Tuesday, November 11, 2025

 


10 comments:

  1. I went into a BOB's Big Boy while on a business trip & chose the original Bob's burger. What a huge mistake, who is the disgusting person who thought putting tarter sauce on a burger was good food.

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    1. Growing up in SoCal in the SF Valley, Bob's was a once-a-month treat for me and my little brother. Never in ALL my times (mid 50's to late 80's) eating a Big Boy was Tartar Sauce used. They just messed up your order. There is only one Bob's still left in Toluca Lake, CA. Good luck trying to get in. It's always jammed

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    2. Probably ordered a Big Boy Fish sandwich.

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    3. Were you in Ohio?

      You are absolutely right. A Big Boy Burger should never be made with tartar sauce. My first job out of high school was at the original Big Boy restaurant in Glendale, CA. The standard ingredients of a Big Boy Burger are the three slices of bun, the two patties, a slice of cheese, lettuce, and relish. You could however request an almost infinite variety of modifications, as I learned.

      I love Big Boy burgers. I'm really sorry that they mostly closed. You can still go to one in Burbank, California, and there are a few around. When we went to one in Ohio, for some reason I had the instinct to ask about the ingredients, and was told about the tartar sauce. I said yeah, no, no tartar sauce. Make it like this. And they did.

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    4. Read the replies, tarter sauce at that location was the "thing to eat". Wish I could remember where I was.

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  2. Best part is the girls delivering your food.

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  3. Elias Bros version for me. Boston Coolers (not from that place way back east)

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  4. See, they should have used Bob's Big Boy as the form of the Destructor in Ghost Busters, instead of the Sta-Puft man.

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  5. In Cincinnati and Northern KY it was Frisch's Big Boy. Tartar sauce on all Big Boy burgers, people loved it so much you could buy a jar (still can) at local grocery stores. The last Frisch's went belly up early this year.

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