Zips Burgers

Zips in Moscow was one of our favorite places ever. They have yumminess along the lines of Dicks Burgers. Just basic little burgers that get the job done. And special fry sauce.

Oh, the fry sauce.

It's ridiculously good. It's probably some really gross combination of mayo and ketchup, complete with MSG and GMOs or something, but I don't care. I don't care, I tell you. It's delicious. Their fries are usually underdone, never crispy. But still, they are a delicious fry-sauce eating mechanism if you get them. Since I love the chicken strips, which come with fries, I usually get them, though I prefer the tater tots of course. Yes, tots. Right? How awesome is that?


Zips was our first stop en route to Spokane on Bloomsday weekend (Ritzville, baby!) and I was disappointed that their chicken strips were in a different form than usual. I hope it isn't a trend because the ones I'm used to are white meat with a delicious peppery breading and these were fake-tasting. Yyyyyuck. Ok, I admit, I still scarfed them down. Did I not tell you how good the fry sauce is?!

The first things I notice whenever I drive east over the Cascades are as follows:

• What is up with all the bigass trucks?
• Where are all the Obama bumper stickers? Oh right. These people (yes, I just called them these people) voted for Bush. I mean McCain. No, I mean Bush.
• Why is everyone fat?

Ok, not everyone is fat. But more than one third of them are obese. Turns out that Ritzville is the the heartland of obesity. Adams County has the highest rate of obesity in Washington state at 36% (See www.doh.wa.gov.) Here in King County we don't have the lowest rate, but we almost do, at 19%.

I was hoping I could correlate obesity rates with the presence in each county of a Zips Burger location, but alas, Zips has no web site where I can find all locations, state-wide.

Did I mention how good their fry sauce is? And that they have tater tots?