There's a song about this place and about my little cat Starlight, it's by Madonna, it's called Poppa Burger Don't Preach, and it goes like this.
Poppa Burger I know you're going to be upset
'Cause I brought Starlight, my little girl
But you should know by now
She's just a baby
I always taught her right from wrong
She needs your fish, said daddy give me some
She may be young at heart
But I know that she's purring
This is the burger I told her all about
The one I said she couldn't do without
But she's made an awful mess
All over your table, pleeeeeease
Poppa don't preach, your table is all furry
Poppa don't preach, Starlight just took a pee
But I made up my mind, I'm feeding my baby....
Ooh, I'm gonna feed my fur baby, mmm
Barbi says that she's going to marry me
We can raise a kitten family
Maybe we'll be all right, if we drink lots of Boba
But my friends keep telling me to give her up
Saying she's a stripper and a total sl**
What they don't understand is, that's why I love her
(And I make her look like a saint)
Poppa don't preach, Barbi's super deep
Poppa Yu don't preach, Starlight's made my food furry
And she's marking your counter, and, she shed in your lobby
Ooh, she shed all over your lobby
Oooh, ohhhh
I have to be completely honest and say that I wasn't very impressed by this burger shop, and I wanted to be, because there are some surprisingly good burger shops here in Houston and I hoped this would be one of them, but honestly for me this isn't one of them and it doesn't really do it for me.
But having said that I like the late-night vibe and I like some of the service here, not so much all the homeless visitors and iffy moments though, and it is open extremely late and the products aren't bad, they just aren't my favourite.
But I think it's important to recognize that just because I don't like a place as much as I wanted to, doesn't take away from the fact that they're serving food late night, and doesn't take away from the fact that they're family owned in a world full of chains, and it doesn't take away from the fact that it's been here a long time and it brought a lot of late-night delight to a community which just doesn't have a lot of late-night foods. And they deal with a lot of problems such as the homeless and crime in this neighbourhood, and they deal with them well, and are brave in the face of that, and what's more they take care of the neighbouring Stray Cats (not sure why that got capitalized), and keep their prices low.
And in times like covid, businesses like this need more help than ever, and I find it pretty shameful to read some people's treatment of businesses and their reasoning on why they're going to go around giving bad ratings to little places like this, which is why, for a place which I personally am not really into, I'm still definitely giving 4 stars.
And I like it when they call this place Big Poppa. So throw your buns in the ayer, if you like your burger ray-er. Like, with blood dripping out of it? read more