George’s Best Burgers in Anaheim - Southern California Food Review / Orange County Hamburger Stand
A visit to George's Best Burger in Anaheim California .
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welcome everyone adam
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the woo here today number 37 of this
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current series on southern california
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eateries
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staying in orange county today hopping
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on the bike
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gonna cruise over to a place into
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anaheim that i have seen many times but
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never stopped off at
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and it looks very unique very
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interesting
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and quite possibly very tasty i'm
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inviting you to join me
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shall you loading up the backpack with
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some supplies and whenever i take the
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bicycle
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i always bring along that that pump
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there
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just in case my tire needs air
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the on ramp to the five freeway right
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the route i have chosen is down catella
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and then i'm gonna take the next turn
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i think it's the next turn and then it's
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down about a mile
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from this from this spot
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the satellite center check that out
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it's a satellite on that sign still
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haven't figured out if i'm allowed to
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ride
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on the sidewalk through here or if i'm
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supposed to stay on the road
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sometimes i'm up on the sidewalk but
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then sometimes
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i stay in the road this is just kind of
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a makeshift
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bike lane if you will seems as if
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traffic on this side of the street
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not too not too heavy
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most were getting on the freeway back
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there it's a little traffic but not too
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bad
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there is some heavy duty oh there's a
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jeep heavy-duty machinery over and
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over in there some construction
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happening
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out of the palm tree section
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and into these
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going right through the middle there's
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some on either side of me
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cross streets of cerritos ave and
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anaheim boulevard
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you can see the the spot over there
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saying come on in like a tractor beam
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it's like a beacon
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i got the all go ahead in fact i have 23
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22 21 seconds to spare
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george's best georgia's
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best burgers
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they have breakfast they have lunch they
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have dinner
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this is a glorious looking facade
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as old school as it gets and that's why
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i'm here
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sometimes i'm just kind of pulled in by
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the way a place looks especially when it
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screams nostalgia
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and vintageness oh man
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george's best you best
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get a burger i am a self-proclaimed
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aficionado when it comes to coca-cola
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classic signage
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nice 1475
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is the address they have
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quarter pound
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char char charles
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charbroiled burgers
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oh you know i gotta get a hamburger
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it's hot it's definitely gonna happen
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pay phone still
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intact i'm not going to i'm not gonna
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try it out to see if it has a dial tone
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i'm just going to assume that it is
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working
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quite operational and the pickup window
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over there
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is open there is a caution eight foot
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limit you know a warning there
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but i'm gonna go in i'm gonna get some
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takeout by going inside
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that awning's awesome this place is a
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throwback
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and i can't eat here there's no tables
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set up out front they've all been
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flipped over you know for
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for the time being during the the
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current environment
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i have chosen a regular hamburger
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actually i got the cheeseburger
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and i went with a green tea which was a
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85 cent up charge from a soda
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and i didn't ask if they were fries or
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onion rings but
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i would imagine they're gonna have it's
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gonna be fries
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just a few moments before the clock
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strikes
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noon i've been trying to eat lunch you
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know around the noon time frame look at
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this
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look at the architecture of this place
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this is awesome yeah
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they don't you don't see places like
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this too often anymore this is a
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a local eatery if ever there was one
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also have sandwiches quesadillas dinners
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salads breakfast plates i always enjoy
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noticing the little details you can see
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how
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this is kind of the way this is built it
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kind of slants up there
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i don't know i get i get a kick out of
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little things about to
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unlike unlock the bicycle and i got my
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bag of food here
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you know it's going to be good because
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you can always see you can already see
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the grease starting to permeate through
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there but notice that there is a
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there is a bee down there you want some
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of this bee
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do bees eat burgers it doesn't really
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show up on camera too much the wind has
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kind of
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wafted it away but you can see the
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the goodness of the smoky char-broiled
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cookery that was happening except the
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augusta wind kind of
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got rid of that ambiance okay
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i'm hungry if you look closely you can
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see guardians of the galaxy over there
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in the credit coaster
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have procured a a place right here
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across the road with it in view just
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next to the bus stop
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oh he'll hear a helicopter going by
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it's just out of it's just out of frame
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and
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this is what we're dealing with first
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the drink there
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got the arizona real brewed
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green tea in a can a
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decent sized can with ginseng and honey
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in a while i had one of those and i'm
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going to use this kind of as my
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makeshift
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plate and inside a classic
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almost like a lunch school lunchtime bag
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is the accessory well we got first i got
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the
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first i got the napkins there even from
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this angle it is a
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wonderful sight have to get very
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creative i don't really have an extended
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tripod
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and that tree there putting it in the oh
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i hear the
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i hear the parrots oh the parrots are
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going by
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you hear him up there squawking right
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above
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george's hamburgers but as i was saying
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i'm going to put the camera right here
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on the seat that way and face
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over towards the establishment it might
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be just a little bit too
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shadowed out and normally i don't like
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to have a bunch of traffic
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going in and out of the you know of the
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frame
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i think i have it i think i have it
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figured out i think
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i have it's a little very close but
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that's okay
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vicarious you can enjoy this
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with me there oh yeah it smells
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smells really good fries
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it's been a little while since i had
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fries i've been opting for
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you know other options for options
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that might be basically the same word
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used in two different
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basically the same word anyway
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pretty good for eyes
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no waters today been getting two waters
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at most places but this is like two
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beverages in one
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i did not check the receipt to see if
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they abided by the 99
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cent rule on this but the total was
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under
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10 it was like nine dollars and change
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for everything
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hello so nine dollars and
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20 cents don't quote me on this might be
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a penny or two off
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not a bad deal i haven't bitten into it
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yet but
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i'm pretty sure it's gonna definitely be
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worth the money
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and i can see it right there right over
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up as an officer pulled someone over
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someone was in a a real hurry
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someone was in a real hurry
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it's got to be good if they're giving
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someone a ticket for going a little too
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fast down this thoroughfare
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anaheim boulevard runs parallel
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well it might run parallel to harbor
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which is the next one over
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yeah it does if you go that way
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it turns into a different road name
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which runs parallel
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to harbor i digress all packaged up and
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looking very wonderful if i do say so
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myself i can see the cheese there just
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kind of protruding outwardly from the
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bun
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we got the little seeds on top of the
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bread
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oh look the juices are oozing down the
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side
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okay there we go you can kind of see in
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there a little bit more
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take a bite take a bite i'm dropping
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some of the lettuce on my
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my pant leg
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it's happening motorcycle officer
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has now left the scene he did not go in
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and order anything
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it could maybe be their secret sauce a
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lot of places use
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a thousand island type of dressing as a
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secret sauce
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cannot confirm or deny that's what
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they're using
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but that's the first thing i think of
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tomatoes really good
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when i was younger for you i didn't like
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tomatoes at all
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so get those tomatoes out of here get
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them the heck
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out of here now i prefer them i should
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have kind of planted myself somewhere
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else
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but i'm already i'm already i'm all in
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there is a bird serenade i take back
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what i said this is the spot
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there is a bird serenading me from that
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no parking sign
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right there
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showcasing that i'm not i'm not saying
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i'm a messy eater
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but i am in the bottom percentile of
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those who are very neat when they eat i
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get all into it
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i love food
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i look forward to lunch each day
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mostly because i don't eat a lot in the
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evening i ate this one meal
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and then at night around 6 or 7 p.m i
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will have a salad usually a spinach
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salad from a pre-packaged container
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put it on a plate well it's like a fresh
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container but it's in like a plastic
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container
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and then i'll throw a good couple
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helpings
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spoonfuls of cottage cheese on there and
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some light ranch dressing and that's
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what i have for
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evening and it makes it makes me feel
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comfortable at night where i don't have
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like a full
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full belly like eating something this
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heavy and that's been my routine
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through the course of not the entire
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this entire series but the last
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week or two that's what i've been doing
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and i feel really good i feel really
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dang good
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but by this time of the day by by around
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noon
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give or take i'm pretty hungry you have
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to really use your imagination on where
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to
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where to get the proper camera angles to
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really showcase the location
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completed the hamburger now i just gotta
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just gotta dive into the rest of these
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fries
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not too heavily salted there's a lot a
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little salt on them
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and maybe some other seasonings
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but the little nibble that i had leads
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me to believe the rest of them will be
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just as good
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difficult too
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well no i'm you know no i'm i'm pointing
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at your front your backs are on the
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other side but i mean you're back you're
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you're back to say hello i asked how
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long they have been going strong
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they said 50 plus years
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never closed there could possibly be a
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little asterisk after that fact
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you know based on what's been happening
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but they've been doing takeout
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i can't zoom in from here but i just saw
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a
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huge flame go up
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wow that was awesome it is seriously
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when they say char broiled
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that's what they're doing in there i can
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see it from here it's gone now with just
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like one quick little burst
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yeah you can't really see in there we
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can see in the door but you can't see
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the flame has dissipated
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now you can really see the other
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seasonings that are down in there
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that is not your typical salt look you
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can see the
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there we go you're probably
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taking a gander at me from over there
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saying that's the guy that came in here
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asking a couple questions about our
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history filming the lobby area in the
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menu
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they thought they were rid of me they
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thought i was going to go elsewhere
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and now they're probably as they're in
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there preparing their delicious meal
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for the next customer seeing me over
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here thinking
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this is probably gonna be on the
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internet
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if they aren't thinking that they think
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i've lost my mind
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it could be a balance of both and i know
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it can seem a little unusual
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but i do enjoy showcasing
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local eateries usually within an hour of
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my place this isn't too far this is only
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a few miles
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this is closer than some which brings me
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to this point uh
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the thing i like about this where the
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series is going or where it has gone
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i i have a number in mind when i'm gonna
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stop it but i might go before then it
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might go a little longer but
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i have an idea of a pinpointed stopping
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point
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date wise but what i was think what i
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was trying to say
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is the thing i enjoy about it it's a
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nice mixture some places need no
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introductions they are so
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iconic to southern california la
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orange county areas that it's just
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you know when when they're presented
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it's like i know that place i've seen it
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whether on tv
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or heard about it through you know word
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of mouth and there's others like like
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what i'm showing that might just be a
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kind of a mom-and-pop type cut type of
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fair not a fair but a mom-and-pop
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mom and pop type place and then other
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ones
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have a deep meaning for me there might
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be an establishment that's like
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why did he go there everyone's been
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there it's kind of just a real basic
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type of place
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but i'd like to put a little personal
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spin in it and you know
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have a little heart to heart and talk
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and you know
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get out what i am feeling what i am
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thinking so it's a mixture of those
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three or four
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things i'm really feeling that
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the peppering in of whatever i just
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dropped one on the ground dang it one
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just fell out
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onto the sidewalk that's okay i have
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plenty more in fact
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i don't even know if i'm gonna finish
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all these it's getting pretty full
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the seasoning though is really drifting
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down to the bottom of the package
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a lot of flavor
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still whistling away
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i was sitting next to these the whole
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