Sac Arrow
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Started roughly two weeks ago. With me anyway. One of my favorite go-to fast food burger joints is Carl's Jr., which has a lettuce wrap low carb burger as one of its options. And they are flamed broiled. Doesn't get better than that.
Or does it.
So I was three quarters of the way through a fifty mile ride on the bike, my lime green spandex soaked with sweat and badly splintered in the back by an errant two by four, and I needed some FOOD. I got my standard lettuce wrapped six-dollar burger (1/2 lb burger patty.) But something was different. I don't know if it was actually different, or I just now noticed it, but, the hamburger looked and tasted like it had FILLERS in it!! What?? Carl's? No, tell me it ain't so.
It's so. Reference Carl's own nutrition guide, the "Low Carb Six Dollar Burger" contains a "Beefsteak Patty, Angus - Black Angus Beef, Salt, Sodium Phosphate, and Spices." They had enough "Sodium Phosphate" and "Spices", which could contain pretty much anything including soy filler, that it actually changed the texture of the meat.
Why am I so conscious of it now?
Perhaps because I've been habituating other burger joints in search of a good burger, ranging from small mini-chains to mom and pop burger joints. Some are better than others. One of my favorites, Habit Burger, is the real deal, and char broiled, and they do the lettuce wrap thing. Another one, Smashburger, seems to be real beef but their shtick is to smash the burger in to some frazzled mess. No matter because they don't have any in the East Bay anyway. Really the best burger in my opinion is simply my local Korean run mom and pop burger joint (run, not surprisingly, by a Korean mom and pop.) People think Korean food is all bulgoki , kimchee an rice, but no, the Koreans do like their burgers - and fried chicken.
I'm on point for new and exciting burger venues. I'm starting to rebel against the major large fast food chains. They're just inflexible, and their clientel, well, I've concluded that McDonald's is the food of the tards.
Or does it.
So I was three quarters of the way through a fifty mile ride on the bike, my lime green spandex soaked with sweat and badly splintered in the back by an errant two by four, and I needed some FOOD. I got my standard lettuce wrapped six-dollar burger (1/2 lb burger patty.) But something was different. I don't know if it was actually different, or I just now noticed it, but, the hamburger looked and tasted like it had FILLERS in it!! What?? Carl's? No, tell me it ain't so.
It's so. Reference Carl's own nutrition guide, the "Low Carb Six Dollar Burger" contains a "Beefsteak Patty, Angus - Black Angus Beef, Salt, Sodium Phosphate, and Spices." They had enough "Sodium Phosphate" and "Spices", which could contain pretty much anything including soy filler, that it actually changed the texture of the meat.
Why am I so conscious of it now?
Perhaps because I've been habituating other burger joints in search of a good burger, ranging from small mini-chains to mom and pop burger joints. Some are better than others. One of my favorites, Habit Burger, is the real deal, and char broiled, and they do the lettuce wrap thing. Another one, Smashburger, seems to be real beef but their shtick is to smash the burger in to some frazzled mess. No matter because they don't have any in the East Bay anyway. Really the best burger in my opinion is simply my local Korean run mom and pop burger joint (run, not surprisingly, by a Korean mom and pop.) People think Korean food is all bulgoki , kimchee an rice, but no, the Koreans do like their burgers - and fried chicken.
I'm on point for new and exciting burger venues. I'm starting to rebel against the major large fast food chains. They're just inflexible, and their clientel, well, I've concluded that McDonald's is the food of the tards.