Originally Posted by
CDTraveler
It's local tradition, not logic.
*shrug* Guess a fair number of folks around my end of things didn't get read in on the tradition.
I didn't; Palo Alto is in Santa Clara County.
Misread that as including Redwood City, oops.
Not sure if that's worse than a friend's December 23 birthday (nobody notices it because they're too focused on Christmas) or another friend's New Year's birthday.
Ceased to be a problem at around age 13 when my parents gave up on the whole "sugar makes kids hyper" trope. Was actually kind of fun excuse to throw a big party in my teens, and has become an irrelevancy in adulthood.
Bad is my cousin with the NYE birthday; he's been a barely to not-at-all functional alcoholic longer than I've been alive, and somehow seems rather fated to it by his birthday.
Sez who? I'm (well, was) local and definitely don't consider either particularly reliable.
Dunno; before the buyout the PA Daily News seemed to me to be decent, and something of a local institution.
Will keep it in mind. Do they make milkshakes?
Yes, although unlike the burgers themselves, they don't stand out as anything special, and it's not one of these huge selections of flavors that some places go for (oreo and cherry, I think, beyond the usual 3). I'm not a huge milkshake fan, though, and can't off the top of my head think of any place around here where the milkshakes stand out as anything special, whereas their burgers stand out -- really good beef, really reliable preparation across the full range of done-nesses, and good quality range of toppings without veering into the foofy theme burger territory.
(Friends who like the foofy theme burger thing really love Godfather Burger Lounge in San Carlos. Their menu doesn't really work for me, enough so that it makes it hard to judge the underlying quality.)