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Having a crowd over, and this would prevent me from ordering dominos (making winning this contest a true act of mercy for everyone at my party).

Having never had a positive experience with Burger Heaven over the past.... 11ish years, or even read of any critic being anything but disappointed by the mini-chain, it's difficult to take this one at face value. Is Ed famous enough to be "spotted" now a la Sifton and crew? Are we overthinking burgers so much that we're occasionally seeing purposeful/careful quality where the kitchen just happens to be having an "on" day?

Re: "Burger purists might be put off by the filler, but in this case, it's kept to a minimum and barely perceptible," I'm going to go with my inner Nick Solares and respond, indignantly: "meatloaf!"

I mean Jesus, yeah make the bun optional if you want a paleolithic gimmick. Salt is a requirement.

Hmmmmmm. Well I guess in answering my question let's pretend that DiFara originally distinguished between the sauces on purpose and now has decided it just isn't worth the effort.

Thanks Prairie!

SLC doesn't exactly bolster the argument that 2am closing isn't puritanical...

Is that bun as massive/dense as it appears?

There was a whole piece in the NYTimes a few years back actually about how Heinz achieved a perfect synthesis of flavors in their ketchup, and how homemade ketchups inevitably fail to achieve that standard, let alone surpass it. A number of chefs and scientists and folks were interviewed. Ever since that article it's been a convention that restaurants avoiding Heinz are in the business of pretension for pretension's sake.

I myself hate ketchup on burgers, so I couldn't care less, but I'll side with texas blues (and the paper of record) on this one.

in England during the mad cow scare, I suppose.

When I had an intensely-argued *reason* for preferring American cheese.

(just to justify this as "historic," it helped usher in the concept of specialized beef blends in a big way, and it's constantly cited as something important to understanding contemporary burger methods, even though 99% of the nation has no basis for comparison)

God help me I have to go with the Big Mac.

oh also: Browned raw meat--Awesome!!!