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I agree Adam...I think the whole schitck is exactly that....a schtick. If thier food was any good maybe I'd be more inclined to eat there again.

http://eatingtheroad.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/heart-attack-grill-diet-center/

They're just trying to tap into the whole shock/controversy thing...and unfortunately that does work. Those news stations can't get enough of it. If you really want to dislike them watch the video on their homepage (How to Kill a Giant):
http://www.heartattackgrill.com/

Hi I finally found someone with the same reaction to ground beef that I have. I have not always had this allergic reaction but it has been in the last 13 years so it makes me wonder what they are doing to our beef now that they didn't do back then. I don't always have this reaction but when I do it is severe hives. I have wondered if I sometimes get a batch that has some of the cleaning solution in it or if it is foreign beef and they have added someting to it to make it safe for USA. I can never eat at McDonalds because i always have this reaction.

Whoa - I want that dozen of eggs!!! The yolk is my favorite part!

For about a year I would break out in cat o' nine tails of welts--hives--when I ate dairy. I abstained for a year, slowly introduced it, (I don't think it's good to take antihistamines regularly) and now can have it without problems. 'Drying out' seemed to help. I never told anyone in real life because I thought they would say I was crazy.

If you're having that severe a reaction, you should get it checked out--it's unusual you only get it from meat, since you probably eat beef in tiny doses, in broth and such, without realizing it--in marinates, even ground up in processed chicken products. You may only be allergic to a certain protein or your allergy may be more diffuse. Either way, simply avoiding burgers and steaks, if you have a really, really severe allergy won't necessarily protect you.

I myself recently found out that i am allergic to hamburger i'm supposing its beef in general as i only eat my burgers well done. however its only the beef that is store purchased and is ground. i can go to McDonald or any fast food restaurant and order a burger and be fine. if i eat home made patties i break out in bumps, itch horrible, and even swell in my hands and face. last week i ate burgers and i done all of the above and even vomited so im still trying to figure out what i can do to eat burgers again as they are my favorite. any one out here have a solution to this problem?

I had a friend who was allergic to regular beef due to some sort of dye that was used in the preparation, but she was able to eat Coleman Natural Beef without a problem.

I have a faint memory of a girl that went to the same school as I did when we were kids who was allergic to beef in general. She was allergic to almost everything. If I remember correctly she could only eat meat from young bulls. It had to be male and young. Don't know why.

Bryan,

You may want to check with an allergist to make sure you're not actually allergic to corn. A good friend of mine found out last year she had a corn allergy that was causing her problems and it even goes so far as eating beef that was corn-fed. The beef solution is easy (simply buy grass-fed beef) but it's amazing how much corn permeates the food world.

And just to nitpick (because that's what I do) nobody is eating buffalo... it's all bison that we eat here. Buffalo are a different animal.

If any of you city folk gird your loins for a journey into the Great White North, you will do yourselves a delicious favor by getting off I91 at Putney VT for Curtis' BBQ!

when i was a kid we had a chook (that's what we call chickens in AUS) that laid double-yolkers every time

I will only eat the filet o fish, the burgers are nasty.

I had some damn good BBQ last night from Swingbelly's in Long Beach, Long Island. No joke.

In the true southern states BBQ is pork. If we say "let's go get some BBQ we ain't talking bout beef or chicken, we're talking pig. And as others have already pointed out BBQ is a noun and not a verb to describe anything cooked over coals. Some Yankees or Texans might say they're going to BBQ a beef brisket but it wouldn't qualify as BBQ where I live.

As far as our sister state to the North, their BBQ is quite good. I've eaten the best in Lexington, Goldsboro, Rocky Mount, Wilson and Ayden but I'll take our juicier Q with mustard base over their leaner Q with vinegar/pepper/no base any day. They serve Brunswick stew in NC which is not BBQ while in SC you'll get real BBQ hash. I once asked a hash maker what was in her hash? She replied, "pig". I said, "what else?" and she said "mo pig".

When I hear folks bragging about the Memphis Q they obviously haven't eaten SC's best. Corky's, a highly regarded Memphis chain, opened a restaurant in Columbia, SC but soon went out of business due to the higher quality of the local competition. The ribs I had at the famous Rendezvous were so over cooked and dry ( even though they were wet ) I should have sent them back. The four other Carolinians at our table shared these sentiments.

I've also had the highly over-rated Dreamland ribs of Birmingham which were a huge disappointment. They were tough with their membranes still firmly attached and had little flavor even with that strange watery red dipping juice. Luckily they came with loaf bread or I would have left hungry.

I can honestly say that some of the best ribs I've had were at Carson's in Chicago. According to one rumor, too many of those ribs cost "The Refrigerator" Perry his NFL career.