For Something Completely Random

It’s midnight and I’m craving an In-N-Out burger.

Totally CRAVING In-N-Out

And no, this isn’t some 420 sort of thing. I’m not that kind of guy. Kids are asleep. and there’s no chance for me to get out and get one because I’m a single dad on duty.

Blast.

Those of you not located in the roughly 500 mile radius of the In-N-Out restaurant chain centered around Southern California, just have no idea. Sonic comes close to being the same phenomenon in the Midwest, White Castle on the eastern seaboard.

Once again this is not Harold and Kumar driven. More like blogwriter driven.

If you come to Disneyland, Sea World, or a myriad of Hollywood mecca type locations, you must at least once try the burger.

Quality matters

All ingredients California grown. French fries (which I’ve mostly shunned for going on eight years) so fresh the potato was still whole less than ten minutes prior to your eating it. Coke which is NEVER on the wrong syrup mix. Never wrong, ever ever too much soda water or too much syrup. And the shakes…

It’s been around for sixty years. Hopefully so will I even after eating my favorite 4×4 combo once every six weeks.

I’ve been resisting the urge for days now

DAYS. About ten to be exact. I almost feel like an Al-Anon working towards a thirty day pin or something except that I’m not really fighting my weight. It’s just mind over matter.

It’s been about 18 years since I had my first one.

Recently on a stop through Central California I heard about Animal Style fries. You wouldn’t believe my shock, that after 18 years there was something new I didn’t know. Animal Style fries are practically all the super artery clogging toppings of the burger but on the fries.

I haven’t had or even heard of anything like that since trying Gravy Fries in a Brooklyn diner at 3am. In, like, 1993. Then again, Central Cali is our version of Texas and Missouri.

You know, where the belt sizes expand about ten inches larger than SoCal glitzy nip/tuck or NorCal organic vegan averages. Where they would of course totally order, four or five people in a row, the Animal style fries, with cheese, sauce, grilled onions all on top of the fries. Wow.

That plus a Double-double is a heap-load of bad stuff barreling through your system. I’m too old to press my luck with that; I might like it far too much.

In-N-Out Even Has Secret Codes

I’m not kidding. You can stack your patties as high as you want just by saying the number of patties and cheese. Get grilled onions by ordering “Animal Style”. Go bunless by ordering “Protein Style”.

Regarding secret codes, this site has it rolling, even in color pictures.

The friendly employees of In-N-Out Burger will take your special order without question, if you use the right terminology. The printed receipt will have your special request typed on it just as we said it.

All of us have our vices. I just have to fight my urge every two months or so to sit a half an hour in a drive-thru line in order to satisfy a compulsion that hits me just about as often as KFC hits this guy: