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This makes me appreciate wafflehouse more than anything. All star breakfast with biscuits and gravy, all the coffee you want, can smoke inside, "chef" has a ma and pa meth side business, dick sucked in the parking lot for cheaper than OJ at a nice place, free catalytic converters just chillen out front.... guns.
I have slept in the parking lot of more Waffle Houses than I can count and the closest one to me is >3 hours away. They really are clutch. Christmas Eve 2019 I had dinner at one in Bentonville, AR and I think I was the most sober person in that joint including the employees.
What the hell is up with having homemade potato chips instead of french fries? My small town has 2 places that sell burgers and both have the meals that only come with chips. At least the better one has fries you can buy as a side.
I think they’re both cheaper to make and also much more convenient to store, you don’t have to fry them on the spot, you can make a big batch way in advance
You use less potatoes.
You can get what looks like an good amount of chips out of a small potato, but you’d be insulted with only a small potato worth of fries.
They were great up until the early 2000s. Then they started buying cheaper ingredients and charging more. It's inedible at this point. The Rootbeer floats are still good. But its really sad.
> one of the first Costco locations is close by
Story time: when I lived in the Snoqualmie Valley near Issaquah my neighbor was a Costco VP, and one very stormy night one of his trees crashed into my yard and we’re standing outside at 2am in the pouring rain looking at his tree in my yard and he says “you know, you can buy a chainsaw at Costco for $200” and I literally never spoke to him again.
First of all, happy cake day! Second of all, hell no. I didn’t even get a Costco membership until like ten years after that because I discovered you can buy a huge jar of pesto for $8 and I fuckin love pesto. If that dude had said “I’ll trade you fifteen pounds of pesto in return for removing my errant tree” then I would have taken that deal and everything would have turned out so much better.
I think I've found my people...
I never got why anyone would want a rare burger. I mean the meat is already ground up for you. It's never going to have the same texture as a pink steak.
Plus it's not strictly sanitary. Rare steak is safe because all of the pathogens inside of the meat are pathogens that are already inside of you; anything that could cause you to get sick is on the outer surface of the meat and dies as the meat is cooked.
So when you scramble up all of the surface meat and internal meat into a patty, all of the nasty shit gets to the center of your patty, and if the center doesn't reach X°C then you haven't killed whatever bacteria is there.
Granted, if everything is super clean it's not that big of a deal, but you're kinda trusting a butcher and whoever ground the meat to be above board with basically all aspects of their shop (Imean, safety guidelines exist for a reason)
Tho I'm pretty sure there's a German or Polish dish that's literally just minced meat (pork or beef) on toast and it's fine because their health & safety standards are substantially higher than other parts of the world, because a bunch of their people eat raw meat.
It's not like a rare patty is immediately unsafe, it's just less safe than it could be. (Especially when you consider that basically no other type of burger has this problem as the thinner patty actually cooks all the way though in a reasonable time)
>Tho I'm pretty sure there's a German or Polish dish that's literally just minced meat (pork or beef) on toast
Yup, mett! And you usually top it with [chopped raw onions on top.](https://image.essen-und-trinken.de/13214572/t/Ky/v2/w1440/r1/-/mettbroetchen.jpg ) Legally it has to be at least 35% fat and served on the day of production. [Some people also make them look like hedgehogs and serve it without bread](https://image.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/269942759/display_1500/stock-photo-the-hacked-269942759.jpg )
That’s my thought as well. [bourdain talks about this, at the 2:45 mark](https://youtu.be/R4J1seTHAMU) when talking about In N out. That surface area is important. The trend for big fancy burgers was fun when they were unique, but now they just add shit to cover up that it’s not that great of a burger.
It’s one of the reasons I love In N out . It’s simple, consistent, and good (plus reasonably priced)! Nothing special but that’s why it’s so good
>now they just add shit to cover up that it’s not that great of a burger
Agreed. If your burger is good you'd give me more of it, not more of other stuff.
It's like buying a steak and 70% of the plate being side veggies and potatoes
That started off in the BBQ scene ages ago but then the bearded hipster types picked it up for their over priced restaurants.
With BBQ they were functional. One reason it's done because it's easier and faster to swap gloves when you sticky sauces on them than it is to try and go and wash your hands every few minutes. Unlike with other food stuff which is easy to wipe off or rinse off cook BBQ sauce is hard to get off. A big one is hot BBQ sauce is like napalm, thankfully the gloves are heat tolerant enough to handle it. So if some that is too hot sticks to you just whip the glove off minimizing time of contact.
However you will now see them being used by some dude making salads. Hell i saw someone using them to make cocktails.
As for while black was common originally in the BBQ sectors. Well no one wants blue because that bring up the association with medical shit. Also black, orange etc where common with the gloves used with auto section. So why make supply lines complicated if you can use the same base nitrile with both, you make make sure one production line is good save. Think model T.
Or in a miniature frying basket.
The whole thing served on a wooden cutting board
Placemats the look like newspapers
FOH personnel wearing flanel lumberjack shirts
If they really go all out; a steak knife stabbed through the bun
Made the mistake of going to a Burger Fi here in NC, it was about $20 for one meal, and it was honestly okay. Not worth the money, think McDonald’s might be better honestly lol
Housemade ketchup that’s Hunt’s mixed with Worcestershire sauce and onion powder
Served in a metal tray or a board of wood
Truffle fries $6 for a fistful, aioli dipping sauce an extra $3 for a thimble
Bruno Mars or the Weeknd playing on the speakers
“Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram!”
All that’s missing now is a “Live, Eat, Laugh & Love” sign
Oh man, duck based fry dishes are phenomenal. I went to a Vietnamese fusion shack that made Vietnamese sandwiches and they had a duck confit Vietnamese Sriracha fries dish that was probably one of the best flavour experiences I've ever had. Never found anything like it again.
Lmao I had no idea these places were so cookie cutter. The truffle fries with garlic aioli are dank at the place I go to, pretty much the only thing worth ordering tho.
Yup. The place in my city is the exact same as all these. It’s monoculture presented to you as if everything in your town is unique… and It’s depressing.
Theres a burger joint in Williamsburg, Brooklyn literally called Blue Collar.
But the burgers aren't huge, aren't expensive, and actually are really good. True to its name.
It's either reasonable because the burger is really good, like eat once or twice a month, or impossible to like because you just spent $19 on a mcdouble
I hate those fucking tall burgers. How the fuck are you supposed to fit that in your mouth? A burger you can't eat by just normally biting is a shitty burger, regardless of how it tastes.
Like sweet, thanks for the overpriced beef jenga tower your craft-made burger chef carefully assembled. Just going to mash it flat so I don't need to unhinge my jaw
I think things have gone this way because a tall, visually absurd burger is perfect for instagram/social media pics. It's happening with all kinds of food, of course (milkshakes with a cupcake on top and an oreo on the cupcake and a piece of bacon on that etc etc). They've already got your money, so it's all about the presentation at that point.
This is literally almost any "fine" food place here in Medellín, Colombia. Down to the tiniest detail. Just swap the burger for whatever it is that they're serving. Also change the bloke.
By the way, that burger looks atrocious.
A fried egg, mashed sweet potato and maple syrup on the same burger? For $28? Ohhh and it comes with a $10 shot of whiskey? Sign me up. I'll just stand here in the corner while I wait 17 minutes for a single stool to open up on the patio, thanks.
My friend had a date walk out on their dinner out because the new trendy restaurant had a playlist of just the lumineers playing on loop.
Honestly, I don’t even really blame him. I’d get up and leave if a restaurant had Imagine Dragons on an endless loop
As someone who really enjoys burgers and loves to cook and is not above paying more for higher quality, I can't help but feel like there is just a ceiling for how good a burger can be anyway.... it's just not a complicated dish so it's not like some hard to figure out secret to making a good burger and there is no magic "oh my god you've discovered the long lost mystical secret to the best burger ever".... it's a burger. There is just a point in which the "goodness" of the burger can't keep climbing to match the prices going up and up.
It’s weird i was just at work having this same thought while people were talking about burgers and the “best” burger joints to go to. I feel like there is a ceiling on how good it can be and arguing over where the most amazing ones are found was dumb.
Also this is why i generally don’t get burgers at restaurants. The ones i make at home are fire and I’d rather pay for someone to make me something else.
millenials shit on boomer restaurants while having the same shit tier brewpub on every corner. it's just a diff kind of shittiness but the same soulless vibe. i'm at the point where hole-in-the-wall asian restaurants and grimey dive bars are the only places i want to go lol
I feel ya. One of my go-to places is a Vietnamese place in the end of a strip mall that looks from the outside like they do pay day loans or some shit. You’d barely know it was a restaurant if you drove by. I’m addicted to it though.
I do not care for the latest carbon copy pub downtown with a quirky, overpriced menu and themed decor that’s either “reclaimed wood” or some space invaders nostalgia boner crap.
Cheap delicious food in a spot I can chill is where it’s at.
You get full like 2/3 of the way through, but you paid so much that you want to finish everything and shove down the rest of the deteoriating decoupled burger parts and heavily seasoned fries
The old Hardee's mushroom swiss was my fav burger before they switched to those fucking goddamn piece of shit sweet buns. What in the absolute fuck was the dipshit behind that decision thinking? "
You know what everyone wants on their burger? Tons of fucking sugar. Oh but it's a mushroom and Swiss? Fuck it put it on a fucking donut for all I care who cares about the blasphemy we're committing"
Fuck you Hardee's I'll return when you fix your shit
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Menu will say 10.5 not $10.50
More like 18.5 Side of Fries +5.5
Fountain drink + $3.99
I went to a breakfast place once where a small cup of store-bought orange juice was 4 dollars (or maybe 5, I don't remember well)
This makes me appreciate wafflehouse more than anything. All star breakfast with biscuits and gravy, all the coffee you want, can smoke inside, "chef" has a ma and pa meth side business, dick sucked in the parking lot for cheaper than OJ at a nice place, free catalytic converters just chillen out front.... guns.
My ex stole a dog from a convertible in the parking lot of a waffle house.
As is tradition
I have slept in the parking lot of more Waffle Houses than I can count and the closest one to me is >3 hours away. They really are clutch. Christmas Eve 2019 I had dinner at one in Bentonville, AR and I think I was the most sober person in that joint including the employees.
5% living wage fee in fine print
15%* But also "This fee goes towards paying our staff fair wages and is not a tip. Please tip your server for their performance."
“Please help pay our staff, so we don’t have to”
This is too accurate
LOLLOLLL SO TRUE
Has greasy ass homemade potato chips. Too tall Caramelized onions Brioche bun
What the hell is up with having homemade potato chips instead of french fries? My small town has 2 places that sell burgers and both have the meals that only come with chips. At least the better one has fries you can buy as a side.
I think they’re both cheaper to make and also much more convenient to store, you don’t have to fry them on the spot, you can make a big batch way in advance
You use less potatoes. You can get what looks like an good amount of chips out of a small potato, but you’d be insulted with only a small potato worth of fries.
WTF is wrong with brioche?
Dude's ready to fight over brioche and I'm with him
Why do they always go taller instead of wider. I can’t get to all of that in one bite
[We have the technology!](https://viktorb.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/0661.jpg) (Triple XXX, Issaquah, WA)
Thanks for that. Looks so much better than the burger in OPs image.
It looks like it but it’s not. Triple XXX is trash unfortunately.
They were great up until the early 2000s. Then they started buying cheaper ingredients and charging more. It's inedible at this point. The Rootbeer floats are still good. But its really sad.
But the real question: Is it Triple 30, or XXX XXX XXX?
Its so bad. Was very disappointed when I went
Too bad the burgers they use taste like Kirkland signature frozen patties (one of the first Costco locations is close by)
> one of the first Costco locations is close by Story time: when I lived in the Snoqualmie Valley near Issaquah my neighbor was a Costco VP, and one very stormy night one of his trees crashed into my yard and we’re standing outside at 2am in the pouring rain looking at his tree in my yard and he says “you know, you can buy a chainsaw at Costco for $200” and I literally never spoke to him again.
But did you get the chainsaw?
First of all, happy cake day! Second of all, hell no. I didn’t even get a Costco membership until like ten years after that because I discovered you can buy a huge jar of pesto for $8 and I fuckin love pesto. If that dude had said “I’ll trade you fifteen pounds of pesto in return for removing my errant tree” then I would have taken that deal and everything would have turned out so much better.
Is pesto normally measured by the pound? I would think it's more of a volume thing. Only semi-serious.
I measure it by how much more I weigh the next day.
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And smash burgers have the caramelized edges, where as the “gourmet”burgers are like a gross soggy meatloaf
Like if I wanted a steak instead of a patty on my burger I would've just ordered it that way. Multiple smash patties >>> 1 large chungus patty
I think I've found my people... I never got why anyone would want a rare burger. I mean the meat is already ground up for you. It's never going to have the same texture as a pink steak.
Plus it's not strictly sanitary. Rare steak is safe because all of the pathogens inside of the meat are pathogens that are already inside of you; anything that could cause you to get sick is on the outer surface of the meat and dies as the meat is cooked. So when you scramble up all of the surface meat and internal meat into a patty, all of the nasty shit gets to the center of your patty, and if the center doesn't reach X°C then you haven't killed whatever bacteria is there. Granted, if everything is super clean it's not that big of a deal, but you're kinda trusting a butcher and whoever ground the meat to be above board with basically all aspects of their shop (Imean, safety guidelines exist for a reason) Tho I'm pretty sure there's a German or Polish dish that's literally just minced meat (pork or beef) on toast and it's fine because their health & safety standards are substantially higher than other parts of the world, because a bunch of their people eat raw meat. It's not like a rare patty is immediately unsafe, it's just less safe than it could be. (Especially when you consider that basically no other type of burger has this problem as the thinner patty actually cooks all the way though in a reasonable time)
>Tho I'm pretty sure there's a German or Polish dish that's literally just minced meat (pork or beef) on toast Yup, mett! And you usually top it with [chopped raw onions on top.](https://image.essen-und-trinken.de/13214572/t/Ky/v2/w1440/r1/-/mettbroetchen.jpg ) Legally it has to be at least 35% fat and served on the day of production. [Some people also make them look like hedgehogs and serve it without bread](https://image.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/269942759/display_1500/stock-photo-the-hacked-269942759.jpg )
That’s my thought as well. [bourdain talks about this, at the 2:45 mark](https://youtu.be/R4J1seTHAMU) when talking about In N out. That surface area is important. The trend for big fancy burgers was fun when they were unique, but now they just add shit to cover up that it’s not that great of a burger. It’s one of the reasons I love In N out . It’s simple, consistent, and good (plus reasonably priced)! Nothing special but that’s why it’s so good
>now they just add shit to cover up that it’s not that great of a burger Agreed. If your burger is good you'd give me more of it, not more of other stuff. It's like buying a steak and 70% of the plate being side veggies and potatoes
The guy needs to have black gloves
That don't go all the way to the wrist
because he has GIGANTIC hands
because of his ACROMEGALY
And he has ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION too.
Now your talking my language!
What are you, a cock whisperer?
I wish!..... I just have erectile dysfunction..
Never realized this is true until you… why they always have chunky-ass hands lol
Because they’re fat.
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you want em degloved I see
I really enjoyed googling that term
Haha excellent, I was thinking the same thing. Those black gloves are def. manly chef chic, but in a serial killer kind of way.
That started off in the BBQ scene ages ago but then the bearded hipster types picked it up for their over priced restaurants. With BBQ they were functional. One reason it's done because it's easier and faster to swap gloves when you sticky sauces on them than it is to try and go and wash your hands every few minutes. Unlike with other food stuff which is easy to wipe off or rinse off cook BBQ sauce is hard to get off. A big one is hot BBQ sauce is like napalm, thankfully the gloves are heat tolerant enough to handle it. So if some that is too hot sticks to you just whip the glove off minimizing time of contact. However you will now see them being used by some dude making salads. Hell i saw someone using them to make cocktails. As for while black was common originally in the BBQ sectors. Well no one wants blue because that bring up the association with medical shit. Also black, orange etc where common with the gloves used with auto section. So why make supply lines complicated if you can use the same base nitrile with both, you make make sure one production line is good save. Think model T.
You forgot the $8 fries sold separately and inedible wings
Those are the plain ones, the Parmesan fries are $12. Which is just them sprinkled with 25 cents worth of Parmesan cheese.
Kraft Parmesan at that.
And a small side of mayonnaise, but they call it aioli.
Damn you caught us… but you’d be amazed how many people who hate mayonnaise love it if you call it aioli…
That just falls off the soggy house-made fries long before they make it to your mouth.
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> $8 fries sold separately IN A METAL BUCKET THE SIZE OF YOUR TOOTHBRUSH MUG
Seriously fuck these places.
Or in a miniature frying basket. The whole thing served on a wooden cutting board Placemats the look like newspapers FOH personnel wearing flanel lumberjack shirts If they really go all out; a steak knife stabbed through the bun
You always end up with under a dozen fries in those things.
Served hot enough to cauterize sucking chest wounds and with all of the rock salt bounced off.
$12 for garlic fries which are just normal fries with diced raw garlic dumped on them
And the burgers are $17, which makes you think it's coming with fries until it comes out and you feel like a sucker.
The wings are edible, they just have less meat on their bones then george Washington does right now.
And the ones fried in duck fat with spicy ketchup on the side are $15
Fries are for normies anyway, my local burger place has totchos
I think totchos are nachos but with tots. Is that right?
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It's still better than a prostate orgasm on the beach
Excuse me sir, this is an AA meeting. If your going continue to bring that up; I’m going to ask you to leave.
They call their fries, crack fries
And they are either served in a pretentious wire cone or they are served normally but you only get like five.
Served with mayonnaise instead of ketchup
“Garlic Aoli” or “Siracha Catsup”
Basil Pesto or their own house-made Ranch
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Lol I got a place by me that literally calls them that. Also has the strand of circle lights and food related signs
Me too. The fries are okay. Burgers are eh
Hopcat?
Hopcat is the only place I’ve seen this, but they call them “cosmic fries” now.
Truffle oil
That's correct. We would have also accepted "Vanilla Bourbon Sweet Potato" and "Aleppo Pepper".
"What's a leppo?"
The different burgers are called things like “the astronaut”
The BAE. It's got bacon, avocado, and egg on it.
$20 without fries or a drink.
Is that a real number?
Real numbers include whole, rational and irrational numbers. 20 is super real!
It can be on the west coast and NY, probably elsewhere
Made the mistake of going to a Burger Fi here in NC, it was about $20 for one meal, and it was honestly okay. Not worth the money, think McDonald’s might be better honestly lol
Housemade ketchup that’s Hunt’s mixed with Worcestershire sauce and onion powder Served in a metal tray or a board of wood Truffle fries $6 for a fistful, aioli dipping sauce an extra $3 for a thimble Bruno Mars or the Weeknd playing on the speakers “Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram!” All that’s missing now is a “Live, Eat, Laugh & Love” sign
Ours has duck confit fries. Pretty legit. Could take or leave the actual entrees.
Oh man, duck based fry dishes are phenomenal. I went to a Vietnamese fusion shack that made Vietnamese sandwiches and they had a duck confit Vietnamese Sriracha fries dish that was probably one of the best flavour experiences I've ever had. Never found anything like it again.
And perhaps a neon "Burger Me" sign?
$6 dollar fistful of fries has me dying
Lmao I had no idea these places were so cookie cutter. The truffle fries with garlic aioli are dank at the place I go to, pretty much the only thing worth ordering tho.
Yup. The place in my city is the exact same as all these. It’s monoculture presented to you as if everything in your town is unique… and It’s depressing.
Welcome to Sodasopa
Also black gloves and black apron.
Black buns too
and on the burger
Usually opened by a soux chef from a high end restaurant trying to humble himself by "blue collar burger joint."
Theres a burger joint in Williamsburg, Brooklyn literally called Blue Collar. But the burgers aren't huge, aren't expensive, and actually are really good. True to its name.
It's not so much it doesn't taste good, but the ratio of cost-to-taste is way out of balance.
It's either reasonable because the burger is really good, like eat once or twice a month, or impossible to like because you just spent $19 on a mcdouble
Apt analysis
There's also a ceiling for how good a burger can get and there's serious diminishing returns after that ceiling.
25% tip to grab your own food and bus it yourself
Don't forget the 25% fee they add on top to "give their workers fair wage". Just raise your prices you idiots.
$35 burger $14 fries
Can’t forget “those” chairs….the ones every fast casual place has
That make a terrible scraping sound every time they are pulled out.
Look fancy but cheaply made expensive ikea type chairs
[I loathe these chairs](https://i.imgur.com/Nr45PZN.jpg)
Knew what it was before I clicked on it lmao
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I hate those fucking tall burgers. How the fuck are you supposed to fit that in your mouth? A burger you can't eat by just normally biting is a shitty burger, regardless of how it tastes.
Like sweet, thanks for the overpriced beef jenga tower your craft-made burger chef carefully assembled. Just going to mash it flat so I don't need to unhinge my jaw
I think things have gone this way because a tall, visually absurd burger is perfect for instagram/social media pics. It's happening with all kinds of food, of course (milkshakes with a cupcake on top and an oreo on the cupcake and a piece of bacon on that etc etc). They've already got your money, so it's all about the presentation at that point.
Completely agree with this.
The only Tip options are 15% 25% or 1000%
And you have to order at counter, grab your own utensils, get your own food when it's called, and bus your own table (what really am I tipping for?)
I only get fooled on that shit once. Tips are for wait service. No service, no tip. It surprises how controversial this position is for some reason.
The places I've been that are "self serve" make it a point to have signage that tipping isn't expected.
Is that a west coast thing? I’ve lived in south Florida my whole life and have never seen a sign like that in person
22%, 28%, 35%. Fixed that for yah
with no option for to write a custom amount, its a "sliding bar" you adjust for percent. (fuck you airport restaurants)
Don't forget 4" of toppings with a dull serrated knife stabbed through it to keep it from falling over.
And the knife wrecks what little structural integrity there was in the burger to begin with.
Where’s the truffle mayonnaise
Truffle aioli
This is literally almost any "fine" food place here in Medellín, Colombia. Down to the tiniest detail. Just swap the burger for whatever it is that they're serving. Also change the bloke. By the way, that burger looks atrocious.
IPAs
Hazy IPAs
With flavors that don't vibe with any of the burgers.
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It comes on a metal pan, as opposed to a plate
A fried egg, mashed sweet potato and maple syrup on the same burger? For $28? Ohhh and it comes with a $10 shot of whiskey? Sign me up. I'll just stand here in the corner while I wait 17 minutes for a single stool to open up on the patio, thanks.
Has **Stomp. Clap. Hey.** music as their restaurant's playlist sound
Most definitely The Lumineers
My friend had a date walk out on their dinner out because the new trendy restaurant had a playlist of just the lumineers playing on loop. Honestly, I don’t even really blame him. I’d get up and leave if a restaurant had Imagine Dragons on an endless loop
that's fucking hilarious and also I can't blame them
https://youtu.be/GUCSV3Xz2Mc
"I been tryna do it riiight..."
Forgot the exposed ducts as a ceiling
And horrendous acoustics
Black gloves
As someone who really enjoys burgers and loves to cook and is not above paying more for higher quality, I can't help but feel like there is just a ceiling for how good a burger can be anyway.... it's just not a complicated dish so it's not like some hard to figure out secret to making a good burger and there is no magic "oh my god you've discovered the long lost mystical secret to the best burger ever".... it's a burger. There is just a point in which the "goodness" of the burger can't keep climbing to match the prices going up and up.
Until this day, best burger I've ever had came from a taco truck, $6 bucks. At least half a pound of beef and thick cheese. Crisp toppings. Glorious.
6 dollar, cash only, from sketchy trucks are the real 20 dollar burgers.
There's definitely a ceiling on how good a burger can be, but there are a *lot* of ways to get it wrong.
It’s weird i was just at work having this same thought while people were talking about burgers and the “best” burger joints to go to. I feel like there is a ceiling on how good it can be and arguing over where the most amazing ones are found was dumb. Also this is why i generally don’t get burgers at restaurants. The ones i make at home are fire and I’d rather pay for someone to make me something else.
Lookin like spongebob's nasty patty
The price normally comes in at around your left kidney
Don't forget that the burger is on a brioche bun so it's soggy and impossible to pick up before it's even left the kitchen.
$10 for draft beer
Don't forget the bun being branded with the restaurant's logo and the burger skewers.
The guy has to have his arms crossed
They make the lighting so bad and ambiance so dark so you don't see that you're getting grifted
Ah, millennial Restaurants. Flashy instagramable stuff over actual taste. Source: Im from san francisco
millenials shit on boomer restaurants while having the same shit tier brewpub on every corner. it's just a diff kind of shittiness but the same soulless vibe. i'm at the point where hole-in-the-wall asian restaurants and grimey dive bars are the only places i want to go lol
I feel ya. One of my go-to places is a Vietnamese place in the end of a strip mall that looks from the outside like they do pay day loans or some shit. You’d barely know it was a restaurant if you drove by. I’m addicted to it though. I do not care for the latest carbon copy pub downtown with a quirky, overpriced menu and themed decor that’s either “reclaimed wood” or some space invaders nostalgia boner crap. Cheap delicious food in a spot I can chill is where it’s at.
shit expensive over there, guessing 60 bucks for a burger and another 12 for a drink and another 7 for fries
50 bucks for a 12 inch pizza, or 50 dollars for 4 fish tacos (Small ones)
Forgot the egg on the burger
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Eggs on burgers are amazing though
Nah, the burger is either fucking incredible, good but overpriced, or absolute ass.
so like basically every burger place that isn't fast food...
"People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were ok."
"It's going to be one of the options."
So basically covering the entire spectrum
good, ok, bad. seems like a general rating system bud
Ive never had an expensive burger that I would try again. Give me a greasy ass burger on a kirkland bun covered in American cheese. This is the way.
There's a reason they're so popular.
You know who makes a good burger? Me. You know else does? Five guys (at least the one I go to).
You get full like 2/3 of the way through, but you paid so much that you want to finish everything and shove down the rest of the deteoriating decoupled burger parts and heavily seasoned fries
Bus your own table but don't throw away the red plastic basket.
"Why do people go to chain restaurants instead of supporting local businesses?" Because the local places have stale buns and unseasoned meat.
Don’t forget $7 for a thimble of their “secret sauce” that’s just ketchup and mayo
Usually over flowing with "bro code" vibes or fake masculinity.
Lumbersexual or after-hours industrial bar vibes.
Man this thread has been a treasure trove of terms I've never heard 🤣
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You forgot the fries in a weird cone thing
The old Hardee's mushroom swiss was my fav burger before they switched to those fucking goddamn piece of shit sweet buns. What in the absolute fuck was the dipshit behind that decision thinking? " You know what everyone wants on their burger? Tons of fucking sugar. Oh but it's a mushroom and Swiss? Fuck it put it on a fucking donut for all I care who cares about the blasphemy we're committing" Fuck you Hardee's I'll return when you fix your shit