NSFW not because of the :im-vegan: gang, but because it's a cognitohazard for everybody else, too. Maybe they were right, though....
It was bad. Adding a pound of mayonnaise and pickles does not make an unseasoned beef patty taste less like somebody took a shit in a bun.
That's also how the fries were served. With a bunch of ketchup, mustard, and an unholy volume mayonnaise squirted on. Topped with a pair of Kraft Singles and approximately fifteen pickle slices.
I'll answer you tomorrow. I am going the fuck to sleep. I will not be answering any questions for the next eight to ten hours. I had a little vomit session, and I'll see you when I see you. Fuck capitalism, fuck MrBeast, I wish I'd just eaten some beans.
“MrBeast burger”?
“Ghost kitchen”?
:jesse-wtf:
Clickbait restaurants. :bern-disgust:
Ghost kitchens are a relatively new thing that have spawned out of the UberEats/DoorDash/food delivery popularity. I started seeing them around the beginning of the pandemic when getting food delivered via one of those apps was more popular than ever. Imagine browsing one of those apps and seeing a bunch of restaurants nearby that you've never heard of or seen before - typically they have names and/or menus designed to get you to click on them and order; on top of what the app tries to entice you with. 99% of the time, in my experience, ghost restaurants will have their delivery fees waived by the app or they'll offer something like '$5.00 back if you order more than $30.00'.
Things like a pizza place named 'F*CKING GOOD PIZZA' (self-censoring asterisk and all) where everything is priced within $1-2 of each-other and the only actual option you have a choice in making is whether you'd like the $17.00 pepperoni pizza or the $17.00 vegetable pizza. It's always multiple 'restaurants' in the same damn suite or building too - offering the same exact menu or slight variations on it. For example - here's like ten 'breakfast sandwich' places in Washington, DC on Uber Eats that are presumably located in the basement of the bar that occupies the building .
Same thing with a slightly different story across state lines no matter where you head, lol. Here's a similar case in NC with Postmates with a bunch of 'breakfast sandwich' places occupying the parking lot of a shopping complex.
Supposedly a lot of actual restaurants/bars during the pandemic were participating in this, as utilizing the kitchen space in your bar that can't really re-open during mandated lockdown/social distancing guidelines to make a bunch of average at best burgers and hawk them to whatever schmuck decides to take advantage of FCKIN GOOD PIZZA's sweet $10.00 off if you spend $25.00 promotion does sound like it would at least help a restaurant or bar stay afloat. Now -- three years into the pandemic when most Americans are going out to eat without even thinking about wearing a mask? I'd probably wager it's more the apps themselves trying to ensure that each town has 'unique' restaurants or whatever so that users have positive feelings after ordering off one of the apps and *discovering * a bunch of new restaurants they'd never heard or seen before!
Anyways, there was a really good Vice article back when they first (F*CKING GOOD PIZZA was rampant) started popping up - here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpgd7/the-mystery-of-fcking-good-pizza-travis-kalanick-cloudkitchens-future-foods-delivery-restaurants