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Burger Club

elyse

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JosephB

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Having rules is simply a mechanism to justify getting together to eat and drink and talk -- and maybe be able to write it off  :raz:   I went into this as a quest for good food first, a social occasion as a close second, with no real expectation that we'd come up with a definitive answer.  So far, BC has been a total success for me.  :wub:

I think the point is simply being made that the BC as it is currently operating is really a social gathering more than anything -- which seems to be what you're saying too -- and that perhaps we should give up the facade of a systematic evaluation and do away with laborious rating systems, spreadsheets, taking temperatures, weighing burgers and whatnot. If we're going to get together informally to try out some good burgers, discuss and post our impressions, why not just leave it at that? If other people have an interest in doing a more rigorous survey in parallel (and I am certainly interested in doing both) that's cool too. But one shouldn't confuse one with the other -- a sentiment that I see echoed in some of the other comments in re to the rating system and composite score. If people really love the forms and the thermometers and stuff, of course there's no reason not to continue with them...

I certainly regard the BC as a social thing. Last week's attempt to rate the burgers beyond "I like this one" was cute, but not particularly interesting or meaningful. Indeed, I found rating the burgers to be a tedious exercise, especially because I had a hard time reading the small print in the dark!

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Sam and Steven, if you want to make it more complicated than it is, be my guest.  But Burger Club will remain as it is currently.

Um... Elyse, I believe I was suggesting that BC perhaps be made less complicated and dispense with some of the superficial trappings people seemed to think might be tiresome and unnecessary in this setting, and irrelevant anyway if we are going to be so informal. I just felt it was neither fish nor fowl... or perhaps it was a fish dressed up as a fowl. Okay... there was some kind of fish and chicken analogy I was trying to make here but now I've managed to confuse myself.

Regardless, you should have no fear that Steven or I want to usurp your role as Managing Director of Burger Club, I'm perfectly happy to follow your direction as it relates to future meetings of the Club. Hanging out and eating burgers in non-systematic way suits me just fine. :smile:

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Msk

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Joseph,

I had the PJ Clarke Burger since the revamp (but never had it prior). I have to say it was damn good. Perfectly cooked, juicy but not greasy. Great and fresh tasting meat. The bun was standard. I would categorize this more as a Pub burger than a Fast food burger, more akin to the Molly's burger.

The PJ Clarke burger was so good I ordered another one. :smile:

Msk

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edit:  here, c/o forkandpen, who, i'm thinking might be a Who fan, but i could be totally wrong:

Got to love the Who. But in reality i just hijacked my brother-in-law's web space. Good catch though tommy - most people just think by the url that it is a porn site of sorts (its actually a truck site).

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Got to love the Who.  But in reality i just hijacked my brother-in-law's web space.  Good catch though tommy - most people just think by the url that it is a porn site of sorts (its actually a truck site).

and i thought forkandpen might be a play on "Guitar and Pen", which is a Who song. a stretch, i know. :smile:

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sherribabee

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Sam and Steven, if you want to make it more complicated than it is, be my guest.  But Burger Club will remain as it is currently.

Um... Elyse, I believe I was suggesting that BC perhaps be made less complicated and dispense with some of the superficial trappings people seemed to think might be tiresome and unnecessary in this setting, and irrelevant anyway if we are going to be so informal. I just felt it was neither fish nor fowl... or perhaps it was a fish dressed up as a fowl. Okay... there was some kind of fish and chicken analogy I was trying to make here but now I've managed to confuse myself.

Regardless, you should have no fear that Steven or I want to usurp your role as Managing Director of Burger Club, I'm perfectly happy to follow your direction as it relates to future meetings of the Club. Hanging out and eating burgers in non-systematic way suits me just fine. :smile:

Can we just do a thumbs up or thumbs down rating method? :rolleyes:

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Elections?  We don' need no stinkin' elections.  :angry:

I prefer "Our Fearelyse Leader."

I thank you, Suzanne. (Am I scary?)

"Our Fearelyse Leader"

Should we make her wear a hat or something?

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