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What is the Best Burger in Town?

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:39:55 +0000

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The last few screencasts we’ve uploaded from Joseph have been hits with our community. We love his fresh and unique style, and his personality. This time, he chose to go a different route, and talk about food instead of technology. Food is good… especially if it’s burgers and fries. Most Geeks I know love to head to the local fast food joint to bring home a sack of goodness. I have to agree with Joseph, though. There’s nothing quite like an In-n-Out burger!

In-N-Out Burger is all about burgers. You won’t find any type of chicken on their menu. They offer burgers, fries, soda and milkshakes. That’s it… that’s the menu. They do one thing, and they do it exceptionally well. These things are so delicious that I could eat them a few times a week!

I am a fan of Venn Diagrams, and I love the way Joseph incorporated one into this screencast. As you can see, there aren’t many intersections between jocks and Geeks. However, all of us love a good burger experience.

Joseph would love to see other restaurants try to do this same thing: perfect one dish, serve nothing else, and be done with it. The one place where this wouldn’t work, though, is with Chinese takeout. You need choices when you’re grabbing some Chinese food!

It’s brilliant the way that there is no line at an In-N-Out Burger joint. They serve burgers and fries. You know what you’re going to order before you ever walk in the door, so you aren’t making others wait while you decide. This, my friends, is nothing short of amazing.

Joseph – thanks for another fun and excellent screencast. We’re looking forward to see what you come up with next.

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What is the Best Burger in Town?

Build Your Own Burger

Chris Pirillo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:50:32 +0000

Build Your Own Burger

Took Mom & Dad to @CounterBurger with @HipsForHire today. I’m stuffed silly with my delicious design:

In case you can’t read the ingredients list, here’s what I built:

1/3lb Beef (on a Honey Wheat Bun)
Danish Blue Cheese
Greek Feta
Black Olives
Dill Pickle Chips
Organic Mixed Greens
Avocado
Fried Egg
Honey Cured Bacon
Sautéed Mushrooms
Basil Pesto
Horseradish Mayo

I wasn’t sure how well the combination would work, but it turned out to be pretty damn tasty. Dad also ordered a fried egg for his burger, and learned (the hard way) that you should puncture the yolk sac before it explodes all over your shirt when you first squeeze the bun. Here’s what my mouth-watering masterpiece looked like on the plate:

What do you put on YOUR burger?

Build Your Own Burger

What Do You Put on Your Burger?

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:25:41 +0000

What Do You Put on Your Burger?

I built the ultimate burger (for myself) at Counter Burger in Honolulu, Hawaii. What do you put on YOUR ultimate burger? I like mine with a little stormtrooper, personally (@minifigplanet gave me the LEGO minifigs). By the way, the video and photos on this page were created and uploaded during the tweetup.

What Do You Put on Your Burger?

Geekburgers!

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:12:10 +0000

Geekburgers!

If you were to build the ultimate burger, what would be on it? I had a blast building mine – and eating it! Man, was that sucker messy. Counter Burger are a one-of-a-kind experience. When you walk in, you’re handed a clipboard with a ginormous list of ingredients on it. You choose whatever you want – as much as you want – on your burger. There are over 300 thousand different burger combinations, and they claim they rarely make the same burger in a day’s time.

Special thanks to @jlieu at @kahalamallctr – plus Ed Robles & Pablo Buckingham, who are two of the four @kahalacounter owners. Everybody was kind enough to accommodate and allow us to hold an impromptu tweetup there.

Left side, top to bottom:

Right side, top to bottom:

Yum yum! Tons of fun.

Geekburgers!

Nom Nom Nom!

Chris Pirillo — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:46:17 +0000

Nom Nom Nom!

I tweeted the link to a photo taken by lifeasart and BigRedPimp decided to photoshop it into this masterpiece. If you’d like to create your own, here’s the original image. I’m sure we can convince the author to allow for derivative works after she sees this particular modification. And yes, I’ve eaten burgers twice that size.

Nom Nom Nom!