The first swaps in retro burger joints
Reporting by Abbey Clark, Mikaylah Ott, Elias Saba, Katarina Tornich and Sara Weidner
If you go through Atlanta and your family wants a hamburger, visit the great and the most famous driving in which white paper hats workers have asked people "what are you would have? " since 1928.
Go ahead: order a triple with bacon and cheese, one side of the onion rings and a fried fishing shoemaker for calorie haters are damned because the experience of eating at this mecca of fat should appear on your List of culinary buckets. (Tip: Share triple with a friend ... or three.)
You can tell the same for the entirely American walk on Long Island, the Spartenburg tag, South Carolina or one of the dozens of burger historical burger joints, still booming in the United States. Everyone is worth getting ketchup on your shirt.
But in reality, you will eat more than one fast food burger this summer during your travels and will undoubtedly visit your share of nostalgia theme burger franchises inspired by the classic drives of yesteryear. And when you do, you will want to order armed with the knowledge to make healthier choices.
So we were crueling in America's classic burgers to investigate what's going on between their small breads of Soggy Hamburger so that you can decipher the menu selections quickly and choose hamburgers and sides that will fill your belly but keep your belly but keep -The flat. Take advantage of retro experience and always save hundreds of calories by meal simply by making these simple food swaps.
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Five guys
You do not need to want to find a five guy. Since the Murrell brothers have opened the first time that the collection of pickup trains set up hand-trained burgers in Arlington, the franchise has expanded more than 1,000 sites in 47 states and 6 Canadian provinces. You must have a little stronger to find a hamburger on the menu that is not calories in calories. It also goes for their fresh fries. A regular contains 620 calories. Divide your order with a friend.
When ordering your hamburger, we suggest you go from light to beef and take care of free production products, such as grilled mushrooms, onions, green peppers, lettuce and the tomato. They will fly your lil hamburger, which, by the way, is about the size of a normal cake that you will find elsewhere. Bonus: Do not miss the10 best and worse things about five guys!
Eat this: Lil 'Hamburger
Nutrition: 480 calories, 26 g of grease (11.5 g saturated; 1 g of trans fat), 380 mg of sodium
Do not let "Lil". It's a normal-size beef cake on a bun.
Not that: bacon cheeseburger
Nutrition: 920 calories, 62 grams of fat (29.5 g saturated), 1,310 mg of sodium
Elevation burger
Hans Hess started the burger elevation in 2002 because he wanted to offer a superior hamburger meat to his family and friends. All elevation burgers are made from 100% bio beef, nourished with grass and grass. And if you are vegan, there is also something nice menu for you too, the Burger 320-Calorie Veggie made from whole grains, spices and organic vegetables. If you are on the fence of Vegetarian Cold Turkey, they even offer something called "half of burger guilt", with a galette of each, beef and vegetables, not Turkey. With such a noble selection on the menu, we still have to scratch our heads on their scandalous vertigo burger in which you can stack up to 10 beef rollers to create a 1,950 calorie intestine bomb. Take the madness of lunch!
An other idea? Make your own healthy and delicious burgers at home with these20 tips for making perfect hamburger.
Eat this: a unique hamburger wrapped in lettuce
Nutrition: 190 calories, 12 g of fat (6 g saturated), 200 mg of sodium
If you cut carbohydrates, enjoy your hamburger in a green envelope. Clever!
Not that: Guacamole Ranch Burger
Nutrition: 800 calories, 50 g of grease (24 g saturated), 1 009 mg of sodium
We are fans of avocado and its fat mononaturées healthy! But when the team with two hamburgers and a ranch dressing, the result is about a half day calories.
Cheeburger Cheeburger
This franchise retro give you a taste of what it was like to order a classic American diner in 1950 ago the Formica everywhere and a blatant Jukebox Elvis singingAny way you want meWhich is how you can order your burger semi-serious 1/3 pounds. Among the specialty and free toppings (actually the peanut butter of peanuts) and cheese selections, you can create a cheeseburger different every time you visit this franchise. (Cheeburger estimated over 8721 different combinations.) As many seals burger Noisetty Nostalgic, you can order the "Pounder" to 20 ounces and get your name pinned to a board (whoo-hoo!), But you can also select a more humble and healthy option menu on-the-top. PSST. Choose anything like an envelope over the halves of bun will save you a ton of calories. Not in counting calories anyway? Well, then you will love this list of30 weight loss tips better than counting calories!
Eat this: Burger Classic Beef Wrap with banana peppers
Nutrition: 302 calories, 19 g fat (7 g saturated), 87 mg of sodium
Not that: our famous book with cheese
Nutrition: 1728 calories, 108 g fat (46 g saturated), 3813 mg of sodium
Wayback Burgers
Wayback began in 1991 as burgers Jake, a small cabin in Newark, Delaware, with a big claim: "Best Burgers in the bun." Now called Widkback Burgers, nostalgic burger joint has 100 locations in 25 states and in Argentina. Wayback attempts to recreate the cozy atmosphere of a local restaurant of long ago when people lingered over a cup of coffee and pies for hours and chat with neighbors. With the ridiculous size of some of their food burger, you'll be too busy to talk chew. Nine burger patties? Sorry, Jake, no one needs a lot of foodbreakfast.
Eat this: Philly Burger Simple
Nutrition: 440 calories, 22 g fat (8 g saturated), 970 mg of sodium
Not that Double Bacon Burger
Nutrition: 820 calories, 48 g fat (19 g saturated), 1,520 mg of sodium
Sonic
Their astronomical selection deep sides and tempting range of sonic explosions, dollar dogs promotions and half-price milkshakes (after 20 hours), there are so many opportunities to surditer here for there to get ketchup on your fuzzy dice. That said, if you make sure that only small portions make it through your car window, you can get away with a full meal of 700 calories. Not great, but not bad.
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Eat this: junior burger
Nutrition: 340 calories, 17 g fat (6 g saturated, 0.5 g of trans fat), 480 mg of sodium
The junior burger yet made much filler to 4 ounces of ground beef, but it has only a quarter of the calories of the double bacon cheeseburger supersonic. Go for the junior and you'll save room for a small order of their delicious Tater Totts.
Not as: bacon double cheeseburger supersonic
Nutrition: 1240 calories, 87 g fat (35 g saturated, 3.5 g of trans fat), 1690 mg of sodium
Eat this, not that! You recommends avoiding foods with trans fats and try to keep the daily consumption to less than 2 grams.
Johnny Rockets
The name of this famous franchise for its juke boxes, singing waiters, milkshakes and 1950s Diner Nostalgia, was inspired by the 1949 rocket oldsmobile 88, probably first American muscle car, with a Rocket V8 engine and a speed maximum of 97 mi / h.
But the experience of driving Dinner JR JR can go in the way of muscle car. The chain is testing prototypes shops that remove dancing servers on older and have new tunes and made modern level. But at least the burgers, including 17 million per year, will not change. P.S. - talk about menu changes, we suggest you avoid theseWorst new flat restaurant in America .
Eat this: the original
Nutrition: 870 calories, 55 g of grease (16 g saturated), 1,410 mg of sodium
You can replace Turkey and chicken breast on the floor for the optional beef burger.
Not that: double cheddar bacon
Nutrition: 1,920 calories, 202 g of grease (51 g saturated), 2,760 mg of sodium