Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries

wish five guys was open 24/7

I like

Fries so gooooooooooood, especially if you bring some seasoned salt to put on them. I reward myself for good deeds by going there and eating an entire large order and a coke.

wasnt that impressed first time i went there, but am basically addicted now

I went this afternoon and got, like, an entire brown bag filled to the brim with french fries. It was like a picture from a kid's book.

haha i've had a craving for 5 Guys so much lately, and now i'm up late and hungry, so this thread being bumped right now is like ian sharing his yearning with me.

o fuk I want five guys right now.

wow, theres one of these like two miles away and ive never even heard of them. burgers and fries isnt really my thing tho.

I do not really like their fries very much, but I will say that getting really drunk and going to Five Guys to plow through a cheeseburger and a whole mess of peanuts is one of life's special joys.

would smash.

"Coming Soon" to a Coral Gables location near me. First one in Miami, I think.

Does FGFB&F have non-meat burgers (e.g., soy; garden; veggie) and, if so, are they good?

Haha, just checked. Not the first one in Miami. But the first one in the Gables.

only had em that one time in Georgetown, but then I try to confine my red meat/fries consumption at my advanced age, as you all should when you reach yr dotage.

I've never been to any FG that had non-meat burgers, though they do have a "grilled cheese", which is just the burger minus the meat. :( I'm not holding my breath on them adding non-meat burgers; their menu is pretty simple and hasn't changed since I first starting going there.

there's one of these in the town where i work--i am a little scared of it tbh

they have veggie burgers, dont listen to that fucken cumlord

Either the FG in your area are way cooler than the ones in mine, or you're just talking about the veggie/grilled cheese sandwich they have, which is what I described, a burger without the meat. To me, the patty makes it a burger, and they don't have non-meat patties, so no veggie burgers. They even have something in their FAQ about what they server is not really a veggie burger.

the whole thing sounds like a shitty east-coast version of in n out except inserted into strip malls instead of in standalone buildings.

What makes you say it's shitty?

that he's one of those annoying in-n-out partisans?

oh man here we go

just to be clear here:

five guys is a pretty good burger

in-n-out is a religion

religion, cult, pyramid scheme--small differences here

the cool thing abt in and out is its so cheap - its not particularly better than the other nu fast food places - shake shack pwns all imo

i'm thinking it's shitty because in n out is really tightly associated with the abstract concept of "california" in my mind. it has so much style and so many quirks and it just kind of embodies something to me.

meanwhile, five guys is in a faceless strip mall and has a generic block-lettered sign. maybe i would like it but they're not trying very hard to sell it to me.

in-n-out is a religion

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, April 7, 2009 11:26 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

anyone else ever notice the bible pull-quotes on the food wrappers?

yeah shake shack is better than all these but its not really a fair comparison is it

slept-on nyc quasi-chain fast-food burger: goodburger

cad sounds like that guy on ilm yea many years ago who talked about how crazy it was that the strokes and the hives were on the mtv vma's, like wow these guys are so alternative and weird this must be blowing america's mind

jesus cankles shut the fuck up

i associate five guys pretty strongly with dc since it started there and that's where i ate it but i haven't eaten there since it became national

http://www.geekstir.com/img/toyyoda.jpg

Yeah, sometimes when I've never tried a place's food, I just think about where they build their locations and can usually make pretty accurate assumptions about how their stuff tastes. Makes sense.

to be fair, five guys burgers taste like a strip mall

all i'm saying is that if i'm gonna eat a godforsaken fast food burger i at least want something about the experience to be enjoyable.

yeah, every time i see a five guys i end up walking by because it looks so chainy and fast foody.

MOD EDIT: yet another stupid n-bomb

dude i know that casual racism comes with the territory w/you, but seriously shut the fuck up

Five Guys has very lax franchise quality controls so they vary wildly from location to location.

Everybody settle the fuck down, we've got 15 days cankle-free.

Manhattan has no strip malls.

all the 5 guys ive been to are in old charming new york buildings - tho i did see one in a strip mall in pennsylvania this weekend

imo cankles bann should be revoked since he was fyi just quoting john lennon

my mind is still boggling at the idea that some people need to be romanced into eating fast food with the perfect type of building and the perfect sign

its called marketing d00d

does it boggle your mind that people have to be enticed into buying things by colourful ads and commercials

http://i39.tinypic.com/2yuayyh.jpg

best in-n-out sub in nyc is joe's bestburger in flushing. but shake shack is so much better.

it is too bright and loud in the five guys - i take the burger to go - never eat there

and there's a fatburger on LI, but I never like fatburger that much.

s1ocki i think cad saying he's "scared" of a "faceless" and "shitty" burger chain because it's located in strip malls goes beyond a simple desire for attractive packaging

wuts the 411 on this

http://www.elevationburger.com/

im tryna figure what kind of appurtenance would make my fast food significantly more enjoyable. really, if it tastes good and the place isn't filthy, im pretty good?

maybe the absence of a drive thru would help me, since i sorta hate them on principle except when i'm, yknow, actually driving thru.

shake shack is in a park

answer my question u mongs

im guessing no one has been there as they have one location in suburban dc

theres one in b-more too

are people not cool w/the distinction between eating at in n out because i'm on vacation in socal and it seems like a fun thing to do while there and eating at five guys where i would just be having an unhealthy burger and fries in the strip mall five minutes from my office while on my lunch break?

btw thank you icey, that is great, i'm gonna steal it for my blog.

i love blogs

me too! i wonder what else we have in common

r u saying "in 'n' out" = copulation and "five guys" = circle jerk

i love blogs and computers

blogs=copulation
computers=circle jerk

:O ~ ~ ~ C=====8

dr. phil i promise when the Elevation burger in bmore and/or PG county opens i will go check it out 4 u

isn't fatttttburger open now in columbia

oh dag the one Orlando Brown was going to open!? i was looking forward to that, still need to check it out

http://fattburger.com/

Never eat at a place with more than one location if you are serious about getting good food.

This is ABC stuff, really.

thats not true

http://yellowtrenchcoat.com/fouroh/wp-content/images/topnotchsign.jpg

okay, that was probably an unfair exagerration. But triple digit locations is a pretty bad sign. Even mid-to-high double digits.

I want a charcoal grilled top notch burger right now.

shake shack rules all but the brooklyn heights five guys is great! (and i love in-n-out too.)

there is a shake shack at the new place where the mets play

you mean the mets play at the new shake shack

top notch french fries are mediocre. five guys blows them away in that respect.

The burgers are so good I don't even remember the fries.

guys for the record i will actually eat here at some point and post my thoughts whether you want to hear them or not.

Nearest 5-guys to me is Tuscaloosa, so maybe I will make that trip sometime this spring/summer.

the best new restaurant in austin is house pizzeria.

where dat? (and surely you don't mean to say Top Notch is new?)

Five Guys is next to the O which sells beer and a fine selection of grease laden product, why would I go into the 5 guys?

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where dat? (and surely you don't mean to say Top Notch is new?)

hahaha, no i meant five guys, which is kinda new to austin. house is at 51st and airport, been open for a couple weeks.

Oh shit, that's practically next door! (I'm around the block from I <3 Video)

Ed ppl from the 'burgh don't actually frequent the O unless they have out-of-towners visiting.

Pitt students do not count.

o snap

ed, there's absolutely no reason to enter a five guys if you have anything you think is quality in the vicinity.

hows that burger place in ft greene

sux

i disagree. overpriced, but they produce a well-cooked burger and good fries.

i've never eaten there. i keep meaning to but it's like, for a couple bucks more i can get a really good burger somewhere else, and it's not like i eat them a lot so...

they are totally uncool and out of touch w/the burger zeitgeist

this may be true.

"the burger zeitgeist" wtf

if i knew what that was.
xp

one time i called in an order and i went to pick it up and it wasnt ready so i was just waiting like no big deal and the guy was like hah showed up a little early did u and i was all well u told me to come in 25 mins and he was like well that was only like 15 mins ago and i was all no actually i got here exactly 25 mins after i called and he was a no i dont think so so i showed him when the call was made on my phone and he was all like o well jeez sorry and the whole thing was just so passive aggressive i wasnt even mad in the first place but he was starting shit w/me and this is one of the owners - also pretty much every time they havent cooked my burger right - place has been bannd for a while

that place the smoke joint and mullanes all opened up at the same time and they are a triangle of suk

u guys need to get w/the burger zeitgeist fyi this is important

wtf that's lame

the dude that doesn't understand time, not the burger zeitgeist

i should open up a place next door called the burger zeitgeist and telling time

was it the tall guy with glasses that's always biking around?

you have never eaten at the smoke joint joe

are we BACK to burger zeitgeist? it's hard to keep up, i thought that was kind of played out and people had moved on from masturbating at dumont burger to this whole bacon thing instead. i welcome the return of burger zeitgeist but not if it means the prices will go back up.

that guy sounds like an asshole tho.

one time when i ordered a rare burger there, all the cooks gave me a little cheer and told me it was the only way to enjoy a burger.

which seems like the purest distillation of the burger zietgeist.

i prefer the bacon kultur over the burger kultur because i have convinced myself that bacon is better for you than burgers

i want taco zeitgeist to come onto the scene quiet frankly

quite, not quiet. i want tacos to come onto the scene as noisy as possible.

see dumont burger is not the burger zeitgeist either and max i have eaten the smoke joint at least like 7 times especially if u include their little place next door

bahn mis seem to be the current sandwich crush fwiw - i am all abt the arepas tho

joe dont know why u insist on hating the smoke joint so much if uve never eaten there

was it the tall guy with glasses that's always biking around?

― mizzell, Wednesday, April 8, 2009 11:15 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was the other guy

i can hate whatever i want regardless - i have the righteous anger in me

why don't you explain the burger zeitgeist since it seems like no one knows what you are talking about and u r using it to insult random burger eateries! did u think about this

also what is wrong with the smoke joint -- dmr was eating food from there on sunday instead of this turkey place that you tricked me into eating from and his food looked pretty good.

joe hates the smoke joint because they call their wings "brooklyn wings"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/R0-TdmEjLgI/AAAAAAAAC-k/1Mzx-p1AvFw/s640/hamburgerJoes.jpg

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i totally never repped for jive turkey fyi it wasnt my idea and i believe i called it "alright" - the burger zeitgeist is of course nu fast food style ie in n out shake shack five guys etc - smoke joint has mediocre food and a super lame annoying steez theyre all into being "brooklyn bbq" and it turns out as some pale imitation bbq big surprise - that whole cluster of restaurants feels like it should be in new hampshire or some shit - there is v little rigor at the corner of ft greene place and lafayette ave imho

maybe you could write a letter to the brooklyn paper?

or post a comment on the ny times fort greene blog

i knew what the burger zeitgeist meant--dc has this new chain called Z Burger that you can tell from across the street is trying to ape 5 guys. here's a sample yelp

Washington, DC
3 star rating
4/3/2009

All comments that Z-burger is identical to Five Guys is completely accurate - it's just a cleaner version (sans peanuts on the floor and greasy paper bags). I don't know the story of how Z-burger came about, but I'm assuming that its origins came from some extremely unoriginal minds.

They took the Five Guys burger concept and combined it with a nostalgic-California-burger/shake atmosphere - and placed it in a few neighborhoods where there's currently no Five Guys. You get the feeling that the daughter of a 1980s sitcom would work there - even she would say "this is just like Five Guys." The toppings are all the same - except for the crazy "Z-sauce"!!! until you realize it probably came out of a tub of Ken's thousand island salad dressing (another fresh idea from the owners).

Sure, the burger was tasty. I expected something different with all of the hype. If something is good, and already exists, don't mess with it. I'm sticking with Five Guys, just like I am with the original Pink Panther movies.

tbh i dont really even like burgers that much but this thread makes me want one, i think i might go to zaitzeff 2day

or post a comment on the ny times fort greene blog

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, April 8, 2009 11:33 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i should i might just cut and paste my comments here into random blog posts abt crime or whatever - btw i found out yesterday on the nytimes ft greene blog that richard wright wrote native son in ft greene sometimes in ft greene park

joe dont know why u insist on hating the smoke joint so much if uve never eaten there

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, April 8, 2009 11:20 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

in case you haven't noticed people hating on places they've never even eaten is a running theme of all ILX restaurant/fast food threads

All comments that Z-burger is identical to Five Guys is completely accurate - it's just a cleaner version (sans peanuts on the floor and greasy paper bags). I don't know the story of how Z-burger came about, but I'm assuming that its origins came from some extremely unoriginal minds.

i'm biting this for an album review sometime

i don't like "burger zeitgeist" if you guys are using it to mean "shitty burgers"! bring on taco zeitgeist now, i say.

otm i have been trying to make the taco zeitgeist happen for like a year

My impression is

Ed ppl from the 'burgh don't actually frequent the O Oakland unless they have out-of-towners visiting.

Pitt students do not count.

― quincie, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 09:04 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Point taken, however It is the easiest place in the neighbourhood to get a sixpack after 10pm.

honestly when i was a young lad i loved tacos but once i converted to burritos and fajitas i never looked back

i am all about tacos lately--especially fish tacos

agreed - i forgot i had a whole fish taco renaissance in the last year or two

made these saturday night, they were so good we made them again sunday night

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/magazine/22food-t-001.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=print

tacos are the pure good stuff - burritos are juvenile - fajitas are contrived

to be clear i still love burritos - they stay warm on the walk home and are a lot of food if youre hungry - they just are no tacos

what about tortas?

totas gorditas there are all sorts of things out there

going from tacos to burritos/fajitas is regressing not progressing

since im always pleased 2 start a food fight on ilx ill just note that if u havent spent a significant amnt of time in the southwest, or, in mexico, yr opinions on tacos are basically, worthless

huaraches

i feel like tacos are a more mature food, burritos and tortas are just soooo filling.

hey max tell us of yr time at college we all find it so fascinating

if u havent spent a significant amnt of time in the southwest, or, in mexico, yr opinions on tacos are basically, worthless

define "significant"

yeah cuz there's not much taco culture in chicago, good call

it's all about the upcoming cemita zeitgest of 2015
http://www.foroswebgratis.com/imagenes_foros/3/1/9/1/8/749292cemita01.jpg

max there are mexican people in the midwest you know

(not that all taquerias here are great, most are wack but some do the thing)

i make really good tacos in the microwave

also i heard christina hendricks hates mexican food and mexican people

gracious! cemita

soon we won't have anything left to front about :(

WTF n/a why are you always ruining perfectly good things to eat like tacos and nachos in the microwave???

can't really get into cemitas cause of the papalo

going from tacos to burritos/fajitas is regressing not progressing

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, April 8, 2009 12:04 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's progress if you're going from taco bell to decent restaurants

i believe n/a is a third level microwave master chef--let's not doubt his taste buds

max $20 says i've spent more time in the southwest than you have. the real southwest, not "occidental college" btw

oh I'm doubting alright xpost

you guys just dont "get it" do u

i'm going to a taco party on fri fyi

btw max u owe ally $20

ill pay her in pesos

btw max u owe ally 270 pesos

i'll use it to buy six (6) tecates

but ally has to use those pesos to buy tacos

lol xp

and four (4) tacos

xp!!

southwest isn't really about the taco

don't understand why the southwest would have better tacos as you can buy cheez whiz just as easily as in the midwest

haaa xp

the whole "tacos/burritos/fajitas (!!?) are better on the west coast" meme is really very 2005 anyway

its not a meme its the truth

tacos are a universal language--to suggest tacos are better in one area of the world versus another is to misunderstand both tacos and taste and suggests to me that you don't understand food

jesus people in LA can admit that their pizza sucks--why cant people in NYC admit that their tacos suck

food is pretty 1996 tbh

all this thread is doing is reminding me that a) enchiladas are basically the greatest and b) i brought brown rice + vegetables for lunch why do i read these threads on days where a brought stupid healthy food for lunch

tacos are like sushi now u can get them at every gas station and package store

no, mexicans have figured out how to move out of hellholes like arizona and into, uh, the midwest for example, since 2005 -- they are spreading delicious versions of their food as they commit their exodus. don't get me wrong, the best versions are gonna be in like nogales but seriously? carnitas are better if you get a shit-ton of lard and the ass-end of a pig and make it yourself too but who has the time when the carnitas you can get at (fill in the blank) are pretty good too!

ha i was considering eating brown rice and veggies for lunch

mr que and max both otm -- you can find good tacos everywhere in the country except nyc

i mean it's amazing and weird how mexicans have wanted to like, move, en masse, out of shithole states where they are literally being illegally detained and prosecuted by psychopaths (arizona for example!) but they have been and as such taco experience has increased across this great land.

xpost no max is not otm because he's pretty much insisting against your "anywhere in the country" thing

mr. que is otm tho that much is true

fyi i read on the fort greene blog that mayor bloombergs secret weakness is good tacos its like kryptonite to him thats why theyre outlawed to man in nyc

sigh

i'm pretty sure max has made this point before but i'll reiterate. you can find a good taco on the East coast but they are far and few between, you have to go on a fucking taco pilgrimage to some lonely taco stand in queens or some shit. Where in LA you can pretty much wonder into any mexican food place and it will be better the 90% of the places on the east coast.

there are good tacos in nyc fyi - but yr stando cheap truck/taqueria culture is just not strong

http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/105/5/heidi-spencer-taco-bell-1.0.0.0x0.400x601.jpeg

l.a. tacos are generally wonderful, def. better than any tacos i had back in nyc.

but i may prefer the pupusa.

"here baby, take a bite of my taco"

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dude this is not an east coast west coast thing, it has literally NOTHING to do with the east coast which is why i keep TALKING about places taht aren't nyc! are you guys like taco autistics??

what a stupid question to ask, on this board

carnitas are better if you get a shit-ton of lard and the ass-end of a pig and make it yourself

I love carnitas, but this is making me reconsider.

pupusas are pretty good btw but they are a bit much "doughy" for me oftentimes.

xpost lol it always does, eazy. it always does make ppl do that.

i know this might blow your minds but even Taco Bell is better in the west coast

i think i've only been to a west coast taco bell once -- there's one across the street from the usc campus. i got a quesadilla and it was fine for that sort of thing. but taco bell is so institutionally scary that i avoid it whenever possible. there are so many other places i could go with questionable kitchen hygiene where i'd actually get good food out of the deal.

Tacos are not widely available round here and the one half decent place does not do carnitas.

yeah, i generally don't eat that crap just saying XP

veggie tacos are awesome too -- you can prob make a good calabacita taco at home, it doesn't have to be all about funky-ass pork fat.

you have to go on a fucking taco pilgrimage to some lonely taco stand in queens or some shit.

oh it's so hard to get on a subway and go to neighborhoods where mexicans live. it's like exploring. don't forget your whip, indy.

to be fair, most of queens doesn't have good subway coverage. you'd have to take a bus too!

In LA they are considerate enough to ship the Mexicans into the white neighborhoods even.

exploring is fun but having a good taco truck parked near me would be wonderful

http://firstfriday.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/fat_dog.jpg

JOCK JAMS POLL, volume four

oops i meant to post this: Five Guys

In LA they are considerate enough to ship the Mexicans into the white neighborhoods even.

mmm yuca's

i find yuca's a wee bit overrated

also, max & carne asada otm (la misses you guys)

I came in here all excited to talk about Five Guys, but apparently now it is, as usual, about regional variations in Mexican food.

I kind of want to read everything and disagree with Max and then pull out some kind of from-the-Southwest card, but I think I already know what everyone here thinks about Mexican food, and vice versa.

omg lol @ don't forget your whip, indy

'bisco what were you gonna say about five guys that you were so excited about

i wonder which region has the best burgers

that seems like new and unusual topic to go off the hook about

I think I already know what everyone here thinks about Mexican food, and vice versa

In soviet New Mexico, tacos sniff at you.

ok but can we have a fight about milkshake regions after that xpost

omg milkshakes, don't even get me STARTED

nabisco i thought you AGREED with me about tacos being better in the southwest

in the east coast they call a burger with mayo on it a California burger. WTF is that about?

where do they do this exactly?

http://www.geography.ccsu.edu/harmonj/atlas/burgers.html

^^^ a good start on burger regionality but is missing such wonders as the molten-velveeta filled burgers of the midwest or the advent of such healthy things as bison burgers and ostrich burgers.

on the east coast anything with avocado on it is called a "california" that thing

re: burger w mayo

a) i have never in my life seen this called a california burger, dude
b) the only people i know who do this on a regular basis are midwesterners
c) i feel like this is a whopper thing??

mostly diners i've been to. xxp

i like burgers w/ mayo & ketchup

fuck mayo & catsup both when it comes to a burger. gimme a good dijon or spicy brown mustard and a pepper grinder and i'm good to go.

Oh, wait, Max, if your main contention is that New York as a whole is not as great of a taco place as the southwestern U.S., I don't know that you really need to have spend much time in the southwest to agree to that -- I would rank that among bold claims like "NYC has some good Italian restaurants" and "you can get good bratwurst in Wisconsin." (Which is maybe a different argument from some people saying "yeah but you can get first-rate tacos here, even if it's not quite raining them.")

Although to be fair there is a place near my house with the pretty straightforward offer of "Southern California Mexican Cuisine" and I am constantly watching people stop and read it and genuinely not understand what that means, so apparently there are actual people who live in American who are unaware that there are a lot of Mexicans and Mexican food/culture happening, amazingly enough, near the border with Mexico, and in parts of the country that actually used to be Mexico. I know, you'd never guess.

I forget what I was going to say about Five Guys, but there's one of those nearby, too, and I was pretty into it for a while. (It's hard to be "into" a burger place for more than a short while.) I like their hot sauce a lot. (xpost - I also like mayo on burgers fine; is that Midwestern of me? I associate it with backyard cookout burgers, like lettuce tomato mayo mustard pickles onion.)

Oh, I also like that you can get the single-patty burger and it's a nice thin patty, for those times when you want a thinner piece of meat and maybe more stuff on it -- I appreciate that option cause I definitely do not always want a big honking thick/juicy patty like you're often stuck with at restaurants.

it isn't midwestern of you, i was merely remarking the people i have seen do this the most, with burgers, are midwesterners, and not californians.

mayo is for po' boys, not burgers (the line gets blurred with a cheeseburger po' boy though, somehow the french bread makes it okay)

arguing about tacos vs. arguing about burgers vs arguing about pizza vs arguing about barbecue

you know originally i was making some kind of "hilarious" "meta" "joke" about taco fights but then i seem to have actually gotten involved

and now i feel dirty

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2007/07/gothamistahtse-qbq-bbq-ii.html

almost all of these "regional" burgers sound kinda gross to me esp "butter burger"

i never eat at culver's because the name "butterburger" grosses me out, but i was under the impression that only the bun buttered, not the burger. that's a lot of butter.

the onion burger sounds like a good idea tho

nut burger sounds interesting

haha i was just going to bitch about the nut burger

this is a weird comment for like four reasons

My husband (a PhD) would get quite a chuckle seeing all of you misinformed Yankees pick the pimento burger. His internet privleges are soon to be restored, so I will let him "weigh" in himself. His ample girth notwithstanding.

DocChick at 12:57PM on 07/19/07

oh i didn't notice that it was peanuts mixed with mayo on the nut burger, that's kinda icky

i've buttered steak before so buttering hamburger would not be a leap of faith. I draw the line at nuts.

1) why does one need to be a phD, to judge a hamburger
2) why would he laugh at people deciding they like the taste of this burger, regardless?
3) why is he not given internet privs? pron?
4) "weigh"
5) his fatness might be the first thing that makes him sound qualified for this job

ha jordan/schef i was coming here to c+p exactly that comment

All I know is I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to be that husband

there already plenty of nut burgers posting on this thread

that husband (a PhD)

you missed 6) what on earth does this have to do with the north and south that you would call these commenters "yankees"

The Pimento Burger: Pimento cheese is big across the South, usually as a spread eaten on celery stalks or as a filling between two pieces of white bread. But in Columbia, South Carolina, they use it as both cheese and condiment on the burgers. Pimento cheese, for all you Yankees here in New York City, is a mixture of grated cheddar, chopped pimento, mayo, hot sauce, and black pepper. (Horseradish, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce are three common options.)

the pimiento burger is allegedly a southern thing, max

if you had spent any real time in the south you would know that and your opinions would be more valuable

well im clearly not a phd, girth or no

girth notwithstanding

is she 'DocChick' because she's a PhD too or is she bragging about her husband's degree in her screenname too?

i think it's the chick from house--you know, the hot one

i heard she likes to munch burgers

it's totally because her husband is (a PhD)

i put mayo on my burgers exclusively

we do that here in california

i am from california

the thing about the north-south divide is that nowhere in that comment does that woman indicate, for certain, that she and her husband are indeed southerners. are they southerners who now live in ny? are they just weirdos calling people yankees for no good reason? are they southerners who live in the south? if so, why read gothamist/seriouseats nyc-centric blogging?

land of mayo

waistlines there are not forgotten -- look away, look away, look away

Strange that all you "Yankees" are voting for the Pimento Burger, considered "pedestrian" by the standards of all "real" Southerners. I shall vote for the Onion Burger.

DocChick at 4:35PM on 07/17/07

guys this comment too

I've seen the mayo / tomato / oinion combo called a "california" burger, usually in NYC diners that cater to tourists. It's also how we did them at home (parents are midwest/southwesterners). I'll put mayo on a burger, but I only trust myself to do this properly. ketchup seen as "low class" by same parents.

wtf is wrong with this woman?

"strange that you "Yankees" are voting for Pad kaphrao, considered "pedestrian" by the standards of all "real" Thai people"

average person in being typical shocker

I've seen the mayo / tomato / oinion combo called a "california" burger, usually in NYC diners that cater to tourists

Ha, I've never thought of this as something at diners that cater to tourists -- I think of it being at your standard corner "Greek" diners (found in many non-NYC cities as well), and I always interpreted it almost like someone saying "check it out, we'll put stuff like a tomato on your $2.75 burger! or even lettuce! pretty high-class fancy, right? actual produce that grew in the ground, it's like we're in California or something!"

"cause they have vegetables and I hear they like salad out there!"

that's about the amount of thought that went into it.

ill agree w/max that californianess usually denotes avocado presence - ive never seen the mayo association - tomato and lettuce is just deluxe right

Strange that all you "Yankees" are voting for the Pimento Burger, considered "pedestrian" by the standards of all "real" Southerners. I shall vote for the Onion Burger.

DocChick at 4:35PM on 07/17/07

add some superfluous commas and id be certain this was max trolling

deluxe is mostly fries (though sometimes lettuce/tomato/onions, but also sometimes that's "special")

note: I agree 100% about "California" often being "we put avacado on it" -- I basically think of the lettuce/tomato thing as being places so unfancy that fresh lettuce/tomato are almost the exotic equivalent of adding avocado

five guys really is the best--glad we have this thread to remind us all of the best burger in the U.S. of A.

at a new york diner trying to order a burger w/lettuce and tomato w/o fries fucks w/their heads - i guarantee there is no way they wont ask u if u mean deluxe

dude you act like I haven't lived and ordered burgers here for like 6 years, your guarantees mean little to me

fine u dont have to accept my guarantee i mean most people enjoy having a guarantee thrown in but whatever

haha -- I mean, what I'm saying is that I personally know of various places where they'll have the burger "special," which gets you lettuce/tomato/onion but not fries

I'd also like to tie this whole thread together with a discussion of the Taco Bell "supreme," which gets you tomatoes and sour cream

wasn't there some epic alex in nyc thread once about how much he hated some diner because he ordered a cheeseburger delux and they delivered it to him and the fries were in the same container with the burger so they got soggy?

WHAT MAKES A MAN START FRIES?

ok i believe u nabisco i have however myself never witnessed this special burger business and to be honest it doesnt really sound that special i mean it doesnt even have fries

special is different from deluxe--let's all keep that in mind

at a new york diner trying to order a burger w/lettuce and tomato w/o fries fucks w/their heads - i guarantee there is no way they wont ask u if u mean deluxe

― c?rvel (ice cr?m), Wednesday, April 8, 2009 7:24 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I always order fries but no l&t, which elicits the same response.

Also, Nabisco, are these "special" burgers also the ones that cost $2.75 at your average greek diners? cuz all the diners hereabouts/thereabouts afaik start burger prices around $4.99 or higher for a basic burger no cheeze/no veg/no fries.

I hear the mythic LEON'S BURGER HOT of Bedford, Ave williamsburg has some sort of amazing $5 burger/fries/coke special, but they close at 2 pm on the days they even open.

http://www.komar.org/bbq/bbq_grill_recipes/mcdonald-french-fries/mcdonald-french-fry.jpg

haa i luv komar.org i emailed the guy once to compliment his photography

I can't believe Alex would rage about that -- I pretty much take it as given that when ordering fries, there's like a 65% chance they're going to show up limp, soggy, or cold. That's just the way fry-ordering goes.

Five Guys fries stand up to (short) deliveries pretty well, though it sucks that they won't deliver drinks, because there aren't exactly a lot of places in the world where I can get fountain Mr. Pibb.

xpost - haha I dunno, Ian, I just made up the price, it's probably closer to four. For the record I also know places that are the opposite, where "special" is fries but not lettuce/tomato! $3.25 sounds right for just the burger and nothing else.

you seriously can't believe that this wouldn't piss off alex

at Dick's Drive In (Seattle) "special" means cheese, lettuce, and "special" sauce.

btw to prospect heights ILXors i like the feta burger & avgolemono soup from Teddy's on Washington. though the burger is nothing spectacular it is fine when it's drunktime.

soggy fries are a pet peeve but a man's just gotta deal.

order them well done - this works!

He must not order fries much! I mean I feel like you reach a point of routine fry-ordering where it's like ... not surprising anymore, so you start getting onion rings instead, or something

yes, ian OTM

yeah i thought it was common knowledge, ALWAYS order fries extra crispy

I can't believe Alex would rage about that -- I pretty much take it as given that when ordering fries, there's like a 65% chance they're going to show up limp, soggy, or cold. That's just the way fry-ordering goes.

im trying to work out how accurate your % estiamte here is - it feels way too high tbh - but regardless this is america we can do better than just a 35% (or w/e it is) fry-effectiveness rate. i get unreasonable over fry sogginess btw altho i can live w/cold

i would say yeah 25-30% range they're gonna be soggy--but not at five guys of course, their fries are never soggy and they're so much better than those crappy in and out fries

five guys fries > five guys burger

i just don't order fries to be delivered to me, ever

first time i ate at five guys i was tripping and by the end of the bag-o-fries i perceived their mouthfeel as that of styrofoam packing peanuts.

well, there is that styrofoam cup in there

i was not that far gone.

far gone enough to have the (correct?) realization that the "five guys" name may refer to the five men behind the counter who prepare your order, though.

cashier, grill man, burger assembly, fry guy, bag dude

five guys is opening in MN, very excited...we have been following the progress closely.

refers to owners' five sons, i think, per some kind of press material

i assumed that the chain was collectively owned by five guys

what goes on a psychedelic burger?

five eyes

mushrooms duh.

peyote relish.

Five Guys was founded in 1986.[1][2] Jerry and Janie had a fifth son two years after opening their first restaurant; all five sons, the current "Five Guys", are now involved in the business.[2]

I don't deep-fry stuff at home, too much hassle, but this is making me want to do some really good french fries the right way -- double-fried at 325 then 375.

it is really easy to make that at home

i sort of want some chicken fingers

oh man chicken fingers!

is there anything better, than chicken fingers?

no,

i just don't order fries to be delivered to me, ever

― he sounded italian enough to give me something (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), Wednesday, April 8, 2009 3:42 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the most reasonable post in this whole thread lately (i'd add a caveat about pizza fries, but that could lead to another clusterfuck i think)

heres a poll--what do you like, on yr chicken fingers/tenders: honey mustard, or barbecue sauce?

honey mustard 70% bbq sauce 15% plum sauce 15% probably should represent that as a pie graph tho

i agree that honey mustard is my first choice but it has to be the RIGHT honey mustard

honey mustard

if you guys ever go to princeton new jersey hit up georges roasters and ribs and get some chicken tenders w/ honey mustard--objectively the greatest honey mustard of all time

it depends on the honey mustard AND the bbq sauce i feel like

honey mustard definitely the go-to on my rare chicken finger excursions

honey mustard with the chinese mustard

and bee honey

in less lazy times i would make my own honey mustard sauce if i was making chicken fingers never really found prepackaged that could compare

fries delivered = nachos delivered

yeah, the only way nachos work is if you are literally right around the corner from the nacho place.

fries /= nachos

nachos > fries

i love nachos

chicken fingers dipped in buffalo sauce is good too. but mostly BBQ

i feel like i had really good nachos at this place out in bushwick that's basically a hole in the wall by my friends' apartment but we were kind of probably drunk

i like when they try to put everything in the world on the nachos

even motor oil

yeah that is what i like too, but not too much of each item. i had one on friday that was way too much black beans -- the chips were so overloaded and soggy from beans. i like it when they put a good amount of jalepenos and tomatoes on that bitch.

ha idk last time i had nachos they were perveted w/like chicken and european cheese not a good time

chicken finger nacho fries

i feel like theres a nacho equilibrium thats too often out of whack in one direction or another and i never ever order them

when u see them and they have so much guacamole on them u feel like it must be a mistake thats a good time

nacho equilibrium vs. burger zeitgeist

too much beans, not enough cheese

yeah more cheese and guac, less beans is what i'm saying

also usually meat on nachos is done wrong, i feel like, but when you get one with like GOOD chicken -- you are made in the shade, my friend.

heres a poll--what do you like, on yr chicken fingers/tenders: honey mustard, or barbecue sauce?

Something better than both is the "Abner's Sauce" at this place. Totally amazing stuff, despite the name.

bean can play a valuable role in a plate of nachos when used in an intelligent manner

yes, judiciously used, intelligently used, beans are the glue of the plate

the most notable recent nachos i had were just black beans, guac, and cheese, w/salsa on the side. simplicity and elegance.

i'm beginning to think that nachos work in theory but not in practice

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/product_images/309623L.jpg

salsa can sog out and un-melt the cheese

There is a high likelyhood that I will fix my cracker ass some nachos when I get home tonight, due to reading this thread.

I'm going to Trudy's for some of their delicious nachos.

Man, Trudys! I used to go there all the time and drink pretty decent margaritas and eat pretty mediocre texmex. Then the crew who were my partners in such activities moved outta town.

shit, I'll have to go shopping if I want proper home-style nachos. Well, it'll be worth it.

This is very obviously a southwestern + Texas thing, and not a Mexican one, but I get really excited about anyplace that serves decent quality nachos (i.e., good cheese, good ingredients) with ground beef involved.

(normally for most of the country the only nachos including meat are like grossish processed-goop Taco Bell type nachos, but where I grew up you could get some high-quality nachos with some picadillo + sour cream turning them into more of a "meal")

tbh I am thinking it's gonna be chicken dark meat nachos in this particular case.

picadillo

perhaps you mean pico de gallo?

is that true nabisco? my experience in new england was that ground beef on nachos is really common. even in like nh or vermont u could get decent nachos like yr describing altho sometimes they would add lettuce. it wasnt until i lived on the west coast that i discovered ppl put chicken on them

i am so f'ing hungry

haha no, rags, I definitely don't mean pico de gallo in reference to meat. "picadillo" = ground beef.

I just checked why and learned the verb "picar" -- to mince or chop

can get great nachos in sunset park, but don't take my word for it.

also i really fucking want chicken fingers.
with wing sauce & bbq sauce.

fucking shits better be CRISPY and not processed, re-formed patties.

well, that's why I asked. It seemed redundant.

I don't understand that, but okay

Lamp, I've really spent any time in New England, so I dunno how they're doing it! But I keep meaning to make some at home in the southwest-y meat + cheese style I always liked.

looking back, I'm going to attribute it to reading too fast while looking over my shoulder for the boss

is it a good thing when the take-out bag is completely soaked w/ grease before you get it home?

yes

...this question implies that you have somehow gotten a Five Guys takeout bag that was not soaked with grease at some point in the past

which is clearly an impossibility

they need to put those paper bags in plastic bags.

FGB&F come to Britain already

did you just go out and get a burger because of that burger thread?

in real life consequences

finally ate here--a++ fries but my burger was pretty gross tbh

There's one on the same street as my agency's office, so I should probabally try it out sometime.

They give you a shit ton of fries, that's for sure.

I ate at a Five Guys in NYC a couple months ago. I don't eat meat, but I liked that you could get a grilled cheese with as many toppings as you want (grilled onions, pickles, mushrooms, etc.) for like two or three bucks.

Now that I think about it, I guess those prices are par for the course when it comes to fast food. Maybe I'm just not used to fast food.

i always think 5 Guys is expensive until the rare time I go to like Burger King or something, and usually end up spending more.

want

had last monday, so fuckn good

finally ate here--a++ fries but my burger was pretty gross tbh

― call all destroyer, Friday, April 9, 2010 9:59 AM (10 hours ago)

yo whaaaat, what did you get on yr burger?

someone jizzed on your burger

he prob meant the burger was a++ and the fries were pretty good, lets all be cool

hahah you're not far offtm. i would go again and get something different. i got a regular cheeseburger and asked for ketchup, mayo, grilled onions, and grilled mushrooms. but they forget my grilled vegetables and seriously they just use completely unreasonable amounts of cheese and mayo, so the whole thing was gooey and had zero definition.

i would go and get a single hamburger with grilled shrooms/onions and bbq sauce maybe

thats their style tbqh

its delicious

haha "nobody REALLY wants vegetables on their burgers come on let's be serious"

to be quite delicious

i would go back just for the fries really. and eating five guys/seeing hot tub time machine made for a weirdly excellent night.

also it did not make me feel like shit which is basically what i was expecting so that's always good

you're five guys experience is not real

you are five guys, experience is not real

five guys burgers are always amazing & they always make you feel like shit

hahaha. i felt "different" but not gross. my gf was completely punchy for no reason and we were convinced that her burger had been drugged in some way.

jordan is so right ime - cad i'm glad you enjoyed your five guys experience but you did it completely wrong imo. every time i eat there i am like the happiest person in the world until i feel like shit for the rest of the day

well that's exaggerating a bit but those burgers are really big. i wonder if they'll have to show calorie counts in the future because of the health care bill? that would be lol

btw i always get bacon cheeseburger with grilled onions and bbq sauce and it is always perfect

lol i'll go back and will be sure to notify you guys when i feel like shit. can only tempt fate so many times iirc.

the key with five guys is to not get too much stuff on it. lettuce, tomato, cheese, that's it. anything else gets in the way of the burger. also, i always order a small/mini whatever they call them, and if i'm careful and don't eat too many fries, generally, i don't feel too bad.

*also cajun fries, obv*

lettuce tomato pickles bacon mayo no fries

2x patties obvs, que u fn pussy

i get ANOTHER BURGER on my fuckin burger

How I Did It: Jerry Murrell

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100401/jerry-murrell-five-guys-burgers-and-fries.html

the combo of mayo, hotsauce and pickles at Five Guys rly does it for me

i'll get some shrooms and onions on that bitch too, but those three things rly make it

i get a mcchicken sandwich on my burger that already has another burger on it, it's called a mcgangbang have you heard of it

I believe it's actually called a burgducken

2x patties obvs, que u fn pussy

i may be a pussy, but i don't feel bad afterward, fuck u burger hipster

wait doesn't ice cram live in williams"burg"

were it a burger themed neighborhood i might consider it

i may be a pussy, but i don't feel bad afterward, fuck u burger hipster

― Mr. Que, Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:27 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

btw HOW DARE U GOOD DAY SIR

sorry, i am a burger pussy

4 u ice cram--apologies

http://tiffabee.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/fiveguys2.jpg

daaaaamn

love that the Five Guys guy cites the Thrashers in Ocean City as his french fry inspiration

OK, I can say for sure my go to burgin' meal is Five Guys burger (grilled onions, grilled mushrooms, tomato, mayo and hotsauce), cajun fries and Coke Zero

Peace

they have cajun fries?

well, it's their normal fries with a cajun seasoning sprinkled on, but yes

to drive the point home, last time i was there, they gave me regular fries instead of cajun, and i asked them to switch, and they just gave me a plastic cup of seasoning instead

Cajun seasoning ruined my fries last time I was there. Five guys fries are below par IMO.

So I order burger and fries "for here" and it comes in a bag, no tray. The bounty of fries is on top of the burger, so there's no way to get at the burger other than burrowing a hole with my hand through the fries. Shit was pretty good but nearly $12 for a (bacon cheese)burger, fries and a drink is kinda ridic.

hmm they usually give me a separate bag for the fries

i love five guys but i dont think i'd ever eat there more than a few times a year. unless i lived right next door to one or something

I've never spent more than $7 there?? The burgers are atrociously big. I just ordered a regular burger w/ the toppings I wanted and was surprised to get a double-decker, which I guess was just usual.

They're ok... plenty packed whenever I go, but I mostly prefer GoodTimes (for any Denver ilxors if familiar).

they don't have veggie burgers, dont listen to that fucken cumlord

cntl f "veg"

which cumlord?

heh yeah i think i found out later that they just... put burger toppings on a bun, or something, for their 'veggie sandwich' - pretty funny

Ohh. Dunno how I missed that post.

one is opening soon on wilshire in the miracle mile area. really looking forward to doing my own 5 guys/in-n-out comparison.

really looking forward to doing my own 5 guys/in-n-out comparison.

for a second i thought this was a table is the table post

out of context hof

really looking forward to doing my own 5 guys/in-n-out comparison.

But there are only four of them:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7c-mPmE4TO4/SbXPin7I23I/AAAAAAAAABM/lS8KPXy4DdI/s400/droogs.jpg

one is opening soon on wilshire in the miracle mile area. really looking forward to doing my own 5 guys/in-n-out comparison.

i've had five guys in brooklyn but it's been a few years. i had in-n-out last night (double double, with onion and chopped chiles, ketchup and mustard instead of spread) and that was great.

I was trying to look up their nutritional info online and came across a pdf from 2008. the only item listed as containing trans fats was the veggie sandwich. I found a more recent copy and the veggie sandwich no longer claimed trans fats, but I gotta wonder if this was a change of ingredients or a change of labelling requirements or something.

or a change of fixing the typo in the pdf

The 5 Guys Vegetable Sandwich comes on a really, really soft sesame bun, which I’m guessing was either moist from grease grill splatter, or they steam them. Between the bun, when ordered “All the way”, they put mayo, mustard, onion, mushrooms, pickles, lettuce, and tomato. The vegetables that make up the sandwich if you do not order it “All the way” would appear to be: jalapeno peppers.

their veggie should just be a bun shoved into a bag of fries

anybody ordering a vegetarian sandwich is gonna get exactly what they deserve.

I've never understood why vegetarians order anything from chain burger places anyway (esp McD/BK). Not only is all the food cooked on the same grill, you're supporting the wasteful bullshit by buying anything from them. I'm not even vege and I wont eat from places like that. These days all I'll have is Lord of the Fries because they're vegan and kosher friendly.

Soft serve, bro.

DOesnt that have gelatin in it?

one is opening soon on wilshire in the miracle mile area. really looking forward to doing my own 5 guys/in-n-out comparison.

― buzza, Sunday, November 6, 2011 3:50 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in-n-out
Not even close

they're opening one in studio city too, in the same shopping center as western bagel and the coffee bean. it's replacing the baja fresh that was in that location.

i like the burgers, love the fries. would pick up an order of 5 guys fries on the way to eat a double double at in-n-out.

the mere presence of five guys in california is insulting, imo

otm

the mere presence of five guys in my neighborhood makes people more insulting about my weight

Comparison was burger only fwiw

http://seoulfoodyy.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/img_1465.jpg?w=1024&h=768

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/185497

smashburger > five guys

i had a wendy's for the first time in a while and forgot to ask for fixings and got this sad, disappointing baconator, but it was tastier than five guys, i think. for value though i don't think in-n-out can be beat, even accounting for free peanuts at 5 guys.

smashburger is pretty tasty, are they expanding? i guess i thought they were colorado only...

Rumor mill says Five Guys to Tupelo soon.

There are a bunch of Smashburgers in Houston now.

there have been five guyses in texas for years, but they don't really have a big cachet here afaict. i think they suck, personally.

also knock it off with the peanuts

five guys backlash is deeply misguided

not taking food opinions from Hungry4Ass

how come all these chains sound like you're fucking a sandwich

SMASHBURGER
FATBURGER
IN N OUT
FIVE GUYS
BONER MELTERS
PUSSY MCVAGBURGER
JIZZALOTZ

I love burgers but still have not been to 5 guys bcz $6 fast food burger makes me sad

5 guys/in-n-out are pretty competitive price-wise with mcdonald's etc...

http://passionfruitbutter.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/blow-your-mind.jpg

5 guys/in-n-out are pretty competitive price-wise with mcdonald's etc...

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, July 5, 2012 8:29 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

McDonalds sells hamburgers for 99 cents what the fuck are you talking about

in-n-out burger is like ~$2 and unlike a mcdonalds burger it is something you would want to eat

http://i.imgur.com/IqMnb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/aDW9t.jpg

I can't imagine why anyone would think that thing is worth 99 cents

depends where but some in-n-out's are like $1.50 and you can load it with extra tomato/lettuce/chilis etc.. it's like a free salad. actually for an astounding array of food combinations, you will pay more at mcdonald's than at in-n-out.

mcdonalds burgers aren't bad, they're just scanty

the biggest problem with mcdonalds is that it suffers from being mcdonalds. if it weren't, i'm p. sure the vast majority of the vitriol directed at it would be transmuted into 'oh man, have you had these pretty good burgers at this place with a clown in its logo' style posturing

besides, shake shack is better than five guys

nah mcdonalds is pretty bad. i had a fruit cup once thinking there was no way they could fuck up a cup of fruit. they fucked up a cup of fruit. mcflurry is supposed to be good though.

nah people rep mcdonalds coffee cause it actually is fine, nobody reps mcdonalds burgers because that thing shouldn't even fall in the category of hamburger

once you live in a real city it takes like three months to realize mcdonalds hamburgers are fucking worthless and barely food

http://i.imgur.com/lA1JS.png

^^ burgers I rep for

what else will i realize when i live in a real city

needs its own thread probably

Anyone thinking McDonalds is anything remotely resembling food makes me worry for the state of other food in the US if McDs is actually an acceptable comparison, jesus.

hope we can turn this thread into a tv tropes does burgers wiki

i had a mcgriddle once. it was pretty tasty, but in the same way that barfing up something that was delicious leaves a taste in your mouth that is still actually kind of delicious, like "mmmm... this does take some of the edge off of barfing"

hidden in that photo of the in-n-out burger is a patty much the same size as the mcdonalds.

mcdonald's noticeably upped the quality of their chicken sandwiches some years ago... if someone was forcing you to eat there, you wouldn't be totally unhappy imo.

but their burgers are ass

mcdonalds: fast food burgers >>>>>>> taco bell: tacos or olive garden : whatever it pretends to sell

the idea that there's a better fast food burger than in-n-out is absolutely insane

i will agree w/ remy that mcdonalds is better than taco bell which is basically dog food and the cult of taco bell being good/cool amongst people my age is repulsive

let's poll shake shack v. innnout

IME burger chains that are of the same tier of quality as in-n-out are:

shake shack
fatburger
dick's
burgerville

what's really scary is that that doritos taco thing actually seems to be a massive success

i'd be more willing to consider an argument that richard nixon is the best president in the history of america than i would that there's a better fast food burger than in n out

what the heck is a shake shack?

Whiney otm about all the store names sounding like burger sex btw, wtf. "in n out" is a gross name for a food store.

it's a famous cheap burger place that started in nyc but has expanded now to a few cities

it's pretty okay

going to hit up in n out dicks in rapid succession

it's not so cheap rly

i'm not stanning for mcdonalds as great food, but i will cop to stopping for a buck fifty hamburger during road trips featuring off-ramp golden arches

Whiney otm about all the store names sounding like burger sex btw, wtf. "in n out" is a gross name for a food store.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, July 5, 2012 8:50 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark

idk if the first thing you think about when you hear of a drive thru place called "in n out" is sex and not driving thru a fast food restaurant, you may wanna see a therapist

SMASHBURGER on the other hand

cutting out the 'b' and 'r' from 'burger' and having an 'in n out urge' bumper sticker was apparently the thing to do before in-n-out's xian management got mad and dropped the 'burger' from their bumper stickers.

i do feel like mcdonald's attracts more heavy metal dudes? burger of the beast.

none more burger

smash it and burg

lol @ j0rdan itt

Metalheads go to Kumas Corner afaict

let's name things we'd sooner eat than a mcdonalds hamburger. i'll go first: a handful of dogshit, peace out based remy

Five Guys doesn't have a fry option for less than $2.50-3, right?
I'm unwilling to pay $6 for a burger with American cheese anyway, tbh. Cheddar or GTFO.

i have never gotten sick from mcdonalds
i have gotten horrible sick from taco bell and pizza hut so i mean

In-n-out is overrated but it's probably the most edible fast-food burger option.

id rather sling shit on dunkin donuts

don't hate on DD :(

idk if the first thing you think about when you hear of a drive thru place called "in n out" is sex and not driving thru a fast food restaurant, you may wanna see a therapist

You never read Clockwork Orange, then? Thats why I think of that first! But eh.

i used to like them but their flavored syrup additive thang is sooo yuck

any food from DD that's not merely a bagel or donut etc looks like what you'd get served in hell

i was more repulsed by an ad i saw for dunkin donuts' tuna sandwich than i was by the homeless man masturbating on the train three seats down from me

e, i went through a really bad DD hash browns phase last year, but it ended abruptly i realized the bag they served in wasn't supposed to be translucent.

my dad won a $5 dunkin donuts gift card and I used it to buy a breakfast sandwich + coffee one morning in nyc

Oh, I would never get a sandwich there - gross. TBH the only thing I ever get is the egg white veggie flat bread and coffee both of which are solid imo. I can't speak for the rest.

abominable breakfast of choice is Bacon Egg & Cheese biscuit, hash browns and OJ from McD's

I stopped getting it when hung over because it just made me hate myself even more

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/burger.jpg

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhgghh

What DD is passing off as a bagel is much more offensive than what McD's passes off as a hamburger (or Olive Garden passes off as pasta eve )

DD bagels make Lender's look like H&H

what are the foods you're snobby about?

erm

http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/05/news/companies/burgers-us-london/?hpt=hp_t2

attn brits

also, shake shack opens today, 320 metres away

i'm off to patty & bun instead tho

shake shack seems fairly cheap in comparison to competitors, £5 for single shackburger, have not laid eyes on one for size comparison though. and yeah burgers are so last year, i'm still thrilled to be alive at this exciting time.

It's amazing to me that it's taken so long for this kind of thing to happen; it's a friggin' goldmine. I walked by last night when I was in town - there was a 10-block-long queue (which the guy told me was about a 90 minute/2 hour wait).

That new Shake Shack is ACROSS the street from Meat Market (and about a 10 minute walk from Honest Burger, Lucky Chip, Burger & Lobster, etc. etc.) - obviously the burger bubble is going to burst one of these days.

I think California Pizza Kitchen would be enormous in the UK - besides the better-than-any-of-the-other-popular-chains food, there's a big market for CA-branded stuff (e.g. the UCLA merch that's everywhere). I'm holding my breath for a Baja Fresh someday.

god i hate cpk

I like their salads. I haven't found a whole lot of places in the UK that make big, meal-sized salads with decent produce. The salad bar at my work canteen doesn't even have green things in it - today it's beetroot, sweetcorn, potatoes, shredded carrots, cole slaw, pinto beans. CPK salads are nice (if you get the dressing on the side, because they tend to drench them)

oh, i'm sure they are. i'm just a pizza purist. would much rather roberta's expanded to the uk though (but they are just one resto, not a chain)

was just sent a photograph live from the scene at shake shack it looks big and busy

http://www.shakeshack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/london-menu_main.jpg

not really feeling the limeyed-up menu

dog menu

(e.g. the UCLA merch that's everywhere).

haha what?

Honestly, it's EVERYWHERE. They've marketed UCLA as a "designer brand."

Here are a couple of sections from some big shops/catalogs:

http://www.reemclothing.com/Mens-Clothing/UCLA-Designer-Clothing.html

http://www.next.co.uk/shop/brand-ucla-0

The world famous UCLA brand originated from the University of California in Los Angeles. This world renowned university was established in 1919 and a hoard of top celebrities graced its hallways back in the day including the ultra cool and distinguished James Dean and the Doors front man and rock legend Jim Morrison. Everyone has heard of the mighty UCLA and the beauty of its campuses, successful sporting heritage and overall laid back cool of the California lifestyle could mean only one thing - the UCLA clothing brand would be a massive hit.

hahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahah OMFG

germans love david hasselhoff

lol thats amazing. btw congratulations England on being introduced to our american Ham-Burger Sandwiches

and a hoard of top celebrities graced its hallways

meaning a horde?

I was sort of into Five Guys when they first opened here but it's been two years at least since I felt any real desire to go in there. Same goes for Shake Shack, for that matter.

lookin' fwd to trying these dudes out but we've had pretty good american-style burgers for a coupla years at least, cf byron. anyone remember the era of the gourmet burger co? seemed like the dawning of this era of superior-to-mcdonalds hamburgerage but i wouldn't eat one of their patties for any money now.

Never appreciated GBK's artisanal bread and pineapple bullshit. Byron ok but not dirty enough.

Underwhelmed by shake shack, if five guys aren't any better I might have to become a burger sceptic again. Also not sure why they need over 20 people in a (tiny) kitchen, not to mention the four people on tills and ten or so scattered around outside doing table clearing and crowd control.

shake shack is only sort of okay here, too. the shakes are good, if pricey. and frozen custard is still a novelty in my book. but the burgers are just decent. also the lime-&-slate colo(u)r scheme is so teal&orange2.0

B-b-but standing in line with a bunch of office dorks!

i rate patty & bun pretty highly, though its always jam packed and you need to call ahead if ordering takeaway for six office dorks, like we did yesterday.

do people not make hamburgers at home in the UK?
shake shack is alright, i guess. always seems a bit expensive.

Five Guys is okay but expensive for what it is in the US - no choice of cheese/etc. so it's a trumped up In-n-Out Burger for twice the money.

i make burgers at home and they are *delicious, but i cannot make them for lunch when i am working in an office.

my secret? spread the patties with butter before frying them. i got that off bourdain.

five guys buns turn to mush soggy 2 mins.
Unlimited peanuts though

Like all you can eat nut palace

Sort of intrigued by how brazen Five Guys is with the peanuts, for no good reason, given how strict so many other placers are with peanuts. All the peanut-sensitive kids probably have to cross the street when coming up on a Five Guys. I wonder if it matters with takeout, too? Peanut particles everywhere.

There's a very good reason, namely that free roasted peanuts in the shell are fucking awesome.

I've actually never seen too many people partake. I guess they claim their frying oil is less bad for allergies than other types of peanut oil, but the piles of actual peanuts make this moot. Legend goes the lines at the original location were so long they gave the peanuts out to sate hunger while the burgers were cooking. Now it's part of the brand, insists my wife, but afaic, the burgers and fries are the brand and I couldn't care less about the peanuts. Which is to say, if they were gone, I wouldn't be all "fuck Five Guys." I go for the meat and potatoes.

I'd still go for the Cajun fries, but I would really miss the free peanuts if they stopped. Actually a few years back they used to have salted *and* unsalted peanuts, and now only have salted. Which made me a bit sad, as I preferred the unsalted ones.

Coming to Tupelo, yayyy. Right when I'm trying to get my eating and general health under control, boooo.

ILXor: Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy birthday little meme