The 'Depression Burger' of Route 66

[oldbrownhat]

BBC article here. (I've just had dinner so am unaffected by this!)

Born from poverty but made famous by love, the fried onion burger has fans flocking to El Reno in Oklahoma.

"...the Burger Day Festival... [became] a state tradition that brings visitors from all corners of Oklahoma and beyond. The 850lb Big Burger consists of 350lb of beef, a 350lb homemade bun, 150lb of onions and lots of pickles and mustard, and everyone who attends is served a bite.

"We have a 12ft convection oven for the rising and baking of the bun, a 10ft circular grill for the burger that 'flips' and cooks the burger to perfection," said Ford.

"...Marty says that to make the perfect burger, "I use an 80/20 grind of fine ground beef and Spanish yellow onions sliced very, very thin. I use half and half salt and pepper. When we season the grill, we cover it with that pork salt [heavily salted slabs of pork belly] and we burn the pork salt there about 30 to 40 minutes."

Tuckers serves up the double onion burger from its original location along Route 66 in Oklahoma City

 

[coltle6920]

That and a cold beer and in 30secs all that would be left is the cold beer.

 

[WR Moore]

Dunno what it tastes like, but doesn't look all that appetizing. Might depend upon how hungry you are.

I've got a memory of a breakfast somewhere out there in the mid west at a truck stop. Was exhausted, everyone around me was ordering the "big breakfast". Did "me too", biscuits, orange juice, no coffee and dozed off. Woke to what looked like a serving platter with 2 thick pork chops, a mound of home fries and dunno how many eggs. Realized how the other guys got that, ah, hefty. Ate, then went out to the truck and slept. I don't recall having to eat for about another day.

 

[oldbrownhat]

That and a cold beer and in 30secs all that would be left is the cold beer.

I see I caught you just before dinner after a long, hard day

 

[Farmer17]

Every once in a while a good ole greasy cheese burger from a road side diner does sound pretty good.

 

[Rudi]

Hitch up the trailer and hit the drive through.

 

[Farmer17]

I'm building a dental office in Yukon, Oklahoma and have eaten at this diner and it's a little greasy but pretty tasty. The fries and onion rings are really good and it's seems to be hard to find good onion rings nowadays.

 

[Kiwi cop]

Didn't know about the Depression Burger back in 2018 when we found Sid's Diner, but the regular burgers we had were pretty good ones.

The $5 basket of fries beat us, even though it was shared half went uneaten.

 

[Chuck24]

Extra onion, ketchup, mustard, hold the pickles