The Back To The Future Burger King in Burbank - Southern California Filming Location Food Review
A visit to The Burger King from Back To The Future .
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welcome everyone out of the whoo here
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today number 36 of this current series
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where I focus on Southern California
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eating establishments heading up to
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Burbank to a location that was used in
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one of my favorite movies of all time
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I'm inviting you to join me as I go back
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to 1985 in a roundabout way
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shall you stocked up on a few of these
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items so I can discard of that one and
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grab another one off I go that's right
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big the foot is still open for business
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yeah I can grab a meal from the spot
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used in the film what's that oh yeah
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yeah yeah
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that is the LA style and up there you're
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right a little off the route but not too
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far 11 miles from where I'm finally
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going to be arriving to is the gamble
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house and I show this just to give a
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little perspective when talking about
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1985 go 30 years prior to 1955 and this
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would have stood in for the fictional
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1640 Riverside Drive and I show this
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because Doc Brown and back to the future
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three decades later would have resided
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right there in his little side
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workstation area
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the way the plot goes this would have
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been destroyed and he had no choice the
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only remaining structure on the property
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wouldn't have been that facade if that
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makes any sense a mail truck has now
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arrived delivering a package to Emmett's
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perhaps
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I'll explain this a little more when we
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get over to Burbank
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but think about it there's a lot going
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on here and obviously this is this is
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not reality this is based on something
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that could have was seen on the big
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screen and now on VHS DVDs blu-rays and
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lives are lives on in the the hearts of
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many 80s self-proclaimed aficionados so
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right there that's his workstation slash
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residence
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and the Burger King would be right there
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that's where I'm heading
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hopefully this isn't too confusing yep
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you're right just about 10 more miles
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give or take I'm like I'm not kidding in
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the carpool lane up to 88 no no should I
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I'm gonna keep it below 88 but I like
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what you're like what you're saying
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arrived at the cross streets of Cyprus
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Ave and the 600 block of North victory
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Boulevard which stood in for John F
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Kennedy Drive like I was saying there's
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a lot of there's a lot of other streets
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to remember it is a rather busy
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thoroughfare constant amount of traffic
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going by just use your imagination and
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try to recollect that offset from the
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road would have been Doc's mansion right
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over there and 1646
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not sixteen forty but adjacent right
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about here would have been where Marty
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played with Michael J Fox rode his
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skateboard right directly out of this
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parking lot in fact you can see the
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little drainage area still remains crews
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roll along here and the truck was
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pulling out of the drive-through hitch
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to ride on the back most likely has been
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repaid but that would be the sidewalk
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and he was cruising down and it's also
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assumed because Hill Valley was not a
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very large community that this is where
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his brother Dave could maybe possibly
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have worked even though they do not they
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never did any of the interiors inside
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there and you never see Dave McFly
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flipping a burger anything like that he
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was wearing the uniform in the first
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dinner scene when they're watching The
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Honeymooners
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he had the BK uniform on so you do the
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math this signage was standing back then
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when they were filming those scenes
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although it's changed a little bit in
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fact the the logo for this fast-food
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establishment has been altered over the
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years the most obvious is the pieces of
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bread the buns are way smaller they used
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to be much larger engulfing the words
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Burger King I'm standing from a
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different angle now what you're looking
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at is that parking lot and the
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drive-thru from the opposite side of
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that wall where the truck pulls out
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one thing interesting about going back
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to the referencing the character of Dave
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McFly he was eating dinner at night and
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back then you know in the 80s most most
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of these establishments were not open 24
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hours he was waiting for they had to go
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catch his bus he said is gonna be late
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for the bus did he'd go home on his
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lunch break catch a bus go all the way
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out home just eat dinner with the family
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and then return then again maybe he just
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really wanted to catch that that rerun
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of the honeymooners the tree is now
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obscuring at iconic logo right around in
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here is where the fence was kicked open
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hopped on the skateboard and I'll kind
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of loop around and just show you
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Marty's angle would have been that way
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that would have been his perspective as
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he skated along and right over there was
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his ride getting a meal just like I'm
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going to except I'm walking in the truck
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was in the drive for their vast
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adjustments to
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to the building itself
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we had some issues a few years ago and
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they had to rebuild parts of it and just
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let this soak in for a moment this was
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the first exterior location shown in the
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trilogy when power of love by Huey Lewis
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starts - - Blair it's beautiful song
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noise and it pans from that parking lot
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with the gate the skateboard and this
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before that it was on a soundstage I
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know in the grand scheme of things this
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is just what it would appear to most to
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be a normal burger king but some of us
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know differently says no entry I think
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that just means no entry through the dry
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oh yeah you don't want to go down the
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wrong way of the drive-thru most major
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franchise locations like this frown upon
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you know taking a camera and recording
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inside and really there's there's not
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really a whole lot to see in there like
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I said it's been redone and there were
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no nothing interior so I'm gonna go get
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myself a Whomper maybe a side and
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possibly a bottle of water decide when I
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get in there and I'll see you back
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outside in a moment oh yeah the awning
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read my mind home of the whopper to do
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it
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okay I changed my mind I'm going to show
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these photographs there look at this
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that's how the logo looked way back then
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and there is a proper meal
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total on the order that includes the two
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waters I'll show you what's inside
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inside here twelve dollars and 43 cents
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going right past the the drive-thru
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right there and over to the parking lot
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right there that's well there we go
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let's try
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oh yeah that's a good one that's a good
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one that's a good that's for posterity
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right there now it won't be the exact
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precise spot where Marty right there
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goes against those cinder blocks before
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he skates outward because I know those
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two empty spots are soon to be filled up
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with vehicles however there is this
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little section under the shade so that's
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that's probably the closest it will be
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to eating at the at the pocket ago I
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could eat inside but hi getting fresh
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air somebody's over here underneath this
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tree don't really need this on anymore
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so I'm gonna switch it out for
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sunglasses I purchased a new pair of
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sunglasses last evening my back pocket
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is one of the bottles of water power
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replace it
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look here is the other bottle of water
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and somewhat enough halli right there's
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that guy do it
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I have opted away from fries and gone
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with some delicious looking onion rings
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there and a whopper they asked me if I
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wanted cheese I said okay yes give me
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some cheese and
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the sauce
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didn't ask me what kind of wanted they
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just threw the zesty right there
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couple of napkins it was rather busy
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inside inside of there to be honest
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the unwrapping begins America's favorite
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burger and scripted right there on the
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side oh ho yeah it's been a while since
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I had one of these sandwiches
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got the lettuce we got the cheese we got
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tomato down in there yeah I can see a
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healthy-looking tomato onions I love
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freshly sliced onion up the tomato just
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kind of careened itself down on tore the
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top of the lettuce and the Patty and ooh
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got some pickles there I do love some
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pickles it's happening a lot of foliage
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a lot of branches
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it I can't even tell you the last time I
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came to recollect last time I had a
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whopper was now for me as a child and
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even into my older age my dad still to
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this day tells a story and I'm probably
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going to misquote him or miss towns it's
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kind of paraphrasing my father who said
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I believe it was when he went to college
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for the first time he grew up in
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Mississippi I don't think they had this
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establishment of this fast-food joint in
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his town he went to college in Atlanta
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and the first time he was there tried a
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whopper now a lot has changed since
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those days the whopper is still a very
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good size Pete an item that you can
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order but I'm gonna go on record and say
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they're not as big as they once were
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they have kind of diminished according
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to him now everybody sells hamburgers
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now there are places that go gargantuan
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size it was the largest hamburger he had
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ever seen in his life and that still
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resonates in my mind so taking a bite
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now of at one point was the largest
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hamburgers on earth the whopper
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that is good
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you can taste the flame
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boiled goodness prepared on a grill in
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all those ingredients kind of falling
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out of the bun there that is good you
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can get a regular whopper does not come
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with cheese I added the cheese hence the
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name written there on the bottom of the
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it's just the right amount of gradient
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condiment that are on there I'm standing
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right here first
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exterior scene
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in the Back to the Future trilogy from
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part one my favorite of all three of the
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films part two was amazing
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part three I life are three I love part
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three a part one for me is a nearly
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flawless film there are some continuity
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errors obviously the cast is perfect
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the plot is perfect you got comedy you
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got sci-fi you got action
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you got nostalgia now that the movie is
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decades upon decades old I also like the
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fact that old h2o I also like the fact
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that it just is the existing three there
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are no prequels there was the animated
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series which really had nothing to do
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with any of it is that some of the
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characters are no prequels there are no
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sequels after the third that's it one
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two and three unlike other trilogies
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that I know and love that have really
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gone above and beyond to take that
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universe that whole expansive
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you know you know what I'm referring to
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they have kind of milked it in a way and
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back to the future never did that robert
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zemeckis the director Bob Gale the
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writer have made statements that that
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would never happen in their lifetime and
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I cannot speak for 30 years from now but
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as of right now as of June 2020 there is
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no word no rumors there will not be any
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sort of back to the future for it's all
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it's all left back there in the 80s 85
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89 and 94 one two and the third
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and that it makes us something special
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it it takes it into the realm of
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nostalgia not just like newness even
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though it all stays very relevant you
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know because you know it's out there
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even though the ride at Universal
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Studios was eliminated the Gift Shop is
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now not a gift shop that sells DeLoreans
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and keychains and Hill Valley snow
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globes and the Simpsons have completely
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taken over the ride itself but the love
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for the love for this
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it lives on like I say it's a fun film
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it's not reality but then again unless
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you're watching a documentary what is
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you can still enjoy something that kind
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of takes you away from the real world
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that's not a bad thing not a bad thing
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right now to be honest
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are they in ranked I'm just noticing
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here this kind of keeps up with the
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theming of everything you know a movie
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and on the side of this little cup here
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that holds the onion rings it says best
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best supporting role in a meal they
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might put the fries in there too but
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these are onion rings mmm
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crunchy like a crunchy onion ring
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the onions inside oh yeah they got a
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little illa potency
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sometimes you can't taste the onions
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from the batter
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this on top of it on top of the the
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onion itself
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I will now perch the camera up and this
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little fort in the tree facing the other
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direction now we're just trying to
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change up the angles slightly obscured
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by the leaves but it makes for a good
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good shot right there the onion has kind
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of its kind of dangling right there on
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top of the on top of the vine
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I'm fairly confident that this structure
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behind me that wall can be seen when
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michael j fox opens the door after he's
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talking to dhaka says i'm late for
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school
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walks out you see that structure there
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for one brief moment before he goes out
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kicks the gate open and goes down the
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parking lot
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I had thought about getting the double
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whopper
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thank goodness I did not
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I'm 34 after eating half the onion right
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3/4 of the onion ranks drinking almost a
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one of my waters and almost polishing
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office just whopper
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kind of a nice little tie in now
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obviously there are there are beat gays
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all over the country world this one is
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extra special though as the
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aforementioned reasons traded trying to
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tie things in kinda
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I'd only mix things up but also you know
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this series has been really nice because
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I wouldn't really call it a an unedited
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like a mukbang to believe that they what
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they refer to it as because they do chop
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it up and cut things out like you don't
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want to see me vastly chewing to every
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possible level you don't need to see
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that so I do kind of crop some stuff out
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and change the camera angles up however
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it is nice because I can just kind of
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talk a little more videos are a little
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bit longer trying to make the videos a
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little bit more little going through
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this trying to make the videos a little
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bit longer a little bit more lengthy
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maybe it's maybe it shines through and
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maybe you maybe you enjoy
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back to the future Burger King parking
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lot
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just hanging out
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the very first time I visited California
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I hit up all the spots
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in that movie including this one I
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haven't been back to this location since
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reminds me of the good old days
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well these still are the good old days
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but it reminds me of those good old days
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is over or the drive-thru line has
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gotten very lengthy wonder what any of
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these customers would do if myself are
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big the foot boarded a skateboard and
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hitched onto their bunk their bumper
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yeah I know big the foot you told me a
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quite a few times and I get it
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power of love brings back some memories
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for you ever of a past love it does for
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all of us