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Boycott all fast food, it’s a plague on society.
It’s time for slow food to shine!
I can get behind this notion. Fast food has significantly made the human population, on average, uglier.
This doesn’t really seem like the right community to post this. Maybe try a news community, like !news@lemmy.world? (I think I linked that right)
I like In-N-Out’s food okay. What I really like is their simple menu. It’s the only fast food my family eats because they can do gluten free safely. The owners are definitely conservative and christian (and weirdly so imo) but those freaks know how to run a well-functioning restaurant. The mask ban is obviously stupid but I won’t boycott over it. Sucks for the workers, but also In-N-Out pays better and appears to treat their staff much better than your typical fast food joint. I’d hate to see those jobs shifted over to something like another McDonald’s, for example.
Five Guys is really good about allergens, including gluten. They have a special allergen free zone in the kitchen that is apparently a huge pain in the ass to prepare for use each time, but they make sure it’s not got any of what you’re avoiding. If you ask for something to be left out of your order they ask: “Allergy or preference?”
That’s good to know, thanks. I’ve never been to a Five Guys and I’ve heard mixed reviews. Some love it/some hate it. I hear they’re expensive? I will try them for safe GF.
Five guys is absolutely delicious…but they have peanuts in shells for free to snack on in the dining room so beware if you’re allergic.
Five Guys? Good about allergens? I opened the door and was faced with a horror show. Peanuts to the left of me, peanuts to the right. Peanuts to the center. I retired from the field.
Yeah, idk… I went to their website and the fries are not flagged for peanut allergy yet it also says “cooked in 100% peanut oil” so that does not inspire confidence lmao
They aren’t exaggerating. There are literally pallets of peanuts just out in the open at Five Guys. It’s one of their things.
It’s probably 100% refined peanut oil, which removes the protein people are allergic to during the refinement process.
Yep peanut oil in the US is safe for people allergic to peanuts.
Interesting. I had no idea.
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Easy, I started my boycott after trying it for the first time 10 years ago.
Am I mistaken or aren’t they also major republican donors too?
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Tried looking them up on goodsuniteus.com, but they don’t have ‘em.
Fortunately, OpenSecrets’ got 'em: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/in-n-out-burger/summary?id=D000072295edit, 'cause I can’t help myself…
Congressional Leadership Fund (C/R)
- Total: $750,000
- From Individuals: $0
- From PACs: $750,000
- Type: Carey
Walker, Herschel (C/R)
- Total: $2,910
- From Individuals: $2,910
- From PACs: $0
- Type: Candidate (R-GAS2)
Republican National Cmte (C/R)
- Total: $2,000
- From Individuals: $2,000
- From PACs: $0
- Type: Political Party
National Republican Congressional Cmte (C/R)
- Total: $1,540
- From Individuals: $1,540
- From PACs: $0
- Type: Political Party
National Republican Senatorial Cmte (C/R)
- Total: $600
- From Individuals: $600
- From PACs: $0
- Type: Political Party
Libertarian National Cmte (No View)
- Total: $459
- From Individuals: $459
- From PACs: $0
- Type: Political Party
Sanders, Bernie (No View)
- Total: $200
- From Individuals: $200
- From PACs: $0
- Type: Candidate (I-VTS1)
Trump, Donald (C/R)
- Total: $192
- From Individuals: $192
- From PACs: $0
- Type: Candidate (R-PRES)
Warren, Elizabeth (L/D)
- Total: $75
- From Individuals: $75
- From PACs: $0
- Type: Candidate (D-MAS1)
Harshbarger, Diana (C/R)
- Total: $5
- From Individuals: $5
- From PACs: $0
- Type: Candidate (R-TN01)
Daaaang, thanks for the digging!
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I mean… they have Bible verses printed on their cups and fry containers and what not… I worked for them back in the day and the founders were 100% what you’d imagine when you think of rich white SoCal conservatives… this saddened me but didn’t surprise me at all… and honestly, until I saw this headline I’d root for them 100% because they treat their employees well, pay well, and promote from within. As a company to work for (this decision excluded) they are pretty damn great.
Although I’d like to offer an alternative to the conservative COVID denial option, which is they are very old school… I could totally see a couple of boomers deciding customer service (smiling at your customers like a cheesy training video from the 80s) is more important than health concerns.
As someone from Michigan, I’m headed to Utah in two weeks. I’m sorry but I’m eating as much in-n-out as I can talk my gf into.
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People smiled with their eyes so much more during the COVIDs.
It is obvious when someone with a mask on is smiling.
We have very elderly mothers, and sisters with cancer, so my family still masks. I smile at people all the time, they smile back, everyone goes away feeling good. I don’t understand how some people get so worked up over masks. 🤦♀️
The obvious take away is they dont want to see people smiling because they like seeing happy people.
They like to see smiles because it makes themselves happy to see smiles.
It’s ridiculously selfish even if you ignore that you’re putting everyone’s health at risk
There’s none in Canada so I’m doing my part!
There are none within a few hundred miles of me so … I’m doing my part?
Overrated anyway. I was born and raised in L.A. and there are a million better burgers to be found. Oh, and their fries really just suck. :|
Totally agree. Don’t understand the cult following. It’s just fast food. Necessary on the road sometimes but I can’t imagine why someone would be excited about it.
It’s a tourist thing. People hear In-N-Out is “good” and, frankly, the burgers are pretty damn good for the price point. But it’s about going to In-N-Out, getting a t-shirt, and taking a selfie with your bestie surrounded by 50s diner decor, and then, continuing on your road trip or whatever.
There’s always a place nearby to get a “better” burger, and you could pull better fries out of a store-branded bag of frozen “seasoned potato sticks”, but the food ain’t the reason people go.
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Oh, and their fries really just suck. :|
No matter what praise I’ve seen of In-N-Out the criticism of their fries seems nearly universal.
Say you arent really from LA without saying you arent really from LA. Where you gonna go thats better thats as cheap… Dinos? Nasty ass Tommys? Ur crusty ass probably gonna say Jims
Imagine white knighting friggin’ In-N-Out of all places, with all the far better “cheap” food options available out here. For instance, Tommy’s - seeing it’s been around here longer than In-N-Out lol.
Tommys is strictly intended to feed the morbidly obese. Im not out here defending tommys because thats dog food. However, there must be a reason theres a line for 2 hours during covid lockdowns at in n out and not at Tommys.
Why someone would wait in line 2 hours for a middling burger is beyond me.
Maybe because people like it? Maybe cuz its pretty good?
Where did I say nobody likes it? Or that it isn’t any good? Or that someone shouldn’t wait that long if they actually dig it that much?
I was born here in 1970, genius. 😂 Back when the Valley was 213 area code. Did you even know that it used to be 213 and wasn’t always 818? JFC, some people. In & Out sucks, you spend more in gas waiting in their fucking lines than you save by eating their shitty ass fries and weak burgers. You’re acting like I slapped your mother.
I like that it’s relatively cheap, but the fries are bad.
They’re mediocre AF anyways.
No they’re not, boycott anyway tho
When I was in Arizona, I loved in-n-out. Now, in California, there are 3 places walking distance to me that wipe the floor with them.
Aligns with what my friends who’ve had the (mis)fortune to have had the chance to try it have said.
I mean honestly, it’s a competent burger but it’s a fucking hamburger. It’s not haute cuisine. Also, their fries are limp as shit because they’re fresh cut but they don’t prep them or par cook them. I cannot for the life of me understand why people wait in line for this shit. But I say that about a lot of things.
Five Guys ftw
I’d rather have dicksinabag anyway.
That does sound d much better!
In-N-Out bans employees from wearing masks
wut
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So what does it matter then? Why do masks need to be specifically prohibited?
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I’ve actually noticed a lot of the plexiglass barriers are still up recently, for whatever reason.
This is bassakwards. Forget covid, all cooks should be required to wear a mask while in a kitchen for the same reasons they’re wear hair nets and we have sneeze guards on salad bars. I don’t want some cook coughing on my burger.
I agree at least for cooks, along the same lines as hand washing and hair nets. I’ve actually caught the flu from eating out before, you know those stomach flus that incubate really fast, you can tell. I’ve caught covid a couple times, but who knows how I got that, has a long incubation, no way to narrow it down. Anyway I don’t worry about covid any more than the flu. I almost died from the flu when I was a kid, never got that sick from covid, I mean it was still pretty nasty, but not life threatening.
Yeah exactly. Why more people haven’t taken COVID as an opportunity to learn that spitting germs out of your mouth on food is gross, is beyond me.
