<p>It seems darker than 1000 isle, more like ketchup & relish mixed together</p>
<p>Hmm, have to experiment. I remember when I was introduced to fries and mayo, verrry tasty.</p>
<p>fries & mayo :eek: Grease City. How bout a deep-fried Twinkie with that?</p>
<p>I can only handle In and Out about once a year. My D on the other hand loves In and Out. She is a fan of protein style. SBMom- I prefer The Habit. </p>
<p>I must confess that at a certain time of the month a McDonald’s cheeseburger and fries sounds really good.</p>
<p>boy have I been deprived; first Fatburgers, now In-and Out burgers.</p>
<p>Go on, have a good laugh at my expense but, why do they call them in and out?</p>
<p>Sybbie, for a long time they didn’t have dining rooms – just a drive-through. You see: drive in and drive out. The first one I saw was in Garden Grove (Buena Park?) a LONG time ago. It was a tiny building with two drive through lines and a single walk-up window.</p>
<p>sybbie the other odd thing about In and Out is they only serve hamburgers. No chicken, no salads. Just burgers, fries and shakes. The fries are also made fresh not from frozen.
Another odd item is what they call grilled cheese. Basically the hamburger with no meat. Bun, cheese (not melted) special sauce, lettuce, onion and tomato.</p>
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And it is simply <em>amazing</em> to watch the fries cutters do their work: they reach over into this massive bin of skinned potatoes, insert one into the potato-shaped space in the big metal contraption that looks like one of those industrial-strength wine bottle openers, and push down on the handle. Out the bottom drops a couple dozen perfectly-formed uncooked french fries into a tub, which the fry person picks up every few minutes and readies to go into the fry vats. The cool thing is that it’s such a fluid motion, very smooth, almost mesmerizing. I imagine it can’t be the most interesting of jobs, but it entertains me while I’m waiting. :)</p>
<p>Ah–in Ohio we have Rally’s, which is only a drive-thru. Not sure of the menu, but it includes h-burgs, fries, & soda, for sure. Shakes? Fish? no idea.</p>
<p>Hey-- commercial interruption-- BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS are due to DOUBLEPLAY!! A round of drinks on me!!</p>
<p>Hey Doubleplay,</p>
<p>Happy Birthday to you!!</p>
<p>mine was yesterday but it was such a crazy day we had a few displaced people from the steam pipe incident wednesday night, I feel I need a do over. </p>
<p>When I got home, my D had brought me these cute happy birthday cupcakes from Eleni’s and told me she made a charitable contribution in my name. She said, hey I really know how old you are but how old do you want to be? She said I could be any age I want as long that I am old enough for her to still exist in the world (so no 29 for me). Her birthday is tuesday but she wants something on the order of Chanel (where’s the equity in this relationship?)</p>
<p>OOOHHHH, Thank you!!!
My oldest son is coming home tonight from college for a weekend visit!</p>
<p>doubleplay and sybbie, a toast to you both!</p>
<p>Happy bday to sybbie too!! And lots of kids returning home!! (Soozie’s too). Enjoy them, folks!</p>
<p>oops-- by bad!! soozie’s dau just jaunting around Europe! That’s the life!</p>
<p>Sybbie & doubleplay, happy birthday, animal style ;)</p>
<p>Hmm, I was headed over here in need of a drink - having been reminded of my…um… maturity over on the “What’s special about TODAY”/aka where were you for the moon landing thread. I could have been changing the diapers of most of the posters on that thread!</p>
<p>But on my way over here for that needed drink, I was waylaid by the bottle of 1990 St. Julien that DH’s house guest brought for us. I’m no longer in need of SA’s house rotgut. I am :::::mellow:::::.</p>
<p>Happy Birthday to Doubleplay and to Sybbie! Enjoy!</p>
<p>Jym…oy…let’s keep everyone straight…it’s hard, LOL. NO KIDS AT HOME! </p>
<p>D did land in Germany…very very responsible kid…called from Paris when plane was delayed so I would not worry; called as arrived in Frankfurt and met French friend. I get to live through my kids’ adventures though. :D</p>
<p>Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! </p>
<p>SBmom, you can imagine what I thought animal style referred to.</p>
<p>Eeek.</p>
<p>Happy Birthday to doubleplay and Sybbie! And bottoms up to jmmom. And congrats Soozie on safe arrival of D!</p>
<p>pulling my people up from page 2.</p>
<p>I somehow got “trapped” in my bedroom about 3am as I was going to get a glass of water(door has no locks on it turned the knob and it would not open). Spent a hour talking to D on the other side of the door as I gave instructions on how to take the doornob off from her side. She now realizes that there is some usefulness for all of the tools that I have stashed in the laundry room. I told her I have just taught her a useful life skill that would come in handy one day (she said yeah, like now).</p>