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Dotty's is the right place for a burger in Madison, at least close to campus, but it's not fast food.

If Fickell can make it out with 5 losses through next year's schedule that would be significant improvement.

Yeah, we've all got a burger place we love that nobody else knows about.  Let us flyover states discuss our shitty chains left coaster!

One of my favorite Madison memories was landing in town at like 10:30 in the morning for a reunion of sorts and immediately taking the uber there. 

I overheard the person two tables over ordering and realized that they were there for the same event and we had known each other a little in college. So naturally I popped over and we caught up over burgers and cheese curds. As the basket of curves got low, she looked down and said “yeah we’re gonna need another one of these”.

I'm definitely excited to take my son to Purdue in April for a college tour... Definitely headed to the Triple XXX. 

Will drive from WLaf to Ann Arbor to see UM the next day... I've only been to AA once so I don't know the town at ALL. Any advice on "must stop" places to eat? Bearing in mind that all we'll possibly have available is dinner the night before the campus tour, and then lunch before we drive back to Chicago. 

I'm definitely excited to take my son to Purdue in April for a college tour... Definitely headed to the Triple XXX.

Will drive from WLaf to Ann Arbor to see UM the next day... I've only been to AA once so I don't know the town at ALL. Any advice on "must stop" places to eat? Bearing in mind that all we'll possibly have available is dinner the night before the campus tour, and then lunch before we drive back to Chicago.

Ann Arbor has changed frighteningly much since I was there.  The university keeps taking more lands with tax abatements, and trendy restaurants and breweries keep popping up, and then closing.

The UM hospital just bought out the best breakfast place in town

Huh. The Fuddruckers that I was thinking of that just closed 'recently' was 4 1/2 years ago

https://www.yelp.com/biz/fuddruckers-lake-forest-2?sort_by=date_desc

The recession in 2008 buried a lot of them in Illinois and Covid finished them off. There are none in Illinois now.

Yeah, we've all got a burger place we love that nobody else knows about.  Let us flyover states discuss our shitty chains left coaster!

Damn. That one kinda stung. I"m not that much of an elistist; I do have some knowledge of fast food, even some of the regional stuff.

My recollection is that McD's has pretty solid fries--probably the best thing on the menu. Of course there are so many MCD's that you're bound to sometimes get a soggy bunch. I'm partial to the Five Guys fries--and I like their cajun seasoning (but I'm the only one in the family who likes the seasoning, I don't get it all that often). I used to like Jack-in-the-Box curly fries, but it's been more than 20 years since I've had them. I remember enjoying Whataburger back when I had extended stays in Tejas. But I couldn't tell you a thing about their fries now. I like the Popeyes cajun fries. Culvers is a solid bet most of the time. Better than McD's for fries? Not sure (but for everything else I am sure). Agree on the various reviews of In-n-Out. I still get their fries because: carbs/salt/fat! But they aren't anything to write home about. Still, I'd rather have their burger and poor fries than McD's great fries and garbage burger. I'm sure I've been to Fuddruckers, and I'm sure that it didn't make a big enough impression for me to need to go back.

I heard that Whattaburger was not very good, but haven't tried it.