Day Eleven

Monday was pretty boring overall; yay raid days. The one thing I did get done was to hit up the In-N-Out Burger out in Sunnyvale; I knew where it was and I knew there were crosswalks, LoL. It was just as good as I remembered and, seeing as it took me an hour to get there and an hour to get back home, I had some burgers made to go as well so I'd have dinner.

Otherwise it was just another boring night of doing nothing as I sat the bench.

Reviews
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In-N-Out Burger
American
$

These guys seriously put any other fast food burger joint to shame. Their menu is mind-numbingly simple: hamburger, cheeseburger, double-double (double cheeseburger), fries, shakes, and pop. That's it! Of course, there's the 'secret menu' which is actually nothing more than popular choices with fun names (like 'animal-style').

What makes them so special? Their meat is fresh, their fries are fresh (I watched one young lady decimate about 20lbs. of freshly peeled potatoes), everything is made to order, and their staff are extremely friendly. The taste is off the charts and the prices are phenomenal for what you get.

My order was a double-double, no salt, with only ketchup, mustard, and pickles. I also had fries well-done and a fountain pop. 'No salt' keeps them from seasoning the burger before grilling; with pickles it is *extremely* salty. Even without the salt, the pickles are really salty and they put them on the heel rather than the crown--be sure to flip your burger if you want to taste something other than pickles. Well-done fries are dropped twice, making them extra crispy. It's also a good way to get a slightly larger order since you're probably the only one that will eat them and they give you whatever is in the basket.

Mm, it was great. I grabbed two cheeseburgers plain to take home with me for dinner and man were they yummy.

These guys are pretty much considered a California institution but they have locations throughout four southwestern states. I wonder what it would take to bring them up to Portland.

Also something that people may not notice at first, there are Bible verses on a lot of the food wrappers. My burger wrap had Nahum 1:7 and my drink cup had John 3:16. My understanding is that the owners of the chain are Christians; quite sneaky of them. ^_~