Posted on 12/18/2009 7:35:24 AM PST by SoonerStorm09
FORT WORTH -- Good riddance?
We can’t recall the last time a company promoted the end of a product.
Did Ford extol the Edsel? Coke the New Coke?
Yet we have Whataburger buying little ads, setting up toll-free hot lines and Web sites, then paying PR people to call attention to the withdrawal of what is easily the Corpus Christi-based chain’s unhealthiest menu item: The A1 Thick and Hearty Burger.
The burger has lost its pizzazz, said a PR person with SPM Communications of Dallas, who is not authorized to be quoted by name,
Wednesday night, a North Texas hairstylist named Heather was scheduled to mount a "support group" gathering at an Irving Whataburger to mark the Dec. 21 disappearance of the 1,050-calorie, half-pound hamburger that packs 62 grams of fat, according to the chain’s Web site.
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I signed up for the 12 days of Whataburger email coupons, today would be a free justaburger, but I have no printer. heh.
I remember one time I had a coupon that was e-mailed and I didn't have time to get it printed, so I carried my laptop into the store with the coupon on the screen and asked them if they could scan it there... LOL...
They did take the coupon, as there was a number on it that they took down... :-)
lol!
That doesn’t work with this one. No barcode or number or anything. Its just a one day 11am-4pm kind of thing, I am sure all the employees know what date its good on too.
What’s really funny is when somebody orders a Diet Coke to go along with it.
That's me... LOL...
I had to switch to Diet Coke back in 1990... :-)
Is it something I should try before it disappears?
Well..., I am... just to say that I had a piece of "this history"... :-)
5 Guys here in Florida about 7 miles from us real good and like you said small fries order is more than enough for 2 or three hungry people.
Why? I would order that way and I'm not a bit over weight. Some people just don't like the sugary taste of regular cola.
1) White Castle!!!!!!!!
Damn straight.
I could go for a sack full right now, with extra onions.
I remember when they were 12 cents each. My lunch money generally went to stuff like a sack of six White Castles, or a Hebrew National frank with mustard and sauerkraut with a knish (fifty cents total, a quarter each, REAL beef hotdog, with REAL gut casing, Mmmmmmm.....), or, a slice of pizza -- 15 cents, HUGE slice (the whole pie must have been close to the size of a wagon wheel), served up by a guy who could barely speak any English, thick AUTHENTIC Italian accent, who made the BEST pizza in the entire world.)
Back then, "toppings" were little chocolate crumbs you'd sprinkle on an ice cream cone. Pizza was enjoyed PURE -- crust, sauce, cheese... with a wee bit of oregano sprinkled on it, and every now and then some crushed red pepper.
You'd eat it carefully -- it was scalding hot, and handed to you with a proper fold to the slice, on a stack of wax paper and napkin -- you'd take it carefully, and hold it carefully, and take the tiniest nibbles off the end until it cooled down a bit. If you were NOT careful, it'd peel the skin off your leg right through your pants after the molten bubbling cheese and sauce slid off the crust (thin, crisp on the bottom soft on the top, with BIG crust-edge filled with huge air bubbles).
You really had to be there back then to know what GOOD fast food was like. ("There" being da Bronx in the early 1960s.)
Now, I'm in the OTHER "early sixties" (I still don't feel like a grownup, go figure), and I have to endure store-bought frozen White Castles (better than nothing, but not even close to the real deal, but when you live far, far away from the closest White Castle...)
As to pizza, I gave up completely, when I learned that they're using amino acids derived from human hair harvested from hospitals and prisons in China, to give the crust the "right" texture. You can't make this stuff up, ugh.
At the risk of being called a “Thread Hi-Jacker”, I have been in Roswell, NM for a year now and, darn it.....I want a Jacks pizza from Indianapolis!
bar none the tastiest burger in America is the Bill Thomas Haloburger, served at a handful of franchised locations in and around Flint, Michigan.
(hurry and try one, before Michigan achieves complete economic collapse)
Hardee’s burgers are good. Chili’s are really good but not fast food.
Last time I went to Steak & Shake it was obvious the burger was made from 20-80% beef/fat. Looked like termites had gotten hold of it. Sad, because I like the shakes.
I had a Chris Madrid’s Macho Burger in San Antonio, once in 2000...I am still digesting!
i like Whataburgers....the chopped onions...
Corpus Christi should be proud
Hands down, they have the best fast food chicken strips around...with cream gravy...yum!
How could you forget Burger Chef? (Okay, they are gone now, but come on, they were the best.)
Pizza!!!....Now we’re Talking!!!
I worked for 10 years (and now own) a restaurant/bar/pub.
Once I learned to make my OWN dough, toss it(NOT ROLL IT- EVER) and apply my own toppings( personal favorite- virgin olive oil,provolone,garlic,basil) you would not catch me buying store bought, Pizza Hut or ANY take out pizza brand EVER!!!!
However, if I’m home in Syracuse, I will grab a slice from some of my favorite local joints.
White Castle—I would road trip up to 400 miles one way just for a sack!!!
And if I have read their web page correctly, one will soon open in Dallas about 190 miles from me.....I’m counting the days!!!
A hunk of beef and a salad. If you leave off the bread, what’s unhealthy about that?
I’m sick of the food nazis.
Anytime my wife and I visit Texas (my folks and her sister & BIL) we grab a Whataburger. That and SONIC onion rings. We see adds for SONIC in the DC area, but for some reason the nearest one is an hour away.
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