Has In-n-Out lost it’s edge?  DLT must say we still require our weekly fix “animal style.”

Leslie Brenner from Dallas News pens the following:

I’ve been hearing chatter lately about how people wish we had In-N-Out Burger in Dallas. But you know what? In-N-Out is not what it used to be. I grew up on In-N-Out Burger in L.A. — there was one not far from where we lived in the San Fernando Valley. It was fantastic then, though it wasn’t even necessarily the best burger around — I’d have to give that honor to the one of the original Fatburger stands. That was incredibly juicy and fabulous and phat. (And no, Fatburger’s nowhere near as good as it used to be, either.) Still, In-N-Out was terrific, and continued to be so for a long, long time.

But before I left L.A. early last year, I swept the city looking for every great burger I could find, and I was sorely, sorely disappointed in the In-N-Out burger. It didn’t even come close to making my top 10. Those burgers (and I had more than one, to make certain, and was sure to include a couple from the stand near Hollywood High, which had always been reliable) were dry and soulless.

We have many, many, many burgers in and around Dallas that are much better than In-N-Out. All five I featured in a recent burger story blow it out of the water (Burger Spot, Maple & Motor, The Grazing Cow and 12 Burgers and Smashburger), as does Wingfield’s, Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburger, Dave’s Burger Emporium and many more.

Trader Joe’s? Now that’s another story.

Photo courtesy of In-N-Out Burger