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submitted 2 months ago by videogame@hexbear.net to c/food@hexbear.net

Every place is so fucking expensive now that Culver's is basically the same price as McDonald's while actually tasting like real food

Total Midwestern Supremacy

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[-] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My midwestern roots taught me that Culver's is for date night, Taco Bell is for sustenance.

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

virgin fastfoodheads vs chad fast-casual enjoyer

cava/sweetgreen/gusto/chipotle

yes i am my username

[-] bubbalu@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I just went to chipotle for the first time in a decade and I liked it. idk what that says about me.

[-] r9seng@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

Every meal at Culver's exceeds my entire daily calorie intake goal.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

Freddie's is like if Culver's actually seasoned their burgers

[-] DrCrustacean@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

taco Bell has vegan food so it's better

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Krystal/White Castle (fuck youfedposting , you're not using regional fast food to locate me) has plant based sliders, but honestly the wait times are so unreal that I could eat at a local sit down restaurant in a similar amount of time so idk, fast food has overall really fallen off

[-] Blep@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Mcdicks shrinking the food so much that they can bring back the old big mac size and call it some new thing and charge like $20 is absurd

[-] refracting@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Taco Bell would like a word

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Taco bell has raised their prices more than any other chain.

[-] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

They are doing "AI" bullshit with their drive thru now, miss me with that bullshit

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

and i'd like a drink for less than $5

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Culver's onion rings are absolutely goated. But if we're going Midwest supremacy or maybe more specifically Chicagoland supremacy Buona Beef is hands down the best.

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

I’m too much of a New Englander to know what this is. It’s good?

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

It's a burger joint, I'd consider it the Chick-fil-A of burger joints. More of a focus on sitting down inside than drive through, decent prices, and decent/consistent food.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

fucking CRINKLE CUT FRY culvers? "oh we have ice cream we call custard, we don't have to make the most important side good"----words from a joint run by utterly uncalibrated midwesterners

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

That's why you sub out the fries for cheese curds

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

i'm tryna eat a meal here not create a store for my winter hibernation

[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you're sensitive to lactose this meal comes with an extra side of pain

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

The onion rings fucking whip

[-] Stolen_Stolen_Valor@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

What if we had ice cream but made it worse?

[-] btfod@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'll eat at Culver's if there's not a Braum's handy. Braum's is top tier burger slop and cheap compared to national chains. One of the finest Treat Palaces in all of Burgerdom IMO. Culvers's is good too.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

The cheapest is still Cookout though. A tray is still under $10 and comes with a burger, 2 sides (one of which can be a burger), and a drink.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

"hello yes please I would like four quesadillas and a quart of cheerwine" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

"That'll be $8.45 please"

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

The first time I had culvers I was the most hungover I had ever been in my life and my gf brought it home and it was the best burger I ate in my entire life

The second time I had culvers I wanted to share the cheese curds and standing in line to order I was thinking "don't say cheese turds. Don't say cheese turds. Don't say cheese turds" and then I ordered cheese turds and the woman working laughed and gave me a free drink

[-] FactuallyUnscrupulou@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Walleye sandwich, cheese curds and a concrete mixer could pull me out of the deepest depression known to man.

[-] erik@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

The closest Culver's to me is over 250 miles away and it makes me so sad. Luckily, I get to the midwest once a year or so and get to partake.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Sorta silly saying one slop shop is better than another. End of the day it’s all fucking garbage.

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Most food in america is slop, we can still differentiate between levels

[-] goose@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

Americans have over 100 words for slop

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

get a load of this guy

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

culvers slaps, one of my favourite food places to go when i go to the US

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

I normally would agree, but I feel like they cut back on the seasoning for their patties. Still one of the best though and their veggie burgers are genuinely solid.

[-] Procapra@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Counter argument: Dairy Queen has a better menu in every single way.

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

I thought I hated DQ burgers. Turns out I just hate ketchup, and they pour it on.

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Culvers is trash, it gave me the shits the only time I ate there

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

designed for the gut biome of an illinois man that has eaten 1kg of beef and 1kg of cheese daily for the past 20 years

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I went to culver's once the cheese curds weren't very good

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I feel like insulting cheese curds is a Midwestern causus belii

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not insulting cheese curds I'm insulting culver's cheese curds. They got no squeak. Squeakless.

[-] videogame@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago
[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

A good curd should be able to stand on its own

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Idk, I'm not American. The only American fast food I've been to is McDonald's, KFC and Burger King, and KFC is the only one that's halfway edible.

But here in Ireland, we have a chain called Supermacs. Their burgers? Awful. Their tenders? Abominable. Their fries? Amazing. The best garlic fries in existence. Beautiful stuff. Every time I get high I go to Supermacs and get their garlic fries.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

pretty sure there's no head involved.. fastfoodass maybe?

[-] revlayle@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I used to love Culver's like 10 years ago, the last several times I had it, everything was just terrible, too salty, too dry, terrible custard. Maybe it was the locations I went to, but uniformly nowhere near as good as it used to be.

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