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I moved from CA to SC and stopped at one in Georgia for the first time. It's like a giant Hot Topic for Boomers and nostalgic Americans.

InNout > Whataburger

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Move back to CA. Whataburger > In and out, Dixie > West Coast

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Naaa I'm good. Whataburger is only good if you like greasy processed soyslop for obese scooter Americans. I agree with this.

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You don’t get fat when you don’t sit on your ass. You can eat whatever it’s all about how active you are if you’re working all day, (like real work not office bullshit) you can eat whatever and be fine

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I don't even put those two in competition, In-n-Out seems a more direct competitor to Five Guys.

Whataburger is in a class to itself. Neither of the other two have anything like a BOB for instance.

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There's one here in Alabama I stop by about once a month. Always throngs of people, often difficult to get to a pump or parking space. Not for me. I prefer the quiet, dingy gas stations of the country exits.

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I like buc-ees but the sheer mass of obese brown humanity that descends upon it fill me with dread.

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Wrote a bit of poetry a while back about the bellied buceelands, the brand is very honest and homely, which makes it quite nice for hijacking into a broader political point about the cultural conquest of the highwaymen and their country: https://open.substack.com/pub/strategypattern/p/the-bellied-buc-eelands?r=2x7kv1&utm_medium=ios

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A charming and enjoyable article about what sounds like a charming and enjoyable chain of stores!

I've visited the US three times in my life, once on a family holiday to Orlando, Florida and then twice to visit a friend in the middle of Kansas who used to live in England (American father, English mother).

On one occasion I was fortunate enough to visit a Braums restaurant. I loved it! Vintage middle-America. I haven't been back since 2012 but really hope to one day, though I understand the place is rather different today than it was back then.

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There’s Buc-wheat cakes and Injun batter! Makes you fat or a little fatter!

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