A 3 mile line of cars to buy Burgers?! USA! USA!

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/in-n-out-burger-north-texas-expansion_n_861172.html

"I went to the Frisco at midnight last night hoping to bypass the crazy lunch hour line I'd seen on YouTube," James Sullivan, a North Texas resident, told HuffPost. He waited a while before an In-N-Out employee approached his car and told him they'd unfortunately have to send him home. "She said there was a three-hour wait."

Nick Rallo, the web editor for the Dallas Observer, furthered news of the commotion in his area. "If you were to draw a Venn Diagram yesterday, one circle would be In-N-Out Burger, the other would be thunderstorms, and the middle would be everybody," he said. "You would think the pope was here."

Texans Run Out of Gas at In-N-Out Burger Frisco
Opening Day Brings Long Lines, Empty Fuel Tanks

http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-innout-craziness-frisco-running-out-gas-story,0,2359870.story

They waited outdoors in the pouring rain and in cars that snaked around the building. The average wait time: three hours. Long enough for some to run out of gas.

"Well, we got here with about 25 miles left in my tank. We thought we had plenty of time, but three hours later, we stalled," said DBU student Abigail Clements.

Abigail Clements and her friends had their car pushed to the side by some In-N-Out Burger employees, as they waited for a gas delivery.

Her friends say it was time well spent; A story they'll tell for years to come.

"I didn't really have any other plans today. So we just kind of sat here and listened to music, talked," said DBU student Jordan Redfrain.

" I'll tell my grandkids, yeah, I was in that line and we waited for four hours. We ran out of gas. I was at the first In-N-Out in Texas," said DBU student Kyle Uber.

raves about In-and-Out hamburgers. Though I rarely eat fast food I finally went and ordered a burger from there. Big whoop. Slightly spruced up version of a Micky D's. :shrug: I didn't get it. AND I happened to notice the nice little bible verse on the bottom of the cup. :wtf:

OK, nice burger (and a little drippy for my taste), but nothing I'd feel compelled to rave about, but three different people obviously had different opinions and enthused about it.

No bible verses, though, thankfully. It's just a marketing gimmick for people who fell more comfortable when surrounded by a constant stream of pieties. Doesn't matter if they're empty pieties, just so long as they're there.

I never even heard of the chain before the president got burgers there that one time.

I haven't tried 'em yet. Doubt I will. It's almost always nearly empty.

Five Guys, OTOH, is just about the best, most filling burger one can buy in terms of fast food.

That said, I wouldn't wait in a line for any fast food for more than 20 minutes, let alone for three hours.

but makes more sense then waiting 3 hours for concert tickets, a new book to go on sale,
a movie premier or any other reason people wait in line.

We have 2 within 5 miles of my house. I have NEVER gone to either.

Now, give me a Dairy Queen brazier burger anytime. :-)

I refuse to wait in a line to eat....anywhere!

same for the hamburger, ground in the store. Milkshakes made from ice cream. Fresh, simple, classic.

Too bad other chains don't do some of this. Fresh food is better.

Criticizing In-n-Out is NOT permitted! :)

Every time I get to Vegas or LA, it's the first place I head for. Burger joint perfection!

and the service at the one 3 blocks from my house shows it. Superb, every single time.

They paid 2 dollars over minimum in my old town.

but still 3 hours?

I loved fries and shakes and miss it.... makes me hungry right now.

prolly about 5 or 6 across the state.

Blasphemy!

In 'n Out doesn't even INSTALL heat lamps, they grind their own beef fresh, fries are sliced from real potatoes seconds before going into the 100% natural vegetable oil fryer, super high uality veggies that actually LOOK like they do in the TV commercials (and taste as good as they look), and their SHAKES are made from real ice cream...not powder dumped into an icy slush like most other places.

If that's not good enough, there's always the Secret Menu. Animal style fries...mmmmmmmmmmm :9

you may not have cared for it, but cmon.

carry on!

My kids BEGGED me to take them the week they opened...

I drove to the site, and the line was outrageous, when
a kid with a flashlight directed me to the "staging area"
(to get a hamburger?!?) I told my kids to FORGET IT.

I tried.

think their food is terrible, the buns they use on their hamburgers taste like they've got sugar in them, horrible. We haven't been back since.

:wtf:

They started advertising about 2 YEARS before they
opened one close to us....

Now, of course, it's not a big deal...

Not as much as Five Guys, but it's pretty tasty.

When I jailbreak her from the nursing home, we take
her there for the tots.

I like the calorie-free Cherry-Lime Ade.
It tastes, looks and feels like a TREAT!

food otoh, tastes like shit.

Not much for vegetarians at Sonic ... that's for sure.

At least when they give you some hot ones, not some that have been sitting around for a few hours.

HUGE lines. sonic, IMHO, is just a glorified rally burger. meh.

WTF is in those burgers? And WTF is wrong with the American people?

people cry with joy when they see an American Idol contestant.
Different strokes.
They can't all be "normal" like you and me.
That would leave us with nothing to mock.

3 mile long line for a freaking hamburger?

That is SO NOT NORMAL.

People sleep on the sidewalk for days waiting to get into a movie, or buy a book, or a phone, or an ipad. The list of things like this goes on and on.

People have different opinions on what is important to them. So just what IS normal? (thats a rhetorical question, but you can answer if you want)

to wait in a 3 mile long line for a fucking hamburger.

I bought some ground beef today. I waited for 2 minutes in line at the grocery store.

Took the hamburger home, my guy made it into patties....and lo and behold, 25 minutes later...I had dinner!!!

Who woulda thunk it???

I loved her too.

That's some eclectic musical taste you have there.

He was On Top of The World! Said they'd Only Just Begun. Felt like a Superstar. For All We Know, he was full of shit.

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I am NOT easily categorized in most respects! :rofl:

Let's just say Alice B. Toklas would approve of the ingredient list (hint, hint:smoke: ). Betcha can't eat just one! (Especially when the munchies kick in!)

J/K... I'm sure there's not really anything all that special. It's like Coors beer -- when we couldn't get it here on the east coast, it was all the rage to have a couple of cans in the fridge. Now that we can get it, it's not that big a deal. (Not all that great, either.)

(I'm a Krystal guy, myself. Luuuuuuuuuuuuv them little gutbombs.)

I grew up in Cocoal Beach, Florida, my step-father was the head of the Delta Missle program at Cape Canaveral. They had a lot of rocket parts shipped out from Houston, and it wall always hush-hush when it happened...because his team in TX would pack cases and cases of Coors in with the rocket parts, which were often shipped in climate-controlled containers. The folks would have parties at the house and having Coors was like the big special treat that only a few people were made privy to. "Pssst....look what I got!"
LOL! Today, I think I'd sooner drink the rocket fuel than Coors.

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...I'd suggest there was a "secret spice" ground into the meat to give it that rapturous response. And if I were even nastier, I'd suggest that the bible verses were just a cover, or maybe a mockery, because the 'secret spice' was A DRUG SUPPLIED BY SATAN! :scared:

But I'd have to go WAY out of my way to do that, and I'm just not nasty enough to feel an overwhelming urge to go that far out of my way for a dumb prank.

When we finally got a Taco Bell 8 months after Katrina destroyed all of them. You may not have the same attachment to a particular fast food, or even eat fast food at all, but for me, I was overjoyed to have a steak chalupa and two taco supremes after months of having NO fast food choices AT ALL.

not running around praising the Lord because of a damn hamburger.

and it was hilarious. They show the woman crying, come back to the studio, Capeheart rolls his eyes and says, "sister girl needs a Xanax."

There is nothing you can't slap a little jeebus on and sell to these fools.

You think most of those folks are there for "jeebus" or a burger?

Cheers!

.. an episcopal = catholic light = coke light joke but nothing came together...

Maybe later...

of the combination of jeebus and a burger. Why should I have any compassion for fundy fools that will wait in a three mile line for a mediocre burger for no other reason then their fundy sense of supporting anything that has religion slapped on it? I show them compassion by not selling them turds in the shape of the virgin mary.

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Well thanks for slamming this square peg into your round hole. Who is looking for self rightous poutage?

I know they are fundies, but so what? we buy tons of shit daily that is influenced by various religious groups.

I still believe in the first amendment. They have as much right to believe what they want and print what they want on their products(since it is privately owned) as much as I have a right not to believe any of that horse shit.

They make a damn fine burger. Everything is fresh, everything is made on the spot.

So please, give me a an IN n OUT double double animal style. :)

the employee who put it on my sammich is making well above minimum wage.

they maybe fundies but they pay a living wage.

I don't give a damn who or what they pray to, they treat their employees with respect and make a fine product.

They get lines everywhere including here in Venice, CA where you would be hard pressed to find a fundy. It's about the fresh burgers, fries and real shakes.
Trust me, everyone loves their food and I've never heard a single soul say they go there for the proverb printed on the bottom.
Double double animal style no tomatoes!

...to So. Cal...jumped off plane, hopped in buddy's car, straight to the drive thru...YUM!!!!

she asked me what I wanted to do first.

I'm not kidding when I said, "go to IN n OUT". LOL

Can you elaborate?

Not all christians are fundies.

And why are you being so obtuse?

...you do the math.

I imagine many people believe they have absolute knowledge of why another individual may or may not purchase a burger based on little more than a hunch. In my church, it's called a Dogmatic Faith.

But I'm fully confident you're the exception to the rule...

I gave my opinion, sorry if you did not like it. What does your church call it when you put words in other peoples mouths?

Whatever it is, I'm fully confident you're the exception to the rule...

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Wow.

Can I recommend 'Supersize Me' as a bit of healthcare for you?

I was 6' tall. AFTER eating In-&-Out nearly every day.

Thanks for your concern over my well-being though. I'll make a note of it.

In the Huffington Post article:



Dunno, maybe those burgers affected your eyesight. You say you didn't notice the bible references either? :D

I drink a lot and have developed a vile temper the last few years.

You ate the same shit every day for four years and never noticed the packaging? You should pay more attention to what you eat. As best I recall (it has been almost a decade since I've been to CA) the burgers come in a little paper ... sack, I guess you might call it. I seem to remember it being red and white... or was it red and yellow... I'm not positive. No pictures on it of christ or a Cross that I remember but always a nice little bible reference. Like chick-fil-a (which IMHO is a much better place) it tends to attract the fundies as loyal customers.

The article as well as the title of the OP do in fact mention miles.

Now, if you want real fresh and all local, you should try Kwepies (where Dave Thomas got his start) but... Then you would have to go to Lima, OH.

is a fundy joint now?

Whatever helps you feel morally superior I guess.

They're probably racist too.

I wouldn't have known that if they didn't say so on the Wiki page......I'd give an arm and a leg to taste an In-and-Out burger and I really don't care about the biblical sayings.

Good one! Boogers for jeebus!

It's not like the place won't be there six months from now. No-o-o-o, people gotta be there FIRST!!!1! as if they'll attain some sort of prestige for getting there while the craze is still in play :eyes:

So you run out of gas while waiting... funny math.

I liked their shakes though but not their little jesus lines under the cup.

I think I know everything now there is to know about living in Dallas, Texas. Good Gawd.

there is so much more you don't want to know about. LOL

'Years to come'..... boy what a life.

and was X rated and free........ Now I'd wait 3 hours for that.

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I am from California and don't get the hype. I used to like their burgers, but now I feel sick after eating there so I don't.

Best fast food burger. Ever.

Seriously.

He likes the shakes and fries better at In and out.
I never had a 5 man burger its an east coast thing.

I still wouldn't wait 3 hours for a burger and run out of gas.

Too bad they are only in Barbados.

McDonalds tried to get established in Barbados. They failed.
Chefette is the reason why. Much better than McD's or In&Out or any of the other chains we have.

They've got good burgers, but it's really about the rotis. Curried wonderful in a wrap.

Amazing...we were having a cocktail on the beach at a British ex-Pat bar on Koh Tao (no Americans on the islands...only ran into two Americans in two weeks). The Brit bartender had just returned with is lunch, some awesome-looking spicy noodle soup...and a back of McDonald's french fries. Using chopsticks, he'd dunk a big portion of the fries into the noodle soup. Probably assuming that everyone at the bar was also a Brit or other European tourist (or knowing that there was a Yank at his bar), he loudly proclaimed "The only good thing the Americans ever did was bring McDonald's to Thailand!" Wow...that's the good thing? The rest of the world really does hate us!

Now I know what I'm having for lunch.

...Cambridge, MN, pop. 5,500. The local cops had a couple of officers and some sawhorses out.

No big deal.

My youngest daughter works at a Sonic. We have two here in my small town of 15k people. Sonic has been here since 1967. I know because I wanted a job there, but I was only 13. They have a decent burger, but not great.

The only way I get a decent burger these days is make it myself. I use hickory in my grill, and I am spoiled to hickory smoked burgers. I can't have one very often......cholesterol, but I'm not giving up my burgers altogether.

and I like the way you can park in the parking lot and place your order and have someone on roller skates bring out your food.

:smoke:

I'm glad I'm a vegetarian. I seriously doubt I'll ever have to stand in a huge line (in the US anyway) for what I consider the greatest comfort food in the world: falafel! :9

A lot of those stores are now closed. Fads are a uniquely American tradition; most of the people in that line couldn't care less about the little bible references on the wrappers, or even the quality of the food---they are there because "everyone else is doing it".

plus, I guess people think an idling car uses no gas?

Double Dumb Asses.

Wait a week, sheesh. Asses.

While fast food as we know it may have originated in the US, it's a (growing) global phenomenon now. I've met quite a few non-Americans who are all about McDonald's in particular.

Kind of a big deal.

People have waited longer for dumber things.

Really...waiting in line for an iPhone. Dumb. Waiting in line for an XBOX or PS3, dumb. Waiting in line for a Beannie Baby, WAY dumb...but THREE HOURS for a freakin' hamburger from a store that will still be selling hamburgers tomorrow and six months from now? Off the Dumb-O-Meter, imho.

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and many of these people going nuts are CALIFORNIA transplants. At least to them, these burgers are the greatest things in the world. I'm native born, and I don't understand this either. It's our transplants (right now, anyway) who are going nuts over this.

They have been coming for years. Ten years ago or so you used to see significant numbers of CA plates all over town. (DFW) I am with you.... native and I do not get it. Then again, I don't like fast food burgers generally- I like to be able to request a specific meat temp on my burgers. Well done doesn't do it for me. :)

with its associations with my growing up. So if I was a transplant I'd be excited - not '3-hour-line' excited, but excited. If I was just visiting Texas, I'd skip the line and go to Whataburger...

Several years ago we drove to Florida with the kids. I saw that first Krystal sign in Georgia and practically veered off the road. The kids had to try these awesome burgers!

They were just as I remembered them...kinda slimy, too much mustard, steamed...AWESOME! Made me feel like I had just left a bar at 2 in the morning! But the awesomeness was more about the memories and the uniqueness, not about the "quality" of the food.

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it's only cool to rip on Texans.

If people from the golden state are in to it then it's cool, nuanced, and sophisticated.

it's up to that individual.

Is spending time waiting in line with your friends for a few hours so you can be present on the opening day for something worthwhile?

Maybe, maybe not.

But what about the thousands of people in the area who didn't go, but instead sat at home and watched TV for that same period of time? Was that a good way to spend their time?

It's not like it was a choice between doing this or learning astro-physics or feeding starving children.

Chances are they would have spent the time (or wasted it, if you prefer) doing something else that someone, somewhere would have deemed pointless.

Maybe they could have gone to see the nth fast and furious movie.

My Jesus would wonder why using His name to promote unhealthy food is necessary.

When I worked in Dallas, I would have starved without the nearby Whataburger. Memories, memories...

and ate at the very first Whataburger ever growing upm, I'll call it for Whata, but InO is not a disappointment.

I've had both, and I preferred In 'n Out. That could be cultural preference being a native Californian, but I (and reviewers I've read agree) that In n Out's meat is a bit more flavorful.

The Whataburger was pretty damned good though :)

Oh, it's Texas. :hide: :D

A lot of CALIFORNIA transplants who miss their In and Out. It's Texas, alright, full of people from all parts of the country.

Thanks for playing :D

I kid, because I love. ;)

Plus, you took it as "dumb Texans" but it could have been "everything's bigger in Texas" which Texans love. So, whatever floats your boat.

I don't know many Texans (myself included) that still use "everything's bigger in Texas". So, while you might have been given a pass using that one, your post is still region-bashing, no matter the use of "snark".

(I'm barely surviving a bout with allergies at the moment, so if your op was truly in jest, you're forgiven, this time :))

Its no ordinary burger!!!!!

Nastiest burger in town.

Blech.

I've eaten one in my life - meh. I don't get the hype.

Well, to be honest I did pretty much the same thing in the spring of '77 when I was eleven and Star Wars opened. Probably spent the better part of most Saturdays for a two months standing in line waiting to see it (again and again and again...).


So I can't really get worked up about some benign burger patrons. (and in the interest of full disclosure, I'm waiting about another week before I go to the Frisco In-N-Out franchise as I've never had one and have do love to try new burgers...)

Still have the program. Yes, they were actually handing out full-color magazine-style programs at the early shows, and yes, I kept mine. It's pretty cool. I saw it twice the first day, then rounded up my friends and saw it another five or six time during the week. But I never waited in line for three hours for a hamburger!

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I imagine it's six of one, half a dozen of the other depending on the person... :shrug:

I really can't see you, after such an admission, denigrating anyone who would wait in line for a burger.

For what it's worth, I still have the original program from Apocalypse Now that was handed out before its opening because the original version had no credits.

I expressed amazement, and perhaps I'm a bit baffled about what could cause an adult to burst into uncontrollable sobbing because of her hamburger, but as you stated, I admit to paying to watch Star Wars seven times in one week. I also have seen Apocalypse Now more times than I can count, and have every version of it from useless VHS to DVD of "...Redux." No Blu-Ray yet, but that's coming.

Anyway, I can actually rationalize the difference; In And Out is not "new." They've been around, they'll be there tomorrow, they'll be there next week when the lines are shorter. As so many here have pointed out, most of these sobbing In And Out Worshippers are transplants from CA who fondly remember their favorite burger. In contrast, Star Wars was totally new. Nothing like it had been seen on film at the time. Cover stories on every major magazine, a theatrical experience unlike anything anyone had seen at that time. I didn't sob and wait in line for days when Star Wars was released on VHS or DVD, the way people are about burgers they already are familiar with. There is just something very bizarre about this behavior, imho. Sure, you may think watching a movie seven times in a week is bizarre...but I never camped out for it, never waited in three hour lines for it, and I certainly never broke into hysterical crying fits over it.

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I'll agree that the people who waited in line are likely CA transplants, and if not that, people who have been to CA and had the burgers.

For some reason, the Star Wars craze didn't affect me, even though I was 16 when it came out. Maybe because it came out two weeks after I got my first car, and a week after that I found out what marijuana was, who's to say?

I too have seen every version of AN and can repeat almost the whole script verbatim when it's on.

^5 to you Atman.

especially opening day :headbang:

Freshness you can WATCH.

They used to be tiny little places with two drive-thru lanes and a small building in the middle where they made your burgers. Fantastic place IMO.

Video on NBC showed a car driving down the road next to the waiting line...an endless line of cars. It was reported to be three miles long.

Stupidity you can watch.

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But if I am every near one, you can be sure I will roll on in for an Animal Style Double-Double (no tomatoes) and an Animal fries.

For those wondering about the people practically crying because they could eat from there - I sympathize. After Katrina, we didn't have a Taco Bell for 8 months because they were all destroyed. When it finally reopened, it was greeted with the same enthusiasm as eating from a 5-star restaurant.

I think we ate from Taco Bell every other day for about 2 weeks just in sheer happiness that it was there again!

:hi:

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on my dorm floor, back in the day. :rofl:

But I'd happily stand in line if somebody opened a "Big Boy" restaurant around here.

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It's the fresh--and they are FRESH--ingredients that make it. When they opened one a few blocks from me. I waited an hour the first day--and they treat and pay their employees very well and are always sparkling (and I do mean sparkling) clean.

In-N-Out, priced reasonably.

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Let me guess, these crazy people ran their engines the whole three hours.

id be hard pressed to wait ANYWHERE for 3 hours, let alone for a hamburger

up and up it goes *puff*puff* pumped out of the ground to burn right on up into the air, just so people can spend hours waiting for a hamburger :banghead:

"would never" but "have never" and think anyone who does is inbred trailer park trash.

Some serious self-righteousness here on this thread. A perfect microcosm of what DU is. Average people who do average things, and "intellectual elites" who "would never" or "have never".

Oh, wait...maybe I have. But it's only because I'm better than everyone else.

:hi:


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I'll share my Five Guys fries with you. There's plenty, and we don't have an In-and-Out in Washington State.

>Average people who do average things, and "intellectual elites" who "would never" or "have never".<

I like plenty of stuff the intellectual elites stick their noses in the air at. I also like plenty of people they won't deign to talk to, too.

Life's better that way.

:thumbsup:

It is just a burger.

Then again, I don't care what they do..whatever floats their boat, but its not for me.

I don't eat fast food anymore and I have issues with the way it is produced and marketed. But I don't have issues with people who choose to consume it. The odd part is that many of the naysayers here are arguing this is evidence of American stupidity, despite the fact that fast food is very popular in many places outside of the US.

You think William Kristol eats In and Out Burgers? The Koch Brothers? William F. Buckley? Conservatives are the REAL elitists.

That whole "intellectual elitism" shit is just a bunch of bullshit some right-wing think tank dreamed up to siphon Southern and rural voters away from the Democratic Party that was trying to help them, and whom those same voters once supported consistently. By accusing us of that elitism, you're buying into their narrative.

You seriously don't think that's intellectual elitism? It would be a lot easier to beat the right-wing meme to death if so damn many progressive purists didn't feel the constant need to remind "Southern and rural voters" how much better they are, all the time. Seriously, who CARES that some people waited in line for a burger? That makes them stupid sheep to be mocked? Really?

He didn't accuse "us" of elitism. Most liberals I know couldn't give a hoot less about judging other people for cultural or lifestyle choices like watching NASCAR or eating fast food burgers. But there's obviously a minority crowd who can't resist pointing out how intellectually inferior the vast unwashed masses of America are, and they are the ones making "us" look bad and validating the stupid RW narrative. I'm all in favor of liberals calling out the purer-than-thou crowd on their crap, because they DON'T speak for "us."

No, I don't think it's 'intellectual elitism' to say it's stupid to queue for 3 hours for a slightly better burger than you had somewhere else, and that will be served for the indefinite future at the same place. I eat burgers, but I'd never queue for 3 hours for one unless it was the only food available within 3 hours travelling.

Let's be clear: 'the masses' do not queue 3 hours for burgers. That is unusual behaviour. That's why this is a news story. It's not 'intellectual' to suggest people have better things to do with their life than queue 3 hours for lunch.

Haters. Cant live with 'em. :eyes:

I live down the highway from there...the Dallas Morning News wrote how one guy was there since MONDAY outside the place, another lady was crying as she ate her burger, others waited for 14 hours..it went on and on.
Given these people's reaction and wait time, you would think we are down here living in the middle of a third world country famine.
After reading the nonsense, I strolled on down the sidewalk to my local pub and ordered a veggie burger/fries and a slice of cheesecake. Time spent from order to last bite = 45 minutes.

The local hype and reaction to "new/first locations here" is not new to us. Back when the first Krispy Kreme opened here people did the same thing. Local media and mom/pop donut places were in horror, we spent weeks reading how all the locally owned shops were going to go out of business since EVERY person wanting a donut would shun mom/pops and go to Krispy Kreme.

Lo and behold, locally owned shops are still thriving and I think the last time I drove by the location where KK was, it was an abandoned building.

in your digestive tract, right? :P

to get the damn things!!

btw - I just got tix to go see Eddie Izzard in July. Can't wait!! :)

Let us know how it was. I'd love to see him, but other than this year's Art Car Parade, I don't tend to keep up with local or visiting events. The parade should be fun, though. Haven't been in many years :)

I mean really people, the place is going to be open tomorrow and probably a few more days after that do you really need to be there the first day for a chunk of cow.

While I admire and occasionally partake of In-N-Out's freshness, a three hour wait is a bit long even at lunch hour at the In-N-Out.
But a three hour wait so one can say they were at the "event", I can see folks doing that.

Fun times. Like waiting in line for the Empire Strikes Back, way back.

except perhaps the emergency room if I have a broken bone or something.

days, I would not wait in line for 3 hours even if they were serving filet mignon burgers.

community. There wasn't a three mile line because we don't have the population, but there was a long, long line there every day for more than a month. However, the staff got through the line quickly and dished up the burgers almost as fast. The lines have shortened but the place is still busy all the time.

Incidentally, they are the only fast food burgers that I will eat. Also, they pay $10 and hour starting wages. When they opened they had something like 2,000 job applications. Goes to show how much unemployment there is.

Well, not a 3 mile long line. That would've been everyone in the town and surrounding area. I went a few weeks later expecting some miraculous burger sent directly from heaven. It sucked. Yes, I am a cheeseburger snob and freely admit it. In-and-Out really just blows.

Besides the sucknessicity of the food, the people that worked there gave me the friggin CREEPS! They were the sons and daughters of the Stepford Wives. When they're brainwashing these kids to work at their church...er...burger joint, they should really remember to teach them to blink and that a friendly smile is just as effective in promoting good customer service as the vampiric, ear-to-ear, toothy grin that they all have plastered on their faces. Also, too, and...when I ask for no mustard or other crap, doing a backflip and giving me a hug frightens me. Okay. The last bit was an exaggeration, but not too far off.

Stuff is awesome.

http://www.25gourmetburgers.com/

But I wouldn't wait that long for anything, well anything that I can think of right now anyway.

Best reply on thread!

Maybe if I tried In-n-Out from another location, I'd rave about it. Who knows.

i.e. a certain distance from their ranches in CA's Central Valley, beyond which they couldn't deliver the beef fresh. What gives? :shrug:

the building for the grand opening of an Ikea store.

And, while there's not a hell of a lot to do around there, I still don't understand the reaction.

Allen and Frisco...
I live next door in Plano and there have been a number of businesses that have left here to go to those 2 cities, especially Allen. Even my 20 yr old daughter who grew up here in Plano and has lots of friends in Allen commented how many hang outs and businesses have shifted their locations north to Allen.
When the mega-mall Stonebriar first opened, it was was a city against city blood bath between Plano and Frisco over which side of the highway that the mall would be built on. The south side of 121 would of meant it went to Plano, north side meant Frisco. They both wanted the mall revenue really, really badly! Frisco won out in the end.

So it's not surprising that In-and-Out picked Frisco and Allen for their first local stores. Those cities are what Plano USED to be, say, 10 years ago, business-building wise.

I think it probably helped that (if I were to guess) this are probably has the most transplanted Californians because of all the high tech companies in Collin County. I'm sure In-and-Out did their consumer research before investing time and money here. Given the lines of people and cars, they picked the right area and it has payed off (for now, anyway).

Just gross. Never tried their burgers.

i like it animal style

They use a REAL, whole spud, cut it right there and drop it into the fryer. Thats what REAL french fries taste like.

They overcook them.

I like 'em.

lol they should make a movie like that based on this event :)

probably not drive through though.

They're really fucking good burgers.

I do sometimes get the 'grilled cheese' which is a cheeseburger without the burger.

"I don't always eat beef, but when I do, it's in-and-out"

Seriously, I've been out of the loop. Is she the reason everyone wants an In-N-Out Burger?