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Anyone here been to Louis' Lunch in New Haven? It claims to be the birthplace of the hamburger, having served the first one in 1900.

They offer exactly three toppings: Tomato, onion, and Cheez Whiz. Ask for ketchup and you'll be asked to leave.

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>> No.6733287

>>6733277
>cheez whiz
>since 1900
LOL NO.

Bunch of faggots, if they are one of the first hamburger establishments they sure as fuck sold out.

>> No.6733289

>passed through new haven more than a couple of times
>often stop for unique shit, worth stopping for
>have seen crap like hitler's car and the largest ketchup water tower
>usually stop for regional food
>have seen op's "burger" on ever travel food show
>it always looked better than op's pic, but never looked good enough to stop for a visit

>tfw you've actually took a detour through indiana to get a tenderloin sandwhich (or three)

>> No.6733290
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>>6733277
that burger looks grossly underdone

>> No.6733291 [DELETED] 

>>6733277
Hey indian h1b fucks, stop pushing your new haven shit.The place sucks, get over it. That looks like shit and you know it. There's no reason for me to be in that shithole unless for some contractuatual obligation and even then I'll try to get out of it.

>> No.6733294 [DELETED] 

That shithole new haven sure is a new haven to a bunch of faggit indian h1bs that want to escape being kicked out of the USA.
The place should be renamed new stankhole.

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According to one blogger, it's a 20-minute wait to get one of these if there isn't a lineup.

>>6733287
The "original" was just a patty between two slices of toast. The condiments came later.

>>6733290
Agreed. I live nowhere near Conneticut, but wouldn't bother trying one if I did.

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>>6733315
oh my god it still looks like it came out of the freezer
please tell me no one actually eats this shit

>> No.6733324 [DELETED] 

>>6733291

I hate Indian subhumans as much as anyone else but I don't think they're shilling a hamburger. Remember, they worship cows.

>> No.6733325

>>6733320
>The restaurant has been the subject of shows on "the Travel Channel, the Food Network, the History Channel and even Oprah."[25] On Travel Channel's Chowdown Countdown, Louis' Lunch was rated #1.[26] Episode 10 of Burger Land, A Burger is Born, highlights the claim and history of Louis' Lunch.[10] According to Raichlen's book, BBQ USA, patrons of Louis' Lunch include United States presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Charles Lindbergh, and Artie Shaw.[1] Food and Wine's website named Louis' Lunch as one of the "Best Burgers in the U.S."[27] Roadfood notes that it is an "essential stop on America's burger trail."

>> No.6733327

>>6733277
>>6733315

Meh, I can cook that at home if I want a hamburger on bread (but I'll use some better bread or buns). Plus, I'll smother it in ketchup.

The place sounds like a tourist trap/scam type of place.
wouldnotgo/10

>> No.6733331

>>6733290
Oh fuck. Krabby Patty flashbacks but people eat them for fuckin' real.

>> No.6733336
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>>6733327
They take themselves really seriously.

I bet a burger costs like 12 bucks.

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>>6733336

>dessert
>coffee

>> No.6733344

>>6733336

>Potato Salad
>Chips

No fries? They're salad better not be store bought.
Probably 12 for the burger and little bag of chips and like 5 dollars for a beverage.

>> No.6733348

>>6733336
this place sounds fucking awful.

>> No.6733367

>>6733336
>Medium rare.

Man, what the FUCK.

>> No.6733375

>>6733320
I eat my burgers like that all the time, it's wonderful with fresh ground beef.

However, that thin piece of toast getting slapped with an unrested medium-rare burger got fucked. Look at the bottom. It will sog-apart as you handle it. Believe me, I've eaten hundreds of sandwiches like this. Needs thicker bread or a resting period for the meat (which would probably piss guests off). And hey if they let me add a couple layers of lettuce or something underneath maybe all the juices wouldn't fuck the bread.

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Note the juice-saturated bread.

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>literally house burgers

>> No.6733493

>>6733342
>milk n sugr

>> No.6733539

>>6733336
Those signs look like the inevitable response to enraged retard customers

Any less seriously and they're doing the fast food chain pushover thing

>> No.6733551

>>6733324
No, Indians are hunters, they use every part of the buffalo. I think I saw a dirty indian fucking a cow once, it may have been a jap dressed up though, I was kinda drunk.

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>>6733539
Yeah, but it's reasonable to ask about toppings besides tomato and onion.

>>6733551
East Indians. Hindus.

>> No.6733558

>>6733277
New Haven is not in Germany anon.

>> No.6733562

>>6733556
And it's reasonable to put up a sign that says what's available if it's what's available

You think it's better to have the same discussion twenty times a day if not more? What does that accomplish?

>> No.6733575

looks like shit to me because >>6733418
will happen exactly. I wouldn't touch it despite all the raving reviews and this and that. It's fucking nasty. Probably don't even season their meat at all. It's just people going OHHHHHH ORIGINAL BLAH BLAH BLAH I'M SPECIAL

>> No.6733577

Probably don't even like it but eat it because they feel like a snow flake and elite because of it

>> No.6733579

>>6733562
I agree with you, but the sign being there, 99% of the time has 2 outcomes.
1: Customers notice the sign and ask you about it, if they can get ketchup, etc
2: They don't notice the sign and ask you if they can get ketchup, etc.
Retail fucking sucks

>> No.6733580

>>6733562
They should just offer some fucking condiments. These guys seem more uptight than some five-star restaurants.

>> No.6733583

I understand the whole "I don't like what you like" mentality on /ck/ and most of the other boards. However, why are there so many obnoxious anti-ketchup snobs in the real world? I exclusively eat mustard on hotdogs but I don't drop my jaw and piss all over someone when I see them eating ketchup.

>> No.6733586

>>6733580
I don't think you've been to many "five star restaurants*, whatever those are

Anyway it's obviously their schtick that's keeping them in business, I'm sure 95% of the customers love how "purist" the place is and the sign also shuts up the minority of problem customers who complain about everything even a stupid novelty hamburger. That's probably your demographic.

>> No.6733594

>>6733583
http://www.menuism.com/blog/no-ketchup-allowed/

It's absurd. A hot dog is a salt-tube in a bun. There's no delicate balance of flavours to "ruin". Fuck Chicago.

>> No.6733600

>>6733586
>"five star restaurants*, whatever those are

Whatever the fuck your term for fancy, high-rated eateries is. I think they'd take better to someone asking for ketchup with your filet mignon than this place does to wanting it on your half-raw ground steak on toast.

I just get the impression that the proprietors are not pleasant individuals.

>> No.6733603

>>6733600
>baww there's a no ketchup sign so the owner is a bad man
It's theater, anon. Do you take everything at face value like this? You're naive.

>> No.6733605

>>6733603
"No ketchup" is a meme perpetuated by normies. I bet you think lolcats and big bang theory are still funny.

>> No.6733610

>>6733605
Spend less time in the tubes, bedsores-kun.

>> No.6733612

>>6733610
bazinga

>> No.6733613

>>6733605
>"No ketchup" is a meme perpetuated by normies.
Pretty sure you could bring your own sugar packets anon.

>> No.6733615 [DELETED] 

>>6733612
Say "cuck" next, this is epic

>> No.6733618

>>6733615
I think you need to git gud at shitposting. I'm on a whole different level.

>> No.6733619

>>6733603
I guess I've just never been to a restaurant where they act unpleasant to entertain customers.

Maybe I should start one where the waiters burp while taking your order and fart while serving it.

>> No.6733626

>>6733619
>having a sign is abusing your customers
This is why chain restaurants thrive. Idiots get butthurt and indignant over nothing so highly paid franchise experts figure out the formula for making everything as banal as mathematically possible.

>> No.6733627

>>6733619
It's the whole less is more mentality. What better way to make your hole in the wall stand out than to become that restaurant that doesn't have/hates something very specific.

>> No.6733630

>>6733626
There's room between banal and >>6733284

>> No.6733641

>>6733630
That sign is a good indication that they are actively trying to distinguish themselves. To you, no ketchup is an outrage and no plastic smiles is a grave insult. To their customers, it's reassuring authenticity and an assertion that they have enough happy customers that they can afford not to try to please everyone.

Incidentally even higher end businesses often make a show about not trying to please everyone. Although this is just a hamburger joint despite your efforts to judge it as a "five star restaurant" (?!)

>> No.6733648

>>6733641
With a gimmick like that, it's only ever going to be a hamburger joint.

>> No.6733652

>>6733641
It isn't the fact that yhey don't offer ketchup (even though it's silly not to), but just how they go about it.

>Although this is just a hamburger joint despite your efforts to judge it as a "five star restaurant" (?!)

wat

I contrasted it to fancier restaurants.

>> No.6733654

>>6733652
Good job, you became the punch line to the joke behind the "we're not burger king" sticker.

Better write an impassioned letter to the Better Business Bureau, they'll sort this out for you for sure.

>> No.6733702

>>6733315
>>6733418
it's not even a fucking patty melt, who the fuck puts a burger on white bread

>> No.6733712

>>6733654
>The joke is that they're elitists

>> No.6733720

>>6733367
>Anything other than medium rare

>> No.6733788

>birthplace of the hamburger
>hamburger
>Hamburg
>Germany

>> No.6733790

>>6733788
>Not knowing that it became popular with German sailors who named it after themselves

>> No.6733853

>>6733277
m-my momma says Dave Thomas invented the hamburger

>> No.6733955

>>6733493
Sounds like a new nigger band.

>> No.6733960

>>6733418
yuch!!! fucking raw

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>>6733641
You should consider shock therapy.
Seriously.

>> No.6733977

>>6733853
FOH Columbus nobody likes you

>> No.6733987

Christ that looks awful. Why not just serve the patty with a side of toast instead of having semi-liquid bread on the bottom.

>> No.6733992

>>6733641
You know how you distinguish a restaurant anon? By having good food. Not by gimmicks. They seem to have their priorities mixed up.

>> No.6733996

>Untoasted white bread
>Undercooked beef
>Disturbingly limited topping
>Terrible decor

I hate when nobodies think they can get away with anything.

>> No.6734010

>>6733962
>>6733992
>as my years of neetposting have taught me, a 115 year old business cannot be successful without tendies cooked and served according to my autistic demands
Lmao kk bud

>> No.6734011

>>6733996
They get by on their legacy of supposedly serving the "original" hamburger. It's also highly rated because critics think being the original makes it good by default. See >>6733325

>> No.6734058

>>6734010
Are you a butthurt connecticutfag or do you seriously like paying for (most likely way overpriced) gimmick experiences?

>> No.6734069

>>6734058
Neither, are you the guy who thinks anything new to you is a terrifying new fad designed specifically to make you feel uncool and unwanted?

>> No.6734081

>>6734069
So you ARE the guy that gets angry when someone ridicules your gimmick experience in order to justify your purchase.

>> No.6734104
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>>6733277
It's not the best burger you'll ever have, but it does give you an idea of what burgers were like before anyone was making custom buns for them. They also have very steampunk looking devices in which they cook them - they're not done on a grill or griddle. That's what slows them down - they can only cook so many at once.

I also approve of the no ketchup policy.

>> No.6734120

>ever even considering eating a hamburger without ketchup

>> No.6734211

>>6733277
I'd bring a pocketful of McDonald's ketchup packets and probably use 2 then stomp on the rest and make a big mess in their restaurant, just to prove that their no ketchup policy is bullshit

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>>6733289
Based tenderloins

>> No.6734234

>>6734211
>I'd be an asshole because I don't like the menu.
You should stick to chains, Anon.

>> No.6734235

Cheese whiz is acceptable, but ketchup isn't? What a load of horseshit.

>> No.6734259

>>6734081
>a hamburger is an exclusive gimmick for only the coolest, smartphone owning sushi eating avocado flaunting hipsters from elite liberal enclaves such as the northeast and west coast, where anything goes even $2 for guacamole
Poor flyovers and they're food desserts

>> No.6734271

>>6733336
>>6733344
http://www.louislunch.com/menu.php

The Original Burger $6.00
Potato Salad $4.00
Potato Chips $2.00
Homemade Pie (per slice) $4 and up
Poland Spring $2.00
Pepsi/Diet Pepsi $2.00
Snapple $2.00
Foxon Park Soda $2.00

>> No.6734276

>>6733277
Wow this whole thread is a shit show

Everyone defending this place do you honestly believe that this place would still be successful if they didn't claim to have served the original hamburger.

Also fine I get the no ketchup thing. It's one thing to not have an item on your menu but it's something totally different to be openly hostile towards customers who enjoy that item.

In he end this place is a gimmick fucking get over it

>> No.6734301

>>6734276
>having a sign that says "we don't have ketchup" is open hostility
MRA logic

>> No.6734321

>>6734301
Nigga WTF you talking about with MRA logic.

Also according to op and I believe a travel channel piece about the restaurant they ask you to leave if you ask for ketchup. That's open hostility and a bad business practice.

Plus If you read my post which you hardly did I said its ok to not have an item and be like "sorry we don't have that"

>> No.6734324

>>6734259
>they're
>desserts

What a summer we're having

>> No.6734335

>>6734271
Everything looked okay until four fucking dollars for potato salad.

>> No.6734348

>>6734321
MRAs have never experienced hardship but draw false equivalence between getting rejected by girls and slavery/the holocaust/etc

Kind of like you and your drama queen attitude about ketchup at a hamburger shop

>> No.6734351

>>6734348
>Men can't be discriminated against

If you seriously believe this you're a fucking moron

>> No.6734366

>>6734348
>>6734348
Nigga why don't you read my post.
I don't give a flying fuck if a restaurant doesn't have ketchup.
But it's not ok to kick people out for asking for it.
How would you feel if you went into a restaurant and Asked for no ketchup on your burger and they told you to get the fuck out?

>> No.6734374

Surprised nobody has shit on the fact that they steam their burgers. No wonder they all look raw.

>> No.6734405

>>6734351
Found the MRA
>>6734366
How would you feel if you had a clearly written sign that said "we don't have ketchup" and jokers from out of town kept asking you anyway hundreds of times per day?

>> No.6734413

>>6734405
Don't have a fucking sign that says no ketchup and that won't happen. Just exempt it from your menu and that's it.

>> No.6734417

>>6734413
>just pretend there's no such thing as ketchup and the problem will magically go away
This is what MRAs ACTUALLY believe!

>> No.6734423

>>6734417
>there's a problem
Found the real MRA here.

>> No.6734428

>>6734405
I work in food service and you politely tell them sorry we don't have that. It takes too seconds and is not a burden. Also is it really fair to kick someone out for that? What if I'm from out of town and didn't see the sign?

Also da fuq is your ish with MRAs

>> No.6734436

>>6734428
What kind of food service? Because not having ketchup at a burger place is like not having sugar or dairy products at a coffee place. Maybe there's a reason but you have to work overtime resetting expectations. Hence the value of a clear sign that explains the deal and also makes it clear that you're not interested in debating it with everyone who walks though the door.

You're not being holocausted just because a business owner doesn't want to indulge your inane sense of righteous indignation. It's just ketchup.

>> No.6734448

>>6734436
Still not getting the point of what I'm saying

It's fine to say we don't have something and it's ok to kick out a customer who tries to argue with you about it.

I work at a five guys and occasionally we get people who ask for their burger medium rare and get a bit pissy.

Also I've worked at Pizza Hut and I've had to deal with entire shifts as manager when the store is out of pepperoni

When you tell people what's what they don't argue if they do you ask them to leave

But telling someone to get the fuck out cause we don't have an item is impolite and a bad business practice

>> No.6734453

>>6733375
put a thin layer of mayo on each piece of bread, the oil keeps the grease from soaking into the bread.
plus mayo is delicious

>> No.6734462

>>6733320
if you grind your own meat, which they probably do or they would have to stop being so pretentious, then you better cook it medium rare or medium. The only reason people cook ground beef to well done is because you can't trust where the meat has been and you need to kill anything in it to be sure its safe.
Unless you like well done beef and are a fucking cancer to culinary creators everywhere.

>> No.6734467

>>6734448
If it was bad business practice they'd be out of business. You need to understand that having a spine isn't a problem, and can even be advantageous. This is an alien concept to fast food workers but at a decent place asking a customer to leave is not unheard of if they're causing problems. Obviously, you don't leave that kind of thing to a 17 year old with 6 weeks under his belt.

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>>6733418
The bottom piece of bread.

>> No.6734486

>>6734467
You seriously are the most ignorant nigga I've ever communicated with and have actually made me a lite but angry (which is probably your goal so congrats)

Lemme try to spell this out so you can understand.

They get away with it cause they are the "original hamburger". Open your own store and kick out everyone who mentions ketchup and see how far you get

Not immediately kicking someone out for mentioning ketchup is not being spineless.
It's ok to kick someone out if they try to turn your lack of ketchup into a debate. And yes decent places do kick out ass headed people who try to argue

I've even had to kick people out while working at phut cause we where out of wings and a lady flipped her lid made a total ass of her self and demanded a free meal.

Here's a scenario
>walk into a restaurant
>order a hot dog with ketchup and mustard
>cashier says we don't have mustard get the fuck out of my store now
>appologize and say I'll just have it with ketchup
>cashier yells no get the fuck out now

In your mind is this an appropriate reaction by the cashier?

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>>6734231

>> No.6734488

>>6734486
Damn you auto correct !!
Little bit*

>> No.6734493

>>6733277
>use ketchup and be asked to leave
I hate places with shit rules like this
burgers are probably shit

>> No.6734495

>>6734486
>autism

>> No.6734517

lol this thread feels like I walked into a retard circus. So many stupid people arguing over stupid opinions and not actually arguing against each others' points.

this restaurant owner is a cock and thinks that because his place is famous he can tell the customers what to do, which is fine, whatever. And the customers are getting butt-hurt because they walk into a restaurant and don't like being told what they can and can't do, even though they know what to expect before going in.
run your business how you want, just don't get made when no one cares anymore and you start to lose customers

>> No.6734523

>>6734517
>lol this thread feels like I walked into a retard circus. So many stupid people arguing over stupid opinions and not actually arguing against each others' points.
Welcome to /ck/.

>> No.6734525

>>6734495
Face it bro you lost the argument cause you've basically be arguing against shit I haven't been saying so you resort to calling me autistic. Good job fucko

>> No.6734530

>>6734517
>>bitches about people discussing opinions
>>first sentence thereafter discusses opinions.

>> No.6734531

>>6734523
i know, its my owe fault too. I come for the recipe ideas and ingredient tips, but stay for the shitposting...

>> No.6734544

>>6734486
Not the anon you're replying to, but stuff like banning ketchup is gimmick that works for a lot of places. It's a reaction to the Have It Your Way fast food culture, a lot of people see it as a sign of good quality that a place will say you take what we give you. I'm not saying this is an indicator of quality, I'm not saying the sings aren't obnoxious, I'm just saying it does work.

>> No.6734547

>>6734525
>every poster who replied to me is the same guy
Actually no, but he's right. Also, running out of pepperoni by accident != not having a food as a business strategy

>> No.6734554

>>6733315
>20-minute wait

For fucking what? That's maybe 2 minutes of cooking and ten seconds of assembly.

>> No.6734605

>>6734544
>>6734544
I get that. banning ketchup in your store is fine if you want to do that. I'm not saying they have to offer ketchup. But telling someone to leave the store cause you asked for a condiment is not cool.

Unless of course they try to argue about lack of said condiment

>> No.6734612

>>6734547
So this burger place is more likely to get people arguing with them about an item that they lack on their menu than a store that's run out of an item they regularly have?

>> No.6734621

>>6734612
That's a very poorly thought out comparison

In one case you have an accidental fuck up that theoretically is never supposed to happen

In the other, you have the default state of the establishment

What sense of 'likely' do you mean? Because surely it's not the same sense, from the decision maker's point of view.

>> No.6734632

>>6734621
>>6734621
I wasn't making a point I was asking a question is that what you meant by

>Actually no, but he's right. Also, running out of pepperoni by accident != not having a food as a business strategy

Cause I didn't really understand what you meant by that or what "he" was right about

>> No.6734658

>>6734612

I'd say less likely to have people arguing with them and more likely to have people turn up, see the sign, say "Well fuck your shit then, I'll go to literally any other place that sells burgers" and leave.

>> No.6734719

>>6734530
nice straw man

today's lesson: what are adjectives?
fucking learn them.

>> No.6734799

>a burger needs ketchup to taste good
If you like ketchup you should literally kill yourself. You probably order your steaks well done too.

>> No.6734803

>>6733277
Wait, I thought the first hamburger place was the place that steamed the meat in pans, along with the cheese.
At any rate, Cheez Whiz never belongs on a burger, so fuck that shit.

>> No.6735041

>>6733277

Saw this shit on TV, the guy who's making it looks like the most miserable piece of shit on the planet.

>> No.6735089

>>6735041
I would be too if I spent all my time making the same burger.

>> No.6735096

>>6733418

the meat isn't even seasoned is it

they're eating raw ass bland humburger

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>>6733619

>yfw this is actually a thing

>> No.6735161

>>6735096
One person called it more flavourful than the average patty, but it could be Barnum effect,

>> No.6735206

>My thread

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>>6733619

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33zPlnhymCU

>> No.6736014

What happens if you smuggle a bottle of ketchup in

>> No.6736021

>>6735109
I went there. The food was trash, the beer was warm, and the only people having fun were the waiters who basically got to do whatever they wanted

>> No.6736036

>>6736021
I never got the appeal of those places. I'm not rude or arrogant to wait staff but I do expect that they are courteous while they do their job.

It is a service industry after all.

>> No.6736039

>>6736036
It's for normies. The "novelty" of a restaurant where you're treated like crap outweighs the shitty quality of their food. It's just that, from what I can understand, the other places that do this actually have good food, and Dick's doesn't.

>> No.6736043

>>6733277
I don't patronize shitholes like that, especially ones that are so arrogant as to ask me to leave if I want ketchup? What's the appeal of that? Places like that forget who's paying who and I wont be paying them and so what if it is or is not the birthplace of anything, that certainly doesn't make it the best. You likely saw it on some food network or travel channel shit show and are shilling it here for some reason.

>> No.6736049

>>6736043
If it wa a hot dog place I'd kinda get it, the novelty of the "perfect hot dog" or whtever.

But who the fuck doesn't have ketchup with a burger, if for no other reason than to dip fries in?

>> No.6736059

This thread is so fucking dumb I hate myself for responding.

Fuck these niggers they can eat a dick. 'Original' my ass.

>> No.6736074

from what i've read, it's all about if you like rare beef.
because that's all you're really getting. no flavor from the white bread, no sauce.
if you want to wait a really long time to try their beef blend cooked rare then go.
otherwise, don't.

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>>6733284
Blondies has one of those signs. Good burgers

>> No.6736149

CT REPRESENT

SHOUTOUT TO MY HOMIES IN THE OL RECTANGLE

>> No.6736165

>>6734605
Its a private business pal, they can do whatever the they want within reason. Why do Americans always have this sense of entitlement?
I've even met people that think Walmart is a public place and you can't be kicked out of it for any frivolous reason.

Also I think this place is retarded and their signs anal, therefore I would not buy from them.

>> No.6736174

>>6735109
been there
be middle eastern
>wait for her to call me a terrorist
>she calls me terrorist
top kek!

>> No.6736243

>>6733641
>reassuring authenticity
>Cheez Whiz
lel

>> No.6736267

>>6736043
OP here. I think it looks like shit and I have little interest in trying it; think I learned of the place from a bathroom reader article.

If I ran the place, I'd offer the "1900 burger" AS WELL AS more modern ones with an assortment of condiments.

>> No.6736274

>Legend has it they served their first burger when a hurried patron asked for the most immediate hot meal possible
>A burger there takes 20 minutes to prepare

Hmm.

>> No.6736275
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>>6733277

CTfag here. As someone that's actually eaten at Louis Lunch, I thought I'd wade into this shitstorm of a thread.

They're good. Really good. Yeah, they've been extensively covered by the media, and they inevitably get their share of tourists, but plenty of locals go here too, because they actually put out a great burger.

The whole point of this burger is to highlight the beef with a minimum of enhancements, which is why they're so anti-condiment. They want to make sure you taste their product as they intend, because they're confident the meat is more than good enough to stand on its own. It is. It's delicious as fuck. You can accent it with tomato and onion; the cheese came along sometime in the '70s and it works but it's really not necessary.

And yeah the potato salad is $4 but it's some of the best I've had here, well worth it.

It's different from other places. But it's good. Try it and judge on the food alone.

>> No.6736280

>>6736275
Doesn't the bottom slice of bread get soggy? Is the beef seasoned at all?

>> No.6736288

>>6736280

It does get soggy but not so bad that it falls apart. It's really just a holder for the beef. It's not really seasoned - they cook it in vertical broilers so any seasoning they put on would be carried off by the juices anyway, I'm guessing (this is also why they use a cheese spread instead of cheese slices). Maybe they use a basic salt and pepper, I dunno. The flavor is hard for me to articulate other than saying it's excellent. Apparently they use a secret blend of 5 different cuts of beef but that's just what I've heard.

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>people who disapprove of ketchup in one of the few instances where it is acceptable

>> No.6736298

>>6736288
I just can't imagine ground beef made from any quality of steak having enough flavour.

>> No.6736300

I'd be scared to dine there for fear of getting kicked out for breaking some arbitrary, unwritten rule.

>> No.6736306

>>6736298

All I can say is that, while you're eating it, you don't wish that you had any condiments. At least I didn't. It takes a good burger patty to reach that point.

>> No.6736310

>>6736306
Louis pls

>> No.6736323

>>6736300
You mean the no singles policy? It's because loser cooties drive away good customers.

>> No.6736376

>>6736288
>east coast plebs
>thinks they know what good beef is

Nebraska reporting in. You have no idea. Go to any steakhouse in Omaha sometime and thank me later faggot.

>> No.6736395

>>6736376

I drove across Nebraska once. It was terrifying. Everyone was unreasonably overweight, talked in slow motion, couldn't understand me and kept asking if I speak English (I was born in the US and English is my native language), the tap water tasted like it had poison in it, and all the food was oversalted and not fresh at all, and all the cars were shitty detroit garbage.

I don't recall the meat being any better than anywhere else, but I do recall the feeling like I was trapped in a nightmare when every single restaurant had the exact same items (hamburgers, club sandwiches, mystery soup, mystery pie, lemonade, coffee, "pop")

>> No.6736401

>>6736395
We must not be talking about the same Nebraska.

>> No.6736407

>>6736401

Maybe not, this was Nebraska in the 1990s. I guess it's possible things have changed since then.

>> No.6736414

>>6733284

And thats why Burger King is rich as fuck and you barely make rent

idiots

>> No.6736417

>>6736407
Well if you ever pass through again get a porterhouse at brother sebastian's. It is hard to find a corn fed steak that you can cut with a fork. We are the mecca.

http://kristinaperdida.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_2012.jpg

>> No.6736420

>>6736414
>revenue down by 1.9 billion
>no one I know has eaten at burger king in recent memory
>I'm not even sure I could find one without resorting to google
>meanwhile this place has a line down the block of people waiting to pay for their food

burger king shill pls find a new job before you get downsized as a cost cutting measure

I hear taco bell has an opening

>> No.6736430

>>6736420
The fast-food industry as a whole.

>> No.6736431

>>6736165
>I have an insane sense of initialment

Nigga I just want to be treated politely. I'm nice an corteous to food service staff.
So why are they gonna be rude and kick me out instead of just informing me they don't have that item?

>> No.6736432

>>6736395
>He calls pop "soda"

>> No.6736435

>>6736420
>>6736430

>implying that the place wont go bankrupt or change to please another trend in 2 years

who is the shill here you memelords

>> No.6736439

>>6736435
Wendy's, McDonald's, Burger King, it's all the same concept.

>> No.6736442

>>6736439

yes the same concept, for like 20 years now?
they sell what the customers want, they dont pretend to be some hip next level authentic food place

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>>6736435
>150 years old
>it's going to vanish overnight because I just discovered it and I don't like it *stamps feet*

>> No.6736453

>>6736446

this is literally the first time i have heard of this "ancient burger place", and i visit alot of food/cooking related sites for like 5 years

and a thread about started just now , in the middle of the burger hype

>> No.6736454

>>6736453
>the burger hype

Is that like the avocado fad or this weeb sushi thing I keep hearing about?

>> No.6736472

>>6736454

sushi was one of those food-trends, now look at all those sushi places

oh wait :^)

>> No.6736474

>>6736472
>oh wait :^)

Oh wait what? That shit hit NYC in the 80s and fast forward 30 years, there's still a sushi joint on every block in every borough except maybe Staten Island, NASA has yet to send a probe.

>> No.6736508

>>6734259

>how do I into gramma

>> No.6736615

>>6733336
Those fucking ellipses man...

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>>6736474
We got a probe for ya!

>> No.6736717

>>6734467
That's not really true. Look at government departments and suck up companies. They're guaranteed business and it has nothing to do with being the best.

Suck up to clintons and CAIR enough and you're guaranteed business.

>> No.6736742

>>6736717
Can you please take this to /pol/, along with your rants about Indians and why you're entitled to that job you lost because you saved porn on the department shared drive?

>> No.6736760

>>6736275
They can as great as they want for all I care but again, they're forgetting who's paying who. I don't to a fucking restraunt to tell me that I "CANT" have ketchup if I want ketchup. Maybe I want it and maybe I don't, that not the point. Being militant faggots about it isn't what I like.

I highly suspect that Jackson Hole in NYC is a shitload better than that Connecticunt crap anyway. There are a few others in NYC too that are just as well written up and aren't militant about something stupid like ketchup.

>> No.6736762

>>6736275
btw... fuck off shill

>> No.6736766

>>6736760
Jackson hole is shit, I don't know why you have such a hardon for that place.

>> No.6736769

>>6736742
Eww, lots of assumptions there. You must be an indian or a paki with not only it's panties in a bunch but it's h1b threatened.

>> No.6736775

>>6736766
I don't have a hard on for it but it's really good, certainly better than anything that Connecticut can come up with. The one on 64th St is really good. Instead of knocking things why don't you offer alternatives based on experience or would that be too complicated for you? You fuckin' shill.

>> No.6736781

>>6736769
Neither, it's just tiresome to see you ranting for the 100th time about how you got fired by the new CEO in 1999 and you're milking them for "consulting" (blackmail) money because no one can decipher your clusterfuck code abortion that works even though no one is quite sure how.

It's ok to blow off steam once in a while when it's on topic, or tangentially related, or maybe even two or three degrees away but when you start inserting your completely random personal issues into a hamburger thread, it might be time to migrate to a new board designed for that kind of thing.

Now say the thing about pervy uncles and the nay nay, or maybe start ranting about women again. You're like a demented old grandfather, there's no stopping you once you get started.

>> No.6736789

>>6736781
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>> No.6736805

>>6736775
It's not really good, it's literally an oversized wad of ground beef steamed on a griddle. The only thing it's got going for it is size, which impresses starving refugees from Africa maybe. Highly mediocre as city burgers go.
>why don't you offer alternatives
Eisenberg's, the Parker Meridien burger, Shake Shack, Minetta, Blue Smoke, those are all good to great burgers, depending on what style you're after.

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>>6736417
>corn fed steak

>> No.6737435

>>6736760
>>6736762

You seem to have some deep personal issues. Have you thought about seeking counseling?

>> No.6737446

Frisco burger at Hardees with a side of curly fries....much better that this shit

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>>6736781
ha.

>> No.6738182

>>6736149
Rocky Hill reportan

>> No.6738859

>>6736417

>mecca steakhouse
>jalapeno poppers on the menu

>> No.6738877

>>6736442
You've got it backwards. Advertising tells customers to want that crap.

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>no ketchup
>offers tomato

>> No.6739453

>>6738182
>Rocky Hill

You guys have a good indian place there, Priya. best I've had in the state.