/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Yeah, they were all the rage in the early 2010s. It was the height of the "epic bacon" era and the whole "Ron Swanson" performative affected masculinity was in vogue. I remember going on a fate with my (now x) girlfriend and ordering an extra hoppy IPA and an "epic meat" burger that iirc had pulled pork, bacon (of course) and a fried egg. I had just turned 21 so I was so excited and feeling "adult".

The beer was bitter to the point of being undrinkable and room temp to boot (something about that being the brittish style). The burger was awful, I still remember the hockey puck of "pulled pork" that was somehow both dry and greasey and being repulsed by it. My gf was also an annoying "lol so randum" girl who later trooned out. I was grumpy and complained and my gf got mad at me for "ruining date night". I often loom back on that night as a turning point in my life where if the burger and/or beer were better my life could have been very different. I could have been a soiboi dating a troon. 300 pounds and up to my man-tits in funko pops. Luckiky, my life turned out different. So in a way, I'm thankful that burger was so shitty