ramble hey before we get into today’s episode we want to tell you about good mythical evening for one night only we are bringing you good mythical evening streaming exclusively on moment house get your ticket for a most indecent sloshy and random show that takes our classic good mythical morning favorites and torches the rule book the show is live september 1st to jumpstart the labor day weekend tickets are on sale right now at goodmythicalevening.com [Music] mcdonald’s sells approximately 75 burgers every second but is that the burger that has us asking for seconds let’s discuss this is a hot dog as a sandwich ketchup is a smoothie yeah i put ice in my cereal so what that makes no sense hot dog is a sandwich a hot dog is a sandwich welcome to our podcast of hot dogs the sandwich the show where we break down the world’s biggest food debates i’m your host josh sharer and i’m your host nicole handizada and today we’re joined by dame drops damn is an american food critic youtube celebrity and host of his very own netflix show fresh fried and crispy which released earlier this month and i have been thoroughly enjoying that is an understatement i i binged almost everything in one night and then my girlfriend’s like no i’m hungry that’s not how she sounds that’s how i imitate her and i was like welcome to my entire world uh but truly damn it it’s a fantastic netflix show and i know you know as a one youtube dude talking to another youtube dude you’re always rooting for the youtube dude uh i mean i remember seeing you in the burger king commercial and being like that’s team he’s in it and then now the netflix show it’s fantastic man you are an absolute ray of damn sunshine on that platform and we’re honored to have you here oh man it’s a pleasure to be here man thank you thank you 100 so you’re netflix show i mean it’s it’s all about fried food and i know that that has been a big part of you know uh you doing all the fast food reviews in your car but today we are talking about the best fast food burger which is especially fitting because the first the first episode of your show that i watched was your five guys review which i’m sure a lot of people say that and i mean i remember not to date myself when i was in college and my australian teammate came up to me and he was like have you seen the five guys bigger guy and i was like what the hell are you talking about and we all like watched it in a dorm room and um was just blown away man i mean you have just always radiated that energy and you’re bringing it to netflix but today we got business we’re talking about the best fast food burger all right let’s get to it let’s get to it man i’m i’m curious you’re you’re the vet here hit us hit us with the pick hey look man for me and like i tell individuals all the time best fast food burger is fat burger bro what was that look at that fat burger yes yes whoa whoa whoa whoa oh yes man hold up hold up hold up you’re you’re you’re a connecticut guy fat burger that’s like that’s that’s our turf like you’re picking an la joint yeah your best of all time i have to travel to get the best burger the best fast food burger i have to travel yes tell me why man break break down the fat burger for me because i i got my own thoughts i mean we’ve probably both eaten fat burger a whole lot right i’ve had fat burger twice you’ve only had fabric i’ve had fat burger twice and i’m sorry i’ve never had it twice he’s missing i know well now i’m gonna go get it was it one of the magic johnson fat burgers no there was a magic johnson magic johnson owns like a majority of the fat burgers in l.a right is that a thing is that a common knowledge that people know this is a fun fact for me personally yeah it was like yeah it was a huge thing breakdown break down the fat burger burger and what makes it the best in the game let me tell you something you know me i mean you probably seen a few of the videos i need that sba that’s soft bun action right like it has to be fresh you know and i don’t necessarily have to have sesame seeds it just kind of adds to the consistency when you’re going for that bite right but let’s get right to the beef let’s just bypass anything else you could put on a burger if that beef isn’t close to the field that you get when you’re biting into a wagyu type beef right because you know when you’re getting that wagyu you know you’re getting that high quality fat burger delivers a quality of beef that’s been seasoned up just right right there on the grill and you could taste it it makes you feel as if you add a family cookout and saying let me go ahead and get that supreme burger and then up whips you up that supreme burger and then you’re going for that bite and then the juices are literally attacking your taste buds before they start sliding down outside i mean for me my beard’s gonna catch it all but right before they start sliding down the chin piece the flavor saver the juices yes the flavor savor but the juices of a fat burger get me excited each and every time and that cheese i mean it’s processed cheese right you can take it you can leave it but if you love cheese that cheese has to wrap it has to hug the beef that’s exactly what fat burger delivers the type of cheese that’s hugging the beef you get your onions up off in there for extra flavor you get a little crazy you might want the mustard you might want the ketchup i don’t know but i have to get my bacon they don’t give me that little fake and bacon that old extra soft bacon that disrespects a burger they give me the extra crisp action the bacon with rico mortis it’s stiff it’s on your burger it’s crunchy and it’s coming for you each and every time damn damn paint me a poem with your words i’m salivating so thanks a lot but i mean no so you you hit on a lot of points that make fat burger really unique one it’s like it’s so fat burger is a regional chain from los angeles magic johnson owns like half of them uh but they’re small enough to where they can still cook everything fresh and not worry you know what i mean like you’re a mcdonald’s you got 30 000 locations across the world right i know they just start they just started doing the quarter pounders fresh uh cooked in stores which that was a huge thing but fat burger they’re out there they’re they’re grilling the greasy burgers from scratch so you’re still getting that juice they’re actually cooking bacon like you said they don’t have that like that you know that subway bacon they open the plastic and it’s like wilted rose it’s like a science project like a kid you know you do the leaf printings yes you close the leaves in a book that’s how they make their damn bacon at subway so i respect all that about fat burger the thing that i don’t like though is their actual flavor profile of the condiments that go on the burger i’m a condiment guy i think i agree with you fully about the juicy beef and the bacon and that is extra special but for me the fact that mustard comes by default on their burger that is not a fast food burger taste profile that i enjoy i agree with you that it’s like a cookout burger because you go to the cookout you got the mustard in the ketchup there i’m like a vehement anti-mustard guy on burgers but that is personal preference so josh does that mean you run away from the mcdonald’s burger because you know they have the ketchup and mustard on there as well i do i i don’t love mcdonald’s standard burger however so being a california guy thousand island right they in and out spread that’s what in and out’s not my official answer i do love in-n-out but i have a feeling nicole’s gonna go in and out on that one style cheeseburger girl always have been always will be not to say that i don’t love other fast food burgers and i don’t enjoy their fast food burgers that’s just my go-to i’m a born and bred california los angeles girl and that’s just who i am that burger is a reflection of who i am wow and that’s it thank you that’s that’s a big part of this like when you ask someone what’s the best fast food burger especially people who are all like you know uh this is a huge part of all of our lives right we do a lot of fast food stuff here when you ask someone what’s the best fast food burger you’re asking them to share like a piece of their identity that’s nice you know what i mean so like when you say fat burger what do you think that signals to other people that you know you want them to think about you i need them to know that i am authentic see when i scream fat burger fat burger for me is authenticity it’s locking and stealing a deal well before i get to fully understand the burger and take it all in all right and when you’re dealing with me we are locking and sealing the deal during communication before you take me all in in a way where you’re like yo i love this man right here you know what i’m saying like he has a love song about him and food is a universal language and me i might not be able to use all the magical words when describing food that folks tend to look for i can give you an experience that can nobody else give you though amen you really do when you could actually experience food on the next level that that’s something else so you can’t even break that down properly because to experience food you have to have a different appreciation for food not just something that’s textbook i’m talking about something that’s reality you live it every day i not man not to just like be a shameless corporate shill here and plug fresh fried and crispy but i’m gonna go ahead and do that shout out to netflix uh but no no one of the reasons i love the show so much is that your genuine love of food comes through so hard right i remember uh not to crap on any let’s call them um uh uh consumables channel i’m talking about food network you take you watch so many food network people you watch so many food network people and they’re like the of the burger was revelating on the palate and it’s like shut the hell up tell me how this burger tastes in your mouth give me something real and like i get that from you the genuine love on everything from like you know hanging out with chicken charlie who that dude is amazing yeah josh he’s amazing he really is he’s he’s he’s done so much for the game which seems silly to say for the fried oreo dude but it’s like really true i mean so much i remember how much eating uh he did a krispy kreme jelly donut spicy chicken sandwich this must have been back in like 2004 wow orange county fair and that was like to me a thing that changed the entire paradigm of how i thought about food right wow cause like it see it seems like a crazy stunt food on the surface but then you actually think about you get that spicy juicy chicken and it was like really well brined i mean it tasted like the only thing i can think of is carl’s jr’s very heavily peppered chicken i do love that cheese i do love it too and then you get like the sourness of that jam and it just like plays off it together but it’s just so cravable and you’re just crushing it with like a funnel cake next to you and you’re about to throw up on the tilt the whirl i mean to me that’s that is like a genuine food experience that i will never forget hey josh can i just slide some kudos away i’d like to give individuals their flowers while they’re still here the way you hit that symphony of that particular sandwich i’mma call what it is you made me want it and you’re talking 2004 we’re in 2021 you made me want it right now today right and i mean that’s that’s the particular that’s the thing like we’re doing on youtube or hell even on this podcast you know it’s trying to give people like that vicarious experience right you want them to feel like they’re in that car eating a burger with you and it is such a skill that you know doesn’t it doesn’t come with s.a.t vocab words right it comes with the genuine want for other people to have that experience it’s the passion of the food yeah yeah the passion of the food that’s the sequel to the perspective of the christ you know what it is you can’t be afraid of the food sometimes you’re gonna pick something up you know it’s going to make a mess if you have that taco that looks like it’s an explosion in your hand that’s already happening you know when you take that bite it’s going to get all over if you do not have a bed there’s a lot of individuals that are out there that are afraid to take that full-on bite they will go in for a nibble me i’m going in for the bite so i could break this thing down properly i can give you the layers of the taco down to the crunch right and make you want the taco whether you even want a taco or not it’s a good metaphor for life nibble at life no princess bites no princess spices no princess i’m not doing that we’re not doing that with food food is a whole attitude right and it’s an attitude problem if you don’t know how to handle it that’s true i always i i have a very particular method of eating hamburgers some people think it is derivative of guy fieri’s uh hunch but i don’t think so to me it’s a purely unique style and i call it the mouth vacuum where i fully believe especially if you have a nice juicy burger think about a fat burger and you gotta sink your teeth in or like slurping ramen noodles right that’s like a big cultural thing in japanese you gotta slurp the noodles it’s how you get all the tastes right you gotta bite into the burger and you gotta mouth vacuum it you gotta go because there’s gonna be some residual condiment action right running off the burgers the juice probably i don’t want that to go by the wayside i don’t want to soak into the bun i want it in my mouth so you gotta mouth vacuum it mouth thank you [Music] when it comes to your journey hyundai is thinking of every mile that’s where the new 2023 hyundai palisade comes in the palisade offers all the technology safety features and comfort a family needs for the journey ahead and boy does it really have 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your burger i really wanna hold on can we go back to internet could you go back damn had a strong reaction when you said anything why did you have a strong reaction i want to know your thoughts i broke in and out down in comparison to fat burger like maybe a couple la trips ago and i always said that in and out for me if you do not go animal style and though it is made to order it’s just overhyped mcdonald’s burger to me when when i get those flavors when i take that but it’s a little bit larger and again it’s going to be more on the fresher side of life when dealing with in and out the prices are comparable to that mcdonald’s so i can understand why everybody loves it nobody wants to spend nine to twelve dollars for a burger you get for three or four bucks right it is what it is however i am going in for that four piece suit of a burger versus the tank top and shorts which is in and out all right that’s what i’m doing that’s what i’m doing i’m going for that casual bite and it’s it’s it’s a casual bite but you know it has a lot of flair when you look at it you know that it has a lot of spark you know it’s going to get attention when it steps in the room that’s a fat burger for you all right and then our burger is going to be in the room but it’s going to be sitting in the back corner somewhere playing on his phone whereas fat burger is going to be on the main stage getting the folks hyped and excited about that very first bite that’s fat burger to me i have to eat fat burgers what you’re trying to say i’m just saying that again it’s been maybe like eight years since i’ve had fat burning yeah they got a banana they got a banana milkshake there that i’m obsessed with i think if we’re talking best best milkshake in the game fat burger’s banana milkshake i’m a huge fan uh in and out for me in and out is it’s resting on its cultural laurels right agreed in and out doesn’t it doesn’t need to be better than it is because it’s already so popular they’ve gotten comfy they’ve gotten comfy on their spot and as anyone knows get comfy in your spot someone’s going to come up and pass you that said i love in and out because it reminds me of i mean growing up in california right yeah you just won an njb basketball game in seventh grade and you know the team mom takes you all through the in and out drive through so it’s a very nostalgic flavor for me which i really love but like damn said people always compared in and out to shake shack which to me is a terrible comparison i don’t get that right it’s like when people could it’s it’s like i’m gonna do a sports metaphor and nicole is gonna hate this but it’s like when people compare i don’t know like uh bill russell to like lebron james it’s like with all due respect to bill russell fantastic athlete we now have like science on our side you know and lebron spends two million dollars a year on nutrition and rehab and bill russell’s like smoking cigars in the locker room stuff like that so i mean shake shack was founded in i think early 2000’s in and out was a mcdonald’s contemporary right they started in the freaking 50s in in baldwin park baldwin hills california baldwin park i believe and so i mean they were making this is back when humans were smaller and they were just eating eight pound burger patties you know the little discs that aren’t going to have that snap of the fat burger or like a shake shack or whatever but that said this is a good interlude into my favorite burger that’s coming a little bit later started in 1969 santa barbara california i swear i’m switching up my choice at the last minute so i was about to say the western bacon i was about to say the western bacon from carl’s jr but then i was like i don’t i don’t want people to think that i’m choosing a pure national fast food outlet so i’m gonna hit you with i’m gonna hit you and i believe you’ve reviewed this before the habit the habit oh i forgot on the bottom wow i’m hitting you with a habit on this so the habit found at one went to school in uc santa barbara right next to the original habit that still has the hot dogs and the chili cheese fries before they started franchising but now they’re trying to make a nationwide push and i think they damn well deserve it yeah that is two words that i think is one word and that’s char broiled it is really good so it’s one of the few places so like you go to carl’s jr and burger king they both do the char broilers it blows to the flat top however they’re so national that you’re getting like the pre-formed beef you taste in like the propane chemical agents that osha has in the burger king so it you know so if there’s a gas leak they don’t all explode in there or whatever you’re tasting the chemicals when i go to the habit i taste just that pure fired beef you get the american cheese on there they got that thick cut bacon and then another two words to call i have avocado words for you i have two words for you fast casual free ranch dress no no the habit is a fast casual restaurant that’s a fast food restaurant that’s a good point it’s a great burger but you gotta stick to the prompt josh you gotta stick to the prompt it is a very good burger and i agree with you and i love it all right screw it i’m going buttery jack buttery all i have to say is i love it it’s really really good it’s wonderful all right break it break it down for me break because i i’ve reviewed jack-in-the-box food before but i do not recall doing a buttery jack jack okay so jack-in-the-box is about the uh to preface this i think all fast food burgers and all fast food places have their core competencies that they do well right yes they wouldn’t exist capitalism would simply not allow them to exist if they all sucked as much as people say they suck right of course you know what i mean yeah that said jack in the box is probably about the lowest level of food i could go oh shoot they’re tacos jack-in-the-box tacos and again this is a compliment because i said the buttery jack is one of my favorite fast food burgers of all time maybe my favorite maybe for today’s exercise we will call it my favorite okay but jack in the box like their tacos their chicken teriyaki bowl their chicken fajita pita they they have strayed so far in their branding from what like their intended goal was i don’t even understand why they have that i love that the buttery jack brought jack in the box back from their like original idea which was to have the they jack the box is the inventor of the ultimate bacon cheeseburger with two kinds of bacon they got the crappy floppy bacon but they also got the bacon bits melted right into the cheese they are the progenitor of the sourdough jack nicole when burger king came out with the sourdough cheeseburger that was because of jack of the box he put some respect on the clown’s damn name they’re not just the court jester for the burger king out here no they’re taking swings and then they had one of the biggest failures in fast food history with the food truck inspired menu where they tried to make a bun me sandwich at the jack the box so they’re the underdogs here right okay and also they do have some of the lowest corporate uh confidence rate from franchisees like they’re all pissed off at jack the box but to me the buttery jack was the first great thing that they did other than the secret menu item that we had with jack in the box but that’s that’s a different story but the buttery jack right they took the artisan bun that looked a bit like a mini challah it’s really pretty it’s a pretty bun she cute it looks good in the commercials she cute i’m sorry and then they got they got like that wilty lettuce they got the it’s not even it’s not even it’s not even crunchy water and they got the wilty water the crunchy water that lost all the crunch and that was a little bit like green water and then they got those tomatoes that are like kind of white yeah the tomatoes are not red they’re really like this is grown in a lab but then but then dave the saving and they got like the most jack-in-the-box has the most gray hockey puck-esque patty in the entire game where you can physically see the machinery in the factory the marks that it has left on the burger however when you take all of that and you drown it in butter my first bite of the buttery jack i bit into the wilty water i bit into that white ring of death on there but then the butter exploded onto my tongue and i was like yes salvation is here and his name is the buttery jack i rest my case i’m not gonna lie i should it’s good it’s just one of those burgers man you know it’s one of those guilty pleasures i get it it’s that it’s that moment you had with that burger that’ll always remind you of what was good yeah what i mean it just reminds you of what you once had wow well you know what this i can promise you guys this much my next trip out there to the west coast i will get the buttery jack and do the review please please oh my god i can’t wait for it i’m i’m curious what so i mean you’ve done a lot of like limited time you know item stuff is there any limited time only burger that really stands out for you wow oh my goodness i’ve had so many i know right they all run together they do they they go hard oh man you know what it is for me when i have my wendy’s baconator with with the pretzel bun right because the wendy’s in my burger king out here they know me well so they always kind of overload my bacon situation on any of my burgers that’s amazing i wish i had that kind of power at my local burger king wendy’s i will always say this when it comes to baking for a qsr quick service restaurant i always say wendy’s comes first because they have the type of bacon that has a very different level of crispiness to it and it doesn’t matter if you go there in the morning if you go there for lunch if you go there for dinner it’s always the same sometimes other locations are hit or miss based on the time you get there wendy’s bacon is so sincere so serious and they have that crisscross that goes on my actual baconator itself with the principal no that’s not that’s my thing right hit that with a little bit of barbecue sauce all right a little bit of mayo on the bottom bun because i always flip it for flavor you put your pinky up you give it a little a little bit of high class upside down and then when you go take that bite josh as you know your condiment game has to be strong you are getting all those flavors rushing in at once and the pretzel bun flavor and i mean that little combination is perfect alongside of the wendy’s bacon that’s a one in the fast food game yeah wendy’s has the best bacon i agree well they like started so i i’m like obsessed with the history of fast food and the way that these brands have all tried to like outdo each other and find their own niche right i feel like at some point wendy’s was like screw it we’re the chicken sandwich place they had a robust chicken sandwich menu like when i was growing up they had the dave’s you know the quarter pound the double triple but they weren’t doing anything special in the burger game but they had these like asiago ranch chicken club sandwiches whatever but then the baconator came out and wendy’s was like yo screw it chick-fil-a they’re expanding nationally they got the chicken game unlock we’re gonna be the bacon place now and they did it and they’re freaking good it’s amazing but now they’re like dead last in the chicken sandwich wars yes yeah let them stay there i know they didn’t even try they did not even try you know what they said that they set out you give them an e for effort because they sure enough took to twitter to talk all the junk in the world but that’s what that’s what the wonders twitter account does right it’s yeah it’s gonna jab at everybody moving that’s out there however they couldn’t stand the test of time when it came to the chicken sandwich because when popeyes came out swinging nobody was touching them although they all tried one after the other they stood in line that chicken sandwich line and they were rejected at the door every single time it’s wild how like hearing the story so i mean i know you just reviewed burger king they screwed up our burger king chick king order which i’m mad about but when do they not that’s fair we don’t we don’t we don’t work near a great burger king you know you got like there’s like the a-team burger kings where it’s like they’re the ones going to the going to the conventions trying to recruit no we we live near like a d team burger king which is cool they’re all trying their hardest but you know they just can’t really get it right sometimes yeah they try their own yeah they try this i’ve never complained i will never complain i’ll gladly pay for my order me too um but anyways uh i i was pretty impressed with burger king i think they got a good shot uh kfc they tried to clone the popeye’s chicken sandwich and just took a swing and a miss right uh you know i haven’t i haven’t had churches out there um church i’ve never had the chicken sandwich from churches sure because churches did a redesign on their chicken sandwich carl’s jr just did a redesign carl’s jr missed mcdonald’s i haven’t had zaxby’s but i heard they were trying never ever had haven’t either no they’re yeah they’re down south that’s the thing we miss a lot of these regional spots yeah can i talk about a play a regional spot that i really dislike sure and this is i’ve had it now like six times because i’ve been to austin texas six times oh my gosh and you all know where this is going i’m talking to the water burger whatever there is okay okay with all due respect i’ve only been there like past 3 a.m um but but in my defense that’s typically when fast food tastes the best no i’ve never had anything that i thought was remotely good at all from waterbury including i mean people talk about they’re like no no the problem is you got the thick patty texas toast bacon gouda melt what you gotta get is the chicken honey butter biscuit and i uh i don’t know what happened uh it could be circumstances of my state of mind at the time but i took a bite and i almost gagged i almost gotta get the text i know it’s just crazy i have the strongest stomach in the world but the texture of that honey butter it was like vaseline oh my god it was like okay so you go to kfc uh kfc’s honey sauce that they give you yeah it’s seven percent honey i believe and they just they disclose it on the packet it says seven percent real honey the rest is corn syrup the whataburger honey butter sauce is like two percent tops honey and definitely no butter that’s like kernel oil and just like shellac uh i’ve never had anything good from whataburger and i i want to see what others are seeing i don’t know i’ve never been to a whataburger i can’t help you i can’t help you reach salvation for my my trip to whataburger was it was definitely a late night um i just went i just went basic i didn’t i didn’t even get crazy with it it was a you know bacon cheeseburger and it was it was just okay it wasn’t anything that i wanted to tell anybody about that was out there with me like there was no conversation to be had yeah i think i did one review of what a burger and i was just like all right well if i never have the experience again it’s not the you know the end of life for me i’m good i’m okay yeah there’s there’s so many of these regional spots that people like absolutely insist on i mean in and out is probably the prime example of it but whataburger but i mean you even get into i was visiting a buddy in oklahoma we went to a place called brahms um that i could not even remember the name of last time i tried to bring it up but he was like man brahms is the best they got like the best ice cream and they do the shakes fresh and then i got it and i was like ah so like most fast food burgers just kind of taste the same like if you break it down unless you’re doing something special these places are all within that like 90th percentile all tasting the same that’s why i love when places do things different how do you guys feel about spicy burgers this is always one thing that i’ve always asked people like do you guys like spicy on your burger because i don’t always love spicy on my burger i feel like whenever there’s the addition of any sort of like jalapeno or like sriracha or anything that kind of takes away from the beautiful harmonious burger experience some people are really into it though so for me right if by chance it’s like a spicy sauce and a mild spicy sauce it could be a nice mouthful flavor addition for the burger itself but when you lather a burger with okay now you have the sauce you have the jalapenos in there you got some chili peppers they found some demon pepper they want to talk like in it it gets a little ridiculous and you take away from the whole entire meal at that point you’re only going in for effect you’re going in for that shock value it’s not to enjoy the burger anymore it’s more for okay how much pain can you take i’d like to issue a counterpoint to all no no i i agree with you all one i think it’s funny when fast food restaurants wendy’s did this a couple years ago where they’re like ghost pepper fries and then taco bell did the same with their like rattlesnake fries that has you know supposedly scorpion chili in it but the problem is you can’t add enough ghost pepper or scorpion to a fast food audience to actually make it really spicy so it’s like you’re just going for the shock effect like you said you’re going there for the branding however one of my favorite burgers of all time is the carl’s jr el diablo thick burger it had the jalapeno poppers on the burger oh shoot i’m trying to think that i do that one i don’t even i don’t know if it went nationwide okay so it maybe this will jog your memory it came out alongside at least in california a burger that i think is the worst burger of all time that had lay’s potato chips and a sliced hot dog on it oh come on bro it was called the most american thick burger from carl’s jr the commercial was incredibly offensive gross and uh and i had a hot dog and the hot dog that i got was like cold and the hot dog water soaked into the chips and i made the chips stuff right there i was closed i almost love bad fast food burgers as much as i love good ones because to me it’s like it’s like a moment in time right we’re never gonna have that most american thick burger ever again yeah we’re never gonna have they had this weird like supposed to be like a pro immigration commercial but it was still like naked chicks playing volleyball nice and it was like brought to you by carl’s jr and i’m like what type of political moment are you trying to capture right here this is bizarre but it came out the el diablo thick burger here we i’m reading right now cheesy jalapeno poppers sliced jalapenos pepper jack cheese bacon and a fiery habanero sauce and it it it almost wasn’t good you didn’t even know that there was a beef patty in there it was just a mush of spice and cream and crunch and i got i loved it i loved it i loved it so much for me that burger did you ever have the uh the jack-in-the-box burger with the grilled cheese sourdough sandwiches as the buns did you ever indulge yourself the munchie meal it’s the munchie meal grilled cheese cheeseburger that was crazy no uh one day i was i was driving home because i lived in marina del rey but all my friends were like in uh like mid city i lived in marina and i stopped making fun of me and then i was you know i was just like you know what it’s like two o’clock in the morning and i’m driving and i don’t want to be here i’m gonna get damn burger and then i did it and it was the best thing i ever ate yeah but i will never ever ever eat it again it’s one of those experiences where i’m just like this is just a one-time thing for me i’m never gonna do this yet that was like so screwed up but so good at the same time let it exist as a single beautiful moment in time exactly marina del rey girl josh let me ask you the the lazy the laziest fast food burger you’ve ever had where you knew where you knew they didn’t put any thought into it whatsoever they just threw it together and they just threw it against the wall to see if it stick all right so there’s one i i have not been yet because the closest sonic is like 30 miles away but i really want to try it because i have a feeling this will be the laziest fast burger it’s their new bacon jam burger have you seen that no so sonic they got this new bacon jam cheeseburger and like it’s three ingredients it’s bacon bacon jam which you know a fast food restaurant anytime they’re calling something a jam that’s more like a goo so there’s just gonna be this like brown goo on top of a burger with cheese i don’t try that but it reminds me of when mcdonald’s came out with the uh the cbo the cheese beef and onion yes cheddar cheddar beef which to me that was like the epitome there was a gray goo a slice of white cheese on the thin burger disc and to me that is the laziest burger like i’m imagining an employee just like squirting a little tub like little onion goo on there bro i’m what’s yours i love i love my people at burger king i do when they had the french fry burger on the dollar menu i did that review it was it was so bad i threw it away in the trash in the video that’s that’s how bad it was because i already had an issue with their fries to begin with yeah and of course they found i guess their throwaway patties to use for this french fry burger it wasn’t even it wasn’t even the regular ones it was it was some throwaways we had extra let’s toss them out there with these water fries that’s what i was calling that’s what it was like and uh yeah man and they just found whatever extra excess bun they could didn’t even bother toasting it yes that was raw that’s beautiful uh dave you got any closing arguments for your best burger i love what you said about fat burger man especially as like a native californian man i love someone plugging and plugging our spots and i got you’ve inspired me to go there look again for me it’s always about the experience it’s about you know getting their presentation it’s always nice but at the end of the day it is what it is it’s all going to go on the inside i’m not going to be sitting there looking at a burger all day long right so i need the flavors i need to know when i take that bite and it was really made at that moment it wasn’t something that was shipped and frozen i love that about fat burger i love the fact that they said they don’t ever plan on expanding because it’s not about shipping you know meat from miles away it’s about hey listen we’re right here we’re within the community if you want us you have to come to us so every time i want a fat burger i have to take that flight but i know when i get off that plane and i know when i take that that drive over to the local fat burger near the airport i’m going to be excited because i’m going to have a moment with a whole lot of flavors and an extremely thick burger you can get as crazy as you want go double xl triple xl aquatic so just get wild with it and if you want the red ring of death and the crunchy water knock yourself out i don’t need it i’ll just replace that with more beef with more cheese with more bacon with more onions and even though josh i know you don’t care about the mustard i love my mustard slap that mustard up on there all right get out get my ketchup on up on it because i need all of that connecting together because i want my taste buds to explode and then i want them to cry at the same time because they feel the joy the pain and the love that has gone into this burger of perfection got them all jacked up on fat burgers fat burger for lunch obviously i ain’t got anything to do after this we’re doing it yeah we’re doing it we’re doing it and that’s i mean that’s the biggest 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taking a three-week break you know kind of like a house stella got her groove back sort of we’re gonna you know go to where’d she go like bombs can’t go i don’t remember i’ve never actually seen it i’ve heard it’s good i’ve seen it yeah yeah but like i don’t remember the details of it anyways point is uh we’re are not gonna publish any new episodes for three weeks we’re gonna take a little break time to reset but we’re gonna come back at you with uh plenty more um bordering on incoherent uh food debate topics and we’re excited for that very excited very excited very excited all right nicole you’ll jump into it sure i’ll take this one at two death fox says pineapple and feta on pizza is the best pizza topping combo how do you feel about that dame for me i’ve had pineapple pizza before i wasn’t like 100 excited about it it does change that flavor profile of a pie itself like if that sauce is extremely good and that cheese is just right you know you you got it nice and melted you’re getting all the flavor and i’m only going in for the crust i’m just like the pineapples i’ll just push to the side the feta is a win because it already comes it’s great flavor so i can definitely go that given direction but i never tried it myself personally and i’m open to anything at least just once so i think i’m gonna go ahead and try it and then uh i’m gonna revisit this question i wonder how many people have actually tried this this sounds delicious this sounds right up my alley like that salty feta bite with that beautiful sweet juicy pineapple just on the on a beautiful base of pizza makes a lot of sense to me it is missing red pepper flakes yeah you need the spices you need the spice to go with the sweet it’s missing which is why i love like pineapple and jalapeno some sort of spicy cured meat on a pizza to me is really great i have more of a problem with the fed on this i knew you would i knew you would okay one i i don’t like i’ve had so many like watermelon and feta and mint salads and i do not like that combination there’s something about uh the graininess of the feta with the wateriness of the pineapple or of the watermelon that doesn’t jibe with me however i also don’t like cooked feta because when you cook feta it like loses that moisture it loses the beautiful texture it gets grainy and chewy i don’t cook fat on it keep keep your feta off my delicious plain pineapple pizza all right next up we got at caradana bananas and sour cream with a little sugar is an awesome snack oh banana sour cream and sugar oh okay you know what that’s uh wow is that like that late night get right when you’re feeling a certain kind of way you you feel an extra wavy and you’re like you know what let me just go ahead and get a little crazy because the banana by itself all right great getting your potassium in there you know it’s a wind but you toss some sour cream on there and that that that flavor alone i don’t know it’s sort of like i’ve been watching individuals with the whole entire watermelon and mustard again you can have some crazy combinations that are out there that’s truly one of them and what else did they add to the the sour cream and banana wasn’t there one more ingredient sugar sugar sugar okay so that sweetness man yeah that sweetness right there sweetness with a little bit of sour and wow i guess you can get that that savory in there somewhere but it’s it’s just highly deep rooted and it would throw me off but you know and i said i try everything once i lie i lied an even grosser counter to that that i was introduced by i dated a girl whose family came from louisville louisville kentucky and her dad literally worked for kfc corporate uh that’s why they lived in louisville kentucky and her mom introduced me to bananas with mayonnaise and peanuts and that’s worse than this it is a southern delicacy and it is delicious i it’s the saltiness in the acidity of the mayonnaise the crunchy peanuts and the sweet banana that i did not know that about myself until i ate that and then it changed my life and so you know what kind of mayo what what kind of man i imagine if you’re from the south you’d use dukes but i mean she probably is like like low-fat trader joe’s because she was california all the time everyone has that everyone has that thing everyone has that that weird thing yes i get that maya i grew up in a household where my dad loves sour cream and he makes little sandwiches with bread sour cream jam and sugar so this is very familiar but the banana the texture of the banana makes absolutely no sense if it was like a raspberry or a strawberry that makes more sense the banana throws me off yes interesting interesting all right okay yo adrian oh yo adrian says spinach and kalin’s soup is the worst soggy slimy leafy business it can gtfo yeah uh yeah i don’t really i hate this whole trend of like rustic soups with like kale and like you dip your bread in it i don’t like that i don’t understand that and it doesn’t it doesn’t speak to my soul yeah i mean uh in my culture i’m persian dame if you couldn’t tell um we make a lot of stews and we do a lot of green stews and you gotta cook it down to the point that it’s like obliterated you need to fry it first and then cook it down in the stew for hours and hours and hours spinach and kale can’t do that yeah it just can’t break down enough to give you a beautiful soupy texture and it just doesn’t work for me no they mix the salads with the soups it doesn’t make sense keep the salad separate from the soups i wish i was that girl that liked the rustic soups i can’t i can’t yeah no get it don’t don’t get me on those pinterest soups dan we know how you feel about lettuce how you feel about kale and spinach well kale yeah we just kind of run an opposite direction spinach though mom’s raised me pretty heavy uh on spinach and i never really had a problem with it because it was like i went from spinach straight on over to collard greens and i was still happy at the end of the day yeah uh and it was just a great nice chew to it i had a little bit of saltiness going on she would always toss in a little bit of that pork fat just for a little extra flavor and that was her way to get me to eat my greens right get my little veggies in me so the spinach is a win to kale i could definitely live alone i never liked it i tried it a few different occasions just to have it kind of different ways and each and every time i was like i’m all set here because it was too bitter for me it just it just never worked yeah yeah it never worked yeah it’s got that really like dark that dark green bits yeah you know can’t enjoy it it’s different from like you something like a mustard green a collard green turnip green it’s got this like it’s a little bitter but it’s got that bright pepperiness it’s a nice bitter whereas kale is just it’s got that you have to massage it you have to massage the kale you got to break it up massaging that for days if you have to massage your food it’s not worth it right i’m not even gonna get into it with you all right oh here we go all right we we covered this on the podcast but damn i want your opinion on this we got that little raccoon one two three bagel bites are better than pizza rolls oh oh yes yes and i’m uh i’m going with the bagel bites yes sir i’m definitely going with bagel bites because you just get more of that that extreme bite that thickness to it and me personally i love them being bagel bite and then it always has a nice little uh what i like to call the the ghetto cheese you know i’m not getting any strong mozzarella on this but you’re just gonna get enough so you can actually trick yourself into thinking oh i’m taking down a pizza right now a little small a quick popper you could be watching your favorite movie it really doesn’t make a difference playing your favorite video game those bagel bites are going to disappear in seconds in seconds pizza roll is just not enough all right it is this is every pizza roll leaves you wanting watching so every pizza roll you eat i sell much more then you have an attitude bagel bites you don’t get an attitude after you take them down you’re looking for more that pizza roll you’re already mad after the first bite you’re upset my favorite thing about bagel bites is that they can’t legally use the term mozzarella cheese so like literally like like you said about the cheese like it is literally so processed they can’t even call it it’s literally called like imitation mozzarella product and i’ve never i have never seen i’m like obsessed with food labels i have never seen that one on any product but that said i agree i think they’re delicious i love you talk about flipping the burger to get different parts hitting the palate to me that’s the biggest difference bagel bite you get you get the cheese you get the sauce hitting the palette first that’s important to me i like both i used to be at pizza rolls only but i like both now i’m a big fan of both i feel like we bullied you in the liking yeah it’s fine it’s fine straight you know there’s some elevation that happens i think i’m not used to humans are featherless bip says microwave bread is better than toasted sometimes how do you feel about that one uh toasted for me i’ve had microwave bread you know what i call struggle bread right and definitely it’s a situation where you’re gonna try something i remember tossing some butter bun bread toss it into the microwave and i definitely changed the consistency of it for me for i just i just love the crunch on toast no matter what you put on it whether it’s regular jelly whether you have jam whether you have some kind of preservative on there i mean the flavor it’s different and you get that crunch crunch crunch for every single time i can’t do that with something that’s microwave i’m not going to get a crunch it’s just going to be soft it’s going to be mush it’s going to be balled up and i’m just like no i’m not happy here but with toast i am happy they’re lightly toasted or damn near burnt i’m happy either direction i feel that nicole tell this man what you do with the american cheese bread in the microwave okay so sometimes i like to take american cheese and a wonder bread and i like to put it in the microwave for nine seconds and then i fold it up and then i put hot sauce on it and then i eat it that’s what i do and i’m proud of myself she went to culinary school by the way but i still love but i still love toast i love toast but something about that that mush that cheesy white mush with a little bit of hot sauce a little bit of hot sauce it’s like it’s like a ravioli at that point you’re making ravioli i’m making microwave rabbits okay we can respect it i went through a weird phase of my life where i stopped toasting my burger buns instead i’d wrap them in a wet paper towel for and microwave them for eight seconds oh goodness because i and then i i’ve since seen the light and we we did this test where we tried to figure out like scientifically the best way to make a burger and we you know tested side by side like one flip versus multiple flips different cuts of beef all that and then we tried toasted versus untoasted bun next to each other toasted bun crushes crushes on toasted bun but that said i still do like the idea of just pure soft pillowy bread sometimes like a white castle slider right a white castle cider there’s no toast on that but it’s it’s satisfying in its own way because it’s like a dumpling yeah it eats like a soup dumpling how’s that domed like yeah topping a little pillow it melts it melts in your mouth just kind of melts in your mouth you know you have your your onions that are up off in there again for that that flavor that a little bit of popping is just so tiny and whether you go with a regular hamburger and a cheeseburger it doesn’t matter because the moment you’re holding it you it really starts to bend you get to see a bend yeah the butt of the breath is going to start bending and holding over until you take that bite you’re like okay this this is white castle right keep a bathroom nearby though uh yeah i’ll never forget the first time i went to white castle proper i was in in cleveland it was a hybrid church’s chicken white castle wow and i felt like yeah that was it was on a road trip too we were going to pittsburgh and i was like this road trip it’s going to need a lot of stops like we got it the one where you got to pick out the nice gas stations because you’re like i might be here for a while you know you gotta find the good ones with outdoor bathrooms so no one’s gonna bother you uh here we go okay we got at mckenzie beach underscore peanut butter on breakfast sandwiches is the only way to go egg bacon cheese peanut butter yo i i want to be nasty here but i want to try that b i like i love peanut butter to begin with but i can imagine because i like my bacon egg and cheese i croissant all right there’s something about that flakiness right there the butter and the croissant toasted up lightly none too crazy but my eggs have to be fried hard i don’t like a runny egg i don’t need that sunny side of action american cheese and again my bacon extra crisp but to to hit that knife with some peanut butter and put it right on top of the croissant that that sounds a little freaky yeah i’m off it was real freaky yeah i love that man you can’t see this but damn like shifted his stance he was like shoulder this sounds good with a smear of grape jelly for me more so than peanut butter yeah yeah a nice shimmer of grape jelly but i can’t do the peanut butter it gobs up the bacon and cheese i can’t do it oh you know where i like mustard yellow mustard is with grape jelly on a breakfast sandwich oh like scraffle like scrapple dude that’s where it comes from damn you ever had scrapple no i have not please bruh break that down for me all right yo this is gonna be a little bit less poetic so it’s an amish delicacy uh from from pennsylvania they essentially grind down all the uh internal organs of the animal that they would otherwise throw away so think about like spam except minus all of the good things about spam and then they add cornmeal and oats to it to solidify it and then they like deep fry it until it’s really crispy and all those like fatty organ meats are kind of leaking out i’m not selling it too hard however all my family is from like mennonite country in pennsylvania and i had at the reading terminal market in philadelphia a scrapple breakfast sandwich and it was just this like unidentifiable fried disc that tasted reminiscent of pork in the sense of like if you got the best cooked meal during the great depression you know where you’re like look i understand this depression food but like you’re really good at doing what you do that’s what scrapple was to me and so it’s a really beautiful moment and they put grape jelly and they put mustard on it with cheese and an egg and to me it was beautiful did i sell you on it no not really but i can see with the addition of the jelly on that how it could uh it can help mask or whatever flavor that you actually get from the scramble itself so it’s not as bad like it almost sounds rather enjoyable because you still get the sweetness from the jelly all right i’m still gonna get that that nice flare that you’re looking for and it almost shifts the milk a little bit like that’s what still excites me if i go to a steakhouse and have a steak and forget that it’s a steak just because that flavor just getting so much butter on that or maybe it’s a little bit of garlic because of the topping that you chose but it just kind of changes the meal just a little bit i get excited about it i do i and like not to just just tie this back in a poetic crap about fast food but that’s one of the cool things about all these fast food places doing different burgers i mentioned like 90 of them are really really similar but then you notice the nuances and when you eat as many burgers as all of us have in our lives you notice the things you know what i mean you notice that someone’s grilling the bacon up fresh you notice the char-broiled flavor you notice uh the cut of lettuce or where they you know put it on the burger that really gives it a difference it is like the universal palette from which all americans paint oh i like that josh i took one art history class i got like i got like c plus pretty proud of that though all right on that note thank you so much for listening to a hot dog sandwich and thank you so much to dame drops for being our amazing guest dame tell the people where they can find you hey listen man our instagram is at official dame drops of course on youtube dame drops you know what i’m saying i mean the biggest and best thing that’s going on right now on netflix is fresh fried and crispy with your bay man dame drops showing a lot of love to the local mom and pops out there letting them shine we dealt with a whole entire pandemic we lost a lot of great food that was out there in different cities man and we’re just trying to bring the attention back as you guys make your way out there into the world man be sure to support support the local businesses and be sure to watch fresh fried and crispy right on netflix yeah 100 can’t endorse fresh fried and crispy enough uh also if you generally want to support uh youtubers making the jump to other platforms i mean uh james dames and og been watching him for forever and couldn’t root for a better dude and dude mazel tov so much on the success man uh truly it’s awesome to see thank you both absolutely oh oh sure we’re supposed to say something too oh yeah we have a podcast to plug and if you want to hear more from us here in the mythical kitchen we got new episodes for you every wednesday if you want to be featured on opinions or like casseroles you can hit us up on twitter at mythicalchef or and handyzade with the hashtag opinioncasserole and of course if you 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