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Fatburger and Better Burgers

I was super excited to find out a Fatbuger was opening up in my Costco’s shopping center.  It was a long wait watching other stores going up around it and driving by the empty store every Saturday.  But then, out of nowhere… they were open.  So my wife and I went to try the famous Fatburger.

The inside was way more cookie cutter than I expected.  But I should have known since it’s next to a Stride Rite and in the same shopping center as a Costco and Best Buy.

I was ready for a FATBURGER, so I decided to go with a double kingburger.

Due to an ordering snafu, I only had meat and cheese.  But, that is one of the best ways to get a feel for a place’s burger so I dug in.
Lets start with the fries… just not good at all!
And now the burger… It was alot to handle, but in the end I thought that it had too much seasoning and not enough natural burger flavor.
Over all my experience was unsatisfactory to say the least, and I was left wondering, why do people like these burgers???
So I decided to give Fatbuger another try.

A few days later, I went back for the Fatbuger with all the fixings and chili.  This time despite the greasy patty exterior,  the inside of the patty was all dry.  So that is that.  I do not like Fatbuger at all.  And I love burgers hard!

I would much rather go to a Five Guys any day.  They are without a doubt my favorite fast burger.

I’m no burger connoisseur, like some out there, but I do enjoy a tasty burger and my whole family loves burger night.  We’ve perfected our recipe to now include onions and Gorgonzola in the patty instead of adding them on top.

The Gorgonzola melts through the entire burger filling it with flavor.

Even my 2 year old loves the way they turn out.

Here is the final product:

Black Friday

It’s Thanksgiving time again and that means Black Friday!  So I ate some pumpkin pie and prepared for my favorite shopping day of the year.  My pre game strategy always comes from Black Friday ad scans weeks before but I always end up spending midnight pining over the various deals and mapping out my game plain of what stores I intend to hit.

This year I started at Best Buy @ 5AM (as always) and then we moved on to Target, Walmart, and Costco, with a break in the middle for the golden arches.    I didn’t have any big-ticket items this year so I did the bulk of my shopping at Target and it was a MAD HOUSE!  I’m used to the huge crowds at Best Buy but this year Target was the place to be.

This year I couldn’t have done it alone!  Thank God I had my sister and her fiancé to hold the cart.

While Todd manned my cart with my son’s Lego set …

I went out with free arms to wrestle a Soccer Mom for one of the last pink Little Tykes Digital Cameras.

And yes my little girl will not have a blue camera this Christmas.

All and all it was a great time.  It seamed like most people bought up the cheap flat screen TVs this year but I had no need, room, or money for any more televisions.