In the past, I always said no to the onion option. I just didn't see the point. Now I do. You can't not order onions on your burger at In-n-Out, that would be missing most of the experience. But that's not the point of the secret menu. The menu they display is dead simple: it's either burger or cheese burger (basically, it's slightly more complicated but only slightly). You have a number of secret options:
- You can tell them how to cook the meat (I recommend "well done" in this particular case).
- You can tell them how to cook the fries ("well done" is interesting but not my favourite here).
- You can ask for an N-by-N (2-by-2, 3-by-3... Niall says it's capped to 4-by-4 and he's sometimes right, although often foreign), N being the number of steaks and slices of cheese you want in your burger.
And that's pretty nice. On top of that, ingredients are all fresh and you can absolutely tell the difference: it's really, really good fast food.
Besides the secret menu, they also hide references to the bible on the soda cups and other wrappings. Not entire paragraphs but things like "John 3:16" or "Revelation 3:20." In-n-Out burger is owned by a christian family, and that's the kind of easter eggs they came up with.
Also, I was served by Barbie. An actual person named Barbie.
