'American Stomach' Digests the Jucy Lucy

Posted by Adam Kuban, June 12, 2007 at 3:44 PM

The Associated Press's ASAP visits Matt's Bar in Minneapolis for one of the fabled joint's cheese-stuffed burgers:

The Jucy Lucy itself is supremely satisfying -- not the best I've had, but several notches above average. It comes on a soft, undusted roll, and the cheese and attendant oils squirt out much like the juice of a fresh Shanghai soup dumpling; if you bite hearty, and most do, the cheese's trajectory and velocity can easily scald your boothmate's face. My only regret: I had lunch too early to wash it down with a Grain Belt Premium beer. Or five.

What I really want to know about, however (and, no, it's not burger related, but bear with me), is a place this story mentions in passing, Lou's Fish, "which features the very unlikely combination of smokehouse and motel."

Photograph from AP/ASAP

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Believe it or not, my grandparents owned a motel in South Carolina with a cafe, gas station, stocked fishing lake, and a smokehouse. It was a sort of "trucker's nirvana" on Route 17. This is the first time i've heard of another motel-smokehouse combo...

Hamburger Hamburger America at 2:33PM on 06/13/07

I have visited Lou's smokehouse and it's located on the very scenic drive along the Shore of Lake Superior just north of Duluth. I guess I did not, put the two together, but they do have a motel next door. There are a handful of small smokehouses along that highway, featuring an array of smoked fish. The only thing that sticks out in my head is the phrase they repeated to me which was "Lou smokes his own". For some reason that still makes me laugh.

Hamburger Erik at 4:02PM on 06/15/07

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