• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Very accurate. Unfortunately for me, the place that looks like this, also has the very best burgers.

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    11 months ago

    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.

    Life is significantly worse without that burger.

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        11 months ago

        Places either closed down or dropped so far in quality they are now a shell of their former selves.

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          10 months ago

          Exactly. A brewery near us used to have really decent food. But the quality was so bad post pandemic, we haven’t been back since early 2021.

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    11 months ago

    I’ve never seen a burger come without some side at a non fast-food restaurant in my city and I don’t know why I find the concept so gross.

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      10 months ago

      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

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      11 months ago

      Burger Batch in Richmond VA is like that or at least it was last time I went. Good burgers; way overpriced. The pictures are spot on.

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        11 months ago

        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.

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      11 months ago

      Gross? Pretty harsh word for some fries. Does McDonald’s near you not sell big macs on their own?

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        11 months ago

        So I don’t know if you read my comment, but I said

        non fast-food

        which in this particular case excludes McDonald’s.

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          11 months ago

          Okay well in my defense I was reading very fast and read it as fast food lol

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    11 months ago

    Saw a place I never been to before and decided to check it out. Got up once I saw the prices. This meme is extremely accurate.

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      11 months ago

      Hamburger is like 7 bucks a pound now, and these type restaurants are usually in areas they have to pay exorbitant rent and overhead.

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        11 months ago

        American is typically more mild in taste and smoother than cheddar; unless we are talking Kraft Singles American, which is a smoother or creamier cheddar.

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            11 months ago

            It does have emulsifiers and other dairy products in it. It has a higher moisture content, which the emulsifiers help to hold in suspension with the cheese. Without the emulsifiers the cheese would leak water/fluid out and the shelf life would be considerably shortened. The emulsifiers used are very common in many foods from almond milk to soft drinks.

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    I hate those fucking stools. I swear they were invented to be so uncomfortable that once you’ve choked down that mediocre overpriced burger you want to leave as soon as possible because your ass hurts.

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    11 months ago

    The Good Burger in Spain (and probably other countries)

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    11 months ago

    There’s a BBQ place near me, and I ordered tater tots there once, as a side. They were $4. They literally gave me 4 tater tots. They were one dollar apiece.

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      11 months ago

      There are two types of BBQ places; stingy, overpriced, gourmet bullshit with barely any sauce and greasy, messy, heart stopping heaven. The former always pretends to be the latter.

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        11 months ago

        There’s also Mission BBQ which is stingy, overpriced, overly-sweet non-gourmet bullshit with jingoistic pro-military support-the-troops bullshit thrown in for good measure.

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          Don’t forget the right-wing “we’re ignoring mask mandates in the height of the pandemic and not limiting seating because we’re god-fearin’ 'mercans here!” bullshit.

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      11 months ago

      I ordered a gyro with a side of onion rings (the onion rings alone were $7) from a local place to take home. When I got home and opened the box of onion rings, I saw there were only six small (like, 1.5" in diameter) onion rings in the too-large box - more than a dollar per tiny ring. Next time I went I complained about the onion rings and they showed me the menu which said “6 onion rings” in the item description albeit in a tiny font. Like, they knew what complete and utter bullshit it was so they had to have something legal to fall back on.

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    Glad I live in the south, where we have fast food bbq joints with $6 burgers better than you’ll get anywhere else.

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    11 months ago

    This meme is either very old or was made by someone in the midwestern US (always years behind on fads).

    All of the bistro burger joints have gone the way of the dinosaur in my neck of the woods. Now it’s all smash burger fast food knock offs.