There Better Be Some Actual In & Out To Wait In This Line

And, yes, I would recommend everyone head over to Chick-fa-la as well.

Slouching Towards Idiocracy

Don’t get me wrong, I like me an In-N-Out burger – double meat, protein style please.  But it’s never going to be better than Whataburger and it’s never going to be something to cry about.

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Spring Break Havasu: The Quasi Live Blog [Day 1]

For reasons that are known to almost no one, the IT department of National Motor Club is heading to Lake Havasu to visit the our call center. Luckily this is the beginning of spring break and I have brought along a duffle bag full of Girls With Low Self Esteem trucker hats so as to entice a comely coed back to the room for a quick shower.

Pre-board	It always amazes me the number of people up and commuting at 5:45 am.  Seriously, how do you people do it every day?  I guess I didn’t mention my flight was at 7:30am.  Good times. That sure is a long line at “Express” Check In. Why is it that everyone in front of me at ticket counters or car rental counters take forever to process their business and when I get there it takes maybe a minute?? Can we have a Retard Line and a NonRetard line? Center seat.  Awesome!!! Oh yeah, that’s why I haven’t had a Bacon, Egg and Cheese Croisandwich in almost a decade. The hot chick in the almost see through white pants is greatly offset by the heavy-set braless chick in the aquamarine baby doll.
The Flight	No one in the aisle seat of my row.  Zoink!! Great Success!!! Oh, good Christ, Omar Little is three rows in front of me.  God help us all if the plane is out of Honey Nut, yo. I can certainly understand taking pictures of the Grand Canyon from 35,000 feet.  But, hey asshat, did you really think the flash was going to fill in the dark shadows of the canyon?
Havasu	So this is what Garland would be like if it were a major tourist destination. Can it get any better than eating an In-n-Out burger in the shadow of the London Bridge? There’s a church in Havasu that seems to continually protest abortion.  But really, do you want the people of Havasu to reproduce?  This place is ground zero of the growing Idiocracy. Anyone who has spent two seconds on this blog will realize that I like to eat and I like to eat good food.  So there was a bit of disappointment when it was decided that we were going to dine at Shogun, a Benihana knockoff. They must not sell much unfiltered sake here.  All of the unfiltered solids were caked at the bottom and the bottle had to be shaken vigorously to release their heady goodness. The chef challenged our table to a sake bomb race.  I couldn’t pass that up.  That SOB was done before I even go the glass to my lips. To my great surprise, the food was very good.  I am not a fan of Benihana and would usually power down when we would go for lunch during my Nortel days.  I had the filet and scallops and both were very good.  B+.

My Heart Is In Your Hands

Should I try this while I'm out here?



The Where-Is-Your-God-Now? Burger from MAKE MOVIES on Vimeo.

I would, of course, go with the Double Meat instead of the Double Double.

Working In SoCal: Day 3

Another 12 hour day.

So there wasn't much to grab an In-n-Out burger (I may have a problem), had back to the hotel and watch history being made

This isn't a political blog. For that, go to Daily Kos or Little Green Footballs.

So, instead, i'm going to rant on about the greatness of In-n-Out. And I'm not talking about their food. But this place is what all fast food restaurants should strive to be.

1) Instead of trying to do 100 things halfassedly (see Jack in the Box) In-n-Out does literally a handful of things well -- burgers, fries, shakes, sodas, that's it.
2) They know how their food is eaten. In the drive thru, they always ask if you'll be eating in the car. If you are, you get a box instead of a bag and you get a place mat for your car seat. This is exquisite attention to customer needs.
3) Enthusiastic employees. Like Southwest airlines versus American Airlines, when you have a great product that you're proud of and not just a business, that enthusiasm trickles down to the lowest level employees.
4) Cleanliness. This is what I noticed about this place tonight. While in the drive-thru line, you can see the brightly lit, very clean kitchen. Nothing is hidden from the customer. And the truly amazing part of the preperation is that the cook has a stack of disposable gloves in front of her. So that each times she needs to touch food, on come the gloves. When she touches anything else, off come the gloves. Does any other fastfood place do this?? Does any other restaurant do this??

Oh, and it's cool Obama won. Can we go back to our lives of watching our 401(k)s evaporate now?

Working In SoCal: Day 2

Working 12 hour days leaves not much time for anything, including eating. So after work today I strove to have a well balance dinner of locally grown organic fruit and In-N-Out burger. It was delicious.

The Whole Foods here is fantastic. It has far more prepared food than even the one on Preston and Forest. There was a station for Chinese/Thai and Indian, one for seafood as well as stations for your typical prepared foods. Here's hoping the Lakewood Whole Foods gets some of this.

As for the In-N-Out, I may have to rate this a bit high than I did last year. I had to drive a frustrating 10 minutes after getting my burger. I was so hungry and it smelled so good.

And while I'm not a fan of southern California, it is nice to look out the window where we're working and see palm trees and mountains. It's very comforting.

Eating California: In-N-Out Burger

In-N-Out burger is a veritable institution in California. Its reputation as the best fast food burger in California traveled to Dallas through numerous Cowboy Training camp visits from The Ticket guys. Trips to the In-N-Out were usually the denouement of any late night drunken Corby story. So the second I crossed the border and saw my first In-N-Out, I headed right to the drive-thru.

The menu of In-N-Out is very simple – Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Double Double. You then tell them if you want it with onions and if you want fries or a drink. No Chipotle Guacamole Angus on Chibatta here. So, I ordered a Double Double with onions but no cheese. I later checked the website and it said I should have order just a Double Meat. Next time I guess.

The burger was very good. It is very reminiscent of a Whataburger. It has that same flavor, only maybe a little juicier. The fries were generic fast food fries.

While I think it did live up to its reputation, I don't think it is overall as good as Whataburger since I could not put bacon or jalapenos on it.

B+

Multiple locations in California, Arizona and Nevada