Burkies Drive Inn

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  I'm torn.  Separating the fantasy of my past from the sometimes harsh reality of today.  So I'll cave and write a little of each for this review.
  
  I lived in Muncie for my first 40 years of life.  I've pulled into one of Burkies drive-in parking spots and ordered from their microphone order boards more than once.  It's part of my childhood - a very fond part.  Their food was good, tasty and cheap, emphasis on the latter as I usually didn't have more than a dollar or two on me at any time.
  
  My parents would pull in now and then and we'd enjoy a thick chocolate shake together in the car.  Man their shakes were great... they still are!
  
  However, based on my recent trip back in time, I was shaken to the core when I had a less than perfect tenderloin sandwich.  Warmed cardboard came to mind as I continued to bite into it, hoping the next bite would finally live up to my memories.  Alas, I finished it and no such luck.
  
  The onion rings I had with it were excellent and the aforementioned chocolate shake, as good as always.  "I caught them on an off night", I reasoned.  I must give them another chance and so I will next time I'm in town.

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  Posted on 11.14.10 Charles J.

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  I love this place, it brings back such food memories. a big tenderloin with some deep friends mushrooms with ranch and a coke, nothing better!

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  Posted on 07.24.10 Bryce R.

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  Creepy, rundown Americana!
  
  I was raised on Burkie's chili cheese dogs, fries, and vanilla cokes. My family loved it because we're fat asses at heart, plus it's cheap - (almost) just like the old days!
  
  Later in life, I lived a few blocks away from ye old drive-in, so on a hot summer's day, I still felt a calling to a "Big Gulp" sized root beer float.
  
  Fries are flat, fat and piping hot. Big, greasy onion rings still wet from the deep fryer. Perfectly melted sheets of fake orange cheese. I remember really being into their pulled-pork sandwich for a few consecutive summers, and now I'm really wanting to recreate that into a nice veggie sandwich with TVP or something...

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  Posted on 11.05.08 Brittany L.

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