Craig’s Friday Countdown - Cheeseburgers

Fast food cheeseburgers, in ascending order of longing. 

15.  (tie) Checkers, Jack In The Box – Nasty

14.  High School Mystery Meat – Enigmatic

13.  (tie) Tastee Feeze, Dairy Queen – Just get some ice-cream.

12.  Hardees – Used to be better.

11.  Burger King – Flame-broiled.  Nothing else good about it.

10.  What A Burger – Variable.

9.  Billy Goat – A better SNL skit than burger.

8.  McDonalds – Best choice for high lateral G environments.

7.5  Wendys

7.  In N Out – Close enough to bike or skateboard to these days.

6.  Fuddruckers - They have the salt figured out just right.

5.  Portillos – Their sixth best menu item is #5.  That’s both pretty good, and leads to not eating very many of them.

4.  Five Guys – Not certain the peanuts are really "free", given $10 burgers.  

3.  Smashburger – With swiss cheese and fried egg.  Ya know, for brunch.

2.  Culvers – While #3, #4, and #5 are objectively better, factoring in how much I miss them slots them in at #2.

1.  Dog & Suds – Was it the Texasburger special sauce?  Was it the high school bombshell carhops who were our girlfriends / future wives?  I’ll say both.  

Not scored - Steak n' Shake, because they are more diner than fast food, and Shake Shack, because (in keeping with my general policy of avoiding New York) I haven't had one.