{"id":3394,"date":"2010-06-13T06:52:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2010-06-13T06:52:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T13:52:06","slug":"southern-california-original-tommys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=3394","title":{"rendered":"Southern California &#8211; Original Tommy&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tommy4png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3397 alignleft\" title=\"tommy4png\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tommy4png-242x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Last <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=1828\">time I wrote about Original Tommy&#8217;s<\/a>, I compared it somewhat to &#8220;Original Ray&#8217;s&#8221; pizza in NYC.  Lots of folks put &#8220;Ray&#8217;s&#8221; in the name of their pizzerias in NY, lots of folks put &#8220;Tommy&#8217;s&#8221; or some variation of it, in the name of their burger joints in SoCal.  There is the &#8220;original&#8221; Original; just plain Tommy&#8217;s;  Tom&#8217;s Thom&#8217;s: Thoma&#8217;s&#8221;, and on.   Accept no substitute, only the &#8220;original&#8221; Original Tommy&#8217;s will do.  You know it&#8217;s them if they have a pic of their original stand in the logo!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They&#8217;re everywhere, it seems.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.originaltommys.com\/tommy_loctions.php\">see location map<\/a>).  Lucky for me, cause I was a might hungry on the way to lunch, and a small order of Original Tommy&#8217;s chili fries is just what the doctor ordered.  (Actually, my doctor would be horrified, but my lawyer &#8211; that&#8217;s a different story!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now in its seventh decade, Original Tommy&#8217;s is the go-to place for burgers, dogs, and fries, smothered in their delicious, original recipe of chili!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tommy2png.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3398\" title=\"tommy2png\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tommy2png.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/5\/77410\/restaurant\/LA\/Tommys-Original-World-Famous-Hamburgers-North-Hollywood\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/77410\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Tommy's Original World Famous Hamburgers on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I wrote about Original Tommy&#8217;s, I compared it somewhat to &#8220;Original Ray&#8217;s&#8221; pizza in NYC. Lots of folks put &#8220;Ray&#8217;s&#8221; in the name of their pizzerias in NY, lots of folks put &#8220;Tommy&#8217;s&#8221; or some variation of it, in the name of their burger joints in SoCal. There is the &#8220;original&#8221; Original; just&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=3394\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Southern California &#8211; Original Tommy&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,15,16,34],"tags":[981,982,2559,3529,3530,3531,3532,3533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}