In The Shadow of Mount Doom: Steel Closet @ Five Guys Burger
I am a man of my word. After runnin’ my mouth on a previous episode of The Steel Closet, I decided to back it up by heading to Five Guys during a visit to L.A. a few weeks ago. My brother, Latarian Milton, accompanied me as we set out to see what all the hype was about, to see if this Five Guys burger was worth the one-hour drive from Northridge to Carson.
Did I defect from the house that Animal Style built? Did I shame West Coast believers everywhere? Did I eat too much to move?
Answers (and lots of burger porn) after the break.
The Internet’s Secret War: Some nutjobs actually think that Five Guys is better than In-N-Out
Deep, deep in the bowels of the newfangled world-wide-intrawebz, a gastric debate is slowly brewing in the hearts and minds of foodies, web forum members, and the l33+ kids on XBox Live.
People everywhere are drawing battle lines and taking sides in this most controversial of topics. It’s shaping up as a rivalry of sorts, one that internerds like me love to debate pointlessly about. Goku or Vegeta? Sox or Yanks (neither, DIAF)? Raw or strapped?
I’m talking about Five Guys Burgers and Fries, and its meteoric rise to fame. After becoming a cult favorite in the Virginia and Washington, D.C. areas, it has expanded aggressively to become known now as an “East Coast” thing. And by god, when they opened a few stores in Southern California and encroached on In-N-Out (which is very much a “WESTSIIIIIIIDE” kind of thing) territory, some turncoat SoCal blasphemers began to argue that Five Guys was superior in every way.
This offends me, because I’m a die-hard In-N-Out enthusiast. No, it’s not the best burger in the world. Yes, Five Guys probably has some tasty burgers. But In-N-Out is, in fact, the best-tasting, freshest, makes-you-feel-good fast-food burger in the nation. Yeah, I said it. My loyalties were forged long ago, in the heat of San Fernando Valley nights and an old-school, drive-thru-only In-N-Out in Panorama City.
Reasons why In-N-Out dominates after the jump.
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