Culver’s burgers are on par with Frisch’s (Big Boy) or Steak’N’Shake, but those frozen custard concretes…good lord. A chocolate concrete with Reese’s Cup mixer is like ambrosia on a warm Saturday afternoon. On the other hand, nobody beats Ted Drewes for frozen custard. Sadly only St. Louis natives can partake. My daughter’s soccer team has had a travel tournament in St. Louis for three years running now, and the highlight of the trip for everyone is always the stop at Ted Drewes.
I do love me a Five Guys burger with BBQ sauce. It’s like a backyard grill burger.
We have a new chicken chain that just moved to our area, Raising Cane’s? People have been raving about it, and I love a good chicken sandwich or chicken fingers platter…maybe this weekend I need to check it out.
I think it’s in the “Things that Aren’t Really Food” thread, but there’s some lengthy discussion of Canes. And by that, I mean there’s multiple times when I jump into the thread, screaming praises of RC’s glory.
When I was a camp counselor, one of the kids in my group was from STL. All camp long, he bragged about how good Ted Drewes was and said that his dad would send him some packed in dry ice before the end of camp, and that he’d share it with anyone who was nice to him (the kid was a little bit of a shit, and by “little bit of,” I mean “complete”).
Well, pickup day came, and the frozen custard never did. To think, I even went out of my way to be nice to the kid. . . lying little bastard! :)
Tragically, I was born without one. Any “jokes” you’ve seen me make were entirely accidental, and actually, laughing at them is more or less just mocking my disability. You pack of bastards.
The Sonic closest to me (not really close, but along one of my frequent weekend road trip routes) just closed. :(
Their burgers are nothing, but I’ll miss the tots and limeades.
Speaking of DQ, it’s pumpkin season, so their pumpkin pie blizzards are back. I’m pretty sure they literally dump a can of pumpkin pie filling in to a vanilla Blizzard (with cookie “crust” pieces blended in), and it’s great.
There’s some season where they do a similar thing with a banana cream pie Blizzard. That’s also great.
A local I wish we had here in Michigan. I grew up in Oklahoma, and Braum’s down there is awesome for dairy products, and their burgers aren’t bad either.
And mmmmm, Sonic tater tots! They make a killer sour cherry limeade too, but you usually have to explain to them how to make it.
I play in a charity golf tournament at a local country club every year. Part of the deal is we get to order lunch at the turn. I always order the grilled, split large hot dog on the grilled bun. Best damn hot dog I have ever had. Perfect with a nice cold adult beverage on a day that normally hit somewhere north of 100 degrees.
Up here in Northern Virginia, we are apparently just on the cusp of Sonic territory. My daughter is constantly exasperated by the fact that we always see commercials for Sonic but the closest one is about an hour and a half away.
Being half way between LA and SF we get ads for places that aren’t here. My youngest daughter is dying to visit a “Crab Shack”. We don’t have one here but we get their ads all the time.
Every time I get back into racing games and take video, I forget that MP3 audio compression is terrible at handling simulated engine noise. The compression artifacts are killing me… and I got rid of the uncompressed source before I remembered.
