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Tasting P.B. Loco's Wacky Line of Peanut Butters
I haven't heard of PB Loco this far up North, but White Chocolate Wonderful by PB&Co. is divine.
I second that! I can attest to the greatness of PB & B(acon). Peanut Butter and crispy bacon sandwiches are fantastic not only in taste but in texture. I'd buy it if it came jarred, but it's probably not difficult to make your own.
Weekend project mystery solved.
Brioche For Burgers?
I won't order a burger if it comes on brioche, no matter how good the meat is. Brioche is just about the worst burger bun I can imagine, quickly followed by a baguette.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Four flat even small chipped almost underbakes chocolate chip cookies for 1$. The bakery that sells the batter to my old school caf sells them in their store... six of them in giant plate-sized portions for about 5$. I get them everytime I fly home.
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Shameless Rumormongering: Leah and Hosea Both Taking Off
Maybe they'll open up a joint venture... after their secluded vacation.
Tasting P.B. Loco's Wacky Line of Peanut Butters
I haven't heard of PB Loco this far up North, but White Chocolate Wonderful by PB&Co. is divine.
I second that! I can attest to the greatness of PB & B(acon). Peanut Butter and crispy bacon sandwiches are fantastic not only in taste but in texture. I'd buy it if it came jarred, but it's probably not difficult to make your own.
Weekend project mystery solved.
Brioche For Burgers?
I won't order a burger if it comes on brioche, no matter how good the meat is. Brioche is just about the worst burger bun I can imagine, quickly followed by a baguette.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
Four flat even small chipped almost underbakes chocolate chip cookies for 1$. The bakery that sells the batter to my old school caf sells them in their store... six of them in giant plate-sized portions for about 5$. I get them everytime I fly home.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
If this came in hardcover, I'd have to rest it on top of the Hamburger America book on my imaginary burger table.
Best Burger in the World at The Little Owl?
I dunno.. sometimes "the best" burger is all about the environment and how far you've travelled and waited for it, to culminate in a sort of optimal hunger/anticipation to taste ratio.
The burger at Le Tub in Fort Lauderdale, after traveling 1600 miles, driving past it five times before seeing it and waiting an hour and a half during sunset was pretty darn worth the best burger award.
Are Pickles a Burger Condiment?
I wouldn't consider anything so vile to be a condiment. No offence to the cucumbers, it's the dill and vinegar combination that really churns my stomach.
But in all seriousness, spicy eggplants is not a condiment, saukraut is also not, so why would pickles be, simply because they are more widely used?
Not a condiment.
Tomatoes Are Evil
Love 'em. However..
All my ex-boyfriends have been tomato haters. Does that mean I'm a tomato-hater-lover?
Halp!
The Cereal Project, an Online Database of U.S. Cereals
If I had a go-back machine I'd get me some Strawberry Shortcake cereal!!!! Oh my! I remember the perfectly cereal-sweet strawberry flavor diluted in the milk, the way it turned a pinkish-hue, and how my grandmother forbade the other grandkids from eating my favorite cereal which she kept strictly for me, as my parents were granola-freaks of the natural sugar variety.
Any Bring-From-Home Snack Ideas?
Cut up fruit. Fruit gummies. Olives. Whatever I can get my hands on that's healthy because as people in the office know, my mouth is like a constant slow humming hoover vac.
(port as a snack! LOL!)
Snapshots from Greece: Souvlaki from O Thanasis in Athens
I've eaten there! I didn't know it was the best, nor have I had enough experience with Gyros to recognize that I was eating a good one, but it was tasty enough. That's saying a lot, I'm not typically a Gyros fan. :)
Video: Room Covered in Melted Cheese
I've seen this before, though I'm fairly sure it was called "A Lactose Intolerant's Worst Nightmare".
In Videos: Barack Obama Doesn't Know What a Half-Smoke Is
I can vouch for the greatness of the half-smoke.
It was on our top-priority list of "must eat there" restaurants when we visited DC three years ago, after having read about it all over the blogosphere. Great atmosphere.
Cook the Book: Oven-'Fried' Sweet Potatoes
Have you tried dipping them in garlic mayo? What a supberb combination!
I mix a quarter cup of zero fat Miracle Whip with 1-2 grated/crushed cloves of garlic. Of course you could make aioli from scratch, but I get impatient when I smell the temptation of s.p.fries.
For spices, I use usually use 1/4 t. cinnamon, dash of cayenne, 1/2 t. cumin, 1/2 paprika, fine seat salt and pepper to taste.
I've tried most combinations of cinnamon/basil/rosemary/salt/pepper/chili/cumin/etc.. The fries are good on their own with the simple and flawless addition of salt and garlic mayo.
Keanu Reeves to Star in Chef Movie
That's just brilliant, at least he can regurgitate the same one-liners as his previous films:
-"I used to eat there. Really good noodles."
-"There is no spoon?"
It's not worth it to make _______ when I could just buy it
Mayo! I'm one of the weird ones who prefers Miracle Whip over the real thing. Why waste a cup of olive oil for something that will go unfinished and perish at the end of the week, when you can buy a gigantic jar of fake-mayo that will last you months. (Or in my case....weeks.)
Miracle Whip is not entirely a purists' condiment, but even if I did prefer real mayo, I'd still buy it instead of painstakingly making it.
Tomatoes Are Evil
It doesn't offend me that you don't like them, rather I am humoured that so many people think the same way as you. It is truly a matter of knowledge. For instance, a few years ago I abhored tequila. I tasted Patron and all the other popular bar tequilas that were supposedly better than Jose Cuervo and Sauza and I still didn't like it. When I delved into the brands that most people were not familiar with, I discovered there was a whole other world out there. These traditional yet unpopular brands had so much flavor it was shocking. It's the same with tomatoes. When all you're used to tasting is vegetal, bitter, bland, watery, herbal tomatoey flavors you are completely shocked when you first bite into a tomato that tastes like candy.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
The pastrami burger that Lexalpha mentioned has been refined to perfection in the Salt Lake City area, where one-off restaurants and local chains started by Greek immigrants have made it their signature specialty. No hamburger aficionado has truly lived until he/she has experienced a Crown Burger.
Tomatoes Are Evil
@ChefR0bert I've heard that before. I've risen to the challenge. Still don't like tomatoes. Unless, of course, as you suggest, the flavour of the tomato is obliterated by other ingredients.
But, as a person who has no taste for tomatoes, I've noticed that it does deeply offend people who do like them. So much so, that it doesn't matter that I make myself prepare something I've never tried before at least once a week, that I can suggest menu ideas and substitutions that make the neighbours say "wow", that guests never leave my table without a new food experience, that I've tried witchetty grubs; No, simply because I don't care for tomatoes, I need to "stop complaining and get out there to expand my culinary viewpoints".
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
What about the "cheese skirt" burger? There are several places doing this, one notable is the Squeeze Inn in Sacramento:
http://www.eatingtheroad.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/squeeze-inn/
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
in my high school we had 4 stations and a decent amount of options, yet i would only get 5 things - ever! friday was pizza day and i would always dip my pizza in the mini salad and dressing it came with.
wed was chicken ranchero day - chicken patty topped with bacon, american cheese and the obligatory lettuce and tomato slice and you top it yourself with ranch dressing on a kaiser roll and it usually came with baked mac and cheese - the line on wed was always rediculously long!
the other days i had a bagel with cream cheese, fries and an arizona iced tea. or cheese nachos loaded with toppings (i don't eat beef) or a cheese sandwich on a kaiser as i have always been adverse to lunch meat.
i am very surprised i have normal cholesterol these days - i can't imagine what it was back then...although growing up in a vegetarian household my other meals must have cancelled out the cholesterol loaded fest during the school week.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Now that was by far one of my favorite burger posts I've seen! Way to get them all in one blog.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
What a collection!!! I'm partial to steakhouse, kobe and fast food. Quite the variety, I know. :)
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
@everyone: Thanks for the kudos! This was a lot of fun to put together, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm sorry if it made you hungry, but dems da breaks!
@KingT: What would you say makes a '30s-style burger? Given what I've read about burger history, I'd guess it would either be a slider (since White Castle all but revolutionized burgerdom in the late '20s and up to WWII) or a slider-style burger (a little larger but cooked in a similar fashion).
@shanella: I'm only responsible for the first photo; the rest are Flickr Creative Commons–licensed or used with permission of the photographer. I know that any of Nick Solares's or Robyn Lee's are dSLRs (Nikon D300 and Canon 20D, respectively). For any of the others that link to Flickr, you can click through and look to see if the photographer has EXIF data for the photo. That should tell you camera make/model.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
@Adam what type of camera are you using??? These pics are awesome!
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
What about the 30's style? did I miss that?
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
This may be its own category...or all of the above.
From my experience it was very difficult to finish both the pint and the burger.
A culinary experience indeed.
Shameless Rumormongering: Leah and Hosea Both Taking Off
I'm with you @ChrisHam. I don't want to see either of them anywhere near my food. That Hosea won TC still astounds me.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Very educational for us foodies Adam. Thanks for pointing out the difference between a slider and a mini burger...i always thought they were the same. I like the part about the fast food burger! lol! I think you're right about the kobe burger cause i enjoy the slight rubberiness of the minced meat against the soft bread in a regular burger...the kobe has enough brilliance to stand on it's own! What they call pimento cheese in the U.S. is what we call cheese paste in caribbean, and is often a combination of grated cheddar, mayo, grated onion, diced peppers and hot sauce, and is usually slathered between sandwich slices, cut into cute bite size triangles and served at parties.
Tasting P.B. Loco's Wacky Line of Peanut Butters
I'll be honest: I don't hate the flavoured PBs, but I wouldn't want a whole jar. Give me some natural crunchy PB and I can make ALL those flavours, plus a straight PB sandwich.
Just surprised they haven't made a bacon flavour yet...
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Noosh: I was starting an entry on them, but got so pooped out by that time (it was about 4 a.m.) that I just ended at bean burgers. Will look for a good photo of an Aussie burger and include it.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
I realise that this is about American burgers, but just for interest: in Australia it's an "Aussie" burger if it has sliced beetroot on it (and probably onions too, though possibly raw). However, the essential ingredient to make a pizza an "Aussie pizza" is egg cracked over the top just before it's put in the oven.
We're a weird bunch.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
"I would eat ANY of these marvelous burger creations except for the guberburger....peanut butter on beef? Not feeling that one at all!"
lol... This is the most appealing burger on here IMHO...
"How about the "other than beef" catagory....turkey, bison, etc."
and to that, I second HeartofGlass-- I'm vegan. There are a ton of veggie burgers out there, both "fast food" and grocery store options
http://www.vegcooking.com/gb_vegburgers_chain.asp
http://www.peta.org/feat/goldbun/1.html
http://www.vegcooking.com/gb_vegburgers_can.asp
In any case, I think it's the toppings that make it exciting, and the ethnic variations give you alot of options. One simple one I don't see here is the diner option topped with a big fat onion ring. The best veggie burger I ever had was at Kelsey's, when I had it it was served on a sourdough chiabata-style bun with smoked mozzarella & garlic mayonnaise
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Amazing post Adam...you are truly a Burger King. Very well done and informative stuff.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
in both HS & college (Tokyo), noodle stations (ramen, udon and soba) were pretty good. but in HS I rarely had time to eat lunch at the cafeteria, so I'd buy chicken karaage and yukari onigiri combo if I didn't bring bento.
My favorite dish from the college cafeteria was Bang bang ji tofu.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
In elementary school i loved the cold triple decker PB&J's... Also i loved the taste of the sloppy joes with melted kraft cheese but i didnt like the chunkiness of it so i would scrape it all out and eat what became a sloppy joe flavored cheese sandwich mmmmm.....i've tried to recreate it but to no avail.
In H.S. we had open campus so i always left for lunch. lucky me
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Oh, and one other thing. I may be wrong - I may be crucified and permanently banned from this blog - but I love Bubba Burgers. Yes, they're frozen, but I think they're delicious.
Don't everyone rush me with torches and pitchforks all at once.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Nathan Hale's in lower Manhattan has or had a terrific pub burger and excellent thick greasy fries. Haven't been there in years (used to go there to watch soccer matches) so I don't know if it's still there or if the quality of the food has changed. Boy, I miss that burger.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
my mother is from the south, so i grew up on doughburgers, but ive never in my life seen a doughburger like what is pictured here. ew.
Brioche For Burgers?
I think that brioche is IDEAL for a burger! English muffins are the worst of cop-outs.
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