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6498844 No.6498844[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

>always looking for a better burger experience in London UK
>see Five Guys being promoted
>looks good
>check out prices
>£8.75 ($13.72) for a bacon cheeseburger
>£4.00 ($6.27) for regular fries
>WTF?
>when will burgerland invade and put this right?

>> No.6498851
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6498851

>>6498844
when you stop being cuckold

>> No.6498854

The chips are pretty big, a regular will do two people. Still overpriced though, I only go for the coke freestyle machine.

>> No.6498857

it's the same price as all the other burger prices anyway you cunt

also there is no reason to get any more than little fries

>> No.6498877

That's expensive, is this meant to be a fast food place in America but they trying to make it a burger restaurant here in England ?

>> No.6498881

>>6498851
I'm being cucked paying that much

>>6498857
Shake Shack is another rip off.

>> No.6498911

>>6498877
Yep, same place

>> No.6498913

>>6498844
It's literally the same as McDonald's

>> No.6498917

>>6498877
It's extremely expensive here as well.

They get away with it because people don't like admitting they go to McDonalds.

It's daylight robbery.

>> No.6498939

>>6498917
>>6498913
would you consider a 1500 calorie bacon cheeseburger from five guys equal to a 450 calorie big mac from mcdonald's?

>> No.6498945

>>6498844
Just as expensive here in the states.
I love how long the lines were, now they are closing locations here. FUCK YOU 5 GAYS

>> No.6498971

Go to Ed's Diner anon, god tier american diner style fast food. Calories are also listed online which is great

>> No.6498986

>>6498844

1 lb. Ground Beef
Sample of U.S. Prices:
Portland, Ore.: $2.79
Little Rock, Ark.: $3.10
Los Angeles, Calif.: $5.29

London: $9.03

http://www.dailyfinance.com/photos/food-price-comparison-around-the-world/

A bacon cheeseburger costs $7 where I live. Our meat prices are lower because we subsidize corn production so much.

>> No.6498988

standard price for a burger here m8

unless it's maccy Ds or some shit

sub 7 quid would be a very competitive price

>> No.6499000

>>6498986
>London: $9.03

uhm, no

I live in London and I pay £2 ($3.13) for 500g of ground beef (at a regular supermarket)

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>>6498986
>tfw live in Portland

Hipsters may put my house underwater with rampant inflation but at least beef is still cheap and plentiful

>> No.6499023

>>6499013
tfw yuppies move in and raise property values

>> No.6499024

>>6498971
Eds diner is amazing I go to my local one in Southampton just for the malt shakes

>> No.6499027

>>6498939
Tastes the same

>> No.6499031
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6499031

>wimpy burger will never be popular again

>> No.6499040

>>6499031
Thank god

>> No.6499042

I went to America last week for the first time. I tried Five Guys and it was mediocre as fuck. I only had lettuce and onions so I guess its all about the veggies? But the burger was meh at best.

>>6499031
There's a wimpy near me. God bless.

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6499053

>>6499024
GOD LIKE

>> No.6499061

>>6499042
Five Guys is fast casual, what did you expect?

>> No.6499084

>>6499042
>I went to America last week for the first time. I tried Five Guys and it was mediocre as fuck. I only had lettuce and onions so I guess its all about the veggies? But the burger was meh at best.

It is meh, absolutely, but American McDonald's and its ilk are absolute shit, so compared to the pleb chain junk food many Americans grew up with, Five Guys is a decent improvement.

>> No.6499090

>>6499027
I'm not tryna get heated about fast food here, but they obviously taste different. If you couldn't tell the two apart in a blind taste test, I would find that genuinely surprising.

>> No.6499096

Five Guys is the most overpriced, overrated burger chain in existence. Their burgers are mediocre, fries mediocre, prices incredibly steep.

You could eat at Red Robin for the same price and get a better burger, seasoning, and bottomless fries

>> No.6499144

>>6499096
Not to nitpick, but if the serving of fries you get at Five Guys isn't envoy to satiate you, your brain has no "off" switch when it comes to hunger.

>> No.6499162

>>6498877
>That's expensive, is this meant to be a fast food place in America but they trying to make it a burger restaurant here in England ?

Five Guys kind of occupies its own niche; it's not "fast casual" because there's no sitting down to order, but they make your burgers to order so it's a bit slower than "fast food", only by a few minutes though.

In any case, your Five Guys is identical to ours.

>> No.6499185

I work at a 5 guys if you want McDonald's prices and quality gtfo where not a bargain chain. If you want a crapton of food for your fat ass and fresh real toppings we got you.

>> No.6499227

>>6499000
>I pay 6-7CAD for that much
What the fuck?

>> No.6499246
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>>6498844
>8.75 bongeroids for a bacon cheeseburger
>4.00 bongeroids for a regular fries
Even at an exchange rate of 1.00 USD = 1.00 BONG, that'd still be more than I pay at Five Guys here.

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6499339

>>6498844
>in London UK
>for regular fries
>UK
>fries

>> No.6499341

>>6498877
>is this meant to be a fast food place in America
No. This kind of restaurant is called a "bar and grill," although I don't know if they serve alcohol, so probably just a grill. It's not fast food.

>> No.6499343

>>6499339

we call them fries when the context is appropriate.

>> No.6499345

>>6499227
?

$3.13 is 6-7CAD?

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>>6498844
Have you tried the London branch of Byron burger?

>> No.6499367

>>6498844
Chips master race. Fuck off fries/pomme frittes

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6499371

>>6499367
How about chipped potato?

>> No.6499383

>>6499365
which london branch

idort

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6499390

>>6499365
Not yet.

Gourmet burger in Weatherspoons only £7.20 ($11.29), includes fries, onion rings and a glass of wine.

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6499394

>>6499390
>northerners

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6499402

>>6499394
>northeners
>glass of wine
>wine

>> No.6499407

Fries are twice the size of the largest fries of any other place

Burgers are pricey though

I don't eat there all that often though, so it's a nice treat when I get it

>> No.6499415

imo one of the best burgers in london is at the sebright arms in bethnal green. ridiculously fast service and pretty hot barmaids too.

we order patty and bun and dirty burger a lot. i actually prefer dirty burger and it's priced at around a fiver, but my friends all prefer patty and bun, which has bigger patties and overall looks a bit posher. i just find the burgers don't have enough of a char to compete with the condiments flavour wise.

burgers are shit anyway. go to brick lane and get a salt beef bagel.

>> No.6499422

>>6499371
They are crisps

>> No.6499430

>>6499390
Wetherspoons is value in a pinch but shouldn't be anywhere near a conversation on best burgers. Fucking hell.

>> No.6499442

>>6499343
nice try

>> No.6499449

>>6499442

what

>> No.6499450

>>6498844
>implying burgerclaps don't prefer your chips and sammiches
Why would you want food from American chain stores?

>> No.6499487

>>6499450
>C U R R Y

>> No.6499569

>>6499345
>$3.13 is 6-7CAD?
No it ain't m8

>> No.6500871

>>6498844
>when will burgerland invade and put this right?
You could hope we drop an In & Out for a real burger bargain. It's not a meme, it's a good, basic burger for relatively very little money.

>>6498854
>I only go for the coke freestyle machine.
BK has em

>>6498945
Everybody wants a taste of the new hotness, but they don't want to spend that much all the time. 5 Guys tastes fine but they're retarded.

>>6499042
>mediocre as fuck
You got it. It's basically equivalent to a standard diner burger but they charge you even more somehow.

>>6499162
This. It's a diner burger at near-fast food speed.

>> No.6500961

>>6500871
In N Out a shit. They've got slightly better cheeseburgers than McDonalds and then fuck it up with the shittiest fries known to man.

Whataburger & Whitecastle are the only decent east coast chains.

>> No.6500968

>>6500961
>he doesn't know you can asked for double fried fries

amateur

>> No.6500977

>>6500968
I recommend leaving posts like that alone. Even the Brits would never fall for it.

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6500987

>>6500871
>In-N-Out
>bargain burger

West coasters actually believe this.

>> No.6500991

>>6500987
I don't know how little you make or how much the In & Outs near you are but yes they are.

Compare to Five Guys price, anon.

>> No.6501112

>>6498854

You realise the Leicester Square Burger King 20m away has a freestyle coke machine?

>> No.6501258

>>6501112

not if you're in islington or ealing or whatever (there are other five guys in london now)

>> No.6501263

>>6498971
The food is trash. No better than a Johnny Rockets.

The shakes are damn fine though. Coffee is good enough to sit and drink for a while also. Not good coffee, but good enough to drink the free refills.

Best diner food I've ever had was at a truck stop in bumblefuck nowhere Texas. I miss being surrounded by those steak eating fat fucks for the diner food alone.

>> No.6501267

>>6499339
If they state them as fries on their menu, you'd be a cunt to push the word chips on them.

When I was in the US and an English pub restaurant in Chicago had them listed s chips, I obliged.

I do hate the word chips; regardless of what it is referring to.

>> No.6501270

>>6500871
Why do you cali snakes think In N Out is all that?

I understand the price is competitive, but you saps have just fallen for the advertising and the (now floundering) exclusivity.

That being said,

double double animal style, animal style fries.

It still wasnt very good.

>> No.6501373

>>6499000

Jokes on you, it's actually hoursemeat.

>> No.6501416

>>6501270
>Why do you cali snakes think In N Out is all that?
There's no accounting for taste. In & Out is delicious.

>you saps have just fallen for the advertising
Or maybe we've grown up on this food all our lives and it's you who haven't who were simply let down by the "hype." In this way, I posit that it's you who fell for the advertising. The world is full of contrarians who can't wait to shit on the established favorites of people they consider beneath them ("cali snakes"). That's why I'm never disappointed when anyone like you claims not to enjoy something of quality and value that we've enjoyed forever. It's not for you, you don't get it, I don't care, but you'll tell everyone about how you hate it anyways (probably at every opportunity).

>> No.6501422

>>6501416
you cali snakes are all also very defensive when it comes to in n out

what i gather from your post is that you enjoy it as a form of nostalgia, and that has blinded you.

I was very excited to finally eat at In N Out. after I had i was without doubt that LA was one of the worst places ive been to

I only wanted to enjoy In N out. I would be singing its praises if it had impressed me.

>> No.6501430

>>6501422
>enjoy it as a form of nostalgia, and that has blinded you
kek

In & Out is delicious. If you can accept that I honestly think so without character flaws, I'll let you slither away on your non-cali snake belly and grant you the same consideration that you dislike it without character flaws of your own.

Can you handle that?

>> No.6501432

>for a better burger experience
>burger experience

Oh look. He's after an experience.

>> No.6501441

>>6501430
I will accept that you enjoy INO, but I will never accept that it is delicious.

it is decent for a cheap burger. delicious it int.

back to your long board, you santa monica bogan

>> No.6501456

>>6499390
wetherspoons burgers are surprisingly good, especially considering the price

>> No.6501462

>>6501441
>it is decent for a cheap burger.
Well, it's actual fast food at a fast food price and speed without skimping on ingredient quality. This is the essence of the "experience."

I have never waited at In & Out with 2 orders ahead of me as long as I have at Five Guys with no orders ahead of me. Five Guys' solution, "free" peanuts, is inadequate and odd.

>> No.6501483

>>6501462
I don't see anything in there about the burgers tasting average.

>> No.6501501

>>6501483
That's because I don't share or support that opinion anon.

>> No.6501524

went to the Bristol one m8 , it was shite, £15 quid for a fucking burger and chips, and all the messed up pop you can drink