Checkers about 10 miles from me, stop there maybe once a month.
Their low-price burgers are definitely better than the low-price burgers from the big three, but when I really want a -burger- I go to Five Guys or Steak and Shake, or a local place,
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So, a business pays the protection money demanded by local political parties, and is then somewhat arbitrarily punished for doing so. I can certainly see how that business might feel unfairly victimized. OTOH I can see how customers might not want their lunch budget to support a colossally dangerous far-right organisation.
Luckily, the solution is the same either way: make political donations from businesses illegal. If making it legal effectively makes it mandatory, then making it illegal would protect corporations’ (ludicrous, fictional) human rights.
So I am kind of thinking, perhaps this kind of exhausting Twitter-based chaos is exactly what we need, if it makes corporations as pissed off as everyone else has been for a generation.
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I’ve only been to Steak and Shake once, but I liked it a lot. One thing that concerns me was how they do table service at fast-food prices. Seems like there must be some corners being cut somewhere (moreso than in ordinary fast casual restaurant situations).
“Is that a bible in your pocket, or…”
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The Republican party is caving into trumpism, they are capitulating, acquiescing. It’s letting him do all that bad crap like ripping kids from their mothers’ arms and caging them. The Muslim ban. And all that other stuff. In the name of, what did you say? “lower taxes, fewer regulations”?
And you went on to say “It’s absurd…”. You’re right, that is absurd. Shame on the in-n-outs and chickin-fillets of the world, and shame on the repubs, even from California, to sit back and think that this administration cares about what the “grand” old party stands for. Seriously.
nnout make both the worst and best fries… you simply gotta order them well done.
You know, I wonder if some of these places are overtly religious for riding the tailcoats, getting built-in support. It used to be positively marketed, as being pious and involved in the community, but now it’s just plain old “us versus them” circling the wagons, kicking out the Unclean.
I miss Anthony Bourdain.
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They’ve been heavily involved in GOP politics for decades. Richard A. Snyder, The son of the founders, was killed in a helicopter crash in the early 90s coming or going to some thing with Gingrich. After he died, his mother took over the company again and they cancelled all the expansion plans.
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According to Wikipedia:
The chain also has fans in a number of renowned chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Thomas Keller, Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Ina Garten, and Mario Batali.[18] Famous London chef/restaurateur Ramsay ate In-N-Out for the first time when taping Hell’s Kitchen in Los Angeles, and it soon became one of his favorite spots for take-out.[[75]]…[77] Julia Child, one of the first celebrities to champion the chain, admitted to knowing every location of the restaurant between Santa Barbara and San Francisco.[78] Anthony Bourdainreportedly said that In-N-Out was his favorite fast food meal;[76] later naming the restaurant as “the best restaurant in Los Angeles.”[79]
Thus their foodie gravitas appears to be merited?
All I know is that Rich Snyder was too religious for me to stomach. There were rumors that the born-again Christian gave money to Operation Rescue at one time. I vowed to never eat there in 1991, and I still haven’t.
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If you or your organization gives service, money, or anything of value to the Republican party, no matter how far down the ballot, you acquire the taint and stench of #45 to yourself and all you own! Too bad, so sad!
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I’ve never been particularly impressed with their food. It’s fine. Won’t be too hard to stop going there.
I finally tried five guys. Color me not impressed. But we have Burgerville here in the PNW.
Five Guys > In N Out. By a long shot.
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I have a Five Guys in walking distance… still don’t go there mostly cause whee yet another place I can go to EVERYWHERE in the USA. See above for just as or even tastier local options for me.
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But still a chain, and shitty fast food. That seems, to me at least, far more boycott worthy, as does the beef industry in general. I’ve been happily boycotting both for 25+ years and can’t imagine seeing the ruining of the health of America (and the world) as a lesser offense than donating a small sum to the Republican party.
We go once or twice a year when we road trip to PHX with the dogs to my in laws.
Here local we have a couple favorite dive bar kinda joints that make great burgers. An old flat top is the key.
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I live way down in the PSW, so that’s too far a hike. One of the things that’s irritating me in the thread though is it seems like some of the burger joints being compared to In-N-Out and Five Guys (at the top of the fast food column) appear to me to be more bistro-level joints, which makes it an unfair comparison.
It’s like boosting the national Little League baseball teams, and having some guy pipe up, “But how about them Yankees, tho?”
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If your primary concern is less taxes and fewer regulations, do you think voting Democrat is more likely to bring that about than voting Republican? I’m not in favor of either, but I respect the opinion of people who vote republican for those reasons.
That scene bugs the shit out of me. Those are not accurate cups or wrappers.
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