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Let me start off this post by re-iterating the fact that I grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles. I will not bother saying which one, because 99.9% of the country has not heard of the town and confuse it with a neighbor to the north (the oft-mistaken-for city is San Bernardino– special prize to anyone who can figure out my actual hometown). But that is neither here nor there.
I wanted merely to set the stage for what has become a battle royale in the LA-area for lunchtime burger domination: Pie ‘n burger vs. The Apple Pan.
Both serve burgers and other sandwiches at a counter. Both are lunch hot-spots. Both have pie. Both are old (for California, anyway).
And I had not been to either of them, despite the location of my upbringing. In fact, I grew up less than 5 minutes away from P ‘n B. I took French classes three times a week at the Berlitz school across the street for nine months and not once did I venture through the gates to beefy bliss. Tragic, I know. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for me, caused by my own childhood ignorance. I do not have any bias when it comes to my critiques, and, ultimately, my selection as the lunch counter victor.
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