• HelluvaKick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Glad I live in the south, where we have fast food bbq joints with $6 burgers better than you’ll get anywhere else.

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    1 year ago

    Saw a place I never been to before and decided to check it out. Got up once I saw the prices. This meme is extremely accurate.

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      1 year ago

      Hamburger is like 7 bucks a pound now, and these type restaurants are usually in areas they have to pay exorbitant rent and overhead.

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    I pretty much stopped going out for burgers because my area lacks a really good burger. We do have two places that do smash burgers pretty well and it’s a food cart, so it’s affordable, but any proper sit down started charging $20+ for frozen patty style garbage.

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    There’s a restaurant in Florida called “The Ormond Garage” and they don’t serve fries with the burger. It’s another like $6 for fries that aren’t even that good. I went there once and they didn’t have to go cups for the meal that I called in… The server told me she could get me a regular cup and I could just drink it there while they were putting my $15 burger into a takeout box.

    I contemplated walking out with the beer glass they handed me, but I just left.

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      I live near a place where the fries come with the burger, but sometimes you have to ask for them. The bean counters assume about 50% of the time that you don’t want them. Lunchbox laboratory in Seattle, in case anyone’s wondering. It sold out a long time ago and has been crap since

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    I’ve never seen a burger come without some side at a non fast-food restaurant in my city and I don’t know why I find the concept so gross.

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      I went to Portugal last year and they have this custom of serving crisps(chips, if you’re American) instead of chips (that’s fries if you’re American!) I bloody hated every second of it, the burgers were delicious though

    • tacosplease@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Burger Batch in Richmond VA is like that or at least it was last time I went. Good burgers; way overpriced. The pictures are spot on.

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        Yeah I believe it, the trend didn’t hit my city (Montreal) though, which is lucky. I went to Ottawa (a near city) a couple years back and they have a row of cookie-cutter pubs in their fancy part of town which all served burgers without fries and you had to pay extra for ketchup. I don’t know when I got radicalized, but that definitely paved the way.

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      1 year ago

      Gross? Pretty harsh word for some fries. Does McDonald’s near you not sell big macs on their own?

      • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        So I don’t know if you read my comment, but I said

        non fast-food

        which in this particular case excludes McDonald’s.

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          1 year ago

          Okay well in my defense I was reading very fast and read it as fast food lol

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    This is my favorite spot in town but it ends up being $20 with the fries. I never go there

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    1 year ago

    Holy shit even the pictures look like a local restaurant named: Allentown Burger Venture (ABV) lol

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    In my neck of the PNW they may cost $25 but they come with a side

    And that shit’s fire, worth every damn penny

    My roommate and I usually go out once a month to snag some food from those places and try to hit up different ones each time

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        Holy fucking shit. I have never had a burger or fries as bad as In and Out at any price. McDonald’s is better than in and out. Anything is. Kinda disqualified your opinion here.

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            So there is a secret menu where the fries aren’t dried out bullshit and the burger patties aren’t paper thin with 1 inch thick lettuce?

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              The fries are shit, unless you get them animal style. The burgers are good especially if you get them 2x2 or 3x3.

              You’re going to complain about lettuce? Get some fucking fiber in your diet.

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    This meme is either very old or was made by someone in the midwestern US (always years behind on fads).

    All of the bistro burger joints have gone the way of the dinosaur in my neck of the woods. Now it’s all smash burger fast food knock offs.

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    Bit of an exaggeration. The most expensive place I’ve ever seen (by a lot) is Iceland and this is barely accurate there.

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        Have you paid $22.50 for a burger on its own? I find this post odd because I live in an expensive city where you can easily see plates over $30 but even at those places, their burgers are the much cheaper option and still often include fries or have a $2-3 upcharge to get fries.

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            Or if you had a logical thought in your head, you found a person so unfamiliar with such a place, they asked publicly despite knowing that douches on the Internet are extremely common.

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        Restaurant prices aren’t a secret. I just checked places in Portland and the most expensive burger I could find was $15 and that came with fries, and that was the most expensive one on the menu. This is a meme joke and is exaggerating to be funny, don’t confuse that with reality.

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          I said Oregon not Portland but okay also I live here so I think I’d know what the local prices are for food.