just reading back over this thread…
the mention of marios and the snack box nearly brought a tear to my eye…fine establishments…gay john working in the snack box…always worried me that you couldnt see where the food was cooked in that place…
Anyone tried the Jalapeno Popper burger? I was due to feast on it recently until my dining companion managed to get us ejected from the premises. Still haven’t gotten around to sampling it.
Is that the same to the Atomic burger they had? I recall Dunph struggling his way through that with tears streaming down and around his face.
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:lol: “I know CPI! Out with the bad, In with the good”!! Ya thats similar to how the dinner went!
Daniel, Daniel, Daniel - you’ve just made a big mistake. They are not identical, indeed the greatest part of the Eddie Rockets experience is missing from Johnny Rockets.
I first had the misfortune to encounter Johnny Rockets in the summer of 2008 as I driving across the wonderful continent of North America with TP McNally. We had made it from New York to Nashville and were about 8-10 days into the trip. We’d been surviving on a diet of burgers from a number of places such as Sonic Burger, Wendy’s, Dick Clarke’s etc., all fine establishments in their own right but none quite as fine a diner as our own Eddie Rocket’s. Imagine my delight when we stopped off in Gaylord Opry just outside of Nashville and we spotted a Johnny Rockets, I couldn’t believe it, I was ecstatic.
There were some slight variations in the names of the items on the menu but I went with what I though was my usual - cheez please with cheddar (no onion, no tomato), bacon & cheese fries and a large fanta. Imagine my horror when the burger arrived and there was no secret sauce!!!
I was crushed and the incident ruined the entire vacation. I can honestly say it was a bigger disappointment than my first face to face meeting with Rocko after months and months of being on the same email debates (well documented as the precursor to this website).
I do love the taste of a good burger.
The Dill sauce on the Cheez please that BT mentions is quite outstanding I have to say. Love rubbing the chips in the bit that spils over.
Getting very fond of the Smokestack in ER’s lately I must say too. An excellent burger.
I had the smokey bacon burger (whatever it’s called) from Eddie Rockets yesterday. Good burger
everything in Eddie Rockets is fantastic. That is why you pay a premium for it
Jalapeños are minnnow chilis.
I have recently converted to the Eddie Rocket burger experience aswell
Borrow a student card and fill your face.
2 Chips, 2 Classic burgers, 2 drinks, all for €10. It defies all logic and explanation. Bloody brilliant.
What are you, a parrot?
Guys, i wouldn’t recommend getting the atomic burger unless you fancy spending the rest of the evening on the shitter.
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Softcock
The atomic burger falls under the category of food labelling I’m trying to get banned. Nothing should be allowed to be advertising itself as super hot, or extra sour unless they are.
Nothing worse than getting new crisps or a burger that advertises itself as “eyewateringly hot” or some such only to find out it’s mildly hot at best.
Replace the jalapeños with harbaneros and come back to me.
It was a mutual disappointment Tinnion.
I have Eddie Rockets contacts so will be offering a jar of secret sauce as prize for this year’s TFK Quiz.
I couldn’t agree more.
On the wider debate, I believe a taco kebab from abra beats the shit out of any drinkfood Eddie or any other burgerboy can offer.
Went for the Jalopena Popper burger with Taco fries last night. Burger was excellent, though you’d hardly call it “hot”, as they do on the menu. The Taco fries were great, as usual. Big black lad on the door of the one in Donnybrook, there to deal with the teenagers coming from Wesley. I was there early enough, around 10, but there was an incident where he stopped two young trollops coming in, possibly because they wearing high-heels. I couldn’t quite get what was going on. They came back a couple of minutes later and he let them in no problem, while continually talking to them in a disdainful tone from a distance like he was their slave-master or something. Odd stuff.
Some of these bouncers have chips on their shoulders and bad attitudes…