Friday, August 14, 2009

A burger not good enough to write about (but I did anyway)

For today's lunch I went to Victor's Place and purchased their daily special (I of course got the bacon cheeseburger, not the pasta).

I have always been pleased with the quality of the food as well as the variety offered through their specials, however today's fare left much to be desired. I would refer to this burger as a Sysco burger because it was very apparent that is where everything came from.

The patty was obviously preformed, and was low quality meat to boot, while the bacon was your standard razor thin slices of something bacon-like. Neither one of these items bothered me too much, as such food of this quality is unfortunately the norm and not the exception.

What really bothered me about this burger were the vegetable additions, namely the lettuce and onion. Instead of a nice crisp leaf of lettuce, the bun was filled with preshredded iceberg, and instead of sweet and crisp onions, they were limp and bitter, telling me that they had probably been pulled out of the ground a year ago.

Overall there wasn't anything about this burger I could complain about, nothing was obscenely gross tasting, and nothing was wrong, but I found the burger so uninspired, it was as if it had been put together by someone with less pride in their job than the burger assemblers at Wendy's.

My final rating of this food is one of the worst I can give, I determined that the burger was not worth the calories contained within and didn't finish it.

2 comments:

  1. I thought of this when I saw the "Mexican Platter" on the specials board at The Golden Egg tonight, and yet I ordered it anyway. I thought of it even more once I started eating it. It definitely wasn't worth the calories (although my wife enjoyed it). Everything clearly came prepackaged and was merely reheated in the back.

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  2. Sysco food systems is a terrible thing to have happened to the greasy diner. Because their food is cheap and easy, most regional (or even cross town) differences in food have disappeared.

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