WARNING FIVE GUYS BURGERS AND FRIES SUCK HORRIBLY!!!!!

I recently had gotten a call from my good friend Jae Bueno out in Los Angeles relating to a burger spot rumored to be opening in his area to RIVAL the IN-N-Out Burger chain. He had heard that this Five Guys Burgers N Fries was based on the East Coast, more or less where I live. This five guys spot was supposed to be WAY better than IN-N-Out, so with that I began typing away on the net trying to see if there was a close location for me to sample this extraordinary claim. Note* plastered on their website as well as in store there are numerous cork boards with posted notes praising how GREAT this place is. That too me bolstered the MUST VISIT category. I found one about 12 miles from my house, so I round the family up and we are on our way, salivating of course because we LOVE some IN-N-Out so if this is better wowee that will be the new spot!

We arrived right about peak dinner time, 6 pm-ish. The place is PACKED!! Kinda like IN-N-Out any day of the week at any time. So far so good. I see the cork board hanging all over as I mentioned above…another good note. They also have peanuts just hanging out open boxed I am guessing to snack on while waiting to order, waiting for your food, or just during or after your meal. No charge of course free to everyone. Well the menu board has pricing for the fries and drinks although I must have missed the burger prices.

We placed out order ( I knew the fries were 3.99 for large) I got a large fry for myself and one for my misses and daughter to share($3.99 x 2), 2 regular drinks($1.99 x 2), one bacon cheese burger ($5.49), one cheeseburger ($4.39), and one kids cheeseburger ($3.59). So totaled up with tax $28. I am thinking to myself this better be some MASSIVE ass food for the price. Well, sadly I was very very WRONG!!!

Now just knowing Jae had an ear to the street of a few friends that were contemplating franchising this place out in California to battle the well known and well established burger spots I had to continue. The place was packed evidently due to a end of soccer season gathering that took up 80% of the dining room. Around the dining room there were awards of sorts from readers voting for best burgers up and down the east coast (you know the kind you buy a newspaper fill out the best and send in) Easily done from the establishment I am betting( buy a few thousand papers employees fill it out bam your a winner, bogus award) This place is BY FAR the best anything except scam artist spot. I would rather hit up burger kind or the golden arches before this shit hole! Without further adou here are my spy flicks:

The Fries:

These fries were SUPER SOAKED with grease, as you can note on the bag in the first picture. The were limp for the most part due to the soaking as well as 50% were BURNT. Notice the size of the *cup* they come in? $4 damn I was expecting Fudd Ruckers sized portions not a cup worth GAYNESS!

The drinks of course regular run of the mill cups.

The burgers HA HA HA HA HA. I only took a picture of mine due to it looked the best out of the three. But basically the adult burgers were mainly 2 Jr. Whopper sized burger patties sloshed with mayo, ketchup, and mustard and the usual condiments. The misses got Jalapenos on hers (RAW apple green , crunchy peppers *YUCK!) The Kids burger is exactly that regular burger patty also sloshed with condiments. Noticing the oozing on the burger..thats not cheese!

And my receipt:

If anyone reads this, save yourself the time and money and just hit burger king or the golden arches! Or if your in So. Cal, by ALL MEANS IN-N-OUT is WELL WORTH the wait! And anyone interested in franchising with this shiesty ass five guy burgers DO NOT!!!…Franchise a IN-N-OUT or FATBURGER!!!!!

Pixar CARS Tomica Tongue Mcqueen

Tomica Disney CARS playsets

I just got these in the post from Japan. Very nice sets all together! Great quality as usual! Each plaset comes with a Tomica CARS character. Not cheap , but very nice to enjoy for a CARS collector! And when you are done with them, they fold up into a very nice book type folder for easy storage!

And here they are all set up together:

Hot Works BLITZ Nissan Skyline Boxsets…

I recently got lucky enough to catch these three sets at once. These sets represent Nissan Skyline Blitz ER34 d1 drifting teams of 2002 through 2007. Very nice detail for a 1:64 scaled model. The ride height is adjustable and details are spot on!

2006 Hot Works ORC Fairlady Z D1

Newest Hot Works model to drop is this 2006 Hot Works ORC Fairlady Z D1. This replicated version of the Fairlady Driven by Youichi Imamura is dead on and beautiful in craftsmanship. The quality of this piece is well beyond what you would expect. Let me tell a little story.

I bought this item and 4 others from a Online dealer, I recieved the package a few days ago and the box sounded as if there was something loose inside. My hear sack, just knowing something had broken during transit. I open the box up slowly not knowing what I would see. All contents were ok except this Fairlady. She was sitting upside down in the box, apparently the online seller used this item for photos and just threw it back in the box, no screwing it back down. I guess he might have thought the original plastic strap would keep it in place. But nonetheless nothing was broken all was intact…whew! Close call there!

Ebbro Takata Dome NSX (2002 LATE) 1:43

I had been missing this piece for quite sometime, and not willing to pay fleecebay prices I have been patient. I nabbed this off fleecebay for about $30. It will go well with its big brothers from Auto Art and Muscle Machines, as well as its little brother from Tamiya.

SLM by Sichi

UK artist Sichi seems to have something to say, but I can’t tell exactly what it is…this new figure produced by the fearless folks at Shanghai’s Adfunture Workshop is called SLM…Sichi Loves Mickey? Same Lame Mouse? I don’t know. Pretty rad though isn’t it?

This figure speaks for itself. No misunderstanding the artistic nature of it or direction it takes. Simple yet defined in a very strong way! This will sit at the forefront of my household letting know all who enter, no bullshit will be tolerated.

Frank Kozik Teddy Troop

Following the 123Klan’s offering below, I grabbed the Anarchy version as well. Something about flat black, a bear with a big helmet, and white writing including an anarchy sign gives me goosebumps.

123 Klan Teddy Troop

I really hadn’t gotten too into Teddy Troops, although this design caught my eye as well as the Kozik Anarchy. The price was right so I scooped it up. And to me Adfunture is a really well balanced team of artists and platforms to design on, and this is yet another example of it!

Muscle Machines SEMA Nissan March

This Nissan March was released ONLY once and that was for a 2004 SEMA Super Convention in Las Vegas 4 years ago. This car was a give away from Muscle Machine/Funline which was sold to Action , and now has been revamped into Muscle Machines. The Import Tuner side of Muscle Machines will never been seen again. The majority of the collector base is of Muscle Car collectors and the import scene kind of died out. Not to mention the die hard designers such as Judson Bryant and sean72 have moved on to bigger and brighter things. This is definitely one of my favorite releases from that Muscle Machine era!