We sent AHT reader Erin M. on a mission to try BGR's September-only Snooki Burger. Here are the results. (Erin, we apologize for any psychological damage the burger may have inflicted.)

[Photograph: Erin M.]

Taken as individual ingredients, the elements of BGR's Snooki Burger are not all that unpleasant: Grilled jalapenos are always good for adding bite to a meal, cream cheese has a long history of making breakfast bagels yummy, and fried pickles are one of those carnival favorites that really do make a night spent riding the Tilt-a-Whirl and walking the boardwalk even more of a great experience. These are all good things, individually.

But it takes a special kind of madness to not only combine them on a slab of meat but to charge $9.99 for the privilege of eating said monstrosity. Eating a Snooki Burger is a lot like the experience of watching an episode of Jersey Shore: Your friends are all talking about it, you figure it can't be that bad, and five minutes or two bites later you're desperate to scrub the entire experience from your brain. The burger tastes EXACTLY how you would imagine it to: like shame and self-tanner.

BGR, you get major points for creating a one-of-a-kind meal, but the end of September and the removal of the Snooki Burger from our collective memories cannot come fast enough.