Lettuce pray

I left a meeting at noon a few days ago and found myself near an In-N-Out Burger so I decided to grab a quick lunch. They have only about three menu options (though I have since learned about their “Secret Menu”--check the web site), so before long I was eating my cheeseburger and fries and naturally comparing them to McDonald’s. The fries just don’t measure up, I thought, realizing just how addicted I had become to IFF’s so-called “natural ingredients” like ethyl butyrate and gamma dodecalactone or whatever.

As I ate I watched a worker slicing endless potatoes one after another. Wow, they are fresh, not frozen like McDonald’s, so why am I complaining? Then I noticed my cheeseburger wrapper and read their freshness claims: fresh beef that’s never frozen, buns without preservatives, hand-leafed lettuce, and fries peeled and sliced daily and cooked in 100% cholesterol free oil.

Fresh, not manufactured. I guess I shouldn’t complain.

But In-N-Out Burger did have one surprise for me just as I was about to dump my trash.

I noticed tucked down on the corner of the cheeseburger wrapper in small caps the notation, “REVELATION 3:20.”

It couldn’t be, I thought. So when I got home, I looked it up in the Bible and read, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.”

Subtle, you have to give them that.

And as an exercise for the reader, and fast food diner, you can search for JOHN 3:16, PROVERBS 3:5, and NAHUM 1:7 (“Nahum?”--I had to confirm that one.) on other In-N-Out Burger packaging.