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Holiday friends are a strange kind of friend. Although the exchanging of Facebook details and email addresses is done at the end of a trip with much gusto and promise of being besties from here on in, these friendships usually result in one catch up either on their home turf or yours, where you silently admit that the bond you made when your tour guide fell off the boat in Phuket is struggling to keep your friendship alive five months later, now you\u2019ve all returned to your normal lives.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s one holiday friend I made five years ago that I very much DO care to stay in touch with, in fact, it\u2019s a love affair I\u2019m still involved in. I met them in\u00a0New York<\/a>. I follow them on Instagram and even write to them in the photo comments even though they don\u2019t write back. I think about them often and in fact, I have visited New York several times since and although I have lots of stuff I like to do over there, they have been a big part of the reason I, and my wife (she\u2019s cool with it), return. It might seem a little one way, but we know there\u2019s very little likelihood they\u2019ll visit us, and we begrudgingly accept that.<\/p>\n

In fact my holiday friend is actually four friends. It\u2019s two ShackBurgers, a regular fries and a peanut butter shake from Shake Shack. A $16 meal, that to me, provides ample reason to spend the money on the airfare. True love can wreck your financial rationality like that.<\/p>\n

Shake Shack is a chain. I know in the world of bespoke burgers served on a slab of recycled wood made of Kobe beef with single malt whiskey-glazed bacon and a side of quadruple cooked duck fat fries, it\u2019s not cool to be in love with a chain, but I can\u2019t help the way I feel. They started as one store in New York, then started spawning across the states and now even have their delicious greasy mits as far abroad as Dubai\u2019s airport (Terminal 3, try and schedule your next Europe flight through there).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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