It's been a minute since our last (and only until now) burger battle but I just have a quick question before we go any further:
Is there anybody for whom the Silver Surfer is their favorite comic book character? I mean, he's cool and all; he surfs in space. But like is he anybody's favorite? I don't think I've ever heard anybody ever talk about him. I'm not talking about enthusiastically, I'm talking about just in passing. He was in that one Fantastic Four movie but he came across as way too serious. IDK, maybe I should check out some vintage Silver Surfer stuff. I'm sure it will be exactly as fun as Gidget. Just vintage Fenders and muscle cars as far as the eye can see with all kinds of YA romantic hijinx and mix-'em-ups at the soda shack.
ANYHOO, that's not what you come here for, you come here for...
Michoacana Tasty, 23 August 2025
On this particular day, I asked Kath what direction I should go in for a ride and she said south so I took Bryant as far south as I could, which means I got to Grass Lake and I was like, "Oh, I was here a month...? ago. Month and a half?"
Anyway, I start making my way east and I find myself eye-to-eye with Michoacana Tasty, which I have been meaning to get to since last summer.
I go in and I get a couple, "Oh, shit, for real?" looks from the staff because it is a quarter after ten in the morning, What the fuck is anybody doing here at a quarter after ten in the morning?
Ordering a cheeseburger. That's what I'm fucking doing.
Lil homie took my order, I asked for American cheese.
I took a seat by the window, waited a couple minutes, he called out my number which he didn't have to do because I was literally the only person in there, and I got it and brought it back to my table.
That thing was about the size of a hat, I shit you not and tasted like a burger should: It was something that used to be alive, got ground up, formed into a patty, slapped on a grill, seasoned with salt and pepper, and covered with cheese which is all you ever need to do to make a cheeseburger. It had char, it had iron, it had all the reasons your mom likes her dad's burger more than your dad's.
HOWEVER... man, they do not restrain themselves with the condiments - catsup, mayo, and mustard - and I would actually recommend against this if you have a beard. Or maybe tell them to go light on the condiments or something. Halfway into my burger, it was a sloppy mess requiring a half dozen napkins.
One of my coworkers has been here I think a couple times and she told me that this is absolutely the norm for their burgers.
Proceed with caution.
Logan's Simply Fresh Burgers & Chicken, 24 August 2025
Logan's is back in our hallowed halls because, I don't know, reasons. Not much has changed since last time. Like there's still no bike rack, just a bullshit ass gulch where I'm pretty sure I'm going to get an AIDS needle through my shoe one day. Please, Logan, please put in a bike rack. It doesn't have to be fancy, it just has to be not a pole in a gulch.
Otherwise, Logan's is reliable for a reasonably priced cheeseburger. I want to say it's five ninety nine and I would love to confirm that but there's apparently some kind of security whoopsie-daisy with their site that doesn't jive with the work computer. Meanwhile, every sketchy-assed "menu" site from here to Bristol is serving up outdated information like the burger is three ninety nine or four twenty nine and you have got to know that nobody is serving a four dollar burger in Minneapolis in twenty twenty five.
Unless you count Wendy's $8 2 JBC meal. That's what? Two Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers, a medium fry, and a medium drink for eight dollars. That's less than four dollars a burger. I mean, if it was just the burgers, it would be four dollars per but you're getting fries and a drink with that?
But this isn't about Wendy's -
What's that? Burger King is offering a five dollar duo and a seven dollar trio and the options include Whopper Juniors and Bacon Cheeseburgers, so that the price per unit comes out two fifty or two thirty three, depending on which deal you get?
OK, I stand corrected but, still, this isn't about Wendy's or Burger King -
No, I don't know what McDonald's is doing, I don't care what Sonic is doing, and we don't have Jack In The Box or Whataburger or whoever does animal style or flying style or whatever the fuck, look, I'm trying to tell you about good burgers, here, OK? You're not going to find good burgers for four dollars.
Yes, I know Arby's is doing a four for ten right now, that doesn't count. Those are roast beef sandwiches.
Wait.
Wait.
What's this?
Oh, no!
No!
It's... !
Arby's, 1 September 2025
Arby's has done the first smart thing in their dumb dumb dumb ass lives and brought back the Loaded Italian. I can't tell you why they ever got rid of it (and kept that disgusting ass gyro) (worst five dollars I ever spent) (no, literally, ask me about the worst five dollars I ever spent and I'll tell you it was the Arby's gyro) (well, actually, the money was fine, it was the gyro that sucked) (so that makes it the worst thing I've ever spent five dollars on).
Anyway, I was in the middle of a long ride when I got the notification that Arby's has brought back the Loaded Italian. I went and got one. It was exactly like I remembered it. I liked it. I'll get it again.
I mean, come on. It's Arby's. It's not like I'm going to lose my mind over it.
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