After a steady diet of chicken, fish, vegetables, salads and other healthy dishes, there comes a point when you say, “To heck with this. I want some real food. I want a cheeseburger oozing with goodness and I don’t care how many calories it has.”
That’s when you find a nearby Five Guys Restaurant and get your food fix, then it’s off to your endocrinologist to try and get your blood pressure and cholesterol levels under control.
The first time I went to a Five Guys – I didn’t know any better – I ordered two cheeseburgers and a large order of French Fries. I had no idea the size of their burgers or fries, but I ordered way too much. Their hamburgers and cheeseburgers are automatically double burgers and they put half of the state of Idaho’s annual potato crop on your plate for just a regular order of fries. A large order uses their entire crop of spuds.
I ate what I could and gave up.
For the record, Five Guys isn’t exactly health food.
Their cheeseburgers have 840 calories – each! With lettuce, tomato, mayo, pickles and onions, they’ll top out around 1,000 calories and a regular order of fries sets you back another 950 calories. That pretty much shoots a diet dead right there. But boy are those burgers good. Greasy, tasty, salty, yummy, gooey and just plain good. Their fries are delicious as well. Add a shake? Why not? What’s 3,000 calories among friends?
Five Guys is a Virginia-based company out of Lorton and started business in 1981. They have been supremely successful in a world of a watch-what-you-eat pmentality.
About once a year I indulge myself and sneak into Five Guys, hoping none of my doctors see me going in and hoping I don’t need a doctor when I come out.