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| - FINALLY, I sample the notorious Fatburger, which we don't have up in the Bay Area. And my reaction was--OK.
Yes, the burger was Fat. The fries were also Fat, but that's the way I picked them, and I did like them. Simple, potatoey, and no weird coating on the outside like some competitors' fries.
I guess if you desperately need a fast food burger and you're in the gravitational pull of a Fatburger, you could do worse. I prefer it to Fuddruckers and might even take it over In-n-Out, but Jeffrey's and Val's in the Bay Area are far better burgers to my taste.
This particular Fatburger seems to be brand new and part of a sprawling outdoor mall here on the edge of the desert north of Scottsdale. It won't be the edge of the desert for long, of course, since Great Phoenix seems to grow like creepy fingers of killer space fungus in a Sci-Fi movie of some kind. By this time next year it will be 20 miles in from the northern edge of Greater Phoenix, and the locals will see it as a quaint relic of bygone times in an aging layer of this megalopolis.
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