I looked it up and found out Habit started in Santa Barbara California. They have a lot of locations on the west coast and neighboring states. Then they ignored the middle of the country and expanded on the east coast. It surprised me to find out they have 16 locations in New Jersey. I only know the one. I’ve been there a few times. Burgers are made to order. You get a number for your table and they bring it to you when it’s ready. A slightly slower version of fast food. I find it to be very similar to Shake Shack burgers. Good but greasy. Greasy good.
One of mine has been here since her previous person left her here, supposedly for two months, in the summer of 2018. And she still goes entirely rigid whenever I pick her up; which by now I only do when necessary, and briefly once in a very long time to check. (She does like to be patted, though.)
She’s also given the other cats some mixed signals – she used to (she doesn’t try to initiate much any more) behave as if trying to initiate a game, then hiss, growl, and swat at them if they tried to play with her. Their idea of a game involves pounce and wrestle as well as chase; I think maybe she only wants the chase, and objects vehemently to the pounce and wrestle. I think she may have a thing about being held, as in being restrained.
I don’t think this is the previous person’s fault – but that person told me that she found the cat as a partly-grown kitten living on the street. I’ve no idea what happened to her before Previous Person took her in; except that there was probably near-starvation somewhere along the line, because by the time I got her she was quite fat, and Previous Person told me that when she first took her in the cat would eat herself sick if fed free choice. She was over that by the time I got her, though.
Or the fries.
My fave is actually the iN&Out single cheeseburger, but the Double-Double is a close 2nd.
Tommy’s is my 2nd fave, but not listed.
Yeah, there is a place on the beach in Santa Barbara that has my fave, but it is not really a “burger joint”.
Yep, our Tennessee Ditch Dog is missing a front leg. Annie was found running loose with a coyote trap on her paw 
by a friend of mine. We eventually had to dismantle some of someone’s deck to get hands on her. >shudder< Picking her up was one of the most awful things I’ve had to do, I couldn’t help but hurt her.
And none of my cat herd are mitt-kittens, all normal paws n claws.
First off - I don’t buy fast food burgers, though it’s possible I had a Whopper fifty years ago and don’t remember. I will be first in line for a thick, juicy, rare hamburger any day.
I do get chicken or fish sandwiches at some places when on a road trip, and was surprised by the regionality of burger chains. There are only three chains on that list that I have ever even seen in the wild.
I’m just surprised that Whataburger didn’t rate higher because any time I have heard burger eaters compare big chains they always pick Whataburger over Jack in the Box or Burger King or McDonalds, or Wendy’s.
Whataburger is the worst driving burger of all of them. Diced onions and mustard, they were not built for the road warrior in mind.
My omnibus response post…
- You can’t coach size.
- Feeling pretty safe about taking the money. Killers don’t leave millions out as bait to kill people. They just kill people.
- I use AI a lot and only expect it to be right 40% of the time. Of course, I don’t use it for research purposes.
- I love milk, and my go-to chocolate powder used to be Nestle’s Quik, but now it’s some chocolate protein mix.
- I used to have the “ice in your face” problem and then I realized the issue was I put too much ice in my drinks.
- I was one of two who wanted the Clay Institute Mathematics wall in my museum. Who was the other, I wonder?
- No loyalty to auto brands. Just bought a Hyundai after owning a Chevy, a Dodge, a Toyota, a Nissan, and a few others I can’t remember.
- I have dreamed about the SDMB, it was one such dream that I created the poll. It was so vivid I got on my phone to see if the poster I was talking to actually existed. (They did not).
- I did attend a “Camp Mystic” type camp, around 8yo.
- Sage
- Basil is good, too
- I’m fine with AI art. Seriously, some of y’all…
- Do not like Hamburger Helper.
- Mom died when I was 1yo, so have zero idea about their marriage. I can tell, however, by photographs that she became increasingly unhappy.
- Not much of a hugger, but don’t mind it when other people are.
- My doorbell works
- I chose Mork and Mindy out of sentimental value. There was weirdness on the set of ALF?
- Becoming debt-free is my NY resolution of choice.
- Breast meat is the best meat.
- Not a fan of pickles, anywhere.
- I was born in 1967, so yes, I used a mechanical time clock for most of my high school jobs.
- Have donated money to Wikipedia, don’t do so often. And to PBS.
- There are lots of ways to keep money away from a ‘gold digger’ (of either gender), one doesn’t necessarily need to write one out of a will to do so. Just use a trust with the kid as the beneficiary and the rest of the family as trustees. (lol at my use of the word ‘just’, but still, this is an internet post, not a professional piece of advice.)
- Do not use GLP-1 meds, I lost my 50 pounds the old-fashioned way.
- Elton John is a generational talent. Billy Joel is a wannabe Broadway guy who found himself in rock ‘n roll.
- I have nail clippers for the humans and the pets. Yes, I bought them.
- No tattoos. Not even company tattoos.
- The Butterburger from Culver’s is the best of those listed. I’ve had all listed, except for Habit.
Ive never even heard of one or two & haven’t eaten at many more of them, & for the few that I have eaten at, it’s RARELY their signature burger since I don’t like the way they typically come - I don’t want a salad ON my burger; no tomatoes or pickles, I could live w/o lettuce, too (though at home I’ll make a burger & a side salad. I like cold food, & I like hot food; I just don’t like everything lukewarm & wilted from the heat)…& NEVER for mayo (or yellow mustard); any sauce needs to have some flavor, deli mustard, honey mustard, BBQ sauce. Why should I pay for the ‘deluxe’ burger when I don’t want those ingredients on it in the first place?
I was watching one of those “eater” youtubes, and it was an American guy in Copenhagen. One of his meals was at a gas station (yes, a real gas station, but the gas station part was all automated and the burger place took over the entire building on the site). One of their burgers was a Midwestern Burger. It was a copy of the butterburger.
Question: how drippy with grease is it? It kind of makes me queasy to think about it.
Carl’s Jr. has a burger they call the “California Classic”. It’s a blatant copy of the Double-Double.
Actually, I never get a double-double at In-n-Out. I always get an animal-style hamburger (not a cheeseburger).
Just found out about Road Kill Fries ** last weekend. I’ll have to save my calories up for that!
** Animal style fries with a Flying Dutchman on top.
I’m not a big fan of mustard, so I’ve never gone for the animal-style. Double-double is my go-to.
Freddy’s is pretty much a clone of Culver’s. I’ve come to prefer Freddy’s cheese curds, but I’ll give Culver’s burger a very slight edge.
Five Guys and Shake Shack satisfy a specific craving now and then.
I had a Habit burger once and remember liking it, but no specifics.
I like the variety at The Habit and the tempura green beans. And they have an ahi tuna sandwich now! I’ll have to stop by sometime again soon. I haven’t been in ages because I’ve been working (successfully) on losing weight, so I’ve been avoiding fast food.
And yew, too.
Tommys also has a California classic type burge- no chili of course on it.
I wouldn’t call the B52 Sicilian my favorite, I vastly prefer B23, but I still like it better than the other options.
To answer the parenthetical in the poll, the U2 spy plane has been in continuous service from 1956 until today. The Air Force, NASA and the CIA all use it.
I’ve never had that cocktail, but it looks good. And while I’ve heard of some of the others, I don’t know enough about any of them to have an opinion.
I picked the band (I have a weakness for Athens, GA bands), but that cocktail sounds pretty good, too.
I had two friends in college, one got a t-shirt with just the first two letters of the word “Further” on it, very large taking up the entire front of the shirt, while the other one got a shirt made with the last two letters of the sound a chicken makes, also very large taking up the entire front of the shirt. They were down the shore, on the boards & saw a guy wearing a shirt of a certain Irish rock gawdawful sucky noise band. The three of them started walking together. That pretty much sums up my opinion of them. There was a photo of them but it was back in the day of film/prints & I don’t know whatever happened to it.