads from Wendy's? (Feb 2024) I swear, they give Mr. Delicious a run for the money!
Based Mr. Delicious
I know alot of people who wish rax were still here. That all you can eat bar would be pretty inviting in this economy.
For a while, Big Al Anderson of NRBQ represented Rax.
2:17 nintendo switch has games
I never realized this video was made by Hank. What??? I've watched this video essay so many times and I had no idea.
I'm probably older than most people who have sat through this video and I've never heard anything about Rax before. Was this just a regional fast food chain? I think I probably would have eaten there though.
Mr. D died of tuberculosis
I genuinely wish I could've talked to the people responsible for this campaign. It's just so delusional and out of touch with reality, it almost seems deliberate.
Also, how tf was this misogynistic?
rax lasted from 1951 to 1958
He kinda sounds like zachary levi
They certainly got a bad…Rax.
That briefcase with the huge lettering proclaiming "Mr. D." would definitely have a different meaning today! Too funny…
Sorry but most ads are bad or at least generic as shit.
Mr Delicious would literally make it so big today
I remember that restaurant… there were 2 of them in my region. It was an OK alternative to the usual suspects.
Mr D would be great today
I worked for Rax back on the day and that place was immaculately clean! Great food also! Sad that standards are so low because of corporate greed now. These places were bomb! Especially the chocolate chip shakes! I miss it! Very well managed and staffed.
Mr delicious seems like the kind of guy who shows up to the trap house in a TCAP sting
We still eat rax 2day
the name alone is off putting
Im laughing out so hard. Mr D ???? Who came up with that name?
If it were today they would be cancelled at the eenie, meenie, minie schtick. 🤦🏾
You can eat here! 😀
Mister Delicious looks like that drawing of Kelsey Grammer in that Frasier episode where he stresses over his big forehead
Only 1.29. can’t even get a packet of gum with that now.
Ahead of their time lol
It was great to meet you two at the Rax in Dayton! Thank you for making time for everyone who came and signing my Anthropocene Reviewed. I hope the food was good! DFTBA!
There's 6 locations in Ohio.
Camt believe that was a real commercial..
How could you edit out the iconic Mr Dickity D slogan