Five Guys vs In N Out

[Imran Siddiqui]

Another way that Oerdin is a hipster!

[regexcellent]

More often they have quite a bit of their parents' money. Most of the hipsters I know are getting BFA degrees.

[-Jrabbit]

Personally, for milkshakes + burgers, my favorite place is Steak n Shake.

Agreed. SnS is awesome, though their use of glassware and having actual table service might shock some people.

I've never been to Shake Shack, so will give that a try next time I'm in NY.

[Zoetstofzoetje]

I had a burger at the Five Guys in Orlando the other week. It was ok, I like Peggy Sue´s burgers from Madrid better.

[Hauldren Collider]

Agreed. SnS is awesome, though their use of glassware and having actual table service might shock some people.

I've never been to Shake Shack, so will give that a try next time I'm in NY.

The biggest problem with Steak n Shake is that they only have one location in Virginia and it's over an hour away from where I live

[MRT144]

I had a burger at the Five Guys in Orlando the other week. It was ok, I like Peggy Sue´s burgers from Madrid better.

GTFO, good god.

[Dinner]

I went to Umami Burger in Anaheim yesterday and it was ~$15 for a custom made burger with lots of innovative toppings, fries, and a mixed drink. The burgers are every way excellent, with a fresh custom house grind of ground beef which they will cook to order, fresh house made bun and just about everything a burger lover could ask for. I got mine medium rare and the organic grass fed beef tasted perfect served on the rare side. That's only $2-$3 more than Five Guys even with a mixed drink so once again we're back to why would anyone bother to go to five guys unless they really had no other choice?

http://www.umami.com/umami-burger/

My favorite is the Manly Burger (beer-cheddar cheese, smoked salt-onion strings, bacon lardons) and the lamb burger (lamb, minted edamame hummus, Valbreso feta cheese, sliced cucumber, and pickled shallots). Next time I'm going to try the Baja Burger with tempura fried cod, crushed avacado, cabbage slaw, fire-roasted salsa, chipotle lime aioli.

[regexcellent]

ahaha organic

lol

The difference between "organic" and "inorganic" meat is price.

[Dinner]

Not entirely. The main difference is lack of hormones and encouraging a different model of agriculture. I.E. exactly the type of choice individual consumers get to make in a free market. Also the meat is ground in house from brisket with some chuck roast in it for extra fat; the higher quality and grinding it in house is why they can offer it rare to customers without food poisoning worries. Did you notice that the price wasn't all that different? Granted I went there during a promotion but still it was very cost competitive.

[Dinner]

Not to mention the effects things like pesticides have on beneficial insects like honey bees or how spray on fertilizers produce so much more farm run off creating ocean dead zones. There are a lot of external effects which organic does help to mitigate.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Organic foods. Allowing the market to liberate cash from the hipster douchebags.

Far better than regulating the changes.

[Dinner]

So now eating good food and caring for the effects the food we eat have on the environment is a hipster thing?

Are there any negative things you don't claim are associated with hipsters? BTW the whole foods movement started with hippies not hipsters, you dunce. It's also been a pretty mainstream concern for the last two decades at least in the non-impoverished, non-backwards parts of the country.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

I don't know why you are so upset. I stated plainly that I am for organic foods as a market alternative. If people wish to buy into the hype so be it. Just don't regulate or otherwise subsidize away the more traditional cost effective alternatives.

[regexcellent]

Yes, caring about the environment in your food choices (or moreover believing your food choices actually affect the environment in a meaningful way) is a hipster phenomenon.

[snoopy369]

I think that's a false dichotomy, reg. I pay a bit more for certain organic foods as some of the pesticides do actually have health effects; for certain foods where you're more likely to ingest the pesticides (apples, for example) it's an entirely self-centered act to buy organic food. Beef I don't care about organic, but I do prefer grass fed for certain things (ground beef, for example); it tastes better and is better for you.

But, as Ogie points out, I think it's entirely reasonable to handle it in the marketplace - I am willing to pay a bit more for more healthy outcomes, and others aren't; as long as it's a matter of potential health hazards and not clear and present dangers, I think that is the right answer. If clear health dangers exist, I have no problem with regulation.