I pretty much stopped going out for burgers because my area lacks a really good burger. We do have two places that do smash burgers pretty well and it's a food cart, so it's affordable, but any proper sit down started charging $20+ for frozen patty style garbage.
There's a restaurant in Florida called "The Ormond Garage" and they don't serve fries with the burger. It's another like $6 for fries that aren't even that good. I went there once and they didn't have to go cups for the meal that I called in... The server told me she could get me a regular cup and I could just drink it there while they were putting my $15 burger into a takeout box.
I contemplated walking out with the beer glass they handed me, but I just left.
I live near a place where the fries come with the burger, but sometimes you have to ask for them. The bean counters assume about 50% of the time that you don't want them. Lunchbox laboratory in Seattle, in case anyone's wondering. It sold out a long time ago and has been crap since
Yeah I believe it, the trend didn't hit my city (Montreal) though, which is lucky. I went to Ottawa (a near city) a couple years back and they have a row of cookie-cutter pubs in their fancy part of town which all served burgers without fries and you had to pay extra for ketchup. I don't know when I got radicalized, but that definitely paved the way.
I went to Portugal last year and they have this custom of serving crisps(chips, if you’re American) instead of chips (that’s fries if you’re American!) I bloody hated every second of it, the burgers were delicious though
Yeah I've had a burger from a place that roughly fit this description, I was really sad when they closed because it was by an extreme margin the best burger I've ever had in my life.
Mine are 17 but have a literal 3/4 lb (smoked) patty and 2 strips of real good old fashioned bacon, two fried texas garlic toasts for a "bun", the real fancy french mustard and my house sauce, the best pickles ever, 5 onion rings but no side. I can do this because I'm a bar in the middle of nowhere, not in a major city with staff and massive expenses.
That's right. Stop in for a burger, I'm open Tuesday to Sunday 1130 am to late. Tuesdays are beer n a burger 20 bucks, Thursdays 11 dollar wings (30+ flavours).
As I'm asking this nonsense question, I'm thinking of the punch burger commercial from the parks and rec show where they say who cares, put it in your body!
Ok apparently roughly 850 calories for the hamburger, 175 for the toast, 150 for the onion rings, 10 calories for the mustard, 100 calories for the special sauce going by the mayo base for 3 tbsps, 200 for the cheese and roughly 150 for the bacon. So...1700 calories at a minimum.
There's a place called Bub's burgers where they do a 1lbs burger challenge. They're actually pretty good too. Not sure about how it compares nationally.
No, not on the menu. I don't actually eat like this myself, I'm a big dude, used to work the rigs, trades, cowboy, etcetera. I couldn't get through half one of these monstrosities i make if I even try. Probably how I stayed reasonably thin when I was a trucker. Been cooking long enough to know what tastes good, I had owned this bar half a year before I even tried the burgers I was making people. When i do make myself hamburger, it's like a quarter pound patty by itself and i just fork n knife it with some spicy sauce, or maybe with gravy.
I serve people what are essentially "treats". You can't eat like this regularly. I'm well aware of the secrets of French Cuisine, which are sugar, butter, bacon fat and cream.
