/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.4991917]

What do you choose /ck/?

inb4 sprint

[Anonymous No.4991926]

five guys because I haven't tried there yet
also a burger sounds better than a burrito

[Anonymous No.4991929]

5 guys i have that option all the time have taken 5 guys over moes (similar but not the same) at least 50 times.

[Anonymous No.4991931]

5 guys. their burgers are only okay but their cajun fries are godly

[Anonymous No.4991934]

goddamn 5 guys is expensive as fuck, but there was this qt asian girl behind the till.

[Anonymous No.4991935]

Is that in rochester?

Anyway, depends on the line. Usually one or both of those places has a shitterrible longass line, I'll just see which one is more reasonable

[Anonymous No.4991940]

There is only one answer to this riddle.

>go to Chipotle, order your burrito
>it will be crowded like it always is, so you have time before your food is ready
>run over to Five Guys and get a large order of fries
>bring your fries over to Chipotle and your burrito should be ready by now
>take your food outside and enjoy
>afterwards, go to Sprint and buy a phone to tell your friends how good your food was

[Anonymous No.4991958]

>>4991917
>Not going to Sprint and eating some of their electrical spaghetti

[Anonymous No.4991960]

>>4991917
>go to chipotle
>see five guys "north shoring" eachother in the 2856 with their chilli peppers
>immediately sprint out of there

[Anonymous No.4991968]

>>4991935
Nah it's someplace in Illinois I stumbled upon earlier this week. I chose 5 Guys.

[Anonymous No.4991972]

>allergic to peanuts
>could never eat at five guys, let alone walk inside
>already have ATT coverage
BURRITO TIME

[Anonymous No.4991990]

>>4991934
I always see this qt cashier whenever I'm at 5 guys during the weekends. Damn you, 5 guys!
Also they're passive aggressive with their fries.

I went to Chipotle once and I got yelled at for pointing over the glass. Never again.

[Anonymous No.4992000]

>>4991929
I think Moe's and Chipotle are worlds apart. Never liked Moe's at all and it's insanely overpriced.

[Anonymous No.4992002]

>>4991990
Passive aggressive how? You were not yelled at. You were asked to not do something unsanitary and now you're butthurt.

[Anonymous No.4992145]

The secret ingredient is phone.

[Anonymous No.4992158]

>>4991917
Chipotle

Five Guys is literally a burger I can make at home.

[Anonymous No.4992159]

>>4992158
>not being able to make a burrito at home

[Anonymous No.4992161]

>>4991917
chipotle. There you get your moneys worth.

[Anonymous No.4992163]

5 guys. I remove my burger from the bag and put it in my pocket. Then I fill my bag with their peanuts and run.

[Anonymous No.4992165]

>>4991940
chipotle is like subway. You can't order than wait. They make your food while you order.

[Anonymous No.4992168]

>>4991917

Keep driving.

[Anonymous No.4992169]

>>4991990
>I went to Chipotle once and I got yelled at for pointing over the glass. Never again.

>one employee was a dick
>blame entire franchise

srsly though, if you go back weeks later and that person is still working there you might have a legit complaint

[Anonymous No.4992175]

>>4991917

>implying i live in a small town in a flyover state

[Anonymous No.4992217]

>>4992159

I can make one at home, but it won't be nearly as close to a Chipotle burrito as the burger I can make will be to a 5 guys.

[Anonymous No.4992324]

If I had to choose: chipotle since I've never been there.
I've only gone to 5 Guys once and it just ended up being an average tasting burger with some soggy fries that costed a lot more than it should have.

[Anonymous No.4992328]

>>4991917
Of those four choices, I choose none of the above. I'll make my own food if those are my only choices.

What shithole of solitude do you live in where those are the only choices?

And yes I included that number as a choice making it four.

[Anonymous No.4992347]

I would choose to move. 5 guys is quite possibly the most overrated chain in existence, and do I even need to get started on Chipotle? No amount of shitty attempts at viral marketting will cover up the fact that any town worth a damn has better mexican food for the same if not less money. What podunk shithole do you live in anon, you have my pity.

[Anonymous No.4992352]

>>4992217
>Implying that a greasy burger made from inferior meat is hard to make
>implying that their salty, soggy fries aren't fucking embarassing.

[Anonymous No.4992378]

>>4991917
>five guys fries
>omg they give u so much!
>it costs more too
>and it's fucking potatoes
sometimes i can get potatoes 5lbs or even 10lbs for $1. imagine how many they can get wholesale

[Anonymous No.4992383]

>>4992378
Plus, you can probably cook them correctly so they wouldn't be over salted, soggy and disgusting. I will never understand the appeal of Five Guys...have people just never had a good burger before? do they not have burgervilles where you are? Seriously, if a burger joint has pretensions of being gourmet and can't even offer cheddar...wtf?

[Anonymous No.4992415]

chipotle is subway but with tortillas if i want a dick on my burrito i'll do it myself. tried five guys got a five dollar burger that didn't even come with fries and i could have made a better burger for less. and i use verizon for the coverage

[Anonymous No.4992435]

>>4992415
This.
Seriously, What's wrong with marching into the local taqueria and getting something better for less? if you live someplace without decent taqueria's kill yourself, you've obviously made some irreconcilably bad choices in this life.

[Anonymous No.4992455]

>staying in motel for almost 2 weeks in bumfuck nowhere midwest
>chipotle is the only place in walking distance
>have it at least 10 times in that 2 weeks

That shit gets boring by day 2, not day 12. They had 3 levels of spiciness to their salsas; anybody know if they go any higher at other locations? I swear I got some years ago that actually burned my mouth a bit.

[Anonymous No.4992459]

>>4992455
Luckily, I live in a state that has this chain. Their burritos are actually full of meat, not soggy abortions of rice and beans.

[Anonymous No.4992460]

>>4992459
Forgot to add, They're pretty much everywhere here (northern oregon and southwestern washington)...You know you live in a good place for food when even the chains are good.

[Anonymous No.4992465]

>>4992217
I don't think I've ever made a burrito that tasted as bad as chipotle

[Anonymous No.4992474]

>>4992465
Agreed. not even del taco fucks up that badly. And they gave me food poisoning.

[Anonymous No.4992738]

>>4991917
I'd choose North Shore. You know a place is good when they don't even bother to pay much for ad space.

[Anonymous No.4992809]

>>4991917
Acquire 5 guys burger with all toppings and fries. Enter chipotle and ask for a burrito with the burger and fries inside and carnitas and guacamole on top, double wrapped in two burritos. BECOME A GOD AMONG MEN!

[Anonymous No.4992813]

>>4992460
I don't remember that from Portland....at all is it like one of those chains thats only in the couve or like tigard or beaverton?

[Anonymous No.4992861]

Never been to either place... 5 guys reeks of overpriced hipster crap though, whereas chipotle reeks of overpriced yuppie crap... i imagine 5 guys has a really cute quirky/punk/artsy girl taking orders though, but i'd probably still just go to chipotle and order something not spicy.

[Anonymous No.4992869]

YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW

[Anonymous No.4992870]

>>4991935

I've driven across flyover land and I can assure you, literally every place looks like that. For a years after that I had occasional nightmares of never ending scenery scrolling where Chipotle, the Sprint Store, Starbucks, The Container Store, Home Depot, Michael's Craft Supply, The UPS Store, Taco Bell, Auto Zone, Edible Arrangements, and (if it was a "nice" part of flyover land) The Body Shop, with a super mario hallucination of infinite side scrolling SUVs and pink faced ham beasts devouring California Pizza Kitchen.

Sometimes I have to visit these kinds of places for work and when the taxi pulls out of the airport I have to take a few deep breaths to avoid panic as I see the infinite plain of horror expand in front of me.

[Anonymous No.4992877]

>>4992861
>5 guys reeks of overpriced hipster crap though

lol wut.

It's a cheap, greasy good burger with as many toppings as you want. with a large bag of greasy fries to go with it.

I don't think you know what hipster means

[Anonymous No.4992880]

>>4992861

You can't possibly have good taste in anything, flippantly tossing labels that way.

[Anonymous No.4992907]

>>4992877
>>4992880

Plenty of posters here have called it overpriced and overrated... i'm inclined to believe them. i don't care for shitty greasy burgers and shitty greasy fries as it is, much less ones that probably aren't worth what they're asking you to pay.

people like you wanna go to places with novel names like 5 guys to pay for what you shallowly perceive is a culturally authentic and rewarding (pseudo) working-class greasy spoon experience, which is in fact as tasteless and unsatisfying as that unremarkable burger you're raving about.

[Anonymous No.4992914]

>>4992907

Plenty of people here also believe that Sriracha is new and trendy.

There is nothing more depressing than to think of how a person can live in a place where chipotle is "fancy" and five guys is "hip".

You probably think Starbucks is hip too.

[Anonymous No.4992916]

>>4992870
>I have to take a few deep breaths to avoid panic as I see the infinite plain of horror expand in front of me.
Not the anon you're replying to, but I know that feel. I too have had to travel to places where people actually line up to eat at the Olive Garden, and the deep, quiet horror of being stuck in such a place is soul crushing. Cheese on everything, and ranch dressing as a table condiment - suicide is better than that.

[Anonymous No.4992926]

>>4992914

I actually like sriracha personally... that doesn't mean that it's not also trendy and "hip" for a lot of clueless people who just wanna be seen by their peers with a bottle conspicuously close to their plate of pad thai.

...and i never said chipotle was especially fancy, just geared towards a target market of individuals who want to be seen as "fancy"... or perhaps urbane would be a better word.

and yeah starbucks is definitely hip in many ways... you're a fool if you think otherwise.

[Anonymous No.4992930]

>>4992926
> and yeah starbucks is definitely hip in many ways... you're a fool if you think otherwise.

You think starbucks is bad wait til you try the new Avocado sub by Subway.

The number of beanie wearing, scat-talking, reefer-smoking hep cats who I see smugly eating avocado subs while dropping the latest names in jazz music really grinds my gears.

[Anonymous No.4992933]

>>4992914
>dat image
>health at any weight
>gravity: fuck you lol

[Anonymous No.4992937]

>>4991972
Man I would so cover my hands in crushed peanut shells and shake your hand for the lulz after saying I was going to go outside to smoke a cig at Chipotle but in reality go to Five Guys and immerse my hands in the peanut container.

[Anonymous No.4992938]

>>4992347
The original 5 guys before they licensed out franchises in the dc area are not bad. The rest are meh.

[Anonymous No.4992941]

>>4992926
I used Sriracha in thai and vietnamese recipes at a cooking school in the late 90's well before it was a fad. It has its place and can be overused and sometimes other condiments are more appropriate (sweet chili sauce, hot sauce, red pepper flakes, whole peppers)

[Anonymous No.4993107]

>>4992926
>target market of individuals who want to look urbane
>chipotle

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.4993116]

>>4991917

How's Naperville, OP?

[Anonymous No.4993163]

>>4993107

uh yeah... many of these restaurant chains like chipotle may have started out as places genuinely focused on the food. however, once a place like that goes gung-ho corporate in the way chipotle has it becomes about the money and shareholders. chipotle markets not just its food, but its entire image (the way its restaurants are designed, the way its menus are worded, the way its ingredients are showcased, the way its logo is presented, even its prices, etc) to appeal to a certain group of intensely image conscious people.

[Anonymous No.4993165]

>>4991917
Chipotle. Tried Five Guys for the first time and while it was good, it wasn't $8 good. Also, the place was filthy.

[Anonymous No.4993170]

>>4993163
...and the fact that it all seems so wild to you means they're doing a pretty damn good job. marketing execs spend a lot of time and money earning the expensive MBA's required to make such a place so appealing to so many people. MBA's are more integral to chipotle's business model than culinary expertise...

[Anonymous No.4993171]

>>4993163
>chipotle markets not just its food, but its entire image (the way its restaurants are designed, the way its menus are worded, the way its ingredients are showcased, the way its logo is presented, even its prices, etc) to appeal to a certain group of intensely image conscious people.
Not the anon you're replying to, but are you saying image conscious people eat at chain restaurants? Not the image conscious people I know...

[Anonymous No.4993178]

why are those 2 always together

[Anonymous No.4993183]

>>4993171
of course image conscious people eat at chain restaurants... chains like chipotle are not marketed the same way as ostensibly lower-end chains like wendy's or mcdonald's, but the business models and marketing methodologies are very similar, just geared towards different demographics.

image conscious people want others to perceive them in a certain way, and more importantly, want to perceive themselves in a certain way... chains are specifically marketed to appeal to these desires for conspicuous consumption.

[Anonymous No.4993202]

>>4993183
>chains are specifically marketed to appeal to these desires for conspicuous consumption.
You are correct. I was thinking of image consciousness as more of an elite thing, like the way celebrities maintain a specific image as part of their jobs.

But you're totally right. While we laugh at people eating at places like the Olive Garden, for some it's a mark of being middle class. I can see how a place like Chipotle takes the "ethnic" stigma out of having a burrito for lunch, and Five Guys stays in business by selling a non-ghetto burger and fries.

I just never eat at chains, so I never thought about it. But that's got to be what they're doing, or they wouldn't stay in business. Because dollar for dollar you're still not going to beat Taco Bell or Mickey D's value menu. So you have to sell class consciousness.

That's funny to me, because eating at any chain restaurant seems trashy in my view. But I'm privileged to live in a place where there are so many options I never have to.

[Anonymous No.4993768]

>>4991960
>>see five guys "north shoring" eachother in the 2856 with their chilli peppers

...wut

[Anonymous No.4993780]

>>4991917
honestly I'd rather go to the nearest Taco Bell.

>inb4 fast food pleb

Chipotle and Five Guys are expensive and I can get a better version of the same thing at other restaurants.

[Anonymous No.4993800]

Chipotle. Five Guys is tasteless and I actually enjoy Chipotle. I never really understood /ck/'s hatred for it. Yeah, their burritos are completely different from the sort of burritos you'd get at the authentic mexican places where I live, but they still taste pretty good.

[Anonymous No.4993806]

Five Guys, if I don't want a burger look for a Moe's or something.

[Anonymous No.4993866]

>>4993163
I wasn't arguing that chipotle customers were oblivious to marketing or the image of the chain.

I was expressing my shock at your choice of descriptors.

the type of person who considers chipotle anything but a cheap convenient place to wolf down a utility lunch is highly unlikely to consider "urbane" as a potential label for his own self image. assuming he even knows the word and doesn't mistake it for a misspelling of "urban"

[Anonymous No.4994483]

>>4992813
that's a negative ghost rider. You see them in the sticks (newberg) and further out on the east side. The original out in St. Helen's is the best in the chain, tho.