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How about Down Home? Or Down Home Cookin'
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
My mom always called them "Sunshine Eggs"
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Yes! KFC extra crispy! And peanut butter sandwiches with bread & butter pickles and mustard. YUM!
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The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
The best burger I've ever had was at a Carl's in CA. It was a special promotion, and I've never seen it on the menu again. A double cheeseburger with a hefty layer of pastrami! Sort of a burger, patty melt, reuben effect, hold the sauerkraut.
I was in heaven, and didn't need to eat anything else for about 24 hours.
Lex
Restaurant Naming Problems
How about Down Home? Or Down Home Cookin'
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
My mom always called them "Sunshine Eggs"
Guilty Food Pleasures
Yes! KFC extra crispy! And peanut butter sandwiches with bread & butter pickles and mustard. YUM!
$29.95 for America's Test Kitchen website?
I used to subscribe, but realised after a couple of years that they were printing articles that contradicted previous articles. Don't they read their own stuff? Anyway, I think they're no better or worse than any other food oriented magazine, or show, and take all items with a grain of salt (sea salt of course).
Everyone has a dream of opening a restaurant...
I vote for the shop instead of the restaurant. I know that I would enjoy developing recipes and menus more than actually running a place. Worked in too many to think the daily responsibility would be fun for me. But a good meat counter, excellent cheese counter, and shelves of those hard to find ingredients would be lovely.
10 Things to Look For in a Cheese Shop
My favorite cheese shop in the S. F. area is Draegers Market. They have a cheese shop area that almost seems independent of the rest of the store. The employees there are always enthusiastic about their cheeses, have a wonderful selection, knowlegable, and really encourage tasting, and comparing. Best I've been to around here.
Lex in CA
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Let's see here, KFC's barbeque chicken, Hollywood candy bars, Mounds candy bars,and Cherry Cooler cookies.
Lex in CA
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Oh, man, I thought I had blocked out my Gatorade Gum cravings!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I miss bbq munchos, planters cheeseballs (there is another brand available now in a large container that are good but...) and morton raspberry filled powdered donuts. Oh, those were the days.
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.
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
A Hole in One!!!! My grandfather used to make these for me when I was a very little girl, visiting him in Lancaster, PA. He was not a golfer. He was first-generation American of Swedish descent, who had grown up in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
Slugburgers: no, they don't have dried slugs mixed into the burger. So named because you could buy a burger with a "slug," which was Depression-era slang for a nickle. "Slugburgers" are alive and well. Just eat them hot! Don't let them cool down.
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
GIVE ME A WELL COOKED AND PREPARED BURGER ANY DAY AS LONG AS IT'S DRIPPING JUICY TO THE ELBOWS IS THE GOAL WITH ANY BURGER! There were a number of "I gotta have one now" burgers pictured sorry NO fast food burgers don't cut it!
Those monster burgers are disgusting looking and couldn't possibly taste good at all way too much of a good thing.Does the world record desire correlate to national exposure and is it actually worth wasteing that much food ?
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles
I'm copying this article, binding it and naming it: "My Hamburger Bible". Great job, Adam! Guess what I'm having for lunch? And maybe dinner....and......
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
Some great names here - I love Egyptian Eyes especially! But wow: over 200 comments, and apparently no one else calls them "top hats". (And yes, I always thought my mother invented them, too. :) )
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
My hubby made these for me for me all the time when we were in college - we call them Eggs in a Basket.
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The best burger I've ever had was at a Carl's in CA. It was a special promotion, and I've never seen it on the menu again. A double cheeseburger with a hefty layer of pastrami! Sort of a burger, patty melt, reuben effect, hold the sauerkraut.
I was in heaven, and didn't need to eat anything else for about 24 hours.
Lex