Posted on 12/18/2009 7:35:24 AM PST by SoonerStorm09
FORT WORTH -- Good riddance?
We can’t recall the last time a company promoted the end of a product.
Did Ford extol the Edsel? Coke the New Coke?
Yet we have Whataburger buying little ads, setting up toll-free hot lines and Web sites, then paying PR people to call attention to the withdrawal of what is easily the Corpus Christi-based chain’s unhealthiest menu item: The A1 Thick and Hearty Burger.
The burger has lost its pizzazz, said a PR person with SPM Communications of Dallas, who is not authorized to be quoted by name,
Wednesday night, a North Texas hairstylist named Heather was scheduled to mount a "support group" gathering at an Irving Whataburger to mark the Dec. 21 disappearance of the 1,050-calorie, half-pound hamburger that packs 62 grams of fat, according to the chain’s Web site.
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I love that pic. Dude looks like a kid on Christmas morning.
If you're ever up Round Rock way, I highly recommend Little Red Wagon burgers.....
I'd like to, the next time I'm down that way... But, I'm sorry, I just couldn't take my eyes off that crooked telephone pole. I kept thinking, "They oughta fix that!"... LOL...
But, then I noticed that it appears to be an artifact of the picture or camera that took it, since other things are crooked at that level.
I guess I wouldn't be distracted "in real life" if I were there... :-)
Sure - where is Round Rock?
I had to look it up, many years ago, when I had a software developer from the area (a software package that I bought). The Macintosh users will even probably know what software it is, too... :-)
I see someone else already told you it was in Texas...
You'd eat it carefully -- it was scalding hot, and handed to you with a proper fold to the slice, on a stack of wax paper and napkin -- you'd take it carefully, and hold it carefully, and take the tiniest nibbles off the end until it cooled down a bit. If you were NOT careful, it'd peel the skin off your leg right through your pants after the molten bubbling cheese and sauce slid off the crust (thin, crisp on the bottom soft on the top, with BIG crust-edge filled with huge air bubbles).
You've just described Arinell's Pizza in Berkeley, California. Look it up next time you're in town.
Pizza!!!....Now we’re Talking!!!I worked for 10 years (and now own) a restaurant/bar/pub.
Once I learned to make my OWN dough, toss it(NOT ROLL IT- EVER) and apply my own toppings( personal favorite- virgin olive oil,provolone,garlic,basil) you would not catch me buying store bought, Pizza Hut or ANY take out pizza brand EVER!!!!
However, if I’m home in Syracuse, I will grab a slice from some of my favorite local joints.
White Castle—I would road trip up to 400 miles one way just for a sack!!!
And if I have read their web page correctly, one will soon open in Dallas about 190 miles from me.....I’m counting the days!!!
My fantasy job would be to own a restaurant. (I've owned retail "brick and mortar" stores, photo studios, and wholesale companies, but always wished I had a restaurant.)
Now I'm old, and in rotten health -- and surrounded by places that make me glad it's possible to eat at home. Between the lack of basic sanitation (the "dirty secret" of many places in this region), lousy food, and overly solicitous "service" ("Are you done with that, SIR?" "How is everything, SIR?" "Can I get you anything, SIR?" -- if I want to subject myself to a close order drill, I'll lie about my age :) and volunteer for the National Guard), it's just not worth the bother (not to mention the expense).
Pizza was enjoyed PURE -- crust, sauce, cheese... with a wee bit of oregano sprinkled on it, and every now and then some crushed red pepper.You'd eat it carefully -- it was scalding hot, and handed to you with a proper fold to the slice, on a stack of wax paper and napkin -- you'd take it carefully, and hold it carefully, and take the tiniest nibbles off the end until it cooled down a bit. If you were NOT careful, it'd peel the skin off your leg right through your pants after the molten bubbling cheese and sauce slid off the crust (thin, crisp on the bottom soft on the top, with BIG crust-edge filled with huge air bubbles).
You've just described Arinell's Pizza in Berkeley, California. Look it up next time you're in town.
If only...
Sadly, my "health" (to use the term loosely) as I enter my seventh decade, is sufficiently lousy as to preclude any nontrivial travel. I rarely leave the house unless it's to go to a doctor or hospital anymore. I hate it.
bar none the tastiest burger in America is the Bill Thomas Haloburger, served at a handful of franchised locations in and around Flint, Michigan.(hurry and try one, before Michigan achieves complete economic collapse)
I've lived in this [insert expletive] state for better than half my life, but never managed to consume a Haloburger (although I do recall seeing advertising for them).
However, I think perhaps the all-time best "traditional" (i.e., non-"slider") fast-food hamburger I ever ate was found at a place that was darn close to a "This Stop is Willoughby" event for me (short of the staying forever and dying there part).
I was driving cross-state, from the Ludington area, headed east, fairly late, and found that I was getting to feel starved as I approached Reed City.
I turned right on the main drag, and asked the first person I found where I could get something to eat. He told me to go down the road a bit and there would be a burger joint, the name of which I can no longer recall. I seem to remember him telling me they served a really good hamburger.
When I found the place, I was a bit apprehensive. It was one of those small drive-in places, sort of like a small Dairy Queen -- the kind of place that often closes for the winter.
But, starvation won out, and I walked up to the window and placed my order, then returned to my car and proceeded to eat the most tasty, juicy, delicious hamburger I can ever recall eating.
I was never able to find that place again.
I don't know if they folded shortly after my visit (for the life of me I cannot understand HOW a place with burgers like that COULD go out of business), or maybe relocated (I had a similar adventure finding a marzipan factory in Ludington about 30 years after my first gustatory adventure there -- turns out they'd moved a couple of times but were still in business, still on a side street, but a different side street, and between my not remembering the name, and no one giving decent directions, it took more than one trip downtown to find it again).
Ah, food...
Now I'm hungry.
Ah, the “other” Whataburger. Is that near Concord? I’ve heard the two “chains” were involved in a lawsuit about 20 years ago, and that is one reason the Texas Whataburger hasn’t expanded any farther North/East.
I forgot to post my favorites, in order:
In-N-Out
Five Guys
Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr.
Whataburger
Freddy’s Frozen Custard
Sonic
Wendy’s
Rally/Checkers
Steak & Shake
Burger King
Jack-in-the-Box
McDonald’s
Special props go out to high-end joints like Fuddruckers, but I’d still rather have any of the Top 3 for the price.
In a few months, there will be a Smashburger and Carl’s Jr. to join the existing Sonic, Whataburger, and Freddy’s FC within walking distance of my house. I am so dead...
I'd rather have one from Cook Out though. That's a local, privately owned chain, almost exclusively drive through, although they've been putting in small dining rooms of late. Very good, the scent alone pulls traffic in off the highway. A little trivia, the chain is owned by Junior Samples' daughter. Remember him, lol?
I’ve got friends here in NC, who formerly lived in California, and they wax poetic about Fatburger. Don’t know much about it, but apparently it was/is popular with some fairly famous musicians and actors, too.
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