Posted on 07/05/2012 2:02:47 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
That was a good question, but I didn’t have an answer. I could only shrug. I grew up on Whataburgers so I could authoritatively rule them great but Five Guys better. Ditto for Sonic, despite its unstoppable cherry limeade. We all have our local haunts that can’t be topped. Around Austin, that’s Mighty Fine. Up in Baltimore, Burger Bros. is amazing and I cannot recommend them highly enough. Every town has its own best burger. But among the big chains that inspire fanatic loyalty, which is the best?
Overall Taste. Let me note for the record that both In-N-Out and Five Guys offer exceptionally great burgers and both deserve their cult status. Having tasted both, I understand the fierce loyalty that both inspire. In-N-Out is a fine homestyle burger that can be augmented with sauces and veggies and stacked a zillion ways to make it your burger. Five Guys can bring the heat or whatever taste suits you. In-N-Out is the cleaner burger and its wrap makes it the obvious choice if you’re eating on the go. But Five Guys brings a burger that is juicy to the extreme, so much so that you need half a dozen napkins at hand just to keep yourself clean as you bite through it. I prefer the juicier approach, so for me, the east coast approach is the way to go and Five Guys wins on taste. Its burger is simply juicer and tastier than In-N-Out.
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White Castle. Will go out of my way for a sack of their sliders.
We don’t have Sonic where I live. Probably for the best ;o)
In-N-Out Animal Style is $3.50, two for $7. Very good all around. No complaints.
Five guys with everything is $5. Excellent - except for the inevitably soggy bun. If they could just use stronger bread, or toast it, or whatever, it would be a perfect burger.
In-N-Out makes me think, “good burger.”
Five guys makes me fall into Burgerspace.
It’s the moistness of the Five Guys burger, and seasoning, and size. We all learned to eat burgers as kids. When you’re a kid, burgers are bigger than you are. So even as an adult, there has to be an aspect of being dominated by the burger. In-N-Out lets you dominate the burger. Five Guys lets the burger kick you around a little bit. Not a lot, but enough to bring a smile.
Hey, I’m not making metaphors here. That’s just the way it is. It takes more self-confidence to like a Five Guys burger, because when you eat one, you’re gonna get messy, and there’s no way out of it.
In fact, you could call it 50 Shades of Burger... bwahahaha!
5 Guys is overrated, IMO... however, compared to other fast food like BK or McD or Wendy’s, they ARE better. Never had In-n-Out so I can’t comment.
Truthfully, give me some lean ground beef and a few “secret spices”, and I’ll grill you a better burger myself than what you’ve ever had from a restaurant (or reasonable facsimile thereof.....) That goes for a ribeye steak, too!
Five Guys is overrated in my view. Mediocre at best.
What??? There’s no tasty Big Kahuna Burger of Pulp Fiction fame. Next, there will be no Sprite.
If you ever make it to the Toronto area, Lick’s is not to be missed.
Re Fudruckers...
Buffalo beats beef. Luvs me some Buffalo!
Today I purposefully went out of my way
to eat lunch at Chick Filet.
Wallet-support, call it.
(though I heard OJ was applying for a Chick Filet franchise and it kinda turned me off)
Back when I was a kid, we had a lot of independent mom a pop shops. There was truly a lot of variety back then. Now you can cross the USA having the same exact thing morning noon and night.
YO, BACHI BURGERS in LAS VEGAS, they’re the bomb!!!!Biaaattchh.
Never been crazy about in and out, but they do taste fresh. I hate their skinny raw fries.
But I am forgetting what Sonic tastes like because I haven’t gone in a while.
In the name of science, I am OFF to Sonic for a bacon cheeseburger refresher, to recalibrate my brain against a Double Double (this is the first I’ve learned of animal style).
I love science experiments that involve bacon and french fries.
All Whataburgers in So California are gone — at least I haven’t seen one since the 70s.
Best Burgers in So Cal?
*Tommys
*Fuddrucker’s
*In N Out (started here in So Cal, Mc D’s too)
*5- Guys just opened locally, have no opinion yet but looks crowded —ask in a year if it’s still in business, I’ll know.
For Hot Dogs
*Pinks
In-N-Out earned my loyalty the day I was stacked in their drive through line and realized I’d left my wallet back at work. They said “Please give us your order and you can pay us later”. They have warm hearts at In-N-Out, and the double double rules. But its not an eat while you drive burger, no matter the wrapper. You have to park it to eat a double double.
Now that I escaped Kalifornia 5 Guys is the next best, or equal. Can’t decide, but no drive through costs 5 Guys some points.
Both 5 Guys and In-N-Out have the same style fries- delicious, but deserving instructions to never let them get cold.
Where is Bachi Burgers??
(I travel to LV a lot)
“...Do it all but with grass fed beef.”
I get bug fed chicken eggs from my suburban neighbor. They make store bought eggs taste like snot water. I used to get “grass fed cow’s milk” at a local store, but they stopped carrying it. It tasted like the milk I remember when I was a kid, not the snot water they sell for milk now.
I guess “you are what you eat”, and “what you eat is what it ate”. Therefore, “you are what you eat, eats.”
Our standard of living has gone down so far.
What about Cheesburgers in Paradise??
Too expensive? ? ?
I’ll have to try it as I live in Vegas. If I get addicted, I know who to blame.
Sonic...tends to be either heaven or hell, depending on the store. One could almost never get our order right, one had stale buns and almost inedible, one was to die for, and our current one serves up cold burgers :( I’m not willing to drive to the other side of town for “to die for.”
Jack McDavid can BBQ — I’ve had his ribs at a backyard BBQ — never had better. His downtown restaurants are disappointing though, they cater to yuppies. He should open a suburban BBQ place with dirt floors. He’d make a killing. There are no consistently good BBQ joints in the western/northern Philly suburbs, or anywhere around Philly for that matter, or anywhere north of the Mason Dixon Line for that matter. There are some that are sorta good some of the time, but it only take getting dried pig halfway down your craw to ruin a place’s reputation.
After the long lines went away at the DFW area IN-N-OUT restaurants, we finally tried a burger. It was not worth the wait. I don’t get the hype.
Our favorite burger in the Dallas area is a local chain called Burger Street. I like Wendy’s though for the Frosty’s.
Five Guys would be a great burger...if In-and-Out didn’t exist. But, to use an Islam analogy, 5-guys is like Jesus, just another prophet (to them), while In-and-Out is like Mohamad, the REAL THING.
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