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    • All the workers have forearm tattoos

    • At least 3 people are wearing beanies in the middle of summer

    • Bacon is $4 extra

    • The burger comes out on a bun drenched in butter and is so greasy/oily that halfway through it may as well have been served in a bowl

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      The place is being run by 3 bearded lumbersexuals in flannel and ball caps having the time of their lives and a chick in overalls and her hair in a bandanna who could not be more over it.

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      Drinks are served in jars, and your fries, well, you get 8 fries in a rusty old can.

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      Also:

      • The waiter has a twirled moustache and wears a mesh shirt combined with a bowler hat
      • The $4 extra bacon is burned to charcoal strips
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      Also the heat is cranked up uncomfortably high. The air is muggy. The whole place smells of onion.

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      The sound is provided entirely by a neglected Technics 1200 that nobody knows how to adjust accept the barback that only works on Wednesdays and Fridays.

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      I hat that brushed butter bullshit. If you want a butter burger, it goes on the hamburger patty,

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      At this point pretty much all BOH staff in any resto are packing tons of tats. Probably easier to count the ones who don’t

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      Good luck, honestly.

      $22.50 is a lot for a burger, but I’ve had some burgers that price that are life changing.

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        Mine are 17 but have a literal 3/4 lb (smoked) patty and 2 strips of real good old fashioned bacon, two fried texas garlic toasts for a “bun”, the real fancy french mustard and my house sauce, the best pickles ever, 5 onion rings but no side. I can do this because I’m a bar in the middle of nowhere, not in a major city with staff and massive expenses.

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            yes. You can search facebook for the Lucky Loon Saloon of Tompkins, Saskatchewan for more details, there’s pictures of it, on a plate.

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              Tompkins, Saskatchewan

              Ohhhh you’re near Medicine Hat and the highway. That kinda makes sense now.

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                That’s right. Stop in for a burger, I’m open Tuesday to Sunday 1130 am to late. Tuesdays are beer n a burger 20 bucks, Thursdays 11 dollar wings (30+ flavours).

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                I mean I have a snow shovel, and ten percent bleach solution. Always willing to accommodate.

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          but no side

          You included all the sides on the burger!

          What’s the calorie count on that!?

          As I’m asking this nonsense question, I’m thinking of the punch burger commercial from the parks and rec show where they say who cares, put it in your body!

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            Ok apparently roughly 850 calories for the hamburger, 175 for the toast, 150 for the onion rings, 10 calories for the mustard, 100 calories for the special sauce going by the mayo base for 3 tbsps, 200 for the cheese and roughly 150 for the bacon. So…1700 calories at a minimum.

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              LOL, that’s awesome. Almost an entire days worth of calories. Sounds delicious. You printing the calories on the menu?

              This is the Parks and Rec Ponch burger this reminds me of. “Put it in your body or you’re a nerd!”

              There’s a place called Bub’s burgers where they do a 1lbs burger challenge. They’re actually pretty good too. Not sure about how it compares nationally.

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                No, not on the menu. I don’t actually eat like this myself, I’m a big dude, used to work the rigs, trades, cowboy, etcetera. I couldn’t get through half one of these monstrosities i make if I even try. Probably how I stayed reasonably thin when I was a trucker. Been cooking long enough to know what tastes good, I had owned this bar half a year before I even tried the burgers I was making people. When i do make myself hamburger, it’s like a quarter pound patty by itself and i just fork n knife it with some spicy sauce, or maybe with gravy.

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    I hate those fucking stools. I swear they were invented to be so uncomfortable that once you’ve choked down that mediocre overpriced burger you want to leave as soon as possible because your ass hurts.

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    This meme is either very old or was made by someone in the midwestern US (always years behind on fads).

    All of the bistro burger joints have gone the way of the dinosaur in my neck of the woods. Now it’s all smash burger fast food knock offs.

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    Why is this so accurate

    Half of the “artisan” burger chains in my city are marginally better than a fast-food chain. One, maybe two of them make burgers so good that they’re worth the occasional splurge.

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    Holy shit even the pictures look like a local restaurant named: Allentown Burger Venture (ABV) lol

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    Yeah I’ve had a burger from a place that roughly fit this description, I was really sad when they closed because it was by an extreme margin the best burger I’ve ever had in my life.

    Life is significantly worse without that burger.

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        Places either closed down or dropped so far in quality they are now a shell of their former selves.

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          Exactly. A brewery near us used to have really decent food. But the quality was so bad post pandemic, we haven’t been back since early 2021.

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    Pffftahahaha, I think I’ve been to this restaurant. I probably looked at the menu, eyes bugged out of head, ordered a cider or something and left.

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      Virgin orders something cheap out of obligation vs Chad “prices are too high, I’ll just eat at home”

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    There’s a BBQ place near me, and I ordered tater tots there once, as a side. They were $4. They literally gave me 4 tater tots. They were one dollar apiece.

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      There are two types of BBQ places; stingy, overpriced, gourmet bullshit with barely any sauce and greasy, messy, heart stopping heaven. The former always pretends to be the latter.

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        There’s also Mission BBQ which is stingy, overpriced, overly-sweet non-gourmet bullshit with jingoistic pro-military support-the-troops bullshit thrown in for good measure.

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          Don’t forget the right-wing “we’re ignoring mask mandates in the height of the pandemic and not limiting seating because we’re god-fearin’ 'mercans here!” bullshit.

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      I ordered a gyro with a side of onion rings (the onion rings alone were $7) from a local place to take home. When I got home and opened the box of onion rings, I saw there were only six small (like, 1.5" in diameter) onion rings in the too-large box - more than a dollar per tiny ring. Next time I went I complained about the onion rings and they showed me the menu which said “6 onion rings” in the item description albeit in a tiny font. Like, they knew what complete and utter bullshit it was so they had to have something legal to fall back on.

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    I’ve never seen a burger come without some side at a non fast-food restaurant in my city and I don’t know why I find the concept so gross.

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      Burger Batch in Richmond VA is like that or at least it was last time I went. Good burgers; way overpriced. The pictures are spot on.

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        Yeah I believe it, the trend didn’t hit my city (Montreal) though, which is lucky. I went to Ottawa (a near city) a couple years back and they have a row of cookie-cutter pubs in their fancy part of town which all served burgers without fries and you had to pay extra for ketchup. I don’t know when I got radicalized, but that definitely paved the way.

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      I went to Portugal last year and they have this custom of serving crisps(chips, if you’re American) instead of chips (that’s fries if you’re American!) I bloody hated every second of it, the burgers were delicious though

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      Gross? Pretty harsh word for some fries. Does McDonald’s near you not sell big macs on their own?

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        So I don’t know if you read my comment, but I said

        non fast-food

        which in this particular case excludes McDonald’s.

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          Okay well in my defense I was reading very fast and read it as fast food lol

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    There’s a restaurant in Florida called “The Ormond Garage” and they don’t serve fries with the burger. It’s another like $6 for fries that aren’t even that good. I went there once and they didn’t have to go cups for the meal that I called in… The server told me she could get me a regular cup and I could just drink it there while they were putting my $15 burger into a takeout box.

    I contemplated walking out with the beer glass they handed me, but I just left.

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      I live near a place where the fries come with the burger, but sometimes you have to ask for them. The bean counters assume about 50% of the time that you don’t want them. Lunchbox laboratory in Seattle, in case anyone’s wondering. It sold out a long time ago and has been crap since

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    Very accurate. Unfortunately for me, the place that looks like this, also has the very best burgers.