• RisingSwell@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Yeah I’ve had a burger from a place that roughly fit this description, I was really sad when they closed because it was by an extreme margin the best burger I’ve ever had in my life.

    Life is significantly worse without that burger.

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        9 months ago

        Places either closed down or dropped so far in quality they are now a shell of their former selves.

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    9 months ago

    I hate those fucking stools. I swear they were invented to be so uncomfortable that once you’ve choked down that mediocre overpriced burger you want to leave as soon as possible because your ass hurts.

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    9 months ago

    There’s a BBQ place near me, and I ordered tater tots there once, as a side. They were $4. They literally gave me 4 tater tots. They were one dollar apiece.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I ordered a gyro with a side of onion rings (the onion rings alone were $7) from a local place to take home. When I got home and opened the box of onion rings, I saw there were only six small (like, 1.5" in diameter) onion rings in the too-large box - more than a dollar per tiny ring. Next time I went I complained about the onion rings and they showed me the menu which said “6 onion rings” in the item description albeit in a tiny font. Like, they knew what complete and utter bullshit it was so they had to have something legal to fall back on.

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      9 months ago

      There are two types of BBQ places; stingy, overpriced, gourmet bullshit with barely any sauce and greasy, messy, heart stopping heaven. The former always pretends to be the latter.

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        9 months ago

        There’s also Mission BBQ which is stingy, overpriced, overly-sweet non-gourmet bullshit with jingoistic pro-military support-the-troops bullshit thrown in for good measure.

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          9 months ago

          Don’t forget the right-wing “we’re ignoring mask mandates in the height of the pandemic and not limiting seating because we’re god-fearin’ 'mercans here!” bullshit.

      • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        American is typically more mild in taste and smoother than cheddar; unless we are talking Kraft Singles American, which is a smoother or creamier cheddar.

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            9 months ago

            It does have emulsifiers and other dairy products in it. It has a higher moisture content, which the emulsifiers help to hold in suspension with the cheese. Without the emulsifiers the cheese would leak water/fluid out and the shelf life would be considerably shortened. The emulsifiers used are very common in many foods from almond milk to soft drinks.

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    9 months 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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      9 months 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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    9 months ago

    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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    9 months ago

    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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    9 months ago

    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.

    • tacosplease@lemmy.world
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      9 months 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.

      • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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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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      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

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      9 months ago

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

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        9 months 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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          9 months ago

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

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    9 months ago

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

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    9 months ago

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