Impossible Burgers.

[Jah Womble]

Sneering put downs of vegetarians and their "bland" food however, don't really appeal

I was a bit surprised by that comment, too.

You either want to give up meat or you don't - I've never needed to 'convince' myself of anything.

[Bored Of Education]

I thought it was an in-joke between FF and Ad Hoc. Clearly I was wrong.

[Jah Womble]

Oh, okay. But if so, it was a bit on the dry side.

(Go on, say it - you know you want to...)

[ad hoc]

I thought it was an in-joke between FF and Ad Hoc. Clearly I was wrong.

If it was I missed it. But that does make some sense. It seemed out of character

[WOM]

I'd make a joke about vegetarians being oversensitive, but I can guess how that would be received...

[Bored Of Education]

If it was I missed it. But that does make some sense. It seemed out of character

That's what I thought. Seems like something I would say at my most pissed. Which doesn't strike me as typical of FF (even when she is at her most pissed. If she ever is).

[Lang Spoon]

I thought In n Out burger was pretty good. Basically they are acknowledging that burgers are supposed to be cheap fast food and just concentrate on doing it well. They do the little things right like toasting the buns.

Five Guys I don't get. They take an average burger, wrap it in tin foil and then sit on it. Even if you didn't order take out, that's how it is served. And then they charge you sit down restaurant prices for the resulting soggy mess.

They serve in tinfoil for a sit down meal? Every time I go to Glasgow another Five Guys has replaced somewhere good. Posh burgers are so crap. Mibees a mass outbreak of listeria will put an end to the shite of serving burgers still bloody in the middle in a fuckin brioche bap (massively unsafe with even the best steak mince, while you sear the area of a steak contaminated with germs (the edge of the muscle) and can fairly risk the insides rare, when that meat is all mashed together cook until the juices are clear or risk badness).

[Gerontophile]

I think I mentioned it already, but I was at a Five Guys the other weekend. Chips were good, but thin, and the burgers were utterly tasteless. And yes, I sat down, and yes it came in a bag. The burger was in foil which made the bun sweat.

Oh, and the fries were cooked in peanut oil, so beware.

[Lang Spoon]

That seems wildly irresponsible. Are there signs up warning?

[anton pulisov]

Yeah huge signs everywhere about peanuts. And buckets of peanuts everywhere. They serve peanut butter and bacon milkshakes. Madness.

[Lang Spoon]

Fuck off. (to the milkshakes)

[Wouter D]

Oh, and the fries were cooked in peanut oil, so beware.

Aw, fuck! I was counting on this custom not spreading beyond East Asia. I had my nut allergy triggered often enough over there to be quite happy that I can typically eat fries without thinking about it in the West.

[Benjm]

Fuck off. (to the milkshakes)

"Fine, we were going anyway...wanker."

[Toby Gymshorts]

They won't get far in a corrugated cardboard plane.

[Benjm]

Or is it corduroy?

[Lang Spoon]

I feel like we’ve seen into your dreams benjm. Corduroy clad transport.

[WOM]

Or is it corduroy?

I'd try that. The food crime, not the fashion one.

[Benjm]

I feel like we’ve seen into your dreams benjm. Corduroy clad transport.

It a shame we can't see whether it's got leather patches on the wings.

[Lang Spoon]

It a shame we can't see whether it's got leather patches on the wings.

They tried it once, in the Thirties (shudders).

[Fussbudget]

I love Five Guys. And their burgers aren't done rare, or what you could call posh (definitely overpriced for fast food though.) And somebody with a peanut allergy wouldn't venture within a mile of the place given that the entire restaurant is covered in monkey nut dust.

Also I generally understand Spoony's posts no bother. So THERE.

[Lang Spoon]

Yay! So there I’m not a bot and I CAN identify all the squares with bridges or road signs in them. Tbh my last “posh” burger was in Irish chain Jo’Burger about three year back. Hated hated hated it.

But every handsome Edwardian mini scraper in the Glasgow grid, the foyer floor seems to have some burger/meat joint in it.

[Femme Folle]

That was not sneering, that was more like playful ribbing. I'm sorry that I caused offense.

[anton pulisov]

See this is why I like In n Out burger. They are doing non-posh burgers properly. They fill in that niche in the market for people who are willing to pay a whole quid or two more than McDonalds or Burger King to have a burger that doesn't taste like a courdroy plane wing, but still don't want high priced posh burger hipster bullshit.

Although that niche apparently only exists in California, so my In in Out burger sample size is 1.

[San Bernardhinault]

In N Out are good, as far as $2 burgers go. But people treat them as something special and fantastic, worth travelling miles for, when really they're pretty mundane burgers that a merely superior to McD's and BK's crap. I like Five Guys, but it's way overpriced for what it is, and takes too long.

[Cal Alamein]

Although that niche apparently only exists in California, so my In in Out burger sample size is 1.

It's on the border, but only In in Out burger I've tasted was in Kingman, AZ on way back from CA. If they put one in ABQ they'd have perpetual lines for their first month of business, such is the fandom of their burgers.