{"id":3744,"date":"2015-05-07T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T21:25:21","slug":"utah-discoveries-9-in-n-out-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2015\/05\/utah-discoveries-9-in-n-out-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Discoveries 9: In-N-Out Burger near Hill AFB"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lunch<\/a>
Lunch for 4 for under $30? Yes please!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those who don’t know, Dave and I are “Eastern People”. He’s from New York, and with the exception of 3 years or so in Hawaii when I was very young, I grew up on the Eastern Seaboard. We are accustomed to humidity, high populations, and rich colonial U.S. history around us.<\/p>\n

People from the western U.S. have their own set of traditions and nuances (calling “interstates” “freeways”, for example), and apparently In-N-Out Burger<\/a> is one of them. There aren’t many of these restaurants, and they’re all concentrated in a 5-state area: California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas (why they completely leapfrogged over New Mexico is beyond me). In-N-Out has no plans to expand beyond this small market<\/a>, unlike Five Guys<\/a>, which now has well over 1000 outlets. We had a chance to check it out!<\/p>\n

Numerous\u00a0friends and colleagues Dave and I have met over the years from the western U.S. have regaled us with tales of In-N-Out’s simple menu, low prices, and unique flavors.<\/p>\n

To drive\u00a0out to Promontory Point on our Utah trip, we took I-84\/15 northward along\u00a0the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake. We saw a billboard advertising one the of nine In-N-Out burgers in the Salt Lake City area, Dave and I agreed that it’s something we should try…so we can say we tried it, at least.<\/p>\n

We explained to the boys that we were having burgers for lunch, and proceeded to the northernmost exit with an In-N-Out Burger, which was in Riverdale, Utah, just south of Ogden, home to Hill Air Force Base<\/a>. It was barely 11am, so this was a pretty early lunch for the family.<\/p>\n

When we entered the restaurant, we giggled at how simple the menu is:<\/p>\n

\"Very<\/a>
Very basic menu, more basic than Five Guys!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We all got “Double-Doubles” (you only live once, right?) and orders of fries and drinks. The total bill was around $28.<\/p>\n

How was it? Frankly, we all like Five Guys better, and I’d even go so far as to day that I like Whataburger better…we had a Whataburger in our neighborhood in Navarre. It was similarly inexpensive and tasty.<\/p>\n

Jacob and I barely ate any of our fries, because the burgers were so filling.<\/p>\n

Being the social media girl that I am, I posted a picture of our lunch on Facebook not long after we ate, and friends who grew up in or spent time in the western states told us about the In-N-Out “Secret Menu<\/a>“. It doesn’t add anything else really to the menu (for example, a Neapolitan shake is merely squirts of their existing three milkshake flavors into one cup), but you can simply order a burger “Animal Style<\/a>” and the employees are supposed to know what that means.<\/p>\n

After this early lunch, we continued our journey to Promontory Point. Which shall be the next post in our Utah adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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