{"id":668,"date":"2012-05-27T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2012-05-28T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T03:07:10","slug":"in-and-out-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"In and Out Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In-and-Out-Burger-Menu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-669\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"In and Out Burger Menu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In-and-Out-Burger-Menu-e1338252766975-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In-and-Out-Burger-Menu-e1338252766975-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In-and-Out-Burger-Menu-e1338252766975-1024x886.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In-and-Out-Burger-Menu-e1338252766975.jpg 1399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even here on the East Coast, I&#8217;ve heard rumors of the wonders of In and Out Burger. \u00c2\u00a0Some have dared to say it rivals <a href=\"http:\/\/shakeshack.com\/\">Shake Shack<\/a>, a New York burger institution which I&#8217;ve enjoyed but never drank the kool aid for. \u00c2\u00a0So I knew that I would have to get in at least one good eat at this famous chain.<\/p>\n<p>The menu on the wall is bare bones basic, burgers, cheese burgers, fries, etc. \u00c2\u00a0But the standard menu is augmented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in-n-out.com\/menu\/not-so-secret-menu.aspx\">the not so secret menu<\/a> (available at the company&#8217;s website). \u00c2\u00a0The options expand from there with additional secret menus to be discovered.<\/p>\n<p>There are many\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aht.seriouseats.com\/archives\/2011\/03\/the-in-n-out-survival-guide-we-ate-every-single-item-on-the-secret-menu.html\">others who have explored and written far more on In and Out Burger and its secrets than I intend<\/a>, the options are seemingly endless. \u00c2\u00a0This is my hit and run experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In-and-Out-Burger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-670\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"In and Out Burger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In-and-Out-Burger-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I actually managed to do my heart right and hit this place twice on the trip. The first go with Matt was an impulsive stop <a title=\"Deep Dish Pizza in LA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=651\">on the way to take down a full deep dish pizza<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0I wanted to keep things simple, so I just got a cheeseburger animal style (lettuce, tomato, a mustard cooked beef patty, pickle, and thousand island spread with grilled onions), fries, and a soda. \u00c2\u00a0It was good, but the burger seemed to get lost in all those toppings. \u00c2\u00a0So when Nick, Becca, and I stopped at the In and Out at the airport on our way out of town I got a 2&#215;2 (two patties and two cheeses) animal style but with no lettuce. \u00c2\u00a0With the double meat, foregoing the lettuce seemed unnecessary as the right-sized beef could hold up to the layers of extras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In-and-Out-Burger-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-671\" title=\"In and Out Burger 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/In-and-Out-Burger-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>In all, this place is awesome. \u00c2\u00a0Despite the rumors of a planned New York opening, I just don&#8217;t know if this place could survive in this city. \u00c2\u00a0It wasn&#8217;t just a tasty burgers, the place is unbelievably clean and the folks working there didn&#8217;t seem crushed by life and working a job they hate. \u00c2\u00a0They smiled. \u00c2\u00a0They actually gave shit! \u00c2\u00a0Things that would break the laws of fast food physics in New York. \u00c2\u00a0Though if its arrival does materialize, my waistline and\u00c2\u00a0cholesterol\u00c2\u00a0levels are in danger. Tasty, tasty danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even here on the East Coast, I&#8217;ve heard rumors of the wonders of In and Out Burger. \u00c2\u00a0Some have dared to say it rivals Shake Shack, a New York burger institution which I&#8217;ve enjoyed but never drank the kool aid for. \u00c2\u00a0So I knew that I would have to get in at least one good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,143,141],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining-out","tag-burger","tag-in-and-out","tag-la-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}