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| - If your favorite part of a burger is the special sauce (like a McDonald's Big Mac), the Galley Boy at Swensons is the burger to try. The burger has a generous helping of the creamy and slightly sweet sauce added to a regular double cheeseburger. After the special sauce, though, the Galley Boy and the other burgers at Swensons don't have much going for them: The thin patties are a bit dried out (admittedly difficult to have a patty that is both thin and juicy) and don't really have any distinctive taste in and of themselves. The buns are pretty standard but toasted, at least, which is nice. I tried one of the regular burgers just to be sure, and it confirmed that it's really the special sauce that masks the burger's shortfalls and turns it into something that is pretty decent. The Potato Teezers side was pretty good--very cheesy with just a little bit of jalapeno kick in each stick.
I tried Swensons based on an argument with a friend while we were chowing down on my beloved Cook-Out burgers in North Carolina (at about 3:00am on Saint Patrick's Day to fully set the scene). The burgers at Swensons are a long way from that rarefied air in my opinion, and I would put them also behind In-n-Out, Five Guys, and Culver's among the national/regional chains I've tried. Still, the Galley Boy at Swensons is a decent enough special sauce burger, and it's fun to watch the runners zip back and forth from the kitchen to the cars in the parking lot. Now excuse me while I try to clean the crumbs out of my car.
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