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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:01:49 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sun Jan 24 19:57:40 2010. I like how it shows the next closest location at 115 miles away and the next one at almost 300 miles. At some point "the next closest" becomes extraneous information. lol |
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Posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sun Jan 24 20:05:43 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:01:49 2010. Yeah, I know. :-) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:06:12 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:01:46 2010. I'd heard, but never experienced that McDonalds in Florida sold beer and that you could get it from drive thru's until the early 1980's. Not sure that I believe it so take it FWIW. I think that Florida's original drunk driving laws were similar to a few other southern states in that drinking and driving in and of itself was not a crime. I think that Mississippi was the last state to allow drinking and driving and that was well into the 80's and maybe into the 90's. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:12:19 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 14:50:45 2010. McDonald's breakfast is "okay", but it's nothing to write home about.I also like the options of all those other burger places, that you can have a burger if you feel like it, even if it's before 11AM. There are times when I have been on the road since early in the morning, and am hungry by 10:30 or so, and it's always a pain that you can only get breakfast instead of the burger menu. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:13:16 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 15:21:26 2010. Del Taco BLOWS Taco Bell away. There was also a cool place called "TacoTime" the last time I was in Southern California. Its a small chain, but it wasn't bad. I think I had it on Katella in Anaheim. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:16:56 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:06:12 2010. I'd heard, but never experienced that McDonalds in Florida sold beer and that you could get it from drive thru's until the early 1980's. Not sure that I believe it so take it FWIW.I'll ask a few locals who have lived here their entire lives. They might remember. I would not be surprised if it's true. Especially in the party towns like Daytona, Ft. Lauderdale, and Miami. Florida just passed a seat belt law. We now have to buckle up. That one has many people pissed off. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:18:47 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by trainsarefun on Sun Jan 24 19:32:24 2010. We're a major burger city, perhaps the tops!Uh no! NY is "tops" in a lot of things, but "fast food burgers" joins ain't one of them. The West Coast BLOWS us away with the choices they offer |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:18:59 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:12:19 2010. Yeah. It's ok. I used to love it.A McDonald's near my house starts serving breakfast at midnight with limited dinner menu until 4:30am, then just breakfast all the way until 10:30 am. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:31:09 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:01:49 2010. Hahahahhaha! After the New jersey One (58 miles), it says the next closest one is "70 Miles" away....in Connecticut....but that's how the "crow flies", I can fly over Long Island Sound and it will be only 70 miles away, lol.The next one after that is "315 miles" away in VA...don't like that one, or the next two...the next one is 775 miles away in Illinois....nothing like a quick bite to eat for lunch.... |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:32:03 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:18:59 2010. The Jack in the Box near me, 2 blocks away, serves the entire menu including breakfast 24 hours per day. :) |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:32:42 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:01:46 2010. Yeah, the one in Miami is apparently in the middle of South Beach. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:34:12 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:31:09 2010. "Honey, they're out of corn tortillas again so I'm headed to Virginia." |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:35:44 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 14:50:45 2010. And speaking of being open, in LA most of the Jacks, Carls and Del Tacos are open 24 hours. The national chains all close at 11pm or 12am for some reason.Many of our McDonalds, Burger Kings are beginning to be open 24 hours, at least on Long Island. Wendy's and Taco Bell are open till 4 AM most nights. And of course White Castle is 24 hours. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:43:00 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:35:44 2010. Our McDonalds are not. Or maybe they are. How would I know? I'm not out looking for McDonalds at that time anyway. :) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:46:05 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:32:03 2010. My guess is that McDonald's would like to find a way to serve breakfast all day, like Bob Evans, IHOP, and so many other chains who they are competing with. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:48:00 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:43:00 2010. Most McDonald's down here seem to be open 24 hours. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:48:12 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:43:00 2010. And our grocery stores are cutting back hours. The stores near me will start closing at 11pm and midnight instead of midnight and 2am. Maybe it's because of the economy. A cost cutting measure. Because many are doing that, not just the ones near me. Are you seeing that as well? |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:49:06 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:46:05 2010. The problem is they have to use the equipment for the burgers and stuff. Although that doesn't explain how some of the West Coast chains do it.Personally, I don't know if I would like "breakfast" when most people aren't getting it there, as it will probably be stale, as it's been sitting around. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:49:56 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:48:12 2010. We had a few 24 hour supermarkets on Long Island that have cut back to 2 AM recently. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sun Jan 24 20:53:40 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:18:47 2010. Uh no! NY is "tops" in a lot of things, but "fast food burgers" joins ain't one of them.Note that I didn't say in fast food burgers. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:53:56 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:49:56 2010. So they're closed for about 4 or 5 hours a day?I can see many of these 24 hour Wal-Mart Supercenters closing at 1 or 2 AM to save money. They already cut 11,000 jobs at Sam's Club. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:55:06 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:48:00 2010. That's relatively recent then. But it makes sense because people in Florida cities eat out at a high rate. Probably because of all of the tourists. The populations of Florida and the LA metro are comparable, but I'd guess that Florida has at least 5 times as many chain restaurants. We have many more non-chain, but Florida still has a ton more restaurants than we do. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:55:36 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by trainsarefun on Sun Jan 24 20:53:40 2010. NY doesn't have the monopoly on regular burgers either....I have had good burgers all over the country. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:59:02 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:55:06 2010. We also have a ton of Dunkin Donuts that are open all night. Maybe McDonald's is trying to maintain their market share against such competitors? They seem to always have a line of cars, even at night, and I'm not really near the tourist locations.The McDonald's in Brandon, Riverview, and Ybor City are all 24 hour locations. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:59:50 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:55:36 2010. There was a bar on Stanhope and Woodward that was known for great burgers. I think it was called the Eagle's Nest. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:01:01 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:59:02 2010. Even my local McDonalds, which isn't even that busy of a town, is open 24 hours now. It's something that has been happening all over the place areound here over the last 2 or 3 years.When I was a teenager, and we would want something "late nights", or after 10, nothing was open except the diners. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:02:01 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 20:55:06 2010. I don't know about that, I seem to remember more fast food places in LA than in Florida. Certainly more choices, but there just seemed to be more of them too. Florida has no shortage either, but I say there's more in LA. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:02:38 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 20:59:02 2010. We don't have Dunkin Donuts but many of McDonalds competitors in LA County are open 24 hours. I wonder why they don't try and compete out here? |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:04:16 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:01:01 2010. Yeah. White Castle once dominated that late night market. No more.I find it strange that some Mc Donald's with a drive-thru in Queens don't stay open 24 hours, like the one on Metropolitan near Continental. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:05:52 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:02:38 2010. Do you think they're afraid of being robbed? |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:06:02 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:02:01 2010. I meant sit-down restaurants. Florida has more lots more Outbacks, Carrabas, Red Lobsters, and stuff like that than we do. Fast food restaurants are everywhere in both places. I couldn't begin to guess who had more. But we do have more independent diner type restaurants. Probably more than anywhere I've ever been unless maybe NY has more. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:09:31 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:05:52 2010. To an extent. That's why they only have the drive-thrus open. But if McDonalds opened the drive-thru could that get robbed? I never heard of it happening before. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Sun Jan 24 21:10:24 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 20:55:36 2010. NY doesn't have the monopoly on regular burgers either....I have had good burgers all over the country.We don't have a monopoly, but as any burgerphile will tell you, this is a burger mecca. Some of my favorites, as they come to me, in the more or less traditional burger category: Royale DBGB Prune Spotted Pig Donovan's Shake Shack Market Table David Burke's Blue Smoke Lure Fishbar (no joke! ask the chef!) JG Melon No true burgerphile has not had these several times. I'll stop now. :) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:11:07 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:06:02 2010. We even have Bonefish Grill, which is owned by the Carrabbas, Outback group.We even have Steak N' Shake, and DQ Grill. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:13:33 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:09:31 2010. Drive-thru does get robbed. Careless personnel don't shut the window and someone crawls in and robs the place. Happens often. And don't forget Selkirk's famous Florida Follies of people pulling guns on drive-thru clerks. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:18:14 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:13:33 2010. Well yeah, that's Florida! Where carjackings were invented! ;)It doesn't happen out here though. At least I never heard of it. I have heard of people getting robbed while waiting in drive thru lines, but that was many years ago. Actually the ones I heard of were shootings. I would probably never hear of a simple robbery. Not like those make the LA Times. We did have a double murder at an all night convenience store a couple of years ago. And the 7-Eleven gets robbed sometimes. That's about it. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:20:21 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by trainsarefun on Sun Jan 24 21:10:24 2010. Well, I am watching the Travel Channel's Top 101 Chowdown Countdown, and between that and your post, I am now starving. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:23:14 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:04:16 2010. Yes, most of the 24 hour McDonalds only have the drive through open in the midnight hours.But it's a lot better than when I was a kid, when even on a Friday night the McDonalds and BK's were closed by 10:00. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:24:23 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:06:02 2010. Ahhh, yes. You are correct with that. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:24:30 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:18:14 2010. I didn't know carjackings were invented here.Today, I took a little drive up and down seedy US 41. Lots of taco and BBQ stands. Few franchise locations there. BBQ seems really huge down here. They even had a "pigfest" BBQ at a stadium in Lakeland, and every gas station now has some guy who pays for the space to sell BBQ, mostly pork, and chicken too. Only fried stuff down here is franchise, but I'm sure google could reveal a handful of mom-n-pop fried food joints. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:24:33 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by trainsarefun on Sun Jan 24 21:10:24 2010. Lemme see...how can I put this delicately...the fact that your top 3 fast food burger places would even include Burger King and Wendy's, plus the fact that White Castle is a local favorite, make any subjective burger ranking from a NYer highly questionable! ;)I'm kidding, but seriously how can a place where people like White Castle be a burger Makkah? Italian food is really all that you have. And maybe fried chicken. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:25:31 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:11:07 2010. I have had Steak N Shake. It's "okay", nothing to get excited about. Actually, that's sort of like a cross between a fast food restaurant and a chain sit down restaurant. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:26:19 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:23:14 2010. Yup. We're the same age, and I remember that if you were hungry late at night, you knew that White Castle was the only burger joint open late. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:26:22 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:02:38 2010. Probably because all those competitors blow them away. I would never eat McDonalds again if I lived on the West Coast. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:26:44 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:11:07 2010. Florida seems to be where they go to test new restaurant concepts as well. You just have a ton. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:27:29 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:25:31 2010. McDonald's is spending millions to remodel locations to give them more of a "chain sit down" feel. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:27:59 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jan 24 21:24:30 2010. BBQ restaurants usually have fried foods in addition to BBQ. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:28:41 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:18:14 2010. There was an attempted 7-Eleven robbery in LA just the other day. I saw it on TV (and thought of Fishbowl and then you, lol)...anyway, it was on TV because the clerk couldn't get the drawer open on the cash register, and the gunman had a shotgun in his face....the more he tried, the more it didn't work. Then he went to the other register, and the same thing....finally the gunman left...and he was unhurt. It was pretty wild. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jan 24 21:29:36 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:25:31 2010. I agree. But it is another option to choose from. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:30:58 2010, in response to Re: Burger King Adding Beer To Menu This Year, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jan 24 21:28:41 2010. Oh here it is: |
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