I’ve never had Shake Shack but can definitely agree In N Out is pretty overrated. It’s a really great fast food burger – it’s as cheap as or cheaper than McDonald’s and the like – but it would rank somewhere around my 30th favorite burger in L.A. And I’ve got the gut to proof that I know what I’m saying.

Felt similarly about Scott Machado and Terrence Williams

Did you feel similarly about Paul George or Jrue Holliday, both of whom I spoke just as crazy effusively about? You’re right sometimes, you’re wrong sometimes. I don’t get paid for my basketball opinions, thankfully.

Not Shake Shack per se, but the idea of that type of burger place as “new” when established places like in N Out and Five Guys had been in existence for years serving a very similar type of burger / fare.

I don’t agree with this at all. Five Guys didn’t start franchising until 2004, and to that point was strictly a DC thing. In N Out is just a regional phenomenon —one that seems to have exploded in more widespread popularity really only in the last 10 years.

Plus, while Shake Shack’s burgers are certainly part of the attraction, they do a healthy piece of their business in shakes. I don’t think Five Guys (which doesn’t even serve shakes) or In N Out are the best comparisons.

I’m not trying to say that Shake Shack was some sort of revolutionary concept, or even that the phenomenon that you initially described vis a vis NYC and trends doesn’t exist. I just think that this particular example is a poor one.

Also…Shake Shack is far superior to the always overrated In N Out.

Bundy was robbed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Shake Shack serves In N Out burgers in Manhattan in 2004. Best Burger of the Year awarded less than a year later.”

I don’t know what your point is.

Felt similarly about Scott Machado and Terrence Williams

I’m not following what you are talking about. Shake Shack STARTED in NYC. 9 years ago. I don’t know what your point is.

Not Shake Shack per se, but the idea of that type of burger place as “new” when established places like in N Out and Five Guys had been in existence for years serving a very similar type of burger / fare.

Or was it basically just a Bundy/Profar jackoff session?

Bauer/Lindor > Bundy/Profar

/kidding

Well, we learned something new about hussler2 today.

/adds to spreadsheet that he likes midget porn

Sooo…any posts on Mayweather today? Fighting one of his most dangerous opponents in a long while? Jumping ship from HBO and completely changing the landscape of American boxing business in a single move? No? Nothing?

who and what?

Also, Shake Shack is a great example of something introduced to New York City about 5-10 years after a strong contingent of the country has already experienced it, and NYC thinking it’s the greatest fucking thing since midget porn.

I’m not following what you are talking about. Shake Shack STARTED in NYC. 9 years ago. I don’t know what your point is.

///And Van Slyke still the best OF on that PIT team in the late 80s – early 90s

Good lord.

“And I still think Horace Grant was the best player on the Jordan era Bulls”

Any of us could manage a baseball team.

/fetch