What’s this about the condiments at Fuve Guys? The condiments are listed. Why would one expect there to be anything un-listed?
Oh, I thought that in the scale of fast food fries, In N Out is a solid 1, no, sorry, 2 – they might be better than BK fries, but it’s been so long since I’ve been to BK as it’s my least favorite fast food burger joint – and Five Guys is a 9 or 10.
The list the condiments that standarly go on the burgers unless you ask for something else. They do carry A1, they dont list it. 1000 island is pretty standard to put on burgers*, in fact there’s a slightly different version made especially as a burger condiment, not to mention Mcds “secret sauce” which apparently is Hellmans “Big H”.
- and more importantly, it is what I like on burgers, so telling me “we wont use that crap here” is insulting.
Any cash register jockey who said that to me would get his ass fired in a hot minute. I would start with chewing out the manager and work up from there.
Ditto, plus the music was too fuckin’ loud. <shakes cane>
This strikes me as being a little like asking what an American should order in the UK if they want biscuits: Brits don’t eat the things which Americans call biscuits.
I think, in the main, you’re not going to get British-esque chips very often if you’re west of the Atlantic. Steak Fries is what the heftier chips to be called in the US, but anything which actually approximates the flavour and texture of British chip-shop chips will probably be few and far between.
Scones are pretty close.
Of course, but I’m in Minnesota where we sometimes pride ourselves on being almost Canadian 
No, not at ALL.
And biscuits in the U.S. have a lot of regionality. You won’t find Southern style biscuits outside of the South (the flour up North is too hard - you simply can’t make them unless you import the ingredients.
True, very true, but scones are often sweet and studded with dried fruit. If you’re after an American biscuit, you could well be disappointed by a scone, even if it’s not fruited.
Maybe I should have picked the other half of the meal. “What do I order in Britain if I want sausage gravy?”
“Well…erm…well, you’ll just have to find an amenable cook and give them a recipe…”
When I worked at a restaurant in Scotland, I had real scones for the first time. If you didn’t tell me it was a scone, I would have thought it was a biscuit. Then again, I’m a Yankee (Northerner), so I don’t have the fine-tuned taste for biscuits, but they were damned nearly indistinguishable to me at the time. (Though I have made biscuits from White Lily flour – it used to be available here at Meijer. Last time I looked for it, though, it wasn’t there.) Maybe if I had them again now, being 20 years older and more experienced with food, I’d notice.
Then again, I had the same feeling about English chips. They just seemed like pretty ordinary French fries to me, just a bit bigger and stubbier.
Well…as a style of baked goods, a British scone and an American biscuit are part of a continuum, at least. They’re not the same, absolutely, and scones are often sweetened, but as doughs go, they’re not a million miles apart. If I want a biscuit, a scone won’t do (and vice versa), but they’re closer to each other than anything else is to either of them, I think. I generally explain American biscuits to Brits by using a scone as a starting point then working out from there!
These are basically Five Guy’s french fries, often advertised as “hand cut” fries in hot dog stands around the country.
Not nearly greasy enough to be Five Guy’s fries.
Scones without fruit. 
Are Brits familiar with the term “quickbread”?
In Australia Burger King, KFC and Macca’s all call them French Fries.
I was born and raised in Minneapolis, went to college in St Paul. Most of the people I encountered there over 30+ years were Midwesterners trying to act like New Yorkers.
I’ve made them both - I’m a pretty accomplished amatuer baker (as in wedding cakes that people pay for and homemade pains au chocolate). They are the same family of food, but if I ordered a scone in the U.K. and got something that American me thought was a biscuit, I’d be really disappointed - likewise, if someone in the U.S. served me something called a biscuit that turned out to be a U.K. style scone, I wouldn’t be getting what I asked for (though I’d likely be pleased, I love scones). (I’ve yet to have a good British style scone in the U.S. - they sell them all over the place, but they aren’t the same - and I haven’t been able to find a recipe to make a British style scone - it might be the flour)
I’ve lived here for about 45 of my 52 years, raised two kids here to adulthood. I know no one like that.
Not this Brit!