I’m not kidding when I say a burger at Wendy’s is better or equal to In N’ Out. McDonald’s burgers are pretty pathetic, but a nice single or bacon burger at Wendy’s outdoes any burger at In N’ Out.
Non gustabus and all that. Wendy’s doesn’t even make my Top 10.
Five Guys has chopped green pepper as an optional condiment, which I don’t think any other fast food chain does. I love chopped green pepper on a burger. So that, by itself, makes it a top burger chain.
What are your thoughts on Culvers? Probably my top pick for a fast food place.
WRT mustard on burgers, the In-n-Out “animal style” burger is fried in mustard and served with pickles and grilled onion (I leave out L&T and spread).
Never had them. I’d give them a try if I ever saw one - they sound interesting. (To Mahaloth. Animal-style I’ve had. Lots.)
If I was going by sheer number eaten, Farmer Boys and Del Taco would be my Top 2. That’s because they are between home and work, so I default to one or the other. #1 is a LA area chain known more for their pastrami than their burgers, but a custom burger from The Hat is what I dream of at night.
I personally find Del Taco’s burger to be an inferior knockoff of In-n-Out, and they don’t even have pickles.
Fortunately, the rest of their menu is consistently good. Miles better than Taco Bell, and generally less pricy. I eat there way more than is good for me, since there’s one just across the street from my work and they almost always have some kind of good coupons or promos on the app.
I wasn’t impressed with Shake Shack burgers. And I went there in the middle of the afternoon and I still had to wait too long for that mediocre burger.
Ditto, although the one time I went to one (also in Vegas) I thought the cheese sauce they put on their cheese fries was pretty good.
At this point, if you’re a regional fast food chain and you don’t have a location on or near the Strip, what the hell are you even doing?
That’s it. When they baked in-store, they had better donuts and a better selection. Now, their selection and their best donuts (chocolate cream and cherry cake) are nowhere to be found. They cut back drastically when they added muffins. Clearly donuts are not as popular, but they don’t give any reason for them to be popular.
I will note that DnD advertised “the World’s Best Coffee” in the 60s (and before), so the stress on coffee isn’t a change.
They’re an NYC thing that’s spreading. Here in FL they’re big due to all the displayed NYCers.
My take is: “Totally gross, but an extra $8 just because New York”. Went a couple times, won’t be going back.
Any opinions on Steak N Shake?
I know that their milkshakes are handmade fresh and not from a machine. I know they have daily shake happy hours when they are half price. Their shakes are great.
Sadly, I couldn’t visit Steak N Shake before I became allergic to red meat. They used to have posters with Roger Ebert waxing poetic about their burgers. Are they as good as he claimed?
Nope.
The shakes are good and their advertising was (is?) great. Their burgers & fries are … scruffy for lack of a better term. I’d call them 1960s typical.
The year: 1976
Tym and friend Sludgepile hitchhike from Ohio to California with an extended stop in Estes Park Colorado. In Estes Park a mythical (twasn’t distributed in Ohio at the time) 12- pack of Coors is illegally purchased and consumed. (I was 16 my travelling companion Sludgepile also WAY underage)These were the old “thumb slicer” cans and I remember thinking that short of the innovative can design, THAT was cool, it was better than PBR but not much.
Our kid brought a friend home from NYC and she had to try Culver’s (loved it, even went back … after she’d checked 
Fish Fry and Supper Club off her Midwest Delicacies list).
If I’m on the road, I’ll stop and grab their Snack Pack: a small burger (tastes like right off the grill), fries (very potato-y), and… the best Diet Root Beer I’ve ever tasted.
I had to look that up. Old Orchard Beach?
So, the Baker’s is on the median, then?
lol id take it lol
People keep repeating this as if it is true. I’ve had really shit burgers from McDs from a number of different locations in the uk. Crap bun. Crap burger. It is possible that it is it true in the US. Perhaps even true worldwide about 20 years ago. But there are plenty of awful burgers to be had with this chain in the UK, and this is long since changed. They are my last choice, and I use to live out of hotel in the UK where the food choice was end of day sandwich from Tescos or McDs, and I ate McDs perhaps twice in nine months (both times because there was a voucher).
Not at McDonald’s. They make their standard burgers the same way all over the country, with ketchup and mustard.
I worked at a McDonald’s in Illinois for several years back in the 1980s, and having made thousands of hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and quarter pounders, I can definitively state that the standard burger had ketchup, mustard, pickles, and onions (reconstituted onions for the small hamburgers/cheeseburgers and fresh chopped onions for the quarter pounders).
I have since eaten at McDonald’s all over the country over the ensuing decades (including New England where I now live), and the standard burgers are still made this way: with ketchup and mustard (along with pickles and onions).
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