The Lizzie McGuire star got In-N-Out to cater her single release party, then admitted on camera that her home state’s burger does not measure up.
Hilary Duff has a very specific In-N-Out order, and she is willing to lose friends over it.
Appearing on Mythical Kitchen’s “Last Meals” series, the actress and singer named an In-N-Out cheeseburger as her pick: “mustard-fried. With grilled onions. Extra pickles. No tomato.”
Then she took a run at her own state.
What did Hilary Duff say about Whataburger?
Duff was born in Houston, which makes what came next feel like an act of regional betrayal.
She said she had eaten a Whataburger recently and that “it didn’t hold a candle to In-N-Out,” prefacing it by apologizing to her Texas people in advance.
Texans have gone to war over less. Whataburger is less a restaurant chain there than a civic institution, and telling Houston that a California burger beats it could be classified as heretical.
Did In-N-Out really cater her release party?
Yes. The chain catered the party for her single “Mature,” which marked her return to music after roughly a decade away.
The party leaned into the theme rather than dressing it up. A skating rink, paper plates and fast food, which for a release event in 2026 counts as a flex in the opposite direction from the usual.
What else was in her last meal?
A combination that makes sense only if you have lived in Los Angeles.
Alongside the In-N-Out burger, she picked French fries from Petit Trois, the well-regarded French bistro, and a Diet Coke from McDonald’s.
The McDonald’s Diet Coke detail will read as a joke to anyone who has not encountered the internet’s long-running conviction that McDonald’s Diet Coke is different from everywhere else (see also: McDonald's Sprite). It genuinely does taste different, for reasons that come down to the chain’s water filtration and the syrup-to-carbonation ratio in its machines.
So the order is a fast food burger, fries from a chef-driven restaurant and a soda selected by chain rather than brand. It is a Los Angeles answer.
Why does this keep coming up?
Because the “Last Meals” format works, and because celebrity fast food preferences travel further than almost anything else a celebrity says.
Duff has been famous since she was a teenager on “Lizzie McGuire,” and the audience that grew up with that show is now old enough to have strong opinions about burger chains. A Disney Channel alum weighing in on the In-N-Out versus Whataburger question hits two different fandoms at once.
Is Hilary Duff making new music?
She is. “Mature” was her first new single after about ten years focused on acting, including the “How I Met Your Father” run.
There has been no shortage of Lizzie McGuire questions along the way, which Duff has handled with more patience than most. The revival that was announced and then abandoned at Disney+ in 2020 remains the thing fans bring up most, and it remains unrevived.
For now the news is a burger order, which is a lower-stakes thing to be asked about than a canceled reboot, and probably a welcome change.
Article compiled with the help of the Pirates & Princesses newsroom.
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Hat Tips:
Mythical Kitchen “Last Meals” (2026), Duff’s order, her Whataburger comment and the release party details
Allrecipes (Sept. 20, 2026), surfacing the interview
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