The only thing that I can say with absolute certainty is f*** white castle.
I remember my family stopping there once on a road trip when I was a child and the building just smells violently of onions and the food isn’t even good
both are kinda wrong. in my experience, there’s like three different kindsa burger places. There’s the shitty ones, which are usually at least hella cheap but are no better than McDonalds or Burger King. Then there’s the good ones, where you can get a tasty burger with a house burger sauce and like caramelized onions. For both of those, yeah if you’ve ate at one of them you’ve basically ate at all of them. You’re not gonna find a burger so orgasmic that it fixes your depression or anything; there’s an upper limit to how good one can be. (though if you do plz let me know)
However, there’s also a ton of places that I’ll affectionately call “weird” ones. this encompasses a wide range of wild shit, like a place that’ll make you a burger with six patties stacked on top of each other like some kinda beef monster, or make an “italian beef burger” which includes italian beef and giardinera on top of a patty, and the whole thing is dipped in meat drippings, or a place that uses donuts instead of buns and deep fries the sucker. These are all very distinct foodcrimes, and IMO it is worth going out of your way to behold them if you find yourself stateside.
They are also both right.
Ive lost count of the amount of places I’ve been to that “Omg you have to try…” only to be underwhelmed. Sometimes food is situational and I’m sure it was the best burger they ever had the day they had it, but to me its tuesday.
Also just because its a national or even worldwide chain doesnt mean bad. I maintain that when you get a perfect Zinger burger from KFC its one of the best fried chicken burgers there is, get just the right amount of salt on fresh chips and the drink is COLD. Bruh.
Used to (now closed) be a place you could get a 3/4 pound burger topped with 1/4 pound corned beef. Sauces which I can no longer remember and the works on fixings. Was to die for.
Also, buffalo chicken sandwhiches are their whole ass own niche, and superior served on toast as a melt with fixings and I will die on that hill.
There he isss
As an American:
Are they all different? Yes.
Does that make them good? No.
Fifty shades of mid. The best burgers can’t be found at chains.
Now chains for entrees other than burgers & fries, on the other hand, you can find find some surprisingly decent quality food.
Since I learned of it’s existence, the american use of entree is weird.
Is like calling the ground floor first floor.
Either way the entree is on a different place as where you expect it.
Gonna push back hard on the “ground floor first floor” thing.
“This building has two floors: there’s the first floor, and the second floor.” Vs “this building has two floors: the ground floor and the first floor.” Which makes more sense, the counting system that works like virtually every other counting system for physical objects (which floors are) or the counting system that starts from zero rather than one?
Regarding entree, according to Wikipedia the word has changed meaning so many times I don’t think anyone can claim a “correct” usage of the term anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrée
It makes much more sense if you have basement floors though. It would make little sense to call the first basement level -1 while you also call the first upper level 2.
Plus it’s quite useful for naming rooms. Rooms on the ground floor start with 0 (i.e R 005), on the first floor with 1 (i.e. R 108) and on the first basement floor with -1 (i.e. R -103).
I’ve always been pretty neutral on the ground/first floor thing, but you’ve just convinced me! I am now a firm believer of ground floor superiority
I actually see it the opposite: basements make the ground floor not being the same as the first floor even more confusing.
For instance, in the US you could have this building:
Second floor (2)
First floor (1)
First basement (B1)
Second basement (B2)
2 upper floors + 2 basement floors = 4 floors total (easy math).
I could see an argument that when counting whole numbers from positive to negative, we normally include “0,” so then wouldn’t you have a 2 floor, 1 floor, 0 floor, -1 floor, -2 floor? But that’s not how counting physical objects actually works, because it then implies that the ground floor (0 floor) doesn’t exist, and the basement floors are somehow anti-floors? Like they exist in the upside-down or are made of antimatter or something. So I don’t think the inclusion of a “0th floor” makes sense even with basement floors.
Room naming isn’t a problem either, because you’re not actually counting the rooms: the existence of room 200 doesn’t require the existence of room 199, after all. So having a “000” series of rooms is not only unnecessary, but could cause confusion because it looks like an error (like “room 004” was supposed to be “room 1004” but the “1” fell off). Prior to computers and the need to label files “001” so the computer would sort them correctly, we didn’t label things with unnecessary leading zeros like that, because any human sorting things knows that “2” comes before “18” in a series, not the other way around. It’s not like we label other similar things, such as buildings, with leading zeros: we wouldn’t say someone lives at “0040 Baker St”… they live at “40 Baker St” or “400 Baker St” or “4000 Baker St” or shudder “40000 Baker St.” (There actually is a city in the US–Portland Oregon–where because of geography they used to label a small number of addresses as “Southwest 0XXX Whatever Ave,” but the leading zero caused so much confusion that the city designated a whole new category of “South” for a relatively small sliver of land just to resolve the problem… They had already done so to distinguish “North Portland” from “Northeast Portland,” but again due to geography that was a substantial amount of land so it made sense for this “fifth quadrant” as it was called to exist. If this all sounds nonsensical it’s because it’s really hard to explain quickly and without a map.).
I normally wouldn’t care so much about this topic but I found the ground floor/first floor thing really confusing and frustrating when I traveled abroad, so now I have opinions! Also I’m sick today and this has been a great distraction from how icky I feel.
Etymology is the why, really. For example the german word for floor (in this context), Stockwerk, comes from “putting something on top”. So it would make no sense at all to call the ground floor the 1. Stockwerk. It is usually labelled E for Erdgeschoss (=ground floor) though and not 0.
Or to be even more precise when talking about buildings there are the abbreviations:
- 2. OG
- 1. OG
- EG
- 1. UG
- 2. UG
Well now we’re just back at the “entree” problem:
If we’re centuries separated from the original meaning, does it even matter?
What about those places built on a hill so can enter on the ground floor, go up two levels, and leave on the ground floor?
Tbh is was kinda stoking the fire here, in jest I must add, I’m not dying on any hill.
As someone most familiar with the French language and culinary tradition I found it funny that ‘Hors d’oevre’ is more used in US cuisine and then Entree, whereas in France entree/plats is used most. I was really surprised when I learned of the US use.
And then I realised there was a simliar issue with the ground floor thing, and revelled in the relisation that that contains an ‘entry/entré’ double layer in that one as well.
So lets just celebrate the wonderous diversity in language and how that comes to be. Lets on e day eat a French entrée and after that an US one, whlist seated near the entrance on the first/ground level of a building. <3
Cheers to that 🥂
Locals are crazy about these regional chains because their frame of reference is the national chains — namely McDonalds and Burger King. They are usually MUCH better than McDonalds (which is not saying much) at about the same price, with no other direct competition in the local area.
Everything seems great compared to McDonalds.
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