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[–] telavivgirlexpat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

Definitely Dick's.

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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

These days, I'm really trying for there not to be.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember the last time I had a fast food burger. And I would like to keep it that way. Thank you.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

You know you want to

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The kebab shop down the road makes burgers too and they're better than everything I've had from one of the large chains while still distinctly feeling like junk food.

[–] memfree@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it that they spice the patties or something else? What's the liklihood their burgers are mixed meat? Like maybe goat + beef?

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Very low. Goat meat is expensive.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Santa Barbara Style please!

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

BK Impossible with no mayo

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If I have to pick a burger, then same! But if we're talking vegan fast food options than my first choice is always gonna be fresco style burritos at 🌮 🔔

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I miss the fiesta veggie burrito so much

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[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

West coast dude that has visited all over the US. I’ve had BK/McD’s, Whataburger, Jack in the box, In-N-Out, Carl’s Jr, Smashburger, Sonic, Shake Shack, White Castle, Five Guys, A&W, and maybe a couple more I’ve forgotten. Best for me, hands down:

Culver’s butter burger with cheese and everything on it.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Five Guys is the only one I would be okay with. McDonalds is probably the worse, followed by wendys being 2nd worst. BurgerKing is... um... its like good for like your first try, then subsequent times it taste worse and worse each time you got there.

I don't eat a lot of burgers so I probably don't know what a "good" burger taste like, I grew up in an Asian household so I don't exactly eat a lot of "western" food for the most of my life (like... relatively speaking, in comparison to the rest of the US).

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

None of them? I find it’s worth the extra $2 to go somewhere local or “fast casual”. Places like McDonalds , Wendy’s, and Burger King are overpriced garbage these days.

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[–] JayJLeas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Nando's' double cheese and bacon burger with added pineapple and hot basting

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Double teen burger from A&W.

Has enough meat with the double patty, and has all the toppings like onion, pickle, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, etc.

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[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

small Cheval for regional chain & Culver’s for national.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do they make horse burgers??

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I only recently learned the answer is "no"! For years I was wondering why people were lining up around the block to eat horse.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Very misleading name. I've also written to Panda Express corporate about why I can't get a rack of panda ribs there too.

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The only fast food burgers I eat happen to be White Castle single cheeseburger.

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[–] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I was a kid my dad would take us to Halo Burger in the Flint, Michigan area once in a while. Haven't gone in decades, since I grew up and moved away from the state. Something about how the burger was seasoned, just delicious. Nowadays I usually stop by Culver's for a double deluxe, now that there's one not far from the house (did earlier today, actually).

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[–] Shannaresh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good Times is a smaller chain and my favorite

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So this is weird, but where I grew up there was a local, non-chain restaurant with 2 locations called Good Times. It was a combination Chinese, American and pizza joint. They don't have the location one town south of my childhood town, but the one I went to most is still there.

I don't suppose the one you're talking about is the same place...? 🤔

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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My options are severely limited since I don’t eat meat, but The Habit makes a really nice veggie burger. They have one of the fake meat burger brands as well, but those honestly make me gag a little with how greasy they are.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I've had impossible burgers and they're surprisingly good but so damn expensive

[–] lambipapp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Sweden has a hamburger chain named 'Mr York' and they are amazing!

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Best I've cooked: Oklahoma onion burgers

Best I've bought: green chilli burger from Meat Liquor Covent Garden though sadly they don't seem to have that location any more and the green chilli burger is no longer on their menu!

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've always preferred smashing my burgers over a bed of onions and today I learned it has a name

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

It's a toss up between a Wendy's Baconator and the Jack-in-the-Box Ultimate Bacon Cheeseburger.

Or a classic Double Double from In-n-Out if you can consider an hour+ long wait in line "fast" food.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Only one I can eat, impossible whopper. I wish they would go all in and use the superior black bean burger instead tho

When McDonald's gets an equivalent, they're going to make so much money off of me

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

My current favorite one is a "local" (it's available nationwide though) one called Vicio, which means addiction in Spanish, I tried them because they opened a store near me and had a sign saying "We're called Vicio, and we cook burgers, you can imagine the rest" which I thought was pretentious, and decided to test them, but they're really good burgers.

Before those I would have said my favorite was Five Guys ones, still do but haven't had them in a while. And before those I used to like a local gourmet burger place back in Brazil.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

A local joint which I will not name, but they're basically like shake shack. The food used to be way better than shake shack, but unfortunately now it's just on par with shake shack. (Still great though). The fries however are perfect.

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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

R.I.P. 2for$10 Bacon Deluxe deal.

[–] adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Out of the big three, the whopper by far.

For smaller but still top 100 chains, locally would be A&W, non local would be In-n-Out

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