Whataburger.....

[Skuzzy]

NB introduced me to my 1st Whataburger at the last con ... had to admit is was quite tastly !!!

A&W !!! ... did the car hops have roller skates on ? ... our local A&W, when I was a kid, had the roller-skating car hops and your food was delivered on trays that hung off the windows. Their root beer was the best I have ever had ... bar none.

Yep, that was the A&W of old.  Never met anyone who would not agree that root beer was the best stuff on the planet.  Shame they closed it all down.  That was good stuff!

[RATTFINK]

Whataburger is my all time favorite burger joint.  I usually get the No. 2 w/ grilled onions, jalapeño, cheese & all the fixins.

I too have been to the Whataburger in Corpus Christi.  They have the best service.  The Texas Surf Museum is near there as well as the Lexington.

Skuzz, if I come to the Con this year, we’re dragging all the foreigners (Non Texans) to a Whataburger

[Denholm]

I bet she's not thinking about the consequences
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You have heard of Photoshop, right?

[1Boner]

mmmmmmm.......White Castle   

Ya say White Castle up here and they think your talkin bout some fancy Igloo 

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Rokit

Moved to New Hampshire from New Jersey years ago, really miss White Castle burgers.

"Buy em by the sack"

I remember way back they used to be like 8 cents apiece!

Brought out to your car by chicks on rollerskates!!

[DMBEAR]

You have heard of Photoshop, right?

Why, do you think Harry's butt looks too fat? 

[Babalonian]

Corpus Christi, Texas.

Bablonian, are the fries so bad, you have to cover them with grilled onions?  That's just nasty.  If I want everything to taste like an onion, I'd eat at my mother-in-laws house.

Oh, now you're just insulting innocent vegetables!

During my most epic late-night ventures to In-n-out (typically after flying some multi-hour bombing mission over Rookland, during the later half of which I run out of beer, thus enabling me to sober up in time to land and think about grabbing a burger), I get an order of regular fries and animal style fries with that 4x4.  They're best consumed fresh while enjoying them plain, so I consume half of the regular order of fries on the drive home.  I then utilize the remaining half to help mop up the excess cheese, grilled onions and secret sauce left over after consuming the animal style fries.  It is somewhere around this time that I find myself staring down a 4x4, wishing I had instead gone with two double-doubles (one to save for breakfast tomorrow ).


Edit: Onions are best eaten raw, like an apple!

[1pLUs44]

Oh, she concurs.

You know what?  It really goes to different tastes.  Some folks like onions all over everything and think that is just peachy and the way things are supposed to be eaten.  I suppose one cannot ding another person for that.

If you like onions all over fries, you will not like Whataburger fries.  Pretty straightforward.

I guess the question is, to those who have had In-n-out and Whataburger, why is it you prefer one over the other?  I grew up with Whataburger, and have tried really hard to emulate them at home, without success I might add.  Never been quite able to get that spice combination just right.

Because Whataburger is so good....

Favorite thing to do is, 3 AM trips to Whataburger in Georgetown after fishing... And either getting 2 Honeybutter chicken biscuits, or the double meat. 

[Babalonian]

OK, I found more time to write and put some input on this topic today.  So Cal suffers from a lack of competitive high-quality fast food chain choices.

We have In-n-Out, open 'til 2am, all their food is made from quality ingredients, with as much prep that can be done on-site being done.  Then there's Tommys, open 24-7-365, but I'd rate their food at a lower quality than In-n-Out... but when it's bathed in chili and covered by a blanket of cheese, does that really matter?

Other than the almighty holy grail that is In-n-Out out here, there really isn't much else in terms of quality local (easy to go to) mega-chains.  You just need to take a gander at what our staple fast food places are out here to see why we think so highly of our double-doubles with grilled onions and freshly made fries drowning in cheese, grilled onions, and secret sauce.

Is ____ (choose one below) better than In-n-Out?
Burger King
Carls Jr.
Del Taco
Jack in the Box
McDonalds
Taco Bell
Wendys

They're all almost the same in terms of quality and getting your money's worth.  It is why we are so very fond of our In-n-Outs.


Now ,there's some very good non-mega-chain and independent cafes, diners, and other various restaurants open until 2-am or are 24-hours out here (there's nothing like a 3am thai-food craving and hoofing it over the hill to Thai Town for some KILLER thai food), but how convenient they are for a late-night munchie-attack is all dependent on where you live and if you want to go and sit somewhere to eat.  The closest late-night cafe worth my money is a 25-minute freeway drive from where I live (late-night, no traffic... but I think in a couple months they're opening one up that's only a 10-minute drive), but my favorite one is just another minute further down the road (mmm Corals in Burbank).


In closing, the fast food chains that are good enough to consider spending your money at are few and far between out here.  But there is plenty of good food to be had out here for your money at any time of the day or night if you know where to go to. 

I'm thinking Hawaiian BBQ today for lunch today.    What about you guys/gals?

[DJ111]

There's a new (Well, it opened like 3 months ago...) place called Freddy's Frozen Custard...


Since I can't get an In-N-Out 4x4 because I'm in Texas (Whhhyyy????!!!) I have to settle on Freddy's 4-patty Steak burger....




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[DMBEAR]

I am going to have to bust into a WB soon cause all this.

Is diarrhea better than?

Burger King -Yes
Carls Jr. - Yes
Del Taco -Yes, and the diarrhea you get here is worse than reg. diarrhea
Jack in the Box - Yes
McDonald's - Hell yes.
Taco Bell - Yes, see Del Taco
Wendy's - Yes

I'm not against all Tex Mex Fast food.  I'll chow on some Taco Bueno.  But they can be hit and miss.

I'm thinking Hawaiian BBQ today for lunch today.    What about you guys/gals?

A combo of chopped beef brisket and Hot links w/ jalapenos and onions from a shack nearby (Randy's BBQ here in Texoma)    

[Tac]

Whataburger is good in florida (though their fries leaves much to be desired!). Big and tasty. In fact it reminds me of burger king about 3 years ago when they had the absolute best burgers (they cheapened and lowered the quality now ).


But, for 'fast' food here in my town the best place is not a burger joint but a mongolian bbq place.

There is no drive through but its damn fast.

Their system is unique too. They only have three choices for you: 1 bowl, unlimited or bowl+soup.

1 bowl .. they give you one bowl and you head to the buffet style area (more on this later)
unlimited..they give you a different colored bowl and as the name says it, its all you can eat.
bowl+soup is 1 bowl with unlimited soup...so they give you 1 bowl and the smaller soup bowl.

When you have your bowl, you go to the buffet area. They have it in five sections: Meats, Veggies, Pasta and the Salad&soup area on the side. The fifth section is the SAUCES section.

You just go to each area and fill your bowl with the RAW meat/veggies/pasta they have there. Then you go to the Sauce section and fill up as many little cups of sauce you want (ranging from sweet to spicy, teriyaki, etc..you name it they got it).

You take your bowl+sauces to the main grill area. They have a HUGE circular grill where they have 3 staff members that come in ,take your bowl and sauce, cook it in front of you (takes less than 2 minutes) and give you a clean bowl matching your bowl color with your food in it.

If you want to take it home you tell the guy and they pack it in large chinese-food-style boxes.

Its delicious and when I go to pick up food to take home it takes me less than 5 minutes from the time i park my car outside to the time i get back in the car with my food. Its even faster than many fast food joint drive throughs here. cheaper and more food than them too!.


mmmm

[Shamus]

Seven days without a Halo Burger makes one weak.

http://www.haloburger.com/main/

The best burger on the planet.

Thats a fact Jack!!!

shamus

[Pyro]

Having lived in California for 4 years and Texas for a lot longer, I would have to say that In-n-Out is by far the better fast food burger than Whataburger.  The one and not insignificant advantage that Whataburger has is the jalapenos.  Now it's been a long time since I've had an In-n-Out burger, so it's possible that their quality has slid since then but I've never heard that.

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