The thing that makes made Whataburger great appreciated is that the entire menu is available 24 hours a day, 360+ days a year. In 2022 that’s not really all that notable. 25 years ago it was.
Also, they have weirdly interesting sandwich specials in rotation throughout the year. The A1 burger has like half a bottle of the sauce on it. The patty melt is a greasy hot mess. There’s some sort of bbq chicken tender sandwich that doesn’t even make sense. These experiences create fond drunken memories at 3:00 AM.
That was one redeeming quality that I never took advantage of. The Whataburger was about 1 min away from a Taco Cabana and if I needed fast food after midnight, it was no contest.
just got the impossible burger with bacon from BK. love the idea. At $11 I’m almost certainly going to be disappointed but I had a hankerin’ for an oreo shake so this is what’s happening.
The whataburger hate is wild to me. I’m starting to wonder if the older franchises are somehow better than what has spread around the country? Double meat bacon whataburger and honey butter chicken biscuit are both fantastic ff offerings and blow away the low tier burger places (mcd’s/bk/etc).
Also I’ve never seen one that has the whole menu available 24/7 unless we mean all the non-breakfast items. Breakfast is 11p-11a which still makes it awesome for late night drunk eats though. The rest of the menu is 24/7. I tend to agree most of the seasonal items are gimmicky trash and the fries aren’t better than average.
I guess I’m wondering if the Texas/Oklahoma ones I have eaten at that are in the area they started are somehow way better. I never eat fast food when traveling so never had it elsewhere. It would be very interesting to me if the expansion tanked the quality. I don’t eat fast food much period but have had whataburger in the last year a few times and it seemed about the same. I would go as far as to rank it easily above median ff. But am open to the idea i either have terrible ff taste or like you said it has massive variance from store to store and the ones in my area are just somehow good.
Anyone talking bad fast food and doesn’t start and end with White Castle is nuts. Only food in my life I think I took one bite and threw rest in garbage. It’s the closest thing I’ve ever seen to dog food being fed to humans.