{"id":8615,"date":"2013-04-05T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2013-04-05T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T15:37:11","slug":"barbies-primo-burgers-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8615","title":{"rendered":"Barbies Primo Burgers Review, Mojave, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(From our travel archives) Saw a billboard for this place, and as it was the right time of day, pulled into Mojave (pop. 3763) to give it a try.\u00a0 Mojave is an interesting place.\u00a0 Middle of nowhere, far north end of Edwards Air Force Base, and home to one of America\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/tip\/8622\">parking lots for misfit airliners<\/a>.\u00a0 Planes that have been taken out of service, repossessed, or are just surplus for an airline at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimo\u201d is a word that is used a lot \u00a0in Hawaii (just let me verify that at Wiki Dictionary\u2026hold on\u2026.). (Actually Italian for &#8216;first&#8217;) \u00a0Yep.\u00a0 It means generally \u201cgreat\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 So our proprietress Barbie thought she would affix that label to her burgers.<\/p>\n<p>I was anticipating same.\u00a0 Mom and pop type of place, surely I would be treated to a hand-formed patty, bakery roll, and other delights.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, nothing could have been farther from the truth.\u00a0 Primo\u2019s patties are straight out of some institutional freezer, ala Sysco, complete with grill marks and utterly flavorless.\u00a0 The bun was very dry.\u00a0 As always, I ordered the burger \u201cundressed\u201d to experience the meat, bread, and cheese flavor.\u00a0 I never thought a day would come when I would have rued not asking for ketchup, but this was such a day.<\/p>\n<p>Barbie\u2019s serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with everything from oatmeal to American and Mexican entrees, and a number of specialty burgers.<\/p>\n<p>Steak, fish, and chicken are on tap, as well as a wide variety of fried things, fries, pickles, zucchini, rings, chili fries, pastrami fries.\u00a0 No tots, tho.<\/p>\n<p>I tried the onion rings and they weren&#8217;t really that bad, they come with a side of ranch (geez, the ranch salad dressing \u2018lobby\u2019 has sure become strong!).\u00a0\u00a0 The rings were lightly breaded, crispy, hot, but left glimmering pools of grease on the paper plate cover.<\/p>\n<p>Barbie\u2019s might be just the place to fill your belly if you are out here in nowhere ville.\u00a0\u00a0 The food is cooked to order,\u00a0 and the place was very crowded, clearly a local favorite.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just not one of mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/primo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8617\" title=\"primo\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/primo-300x189.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/barbies.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8642\" title=\"barbies\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/barbies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/290\/1251205\/restaurant\/Southern-California\/Primo-Burgers-Tehachapi\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1251205\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Primo Burgers on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barbies Primo Burgers Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(From our travel archives) Saw a billboard for this place, and as it was the right time of day, pulled into Mojave (pop. 3763) to give it a try.\u00a0 Mojave is an interesting place.\u00a0 Middle of nowhere, far north end of Edwards Air Force Base, and home to one of America\u2019s parking lots for misfit&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8615\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barbies Primo Burgers Review, Mojave, CA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12,15,16,34,25],"tags":[820,821,2334,2335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615"}],"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=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}