good eats in riverdale!

hey hamburglers,

i’ve taken a short but deserved break from my travels, to spend a few days at home over revisiting seemingly ordinary burger joints in search of something recognizable in taste and sight.

we soon came upon a favourite neighborhood drop in called new york cafe, a family owned restaurant that’s been at the same location for many moons.  it’s a beautiful day so the other humans are out and about glorifying themselves under what little sunshine they could absorb, like hungry little monsters.

it's the gravy that makes it sooo good!!!

 

speaking of hungry…..my hubs and i sat down and ordered ourselves a burger from the pleasant server and soon she came back with our meal.

i had the open-faced hot hamburger smothered in delicious gravy and mashed potatoes. Dave had the classic burger with fries. my hot hammy is a fave of mine and i’v enjoyed it more times than i should share here……it’s in the gravy!

so we ate, we enjoyed getting messy and then we rubbed our bellys!!!

if you are in the broadview & danforth area, check out new york cafe. enjoy the  great variety on their menu where mostly everything is yummy and the prices, very reasonable.

it’s the gravy!

the juicy lucy

bonjourno hamburglers,

i’m back with a doozy of a burger! this one, found in the illusive h-files from an undisclosed location only for those privy to.

because of my disclosure agreement, the only thing i can rightfully convey  is that the juicy lucy is believed to have been invented in Minneapolis. the claim is made by two restaurants that are located right across the street from each other. no one is certain of who first named the burger….well, except the respective owners and in trying to prove distinct ownership one restaurant spells it ‘jucy’ and the other spells it ‘juicy’.  this didn’t help to prove or dispel any notions of ownership. this became a classic case of the chicken and the egg so, to this day the controversy still scorches on.

mystery cheese substance

ok, so what is the juicy lucy and is it a part of some lament conspiracy quieted for years? what is its ultimate purpose? is it meant for good or evil? you be the judge.

juicy is a cheeseburger with lots of cheese crammed in the center of the hamburger instead of on top.  sounds ok…i guess, what’s the big deal?

as i dig a little deeper i begin to feel unsettled and anxious….unusal right? my research has revealed to me something shocking and amazing.  these fromage filled patties were fashioned as training implements for weapons testing by the military (that’s all i can say about that aspect) but…unseen to the untrained, naked eye awaited a surprise that could, if nothing else, leave you with a face full of scorching hot greasy cheese.  i joke not, hamburglers!

the unassuming person would hunker in for that first big bite…..and….HOLY HOT HAMBURGERS BATMAN!….the first bite creates an explosion of catastrophic proportions which is caused by a build up of atomic and pro-tonic energy inside the burger. sounds scary yes, so image if that was your lovely and delicate face behind this potentially disastrous h-bomb.
now, mystery surrounds the juicy. the more we know, the more questions we have. cloaked in a shroud of secrecy, the juicy will always be a mystery.

was the experiment successful? was it’s purpose to somehow expose those who may be a threat?

is it a form of communication only decoded by those in the know? why cheddar, is it found to really scorch the skin better than swiss or mozzarella?

the exploding burgerthese and many more questions may never be answered in our time but this is why it’s important to continue to document these strange occurrences for future researchers. one day we will know the truth! stay vigilant!

i invented that…so back off!

guten tag meine hamburglers!

to continue the epic journey across the u.s. in search of the the truth about burgers. last we spoke we learned the origin of the burger, as we know it.

now, lets check out some of the stories about widespread claimability of the sandwich origin of this man-obsessed beast  meat. 

yes, many have staked claim as the first…the inventor…but no one knows for sure. The true origin of the burger, as a sandwich, eludes us. history is spread mustardly thin in this area, which only leads me to ponder…what are they hiding, why the cloaks and confusion? what the….?

first is a man they called charlie ‘hamburger’ nagreen.  sure…it’s possible…hamburger is his middle name after all.  As a young man in wisconsin,  in 1885,  charlie worked at the seymour fair as a successful vendor of meatballs. can you see the forest for the trees yet?  little charlie figured out a genius way for his messy and frustrated costumers to easily ‘walk and eat’ with his meatballs. until that eureka moment, conditions at the meatball counter must have been awkward…..

” two balls please…yes, just in the palm of my hands is fine…. no plates, forks or nappies?….. that’s just peachy, i’ll just lick and nip at these hot balls…thanks!”

so charlie took one of his meatballs and swished, smashed, and flattened it between two slices of bread….smart! now the good people of seymour need no longer burn their delicate hands. he then saw fit to name it ‘hamburger’. is everybody happy? Yahhh!! but is it true…could it have really happened that way?

the next unlikely candidate are siblings most knew as frank and robert  menches; also working as, suspiciously, fair vendors in hamburg, new york. one day at the fair the brothers ran out of their best seller, pulled pork sandwiches but with hungry, gaping and drooling mouths and many snake eyes glaring at them, they had to conspire up something, quick, fast and in a hurry! the crowd roars!.

with this unruly and pork deprived crowd, the conditions for invention were  perfect if not a neccessity.

the brothers booked it to the nearest butcher and purchased some beef of which they poked and prodded to liking and served them up between two slices of bread.  this story comes seven years later than the first. descendants of the menches family are still in the burger biz..go figure!

next on the hit list of unusual suspects is louie lassen of new haven,  connecticut. louie operated a lunch wagon that served many factory men at the time and this is, reportedly where he claims the hamburger sandwich was born. the legend reveals that a man of business was in a rush and requested  something from louie’s wagon to go. what flash unknowingly got was the first hamburger sandwich and louie became the man with the hamburger wagon.

sure any one of these claimants could very well be the grand-daddy of the hamburger sandwich but one question remains.  how did they all come up with ‘hamburger’ as a fitting name? all of them..weird? or something else? my search continues!

the incredible hamdog

"only if you dare"

guten tag hamburglers,

as my journey unfolds, my ethereal wandering spirit has spoken loudly and have taken me to places far beyond the reach of our meek, humanoid existence….or at least it feels that way!

my journey into a relatively untapped part of history has already shed iridescent light upon the moment of birth of the hamburger and like all living things, the hamburger, as it grew and evolved, changed in form, function and flavour.

the hamburger became a capital market for the united states of america.  a gross development of this substance was usually fit for simpletons, more over; ground beef became a staple for most, if not all, blue collar and no collar families of the early 20th century.

our older more boastful brother, the u.s. would come to represent and present the hamburger in such distorted concoctions that many earthly worldians  soon started to question whether these oddities were truly the wonderments of natures imaginative culinary skills or the deceptive master plannings of world domination by an unknown entity.

And if this is the case, who’s to say that this specimen, unearthed deep in the recesses of Decatur, Georgia in 2005 was not the warnings of things to come.

so what exactly is the Hamdog Hamburger?

http://art-ranger.deviantart.com/

walk with me for a bit…..for me, Hamdog conjures up a an amusingly disturbing imagery.  could it have been a verocious pig/dog hybrid aimed at destroying mankind through misguided notions of self indulgence?

it’s not……this isn’t raccoon city….yet!

the hamdog, is seemingly, nothing more than a figment of an invention of an idea of a bad dream that should have remained in the shadows within the normal thought process…not the conclusion. but is that all there is to it?

now, let’s rustle up some hamdogs….

the hamdog hamburger was invented by a crazy dude they call chandler golf in the tender year of 2005.  as you may have guessed, this creation was painfully birthed in the u.s., as many of my findings will illustrate. it’s a popular novelty act it seems.

if you wanted to build yourself a proper hamdog ( i would advice having the emergency hotline readily available first)

this is what it would entail: a hotdog wrapped in a beef patty tomb, deep-fried, then drowned in chili, french fries, and topped with a sunny side up.

hmmm, i have to wonder what is really going here and it leaves the door open to review very logical and rational questions such as-

why? who are you working for? what the #%!* were you thinking? what is its dark purpose?

you may have a few questions yourself.  for the answer is still out there… somewhere in the unknown…..

as i continue my search for the truth, i hope that you will also ask yourself the same frightening and unthinkable question…..

is there a dark secret that may jeopardize the very existence of human-kind still yet to be uncovered? or is it just a crazy man’s creation of crazy comfort food?

to be noted: dr. nicholas lang, professor of surgery at the University of Arkansas for medical sciences, advised against ever consuming a hamdog at any point in one’s lifetime.

advise noted!

A Practical Hamburger

Hi.I’m Nicole Dean.

This is a present I received from another Burger loving gal. Thanks Maria Newman :) Now I can put my treasures in a safe place.