# Best fast food hamburgers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382 "2007-07-19T14:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/141 "2019-12-10T17:44:19Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I’m nitpicking here, but In-N-Out doesn’t franchise. The company is still a family owned business controlled by the descendants of the original founder, and every restaurant in the chain is owned by that family. The current In-N-Out heiress, Lynsi Snyder, has [stated she has no plans to franchise](https://www.ocregister.com/2013/02/27/drag-racing-heiress-keeps-in-n-out-on-course/). Not only that, but I read an article some years ago that the biggest hindrance to their expansion was finding local suppliers, specifically the never-frozen burger patties and bun bakeries. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/142 "2019-12-10T18:57:22Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Hold off on getting more for a few weeks. They issued a voluntary recall for possible listeria in the frozen sliders yesterday. Good to know! Thanks! Sent from my moto x4 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/143 "2019-12-10T20:02:53Z")
McDonald’s, Burger King or Five Guys for me, in that order, but I’d just as soon go to Arby’s if there’s one around. Don’t you judge me! ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/144 "2019-12-11T07:55:59Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Were they expensive where you were? They are the absolutely cheapest burger you can get, but maybe not for their size. I was a dirt-poor vagabond when in WC territory so long ago. A few years later, when I’d graduated from sub-minimum-wage to barely-minimum-wage jobs, I took to the west coast’s Munchies chain, with ten burgers for a buck. That was a working schlub’s lunch. But earlier, WC was not available around Manhattan’s East and West Village areas. I applaud WC for being the first of its kind to emphasize CLEANLINESS. That was the WHITE of White Castle: road food without dirt, prepared by white-clad minions. Before WC, burgers were trash. Of course, lobster was trash food long ago, too. Maybe WC will seem gourmet eventually. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/145 "2019-12-12T21:15:18Z")
I hardly eat burgers anymore, but when I do, it’s a BK bacon double cheeseburger…plain (no toppings at all). Just the right combination of grease and bun, with nothing to distract you. ---
**Author:** ![fedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/146 "2020-06-01T01:14:31Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Were they expensive where you were? They are the absolutely cheapest burger you can get, but maybe not for their size. Still, today, a burger is something like 79 cents there. That said, I’d consider a reasonable serving to be 3-4 burgers, but I can be satisfied with just 2 as a snack (they’re about 140 calories each for the plain burger.) > > Maybe, maybe not. They are their own thing. It seems people either love or hate them. They’re not like a normal hamburger, and I hate it when restaurants offer their own mini-hamburgers and call them “sliders.” Sliders are not just mini-burgers. There’s a particular cooking method to them over onions that gives the bun steamed texture and oniony flavor, and the burger itself is not browned as much as a normal burger. They originated in New Jersey, and there are a number of non-White Castle places out there that serve burgers in the same style. See [White Manna](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC-6RSjPOBE) in Hackensack, for example. A somewhat similar style with full sized patties is the Oklahoma onion burger. sorry, WC started in Wichita, KS ---
**Author:** ![fedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/147 "2020-06-01T01:16:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > McDonald’s, Burger King or Five Guys for me, in that order, but I’d just as soon go to Arby’s if there’s one around. Don’t you judge me! Arby’s is not a hamburger place, which is topic ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/148 "2020-06-01T01:23:26Z")
in some places the meaning behind the term “sliders” for burgers isn’t a nice one … ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/149 "2020-06-01T01:28:40Z")
> **[Home - Original Tommy's](https://originaltommys.com/)** > > \[et\_pb\_section fb\_built=”1″ \_builder\_version=”4.16″ custom\_padding=”0px||0px|||” global\_colors\_info=”{}”\]\[et\_pb\_row use\_custom\_gutter=”on” gutter\_width=”1″ disabled\_on=”on|on|off” \_builder\_version=”4.16″ width=”100%” max\_width=”2560px”... Tommys. Their chili-cheeseburgers are to die for. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/150 "2020-06-01T01:30:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > McDonald’s, Burger King or Five Guys for me, in that order, but I’d just as soon go to Arby’s if there’s one around. Don’t you judge me! Does Arby’s have hamburgers? I thought they more followed a deli style menu now. Arby’s does have great sandwiches though. Good Reubens. I personally think Culver’s Hamburger is best. ---
**Author:** ![fedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382/151 "2020-06-01T01:42:10Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Does Arby’s have hamburgers? I thought they more followed a deli style menu now. > > Arby’s does have great sandwiches though. Good Reubens. > > I personally think Culver’s Hamburger is best. Have you tried their Greek gyros yet? Great, esp for price, right now 2 @$6, don’t know what sauce they’re using so add my own tzatino [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-fast-food-hamburgers/412382.md?page=7)