If you live in Alberta and have taken a road trip to Calgary, chances are you've stopped at Pete's. It's legendary. It's been famous for decades. Even when I was a kid, we stopped here on a team road trip and it was the highlight of the whole trip.
Pete's is really nothing fancy. It's reputation preceeds it. It's an average greasy burger joint but the food is good and the portions are huge. I remember to this day a box of fries as big as a shoebox. Some 20 years later the thrill and mystique are gone, but it's still fun to stop for a burger and fries and milkshake. It's so much more exciting than going to McDonald's, and pretty much as cheap as the golden arches. Pete's has been deep fried into our collective conscience, and I like it that way.