Re: Dinner in the year of our lord 20241031.

On 2024-11-02, Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:

On 11/2/2024 5:17 PM, jmcquown wrote:

On 11/2/2024 5:02 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

>
You're probably right and I just can't seem to grasp
paying $20 for a burger, fries, and drink at Five Guys.
Whataburger was super unimpressive, and I even gave them
a second chance just in case it was an off day for them
or me.

 
There is a 'Five Guys' in Beaufort.  I know some people who went there
and they were definitely not impressed and said the price was outrageous.
 
I have to ask, what's the big fascination with "smash burgers"?  Anyone
ever heard of the Maillard reaction?  Restaurants charge a lot of money
for something anyone can do at home by simply calling it a "smash
burger".  Got a hot skillet?  Got a spatula?  You can make a smash
burger for less than half the cost of having someone flatten it for you.

>
Same deal as Primanti brothers.  Overpriced and over-hyped chain
restaurant food.

Yeah.  I'd rather get my overpriced restaurant food at a local place.

Sometimes I get a smashburger at the pub.  It has the virtue of
being 1/4 pound whereas their regular burger is 1/3 pound.

They do a very good black bean burger, which I order when I'm
feeling virtuous.  It totally negates the tater tots that
I steal from my husband.

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Cindy Hamilton