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...exact moment of her conversion. At age 13, while traveling in France with her family, Butts, a horse owner, accidentally ordered horsemeat from a restaurant menu. Though not versed in the differences between cheval and boeuf, she did manage to "figure it out in time" to avoid eating the burger. But something clicked. "It made sense then," she says. "There was no way I was going to eat the relatives of my horses...
...believe that if Thais were exposed to pizza, they would like it. "I operate on the belief that, fundamentally, we're all more similar than dissimilar," he says. He built on his success with Pizza Hut by landing franchises for Mister Donut, Swensen's, Sizzler, Dairy Queen and Burger King. Then he added seven hotels to his empire, including Bangkok's Marriott Royal Garden Riverside. He also distributes Esprit clothing and Red Earth cosmetics and other consumer products. When the Thai economy collapsed in 1998, Heinecke's conglomerate also swooned but clawed its way back fast. Last year...
...when Al Gore and his traveling band of populists had finished partying like movie stars and left L.A. to find some working-class people who had the good sense to live in a battleground state, I decided to do some California mingling for them - at the In-N-Out Burger on Gayley, off Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood...
...burgers at In-N-Out come standing on end in little bags - the chain has "wrapped its products in paper since 1948" - so the south end was a little soggy by the time I began to eat. But the taste was unaffected. There is a tang in the sauce (reminiscent of Big Mac sauce, except redder and more drippy), hard to describe but delightful. The buns were gently toasted, and the meat patties were thick for the genre. The large-cut lettuce -"hand-leafed every day" - was fresh, and the onions fresher. Maybe too much so; their flavor stood...
...large and enthusiastic following, who consider it one of the de rigueur stops on any SoCal trip, but I was certainly not dissatisfied, with the possible exception of the fries. But an icon is an icon, and the place, as Al Gore might say, is definitely its own burger joint: On the way out, a table of six diners of indeterminate ethnicity (the place definitely looked like America, as Mr. Clinton would say) waved to me. Would I take their picture? "There are no In-N-Outs in England, one man said by way of explanation...