"Do you want to have lunch now, or farther
down the road?" Walt asked. We had stopped for gas in Morgan Hill,
which is one of the places where we sometimes stop for lunch. If we
don't stop there, the next choice is the Burger Queen in Greenfield and if
we pass that there's the weird little cafe in King City. Pea
Soup Anderson's was too far away. We are nothing if not consistent.
It was already 1 p.m., so I decided we might
as well eat where we were.
"OK," he said. "In 'n' Out, McDonald's, or
Denny's." I chose Denny's, but he pointed out that it would take
longer at a "sit down restaurant." So I chose McDonald's, and
confessed my dirty little secret--that I didn't really like In'n'Out all
that much.
We pulled out of the gas station and as we
were making a u-turn, I saw a sign for "Five Guys." This is a place I
hadn't heard of much until yesterday, when the Today Show did a report on
the top favorite fast food burger places in the country. McDonald's
was at the bottom, Habit Burger at the top, followed by In'n'Out, and third
was Five Guys. I didn't know that I had ever seen a Five Guys before
and I suggested we be daring and try something new.
They had me at "peanuts." You walk into
the place and the first thing you see are peanuts in the shell.
Thousands of peanuts. Sacks and sacks and sacks of peanuts,
standing up, making a wall in front of the ordering desk. At the end
of the sacks is an open box of peanuts, little boxes to take your fill, and
shells on the floor, which let me know we were invited to toss the shells as
we ate.
I was impressed with the menu, which gave a
price for the basic burger or cheeseburger, but all the toppings were free.
So I was able to order grilled onions and grilled mushrooms and it didn't
cost more than just a plain cheeseburger. Walt ordered mushrooms,
tomato, lettuce, and A-1 sauce.
The burgers were the best I've ever had at a
fast food joint. And I learned that a regular cheeseburger is much
more than I feel like eating, so next time I'll order their baby burger.
You could order either regular fries or Cajun
fries and Walt went with a small order of the Cajun which was about 4x
larger than the large fries at McDonald's...it filled the cup designed for
it, and then the bag that they put the cup in.
While I waited for Walt, I observed that
there were a lot of Very Patriotic folks in this place on the 4th of July.
The shirt on the back of this guy advertises
Fox's Laura Ingraham and above her web site address it says "First ... Best
... Forever." I was happy I had not worn my Obama shirt.
So I'm a Five Guys convert. I don't
know if I've ever seen a Five Guys burger joint anywhere before this, so
it's not likely that I will be eating her often, but you can bet your bottom
dollar that Cochran Rd.'s McDonald's has seen the last of us. It's
Five Guys all the way after this!
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| Day 4: I loved this burger! |
3 comments:
Hello :D I think that Junk food is really unhealthy. But have a nice meal anyway :)
I tried to write on this earlier, but on the iPad, and lost it.
We LOVE 5 Guys. There's one just a couple of blocks from our house, and it's certainly our choice for burgers/fries. We learned quickly to get the baby burgers (regular for me, cheese for John) and one regular order of fries to share. That's still more fries than we can finish. It doesn't keep us from taking a bunch of peanuts home, though. Enjoy your new find.
Five Guys are in Connecticut too. Three or four of us used to go in, order a burger apiece and one order of fries, which was enough for everyone.
I don't eat at the better known fast food chains. This is the exception...except that I would need a car to get there.
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