What's your favourite fast food burger?

In N Out

Ah yes, I too desire wet dog shit. I'd rather eat an AM/PM burger.
- In n out was easily the most disappointing experience for me, I ended up enjoying shake shack much more.

A bag of dick's, delicious.

Definitely Dick's.
Twenty years ago I lived across the street from Dick’s on Broadway. So many late nights ended with stumbling a few yards for a greasy bag of Dick’s. Interestingly enough, my former residence is now the Capitol Hill light rail station. But thank the good lord Dick’s is still there.

I don't remember the last time I had a fast food burger. And I would like to keep it that way. Thank you.

You know you want to

Shake shack

These days, I'm really trying for there not to be.

The kebab shop down the road makes burgers too and they're better than everything I've had from one of the large chains while still distinctly feeling like junk food.

Is it that they spice the patties or something else? What's the liklihood their burgers are mixed meat? Like maybe goat + beef?
- Very low. Goat meat is expensive.

The habit

Santa Barbara Style please!

West coast dude that has visited all over the US. I’ve had BK/McD’s, Whataburger, Jack in the box, In-N-Out, Carl’s Jr, Smashburger, Sonic, Shake Shack, White Castle, Five Guys, A&W, and maybe a couple more I’ve forgotten. Best for me, hands down:

Culver’s butter burger with cheese and everything on it.

Culver’s is the answer.

None of them? I find it’s worth the extra $2 to go somewhere local or “fast casual”. Places like McDonalds , Wendy’s, and Burger King are overpriced garbage these days.

Also it doesn't take much longer to make a burger at home. I get that cleanup can take some time, and a lot of folks are averse to deep frying at home. But if I want a burger and fries, nine times out of ten I'm going to make it myself.
I'm also a line cook so I probably enjoy cooking more than most folks

In n out dbl dbl

Assuming the question means fast food chain

Second is dbl cheeseburger from McD, hate me if you need to

There's something about McDonald's paper thin patties, greasy buns, and rehydrated onions that really hits the spot
- I think there is a window of perfection for peak enjoyment. Your description is spot on. It’s purely a McD’s sensory experience.
- Can’t tell if that’s sarcasm but you actually nailed it… it’s nostalgia food for me, I used to eat these as a kid
ABDL?

Five Guys is the only one I would be okay with. McDonalds is probably the worse, followed by wendys being 2nd worst. BurgerKing is... um... its like good for like your first try, then subsequent times it taste worse and worse each time you got there.

I don't eat a lot of burgers so I probably don't know what a "good" burger taste like, I grew up in an Asian household so I don't exactly eat a lot of "western" food for the most of my life (like... relatively speaking, in comparison to the rest of the US).

Nando's' double cheese and bacon burger with added pineapple and hot basting

Only one I can eat, impossible whopper. I wish they would go all in and use the superior black bean burger instead tho

When McDonald's gets an equivalent, they're going to make so much money off of me

Double teen burger from A&W.

Has enough meat with the double patty, and has all the toppings like onion, pickle, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, etc.

You have to specify A&W Canada. The US doesn't have Teen burgers and they're generally inferior.

small Cheval for regional chain & Culver’s for national.

Do they make horse burgers??
- Horse meat is good and as much controversial. Thankfully they just use dmf cows
  Edit: dmf cows = dumb motherfucking cows
- I only recently learned the answer is "no"! For years I was wondering why people were lining up around the block to eat horse.
Which nation?

Out of the big three, the whopper by far.

For smaller but still top 100 chains, locally would be A&W, non local would be In-n-Out

What is the third one for you? Obviously McDonalds and BK, but not sure which would be the third one.
I'm assuming you're American because of In-n-out. I've heard A&W is really different between Canada and America, here in canada the burgers are salty af, drenched in sauce, the buns somehow manage to stay dry af, and crazy overpriced for how shitty it is.
- Crazy talk. A&W in the US is ass. I don't know what's going on with your local A&W franchise, but I've never had anything but a great burger. Outside of local places, It's my go-to.

Best I've cooked: Oklahoma onion burgers

Best I've bought: green chilli burger from Meat Liquor Covent Garden though sadly they don't seem to have that location any more and the green chilli burger is no longer on their menu!

I've always preferred smashing my burgers over a bed of onions and today I learned it has a name
- They're so good, so flavourful. Love them.

Sweden has a hamburger chain named 'Mr York' and they are amazing!

Good Times is a smaller chain and my favorite

My options are severely limited since I don’t eat meat, but The Habit makes a really nice veggie burger. They have one of the fake meat burger brands as well, but those honestly make me gag a little with how greasy they are.

I've had impossible burgers and they're surprisingly good but so damn expensive

When I was a kid my dad would take us to Halo Burger in the Flint, Michigan area once in a while. Haven't gone in decades, since I grew up and moved away from the state. Something about how the burger was seasoned, just delicious. Nowadays I usually stop by Culver's for a double deluxe, now that there's one not far from the house (did earlier today, actually).

Everyone keeps saying culver's and my Canadian ass is so curious

Hungry Jacks Bacon Deluxe

R.I.P. 2for$10 Bacon Deluxe deal.

Schoops , Whataburger, Culvers

My current favorite one is a "local" (it's available nationwide though) one called Vicio, which means addiction in Spanish, I tried them because they opened a store near me and had a sign saying "We're called Vicio, and we cook burgers, you can imagine the rest" which I thought was pretentious, and decided to test them, but they're really good burgers.

Before those I would have said my favorite was Five Guys ones, still do but haven't had them in a while. And before those I used to like a local gourmet burger place back in Brazil.

A local joint which I will not name, but they're basically like shake shack. The food used to be way better than shake shack, but unfortunately now it's just on par with shake shack. (Still great though). The fries however are perfect.

Tasty Burger's Big Tasty.

There's a regional chain in LA called Tom's Jr. It offered unbeatable value like its Big Mac clone that went for $3.50 until they very recently bumped the price up to $5 each.

Fatburger, but the only one that was in my area closed down.

Goodtimes, haven't had one since I was in Colorado.

It sadly no longer exists.

Back in the day there was a restaurant called Lick’s in Toronto. They had an assembly line of people with loud 50s music and them singing whist they assembled your order. It was so much fun.

They had burgers that were actually burgers compared to any other chain. You could actually taste the meat! My favourite side was called tater’s and cream. Fries topped with yummy white sauce that was slightly sweet but creamy with real bacon bits smothered on top with chives. They also had an amazing turkey burger.

They had other unique items on the menu but I forget them.

"This Bay Area burger is the best I've ever eaten"

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/hyphy-burger-oaklnd-best-i-ve-ever-eaten-20418108.php

Whataburger Sweet & Spicy Bacon Burger.

Is your name from dune? Finally read all the way to Chapterhouse dune
- Yup!

Cheeseburgers, close second hamburger

Isn't that redundant? Are there non-fast-food burgers?

Regardless, if I'm getting fast food I'm getting something better than a burger.

There are some "craft" burger chains like The Works, don't know if that's only Canada. A burger you get a steakhouse is usually going to be much higher quality too, ground in-house cooked medium rare kind of stuff.
Yes, there are gourmet burger places, and some fancy restaurants serve burgers (I've had a burger in a Jamie Oliver restaurant for example).
What do you consider better than a burger for fast food though?
- tacos, gyros, polish, mandoo, bahn mi, empanadas, fried chicken sandwich, fried pickles, hot wings, french fries, malts, doughnuts, pulled pork, crêpes... and the list goes on