{"id":2362,"date":"2006-05-24T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2006-05-24T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T08:55:25","slug":"life_in_the_fas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2362","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Fast Food Lane: Rockwall Texas Culvers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/video\/2006\/03\/tombeebe31006edgewood.mp4\">Frank Bruni<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Flame, or at least a suggestion of grilling or broiling, matters. That&#8217;s a principal reason a Whopper bested a Big Mac, cooked on a griddle. It&#8217;s why the new roster of one-third-pound charbroiled Thickburgers at Hardee&#8217;s tasted better than the steamed slivers at Krystal, a White Castle analogue in the South.<\/p>\n<p>Buns matter. The large, doughy one on the classic Whataburger created ample space for three slices of tomato and a sense of heft that felt good in the hands, good in the mouth. The generously buttered, crisply toasted ones on Culver&#8217;s burgers, called butterburgers in honor of those buns, exalted whatever they encased, which included seared, loosely packed patties with more charred edges and, as a result, more flavor.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bruni last covered the 2004 Bush campaign.  Perhaps there&#8217;s a lesson in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Bruni: Flame, or at least a suggestion of grilling or broiling, matters. That&#8217;s a principal reason a Whopper bested a Big Mac, cooked on a griddle. It&#8217;s why the new roster of one-third-pound charbroiled Thickburgers at Hardee&#8217;s tasted better than the steamed slivers at Krystal, a White Castle analogue in the South. Buns matter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}