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Quoting hardtopickname:
Burgers! Every now and then I get a craving for hot drippin sloppy with fixins and melty cheesy goodness with bacon. Not that canadian bacon (ham) either but that salt and maple and sugar and smokey cured bit o pig flesh that is the candy of all meat!
But at some burger places, something has gone wrong (say it ain't so!) It's gotten cold out there in burger land. The proof at most of the purveyors of the grand grilled, broiled or fried patty is.. in the shrinkage! They've lost thier length across the diameter and they've, sadly, lost girth. :( The patties have gone through a transition where they've become thinner and thinner, smaller and smaller. Some places think they can offer a value menu then double or triple the patties to make up for the difference and the price. They've cut back on the condiments too. But if the value menu selections haven't been enough, the calamity of the impotent impersonations of real burgers have even hit these places' prime products too! Don't take my word for it. Go, now, get up and go to you're local brand name burger joint and order what's supposed to be thier flagship sandwich. When you get it, open it up and look under the hood of that thing and check out the meat. At the rate they're downsizing the product, within a year, your burger, will be AIR-Brushed onto the sandwich (atomized cheese particles will still be 25 cents). How much longer before we're gettin charged for a virtual burger? OOoooooh (space music).
There are some places where the company upsized their product for a win. Others where there was never any compromise. Out here on this side of the US, Five Guys.. FTW! They keep it simple and fast. You can walk into one and have a line to the door. You get your order in within 15 minutes and food in hand 7 minutes after that. The product is simple, fat, sloppy and if you order fries, you ALWAYS get bagfries. They throw them in after the bag is packed. I can never finish the fries.
For the cheap burger places we have Checkers or Rally's. Most locations around here I can count on to treat me right but there's one that sadly announced that they did away with the larger patty, therefore an entire line of product. Most disappointing. Good thing they didn't set up shop in feudal Japan cause heads would roll.
Noodles, based on that sign, I wonder what they're putting in your burger? Odds are, you're gonna need a lot more ketchup (and totally, hold the cheese!)
Burgers! Every now and then I get a craving for hot drippin sloppy with fixins and melty cheesy goodness with bacon. Not that canadian bacon (ham) either but that salt and maple and sugar and smokey cured bit o pig flesh that is the candy of all meat!
But at some burger places, something has gone wrong (say it ain't so!) It's gotten cold out there in burger land. The proof at most of the purveyors of the grand grilled, broiled or fried patty is.. in the shrinkage! They've lost thier length across the diameter and they've, sadly, lost girth. :( The patties have gone through a transition where they've become thinner and thinner, smaller and smaller. Some places think they can offer a value menu then double or triple the patties to make up for the difference and the price. They've cut back on the condiments too. But if the value menu selections haven't been enough, the calamity of the impotent impersonations of real burgers have even hit these places' prime products too! Don't take my word for it. Go, now, get up and go to you're local brand name burger joint and order what's supposed to be thier flagship sandwich. When you get it, open it up and look under the hood of that thing and check out the meat. At the rate they're downsizing the product, within a year, your burger, will be AIR-Brushed onto the sandwich (atomized cheese particles will still be 25 cents). How much longer before we're gettin charged for a virtual burger? OOoooooh (space music).
There are some places where the company upsized their product for a win. Others where there was never any compromise. Out here on this side of the US, Five Guys.. FTW! They keep it simple and fast. You can walk into one and have a line to the door. You get your order in within 15 minutes and food in hand 7 minutes after that. The product is simple, fat, sloppy and if you order fries, you ALWAYS get bagfries. They throw them in after the bag is packed. I can never finish the fries.
For the cheap burger places we have Checkers or Rally's. Most locations around here I can count on to treat me right but there's one that sadly announced that they did away with the larger patty, therefore an entire line of product. Most disappointing. Good thing they didn't set up shop in feudal Japan cause heads would roll.
Noodles, based on that sign, I wonder what they're putting in your burger? Odds are, you're gonna need a lot more ketchup (and totally, hold the cheese!)
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