Possibly one of the best burger joints I’ve been to, The Counter lets you custom build your own delicious, juicy, heart attack burger of death.
A few of my buddies and I went there for the very first time last Saturday and we enjoyed every single minute of it, from the moment it touches the tip of our tongues to the second it gets metabolize by our stomach acids (Dwight Shrute ftw!). It is so delightfully fulfilling that it really feels like you’ve already eaten breakfast, lunch and dinner for the following day.
Here are the pictures of some of our uniquely crafted, individualized burgers:
Man, I really needed that. It was the perfect plate to eat right before starting #10 on 101 Things: Eat only mom’s healthy and non-delicious food for two whole weeks.
Reading that nearly had my gag reflex kick into over-drive.
Gugh!
(What the hell was that?)
Gugh!
(That’s the sound of my gag on the internetz)
I eat out more than half of the time because I don’t like most of the food that my mom makes. Sorry mom, I love you, but I don’t love your cooking . The meat’s always dried and overcooked. You like putting guacamole and tomatoes in everything. You cook too much fish and it stinks up the whole neighborhood. And the snacks and desserts offered to me usually consists of oranges, apples and broccoli. Broccoli.
Basically, her stuff is pretty bland and predictable. The only good thing about all the food she puts together is it’s actually somewhat healthy. There’s not a whole lot of grease/fat; it’s just there for you to survive. As a child, I was really thin, thin as a tooth-pick as most would say, and I put the blame on the food that she has been feeding me all these years.
But ever since I’ve been old enough to diss her cooking by getting my preferred food, I’ve been gaining weight. And gaining weight for me isn’t really bad, it’s just the food that I typically eat is entirely the opposite from my mom’s…fattening and greasy, and boy do I indulge.
Since I should save money (I don’t really have a job) and eat healthy, my goal is to eat nothing but of her food for a minimum two weeks, by that time, I should be adapted to her stuff, thus eating more of it…gugh!
For the past two days, I’ve been eating this:
From left to right:
-Sad and dried “pasta” with dried chicken and chopped up tomatoes.
-Sandwich with ham and only ham
-Yet another sandwich with ham…but WAIT! It’s got wheat bread and some lettuce this time.
Is that mouthwatering or what?
I eat out a lot too because I’m too lazy to cook. I do like my mom’s cooking though but she rarely cooks nowadays so it’s special when she does.
And the burgers look sooo good. My ideal burger is a simple Monty Mushroom burger from White Spot. Mmm.
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I love guacamole! but the meals on the bottom do look a bit dry :B How about finding a medium? something that isn’t entirely destructive for your health yet has some taste =) Like making your own sauce or adding something greasy in your mom’s plates.
Love the new layout!
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Whoa that’s one hell of a burger. I eat out all the time too, sometimes I dislike the food at home. Lol.
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LOL
im a huge splurger on food too
theres this super expensive izakaya place that i go to like once a year for super crazy expensive sashimi b/c they import this crazy japanese fish
anyways =_=
yeah BURGERS I LOVE BURGERS AND PIZZA
my mom cooks ok; but it’s really healthy too and i hate rice despite being chinese
bleh rice!
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oh whoa, i dont think my mouth could fit around those burgers…thats crazy! the bottom right one looks the yummiest. MM!
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too bad for me, the pictures of the burgers are blocked at work.. so I can’t see what the whole fuss is about.. but it SOUNDS great! haha.
& I need to do that whole eat healthy shinanigan thing too
I eat out more than once a day and it shows… A LOT! That pasta and the sandwich doesn’t look too bad.. It actually looks good. I’d rather eat that than what my aunt cooks! FILIPINO GREASY and SALTY FOOD. lol .. I love filipino food.. but a majority of it is unhealthy.
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Those pictures of burgers belong on this blog: http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
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Has it ever occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, your mom hates you? Looking at those sammiches… you must have done SOMETHING to piss her off.
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*drooollllllllllllllllllllllll* those burgers look so damn good! maybe i shall go out for a burger next week!
my mother’s food is pretty good at times but sometimes it’s really predictable and i get sick of eating vietnamese all the time =_=;;
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Holy heart attack! That burger looks so delicious though. The Counter, I actually have one of those here. And here I thought it was a Hawaii thing.
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“You cook too much fish and it stinks up the whole neighborhood. ”
Hahahaha I look out the window whenever my mom cooks fish and offer an apologetic smile to every neighbor I see.
Eating healthy doesn’t have to be bad though! Like you could’ve put sundried tomatoes (that stuff’s good), olive oil and basil on the pasta.
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Those burgers look… revolting. But that usually means they taste (too) good
Have you ever considered doing the cooking yourself or making your own (healthy) sandwiches? That way you can still eat healthy but it tastes better.
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OMG that burger look so fucking good….
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