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Double Sikrit Krabby Patty

Bubblebass: I'll take a double triple bossy deluxe on a raft, 4x4 animal style, extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease, make it cry, burn it and let it swim.
Squidward: We serve food here, Sir!

I only understood the reference in this Sopngebob quote after learning about the In-N-Out Burger "secret menu" (thanks for the link, g60). Apparently this west coast burger chain has a special, unwritten menu that includes things like "Flying Dutchman" (two meat patties, two slices of melted cheese and nothing else), x by y (where x is the number of meat patties and y is the number of cheese slices), and the fabled "Animal Style" - which involves frying the mustard into the patties and extra pickles and grilled onions.

The rumor has it that someone actually managed to order 100x100 and even 500x500. This site has a picture of Animal Style buger and the cash register with the item in question rung up. Every food place needs to have a secret menu.

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Tue, 05/31/2005 - 15:01 — chance (not verified)

In-n-out burger is strictly a west coast chain, not east coast

Tue, 05/31/2005 - 18:08 — deadprogrammer

Right. I always confuse the two.

Thu, 06/09/2005 - 06:41 — no video card 4 u (not verified)

mmm, in-n-out is yum-my... just had one last week, although i had no idea about the secret menu... Check this futile comparison between an in-n-out and a shake shack burger...
http://www.liaoyusheng.com/archives/food_drink/20050516_innout_versus_shake_shack.php

there is no comparison to the shack burger, sitting in Madison Square Park with a cold beer, ahhhh... though the double-double with fries and a coke was awful tasty before a red eye flight out of Ontario, CA (land of large short buildings)

Thu, 06/09/2005 - 19:11 — deadprogrammer

Unfortunately I am back on the diet, and this does not help :)

Thu, 02/02/2006 - 23:50 — Whatupwilly (not verified)
Sat, 06/03/2006 - 08:24 — X-TermiNation (not verified)

Ahh nice man, thanx for writting that down, funny shit.

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