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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Dinner in the year of our lord 20241031.
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 09:42:42 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton