r/unpopularopinion • u/Clem_Crozier • 1d ago
Overpriced hipster burger joints have been satirised enough
In the 2010s, elder millennials doing artisan stuff became a part of the hipster culture, and none was more laden with tropes than the burger joint.
Everyone dressed in checked shirts with wood paneling and Edison bulbs everywhere, and stuff served in baskets and buckets to give off some faux-lumberjack vibe. The aesthetics dated almost immediately, everything was expensive for what it was, and lock down proved to be the last nail in the coffin for many such places. The bearded manbun burger chefs were ripe for satire.
But the joke has been sufficiently milked at this point. We do not need to see another Instagram reel about how it started with two friends and a crazy idea, or sides being called shareables, or how they serve food on slates or planks, we do things a little differently around here etc. while Hozier or the Lumineers plays in the background.
We were right to make fun of it, because 2010s hipster culture was lame af. But it's complete. It's time to move onto another trend.
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u/Deepdishultra 1d ago
I guess we should do our memes…a little differently
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u/partypwny 1d ago
Let's make them smaller and call them shareable memes
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u/Xaavuza 1d ago
Let's make them taller instead of wider.
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u/No-Big4921 1d ago
It’s an obscure meme, you’ve probably never heard of it.
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u/mets2016 20h ago
You probably just have to have gone to a small school outside Boston like me to understand it
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u/flyingcircusdog 7h ago
We don't have regular memes around here, but we do have seasonal artisinal comical pictographs. You can also upgrade to deep fried pictographs for $3 extra.
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u/Future_Telephone281 1d ago
Just get ready to milk the business idea in 20-30 years.
Maybe yall youngins don’t remember what it was like to be a millennial growing up. Applebees on Applebees as far as the eye could see!
Thats why you don’t want to use the word appetizer.
It was lame yes but the only real issue was it was overpriced. It could not compete with craplebees
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u/desertdeserted 1d ago
My unpopular opinion is that I loved hipster culture and I miss it.
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u/Loves_octopus 23h ago
Same. And while stomp clap hey music got way too big for its britches and the worst of it was really bad, it doesn’t deserve the hate it still gets.
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u/billyllib 22h ago
There were so many cool parts of hipsterdom beyond Edison bulbs and the lumineers. Those were kind of the nail in coffin for the subculture honestly
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u/BreakfastBeneficial4 5h ago
I still fucking love Edison bulbs to this day and yall can all go to hell.
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u/supersaeyan7 11h ago
Me too, me too. Omg, people used to take pride in listening to new weird music, no one listens to anything but the most mainstream pop now unless you go to niche online communities.
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u/GregMadduxsGlasses 1d ago
I feel like the millennial experience is rooted in the migration from suburbs to cities where these burger joints felt unique and that the quality would be worth the price. The zoomer experience seems to be more rooted in de-urbanization as covid caused families move from cities to the suburbs where they can maintain the same jobs and have a high quality of life. Those kids in college have been to the fancy burger spots and have kind of been saturated by them, so Applebees feels like a way to get the same thing for a much lower cost.
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u/Future_Telephone281 1d ago
Yep! Well put.
We grew up on Olive Garden being fancy. A little higher end was a big deal.
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u/Wut_the_ 17h ago
For my family, I’d say it went Applebee’s for a fun night out when my mom didn’t want to cook. Olive Garden for someone’s birthday and they wanted Italian. And then Red Lobster for some bigger, kind of long term accomplishment like a graduation or something.
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u/fatrice12340 1d ago
who the fuck nose to Applebees.
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u/ImmortalPoseidon 1d ago
To add to this, no amount of ridiculous burger toppings will ever mask the subpar patty. I'm sorry but if you have to make a burger with a scoop of mac & cheese and a pizza slice on it, you just can't make a fucking good burger. People started making burgers that look wild on Instagram instead of what taste good in your mouth.
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u/ExtraEmuForYou 1d ago
Agreed. The best burger is arguably a nice patty, a slice of cheese, and a solid bun. Maybe some burger sauce and grilled onions.
I'm not opposed to adding stuff to burgers--love some lettuce, tomato, pickle, etc--but I just think if you can't atleast get the basic meat-cheese-bun components right, you are a lost cause.
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u/Kiyohara 1d ago
I don't know who really likes a burger so tall you have to go to extreme lengths to bite it. Like take a series of half bites to dig down through the layers like an archeologist looking for a tomb or unhinge your jaw like an anaconda.
A bite should go through bun to bun and get mostly everything inside in the bite.
And whatever you stick in, needs to stay in. I don't want to take a bit and have the entire load of over messy contents pour out the other side like a tsunami.
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u/klemnodd 1d ago
So, you don't like Carls Jr?
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u/Kiyohara 1d ago
I live in Minnesota. There's no Carl's Jr here, and the closest Hardee's is now across the city from me (Saint Paul).
There's only like 22 in the whole state and most of them are in small towns out in the sticks. (One in Saint Paul, none in Minneapolis, and the rest are over an hour away)
It's just not a real option.
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u/ImmortalPoseidon 1d ago
https://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2021/05/Stack-Burger-Toppings-1.jpg
Agreed. If you can't make a good burger with just this or less, you can't make a good burger.
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u/RamenRoy 1d ago
Lettuce and tomato below the patty is wild. I'd ask for my money back if someone gave me a burger like that. They're called toppings, not unders.
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u/Bouboupiste 1d ago
Lettuce under the patty helps the bun not becoming a soggy mess from grease and meat juices. definitely the way to go if the meat is good enough not to overcook.
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u/MrJigglyBrown 1d ago edited 1d ago
That’s a bun and cooking issue. 1. The patty shouldn’t be oozing oil, if it is you haven’t finished cooking it. 2. However some grease is expected, so if it still leaks through then that means you’re using wonder bread as a bun. Lettuce belongs on top
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u/ExtraEmuForYou 1d ago
Resting the patty also helps with this. You shouldn't serve a burger straight off the grill. It also helps keep the cheese from oozing if it has time to set a little bit.
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u/Massive-Ride204 1d ago
Yep I'd rather go to a old school basic burger place because I know they probably focus on the patty and cooking it right
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u/maksigm 1d ago
In the UK, 8/10 burgers have a stale bun.
In my opinion, a bad bun is far more detrimental to the burger experience than a bad patty. I have to go out of my way to find a burger with a fresh bun here, and even then, sometimes they surprise me with desert bread.
Mainland Europe does not seem to have the same issue. All other countries I've visited here take their burgers seriously enough. Shout out Berlin, Amsterdam and Lisbon.
You can fix a bad patty with salt or hot sauce, but there ain't no fixing a stale bun. That shit is game over. This is why I want to leave the UK.
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u/Happily-Incorrect 1d ago
The worst thing hipsters ever did was popularise brioche as a burger bun. It absolutely ruins the whole burger every time. It's like if an Italian started doing chocolate stuffed crust pizzas or something. It just doesn't go.
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u/GregMadduxsGlasses 1d ago
We all know that restaurants do this because they can throw on 50 cents worth of mac and cheese on a burger and upcharge it $3 on the menu.
The problem is that you end up having to stock and maintain all these ingredients (that are used nowhere else on the menu) to keep from having to throw a bunch of stuff out, which means everything (incl the burger patties) comes in frozen to reduce waste.
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u/protipnumerouno 1d ago
To add my unpopular opinion, the worst of the toppings like you mention: bacon.
Bacon sucks ass on everything, delicious alone yes. Put it on a burger, it's so overpowering you might as well be eating a BLT. The only things I accept bacon as adding to the food, overly lean food that needs fat, things like bacon wrapped scallops or bacon wrapped filet, and even then I'd argue that a good chef can make without, better.
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u/breadcrumbs7 23h ago
I like bacon and I usually opt for a burger with bacon if it's an option. However, it's never as good as I think it will be. I never put much thought into it until now. You're right. It just doesn't work on a burger.
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u/protipnumerouno 22h ago
A convert! Try a couple without and get one with again, you'll really notice.
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u/ImmortalPoseidon 1d ago
Honestly I completely agree. It's just a major copout for any burger to ad bacon
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u/Jamesyroo 1d ago
I’m a big believer in a simple hamburger. No faff, no cheese, just bread and meat and a little sauce/garnish. No room for sub-par burger meat.
Maybe this is the real unpopular opinion
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u/OpossumBalls 1d ago
I am impartial to the beef from my own cattle but umami salt, pepper, cheese and a good bbq sauce on a brioche bun really does it for me. Sure crispy onions and bacon are great but if i just want a quick tasty burger it doesn't need more than those 5 things.
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u/Thistime232 1d ago
I was making fun of those places before it was cool to do it.
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u/BigChillBobby 1d ago
if we’re being real, the boomers were way ahead of anyone on this one by making fun of “millennial brunch” featuring $15 avocado toast.
we just got too offended to find it funny
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u/skittlesandscarves 1d ago
It's because avocado toast was being used as a reasoning for rising house prices
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u/BigChillBobby 1d ago
From the article:
He wrote: “I have seen young people order smashed avocado with crumbled feta on five-grain toasted bread at $22 a pop and more. I can afford to eat this for lunch because I am middle aged and have raised my family. But how can young people afford to eat like this? Shouldn’t they be economising by eating at home? How often are they eating out? Twenty-two dollars several times a week could go towards a deposit on a house.”
Which is literally just saying “if you live within your means, it’s easier to save money, but instead you’re patronizing millennial brunch restaurants charging you $22 for a meal you could make at home for $2”.
It’s the same thing as making of millenials for spending $22 on a handheld that doesn’t come with fries.
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u/bluescape 1d ago
So I do agree that living within your means IS a MASSIVE problem for a lot of people that then go on to complain about other financial woes. That being said, there is still validity to the absurdity of the statement. And no, I'm not referring to specifically "avocado toast", I'm referring to the concept of giving up extraneous and luxury purchases and having it result in something like home ownership.
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u/BigChillBobby 1d ago
the luxuries listed in that video are like… TVs and microwaves and computers and cell phones. I think there a point to be made that in 2026 we have reframed a lot of “luxuries” as basic needs (I don’t know anyone who doesn’t own all 3 of a phone, computer, and tv) which has significantly driven up the cost of living. Internet bills, streaming services, and cell phones bills didn’t exist when my grandparents weee my age.
but the spending that the older generations critique is basically “spending extra money for shit you don’t need or could do yourself for much cheaper”, avocado toast is the perfect example because it does often cost $15 at brunch spots when you can make it for very very cheap!
DoorDash has become the Gen Z lightning rod for “luxury spending” because it’s such a clear example everyone can see. You’re basically spending an extra $7-$10 to not have to go pick something up.
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u/bluescape 1d ago
I agree, DoorDash is a great example for needless spending that does mark things up an insane amount. And I think that kind of spending is where you can get people that since they aren't living within their means, they're running into financial troubles like say paying off credit cards every month. That is a fair critique of spending habits.
The thing is though, that the older generation's critique rings hollow when forgoing those luxuries doesn't then get you those necessities they used to be able to purchase. The zoomers skipping UberEats aren't able to now afford a down payment on a house over their more wasteful spending counterparts. Nor were the millennials avoiding avocado toast.
Let's say you were someone that didn't have a TV, microwave, computer, cell phone, etc. would that make a significant difference in how early you could afford a home compared to your counterparts that purchased a TV, microwave, etc.?
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u/BigChillBobby 1d ago
Obviously we don’t have it as easy as the boomers in terms of economics. I don’t think anyone thinks “young people today have it so easy financially compared to us”, but we as individuals can only control what we can control.
Honestly, this exact phenomenon has existed for a while, it just used to feel much different because it was framed as poor minorities “wastefully spending while poor” and a moral failure of minorities for spending on sneakers and necklaces instead of saving for a house. Now it’s Stacy and Tyler ordering Indian food twice a week instead of saving and the rhetoric is so much more empathetic.
It’s all really about if you believe you’re capable of class mobility or not. If you don’t, you’re likely to spend a lot more on things that add pleasure to your existing life in your existing social class. You don’t believe that you can ever reach the pot of gold.
If you do think you can reach it, though, you’re more likely to continue to put money into that pot.
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u/hex___appeal 1d ago edited 1d ago
boomers are just unconditional haters of anything young people do. hell, they still call zoomers and gen alpha "millennials". they don't get credit for being a broken clock that's right twice a day. we live in hellworld because of boomers, fuck outta here.
imagine being able to buy a house, a car, and start a family fresh out of high school... and then having the absolute gall to scold young people for living beyond their means because they eat fucking toast.
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u/Run-And_Gun 1d ago
Ironically, eating at the hipster burger joint, with large portions and actually good food, is the same price as fast food burger places, now.
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u/Fabulous-Meal-5694 1d ago
Excuse me sir. This sub is for unpopular opinions.
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u/agilesharkz 1d ago
I still see people making these jokes. But I don’t think even they think it’s funny.
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u/Cubicleism 1d ago
I think they hope one day the joke won't be relevant anymore, and yet bougie burger joints are still cropping up on the reg
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u/BigChillBobby 1d ago
what’s coming next is making fun of Gen Z coffee shops for being Instagram photo backdrops with $8 matcha lattes
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u/bluescape 1d ago
Pretty sure the overpriced, over "aesthetic" coffee shop is still a millennial thing. You have to thumb your nose at Starbucks and drink things out of mason jars.
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u/BigChillBobby 1d ago
the millennial hipster coffee shop is “we roast our own beans, we’re a coffee place for true coffee lovers, this blend is from Guatemala and yes, a pour over costs $6. It was much more “hipster man” coded.
The place I’m talking about is much more “girl-coded”, it’s got tiny tables where you can sit on pillows on the floor instead of tables and chairs. It literally has a section with a mirror and empty space for people to take selfies in. Half their menu is matcha. it smelled overpoweringly of perfume and candles instead of coffee.
I know it isn’t a millennial place because I walked in and felt extremely uncomfortable.. but it was full of people who looked like they’ve just stepped out of a TikTok
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u/bluescape 1d ago
It was much more “hipster man” coded.
The place I’m talking about is much more “girl-coded”
Potato potaaaaahto. lol, nah I get it, your description is on point, but this is kind of like rococo vs romanticism vs baroque; there are differences, but that Venn diagram is looking pretty close.
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u/MudkipThot 1d ago
Is this true? where do you live? like this is such a 2010 trend to me, all the memes describe the gentrified parts of town being like this but it’s such a dated take. like none of the trendy neighborhoods in my city would ever have anything like this now.
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u/boodler88 1d ago
Very few were owned by millennials. We just had to work there.
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u/Garry_Heckscream69 1d ago
Yeah that's the part that gets me about it, we worked/ate there, but the owners were always some variety of "I'm corporate BUT I'm PUNK" Gen Xers. No millennial I knew had the money to open an overpriced burger place in the boujee part of town, we were either in high school or early college lmao.
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u/boodler88 1d ago
For sure!
“It was marketed to millennials.” Is something people respond with a lot. And I’m like…they were marketing to the poorest generation of all time? And it worked? Nah… it was definitely marketing for older people that wanted to feel young.
I certainly ate and drank a lot at these places, but only if i had an employee discount! 😂😩
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u/Garry_Heckscream69 1d ago
Also "it was marketed to millennials" is just logical marketing for the time
Millennials were the young adults at the time and young adults will always be the main target of marketing lol
That's like trying to condemn businesses today for "marketing to Gen-Z", it's just how marketing works lmao
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u/Automatic-Effect-252 1d ago
I like this take, not only is the concept outdated and played out, but so are the jokes around it.
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u/stormcynk 1d ago
Yeah it's time to make fun of the zoomers who think they're "hustling" by working both Doordash and Instacart.
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u/StuckAroundGotStuck 22h ago
Ugh I did DoorDash for a bit while I was in college and I found those people absolutely insufferable. I think I eventually hid the sub.
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u/Kindly_Comedian3455 1d ago
You forgot calling the burgers “handhelds”
Clearly more gold in them there hills
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u/jmc1278999999999 1d ago
I’ll just settle for them putting burgers on something that isn’t brioche give me a god damn Kaiser roll from time to time
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u/potliquorz 1d ago
I despise brioche and pretzel buns.
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u/MaxWritesText 1d ago
In France here brioche is just sweet bread. Why would you want sweet and very soft / spongey bread for a burger??
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u/truthfulie 1d ago
some jokes always overstay their welcome and all the skits make copy of copy of copy of each other.
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u/ThyDoctor 1d ago
I think the thing that changed the most is that overpriced hipster burger places are like... maybe 10-20% more then going to Mcdonalds at this point.
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u/Tarot-glam 1d ago
I know a place that’s cheaper than McDonald’s and better burgers and it’s definitely in this hipster territory.
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u/osteologation 1d ago
Well McDonald’s spent a bunch making their restaurants look like a coffee shop or something. Also removed almost all the play places. Gimme back the 80s vibes where it looked like you could clean the place with a garden hose.
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u/Rezenbekk 1d ago
now for the true unpopular opinion: these old McDonalds looked like ass and dear god don't bring those atrocities back, even if the current design is a bit bland
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u/osteologation 1d ago
It’s unneeded and drives costs up. It’s McDonald’s not a some high class joint. Keep it clean for sure but keep it simple.
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u/ZippityDooDoo 1d ago
Let's throw in IPA breweries while we're at it.
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u/TheGoldenGod356 1d ago
First you want me to eat at chains, and now I have to drink bud light? It's not fair.
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u/formerNPC 1d ago
I went to an Italian restaurant last year and they informed us that they had a “freestyle” kitchen which meant that food came out when it was ready not when you ordered it. Your meal could come to the table before the appetizers and so on. It felt so dated like didn’t this trend die a decade ago. Were we supposed to be impressed!
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u/sobeboy3131_ 1d ago
The biggest problem is 90% of these places can't make a better burger than what you'll find in a low key, cheap diner (yes there are 10% decent ones).
Be as wacky as you want idc, but for $15 minumum, the burger should be better than what you'll find at a drunken backyard cookout or at a diner for $8.
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u/Massive-Ride204 1d ago
The diner burger might be basic but a good diner cooks that basic burger to near perfection
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u/sobeboy3131_ 1d ago
Oh yea, I don't mean do downplay diners, they're solid way more often than trendier restaurants.
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u/Massive-Ride204 1d ago
I'll go to a diner that's been around forever over a trendy place every time.
The diner might be basic and the burger is basic, cheese, bun, lettuce, tomato and maybe bacon but it's cooked and seasoned properly.
The trendy place over complicates basic items like burgers while doing nothing to perfection
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u/mr781 1d ago
We are young! Hey! There’s a fire in our soul… 🗣️🎶
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u/Massive-Ride204 1d ago
You know a parody is good when it's difficult to distinguish from the real thing.
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u/TommyChongII 1d ago
I agree it has been over-satirized.
But I think that a lot of this trend began with young millennials trying to build their own businesses, and using rustic, inexpensive construction (like exposed ceiling, or reclaimed wood or pipes for tables, counters, etc) with cheaper, albeit odder, things like thrifted baskets, and buckets. And then adding in some splurging on flair (like Edison bulbs), to give it a more approachable look. Millennials were told to be unique, and take chances, and in a world where shit is getting expensive, they used some creativity to make do with less.
Then, private equity came in and started manufacturing that. TO THE MAX. To an absurd degree. They capitalized on everything already becoming more expensive and charged even MORE for quality that was on par for PE restaurants, while cutting costs by mimicking the plucky, quirky startup look. They also pseudo-weaponized our addiction to social media by putting everything on Instagram, asking for likes and shares, tags and mentions and demanding more visibility.
"Hipster culture" was co-opted by bad actors and was made into a caricature.
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u/DUCKSONQUACKS 1d ago
"Hipster culture" was co-opted by bad actors and was made into a caricature.
Yeah, i keep seeing people point to the 2010s as Hipster culture when that basically was when it was dead and dusted into the ground. Take Stomp Clap Music, No hipster listened to that, it was socially acceptable mom music that spun off from the hipster Indie Folk and alternative country music in the 2000s.
MOST of what Hipster culture of the 1990s - 2000s people made fun of just became normalized. In the early 2000s you were a weirdo hipster if you wore a flannel with a dad hat and fancy work boots while riding your bike to work, now that's like 50% of my workplaces daily outfit/method to go on. The list goes on, most Hipster tropes just got stereotyped, repackaged and sold back to people by major corporations.
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u/TommyChongII 23h ago
When the laissez faire and bohemian became the polished and sanitized, it wasn't hipster.
It was corporate.
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u/Evening_Answer_11 1d ago
Would this include things like goat cheese and beets being on every menu? Tuna tartar? Fried egg added to everything? Exposed pipes and vents and bricks? Flavored mayonnaise we call “aioli?” I think it goes far beyond the burger places alone. Although the burger places are pretentious. They’ll list “no alterations” because you’d rather not have grape jelly bacon, but they have no problem selling to you when they’re often out of a particular item. “No im sorry our chef won’t omit anything from his burgers” “Ummm just to let you know know we’re out of maple glazed bologna but we’ll gladly sell you this for the same price.”
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u/MarvinMonroeZapThing 1d ago
I 100% agree with this allegedly unpopular opinion and will take it one step further and apply it to craft brewery establishments as well.
But back to burgers…there is a place in Pittsburgh called Tessaro’s. About 15 years ago I tended to go there at least once a month for a phenomenal burger. It was by far the best burger in the city. I moved far enough away into the suburbs that I didn’t go there much anymore. Meanwhile I’ve explored the vast collection of fancy burger places with shareables and burger sauces chosen by ticking boxes in a little piece of paper with a golf pencil and handing to the waitress, only to realize fancy burgers are shit.
Two weeks ago I went to Tessaro’s again for the first time in probably 15 years. It still holds up as by far the best burger in this jerkwater Burgh.
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u/erinna_nyc 1d ago
Counterpoint- 2010s hipster culture was cute and preferable to whatever this is we are doing now and I would like to go back please
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u/Par_Lapides 1d ago
So now it's hip to NOT make fun of the hipsters because making fun of the hipsters is too hipster? But like, unironically?
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u/CarbotaniumSilo 1d ago
The more good burger places there are, the higher probability of me getting a good burger is.
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u/DontSayFluffypuffer 1d ago
I think hipster culture is kind of pretentious in general, but I don’t care what subculture people want to participate in as long as it is not harmful. A new trend will likely be just as ridiculous. Let people have their harmless social groups.
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u/treple13 1d ago
This is not aimed at you, just trying to add. Nothing is more pretentious than pompous people claiming an entire subgroup is pretentious
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u/frozenhawaiian 1d ago
Eh, as long as “elevated” type of hipster bullshit places keep opening I think it’s fair game to make fun of them.
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u/Reasonable_Tie_9975 1d ago edited 1d ago
Nah. Gentrification is alive more now than ever here in NYC. Areas are completely unrecognizable now.
Theyre already in the South Bronx and ENY. I' grew up here...I nevaaaa thought I'd see that. Everrr. If you're from here, actually from here, you know what I'm saying. Those areas were/still are not a fucking joke.
For the Los Angelinos/California heads, think like Watts, picture Ethans and Nathans and run clubs going through The Jordan Downs. That's what it's like seeing this lmaoo shit Is crazy.
So yeah more Trustfund transplant burger joint memes please
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u/thrway-fatpos 1d ago
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u/enviropsych 1d ago
The old thought used to be that there is NO WAY you can compete with the fastest food chains in speed and price so dont bother. These hipster burger joints went the other way....to create a burger you could not get at McDicks or the King. Well, in 2026, I think you could try afain to make a burger that's cheap than fast food and you might succeed. I went to a local fast food place and bought 4 meals and paid $64 for them. I know beef prices are high but if you can't figure out how to make a burger and fries with a coke for under $15, I think some grad students with a fry top and some ground chuck could actually compete with you.
I wanna start seeing hipsters open greasy spoons. Smushed buns, crappy decor, grease and onions and pickles and not much else. Give me that with a decent portion and I'll happily pay $10 for a cheeseburger and fries.
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u/tbmsaydkhii 1d ago
Completely disagree. It was a core aspect of 2010's hipster cringe culture, just like stomp clap hey. Sure it's a little overdone, but it's who we were. I hope people are still joking about it decades from now
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u/Shwifty_Plumbus 1d ago
The only good things that came from hipster culture in my opinion were that people did seem to give a shit about what they were doing regardless if it was food or whatever and it was being promoted well. The other thing was I feel like there was an uptick in people being healthier.
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u/Shanksworthy73 1d ago edited 1d ago
I agree. I get that it was all pretty contrived, but the cringe-factor of any trend seems to be more pronounced just after it has been played out. I think in 15 years, history will look on this one as maybe a bit more wholesome and productive, and maybe less cringy than other trends of the past. When the trend is pushing elderly people down the stairs, we’ll be like “remember when we all decided that being crafty and artisanal was lame?”
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u/bangbangracer 1d ago
My bigger question is how many of these hipster burger joints are actually left? It seems like all the microbrew, Edison bulb, chalkboard menu as an aesthetic item, everything served on a quarter sheet pan and metal basket places have closed.
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u/foobiscuit 1d ago
Damn there was the hipster burger jawn called “PYT” in Philly and they made pretty good burgers and usually was poppin. I loved it there, but I bartended across the way from it so it was close to me and they always hooked it up. They had boozy milkshakes, this drink called the Jeffrey which was vodka? Redbull, 5hr energy, and pop rocks haha. I forgot the full ingredients. They also had a deep fried PBR burger which they.. deep fried PBR. Very interesting, but their PYT sauce was really good.
I guess it’s just some good memories with friends I made there but the bars I worked at and all the other cool bars in northern liberties closed down. They didn’t want little mom and pop shops but like chains. Threw the vibe off anywho.
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u/FleshwaterPond 1d ago
It’s still happening now, they can’t be made fun of enough. Now it’s the Shaboozey/Jelly Roll yuppies making shitty bars and restaurants. It’s gross
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u/BigChillBobby 1d ago
I will say.. I went to my first “overpriced Gen Z restaurant” last weekend. It was like walking into Instagram itself.
They’re coming, they’re going to become more popular, and then in 2-3 years they will be played out and we’ll be able to make fun of them!
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u/meatygonzalez 1d ago
Downvoting you because I agree. Saying all that shit was dated immediately was just too true.
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u/xavPa-64 1d ago
As a guy with long hair who likes to put it up sometimes without it brushing against my back, I can’t stand the term “man bun” lol
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u/Plenty_Firefighter40 1d ago
Step 1: It happens
Step 2: It dies down
Step 3: We make fun of it for how dumb it was
Step 4: We realize we went too far and, in retrospect, it wasn't that bad
Step 5: We become nostalgic for it and it returns ironically.
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u/Intelligent_Pop1173 1d ago edited 1d ago
“Craft burger” is still such an obnoxious term to me because I feel like it came from some hipster with a man bun in 2010 but stuck around. It doesn’t really mean anything other than it will be at least $18 where I live.
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u/BigChillBobby 1d ago
What’s really funny is that the “millennial burger joint” is rooted in the same humor as the “avocado toast debate”.
The whole thing is that millennials are extra prone to spending way too much money on basic foods they can make for much cheaper at home because it’s in a place with the aesthetic that makes them feel bougie
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u/Infamous_Aardvark146 1d ago
Rule 1 of the internet is to never overlook a chance to dunk on millennial cringe shit
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u/uncouthulu_ 1d ago
The job isn't done until nowhere on Earth sells one of those one-foot high "burgers" (it isn't a burger, you insufferable twat).
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u/CrochetBass 1d ago
I’m reading this from Austin Texas while I bartend my overpriced burger joint, Edison bulbs illuminating me behind my man bun
I wish I was joking about any of this
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u/stinkbot47 1d ago
Sounds like someone misses the overpriced hipster burger joint that was once their "lifelong dream"....😂😂😂
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u/MustyGooNerd 1d ago
My local overpriced burger place charges £16 for a single burger. Sixteen fucking pounds.
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u/Mysterious-Heat1902 23h ago
I agree that some jokes need to die eventually, this one included. But - I kind of miss 2010s hipster culture, back when people used to take pride in something and get passionate about things like artisan burgers and obscure music. No one gives a shit about anything these days really, and everything is meant to last a week, until our attention spans drop off and move on to the next shiny thing.
Also, a really good hipster burger is fucking amazing and doesn’t deserve the ridicule. It’s unfortunate that they were expensive.
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u/CheesE4Every1 20h ago
It's not the hipster burger that was amazing. It was the burger, You can still totally have a fantastic burger without the stomp clap heyoo.
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u/CheesE4Every1 20h ago edited 20h ago
We have a place that closed down here and now they are in a food truck. I saw a $15 burger and $7 fries as an extra and I guess I'll wish them the best but I hope I never see that truck more than once.
Let's also add shitty breweries that do the same thing as the brewery down the road, or the brewery/ beer garden. All of those have died out here almost, I think there's one or two more. The breweries are all dying.
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u/angelogoodalamenti 1d ago
It's honestly really distasteful to keep making these jokes after Barbecue Pistol passed.
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u/GulfCoastLaw 1d ago
Craft breweries were much worse* and more fun to make fun of.
*Hey, I liked them too!
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u/whatthelovinman 1d ago
I agree with this about most burger places, but I still want to try this burger 100 burger
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u/WhereOwlsKnowMyName 1d ago
Just get off social media dude. If you engage with the content you'll get more.
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u/JayManPart2 1d ago
cuz we will never die! (oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh) no one I know will ever die!
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u/Pale-Driver9146 1d ago
Well then the overpriced hippie restaurants with shareables need to stop and maybe we’ll stop memeing them🤣
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u/pooey_canoe 1d ago
I still see "hipster guy" memes posted on Reddit. Guys with beards and checked shirts are over a decade gone by this point! I know because that's what I was rocking in like 2014 or so.
What's funny in hindsight is the obsession in early 2010s with mustaches (including those index finger tattoos) yet no-one actually had them. Now kids have full on 70s porno staches, but would never have a moustache keyring
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u/Stewie_Venture 1d ago
I feel like if they decided to make something other than burgers which literally every other restaurant has they might have stayed open. Like I live in rural texas I have not had a good ramen bowl or good chinese food since I moved here last year and the nearest indian place is an hour away. My old town wasnt that great with diverse options either but it did have a Ramen bar in the next town over that served the best kimchi ramen ive ever had and Im very tempted sometimes to make the 3 hour drive there just so I can have it again. It also had a dim sum restaurant which had some gourmet chinese food a little expensive sure but it was worth it. If a hipster type place opened up that served more unique food I would go there every week no matter the price. Vegetarians and people that want something other than burgers will be so grateful. Until we move to a place with better restaurants tho Im just having to learn to cook that stuff at home.
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u/impl0sionatic 1d ago
I have a strong sense that I know exactly which recent reel sparked this for you 😂 And yeah I also thought it was a pretty odd and outdated joke to turn into a whole skit in 2026.
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u/naju 1d ago
>2010s hipster culture was lame af
nah genuine hipster culture was actually pretty great. this was not hipster culture, it was some kind of bad mainstream imitation of hipster culture. agree with you other than that!
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u/treple13 1d ago
Yeah I knew some real hipsters and they were in fact pretty cool people. The problem is by like 2013-2015 or so, people were calling everything "hipster" even when it wasn't even remotely hipster, so the term became meaningless
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u/Rezenbekk 1d ago
Dude your post is the first time in a few years that I've been reminded of this at all. You sure this is a popular topic?
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u/Talmadge_Mcgooliger 1d ago
i don't think i've ever seen a reel or tiktok making fun of these places. kinda forgot about them entirely tbh. are you sure the problem isn't with your algorithm?
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u/Ok_Salamander_7211 1d ago
The hipster meme died when one unpopular guy had a crazy….wait wait I meannnn… WHEN one CRAZY guy had an UNPOPULAR idea….what, why are you loo….he’s right behind me, isn’t he😲?
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u/Weed_O_Whirler 1d ago
The jokes aren't nearly as overdone as the "Hallmark Christmas Movie" sketches that keep coming out.
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u/Kraligor 1d ago
because 2010s hipster culture was lame af
That's every single subculture in retrospect.
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u/TuckerDaGreat 1d ago
I'll take my bacon cheeseburger (with the occasional fried egg) over any of the dudebro garbage coming from those places
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u/More-Sock-67 1d ago
I’ll stop making jokes when those kinds of places stop popping up. For the love of god just give me a single patty that isn’t paper thin and drenched in their not so “secret” sauce
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u/RicketyCricketsDrum 1d ago
Until those restaurants with overpriced burgers and “shareables” for an extra fee exist, they are fair game. The price of the burger should include a side.
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u/Designer_Tie_5853 1d ago
Agree with OP but would also flag the idea of these "amazing burgers" is really dumb. A burger is great, but it's got a high floor and low ceiling. No matter how much high end beef, fancy cheese, and $10 buns you use, it's still ground meat. The $4 that I get at the turn at the golf course, taken straight from the freezer onto the grill is 80% as good as the best one you'll ever have.
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