Entries tagged with 'doughnut burgers'
Posted by Adam Kuban, March 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM
On Serious Eats, we've got a bit of a running joke about all the ways in which Food Network superstar Paula Deen is trying to kill us (see P.D.I.T.T.K.U. Parts 1, 2, and 3). Introducing the Lady's Brunch Burger, her doughnut-bun burger. Sure, we've championed doughnut burgers on A Hamburger Today before, and Ms. Paula's isn't all that much different:
Sandwiched between sticky glazed doughnuts? Check.
Bacon? Check.
But the Lady steps it over the top by adding ... a FRIED EGG!
Posted by Adam Kuban, July 13, 2007 at 11:20 AM
Earlier this year, I wrote here on AHT about the origins of the Krispy Kreme donut burger. I noted that this creation—one that uses a donut as a burger bun—first seemed to gain much attention as the Luther Burger in early 2005.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, March 1, 2007 at 2:58 PM
As is common wisdom, one thing the Catholic church excels at is instilling guilt in those raised in the faith. However lapsed I may be these days, that guilt remains.
So, while I may not attend mass as often as I should, I always try to give up something for Lent. This year, I decided I'd go really hard on myself and give up red meat. That means ... yes ... NO BURGERS!
Anyway, all the blogging I've been doing lately here about the "Grizzlie Burger" (a bacon cheeseburger on a Krispy Kreme bun) gave me a hankerin' for one.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so I broke down and bought some Gardenburger patties, some Smart Bacon, some real cheddar cheese (I'm avoiding red meat, not dairy, after all).
To really go all out, I figured I'd use the new whole-wheat Krispy Kreme as my bun.
I whipped this thing up in the Serious Eats offices using the toaster oven and the hot plate we inherited from the previous tenants.
How did it taste?
How do you think?
I'm counting down the days till Easter.
Posted by Adam Kuban, February 26, 2007 at 4:43 PM
Photo essay from Neon Epiphany.
In a stunning turn of events that may shake the very foundations of burgerological anthropology, A Hamburger Today has been presented with credible new evidence that the first burger to use a Krispy Kreme doughnut as a bun may have evolved almost two years earlier than previously thought.
AHT reader Timm just piped in in the Comments on our post about the Gateway Grizzlie Burger, the Krispy Kreme–bunned bacon cheeseburger served at the stadium of independent league baseball team the Gateway Grizzlies: "Just thought I'd throw out there that it seems the original idea for the Krispy Kreme burger can be found here and is referred to as the Fat Kreme back in 2003. Either way, that's a heart attack on a bun/doughnut!"
The Grizzlie Burger, which appeared in spring 2006, was itself a take-off of the Luther Burger, an invention of Decatur, Georgia, pub Mulligan's that dates to early 2005.
Dubbed the Fat Kreme, this early version of fusion-burger excess places the contents of a Fatburger burger onto the aforementioned sugar-glazed treat on April 6, 2003. What's more, this new evidence moves the locus of the mashup from the South to Seattle, a geographic region known more for its advances in coffee culture than for its contributions to calorie-rich deep-fried dining.
Unconfirmed reports within the blog post in question hint at an even earlier version of the KK-burger mashup, but using In-N-Out burgers instead.
Burger anthropologists in AHT's research department were puzzled as to why, like the Neanderthals, the Fat Kreme was suddenly eclipsed by a similar species. But at least one leading researcher who requested anonymity said he believed it had to do with the fact that Yukino, the blogger who invented the Fat Kreme, placed the doughnut bun facing glazed side out. The more advanced Grizzlie Burger, in contrast, has an evolutionary advantage in the fact that its toasted-doughnut bun faces glazed side inward, giving its eater a nonsticky fingerhold.
Posted by Adam Kuban, February 22, 2007 at 4:26 PM
Yesterday I showed you a series of photos, taken by my friend Listmaker, of my friend Marc as Marc had his first couple bites of the exotic Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger at an independent league baseball game last year. At the time the photos were taken, I told him, "Marc: I want a write-up of your experience for AHT. Stat!" Well, it only took seven months, but I guess yesterday's post was all the kick in the pants he needed.
Today, he responds: "You've gone and posted my mug all over your hamburger website. That means I finally looked over the draft of the Grizzlie Burger review. I fixed it up a bit. Sorry I didn't send this to you last summer!"
No problem, Marc. The important thing is that we have your story now, to warm our hearts on a cold winter day. Burgermeisters, dig in!
Also, Listmaker wanted to draw attention to the fact that there's more KK Bacon Cheeseburger action here, if you're interested.—The Mgmt.
Photographs by Listmaker
In March of last year, A Hamburger Today referenced a press release from the Gateway Grizzlies, an independent league baseball team from Sauget, Illinois. The team had created the Grizzlie Burger (known elsewhere as the Luther Burger). I couldn't help but refer to it as "that Krispy Kreme burger." It's a bacon cheeseburger served on a glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut instead of a traditional bun.
Later, in summer of last year, a friend and I took a baseball road trip through the Midwest. When I realized the Gateway Grizzlies played a few miles southeast of the Saint Louis Cardinals, one of the teams we'd included on our trek, I insisted that GCS Ballpark be included on the itinerary. It soon became the one destination that couldn't be altered. On the evening of Sunday, July 2, 2006, Listmaker and I walked into the Grizzlies' stadium at the start of the second inning—thankfully not too late to try the burger I hadn't stopped talking about during the previous month. [He really was talking about this burger a lot at the time.—Ed.]
I'd visited my parents.
Me: A friend and I are going on a baseball trip to major, minor, and independent league games, and we're going to...
Mom (interrupting): "Are you going to try that hamburger I saw on the news? The one with the Krispy Kreme bun?"
Me: "Of course! You heard about that? Wow!"
I'd asked for time off at work.
Me: I'm going to try a bacon cheeseburger with a sliced-open Krispy Kreme doughnut serving as the bun.
Co-worker (visibly disturbed at the thought): Eww, gross. Wait: You don't eat cheeseburgers.
Me: I know. I might make an exception. Or, maybe they'll serve it without cheese. I hope they serve it without cheese. [Marc likes cheese, and he likes burgers. He doesn't like cheese on his burgers, however. Go figure. —Ed.]
Basically, I had mentioned this burger to everyone I knew. It's a food item you can't resist talking about. How is it prepared? What does it taste like? Beef and sugar? Together? Is that sane? Is that possible?
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Posted by Adam Kuban, February 21, 2007 at 5:10 PM
Eating a Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger for the First Time
Speaking of the exotic Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger served at Google HQ earlier today, it reminded me that I never blogged this series of photos from my buddy Listmaker. It's our friend Balgavy biting into one of the creations served at Gateway Grizzlies baseball games. The series of snaps captures Balgavy right after experiencing this burger for the first time. You can almost taste the burger along with him.
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Balgavy makes his own KKBaconCheeseburger [Listmaker]
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Too Much Food [Listmaker]
Posted by Adam Kuban, February 21, 2007 at 12:54 PM
Bacon Krispy Kreme burger, blogged to AHT from the Flickr photostream of satanslaundromat
Photoblogger Satan's Laundromat had lunch in the New York Google cafeteria last week and posts this picture of a bacon burger with Krispy Kreme bun to Flickr. He notes that he did not eat it and merely took a picture of it.
[via FoAHT Janelle]
Posted by Adam Kuban, March 9, 2006 at 1:15 PM
Many thanks to AHT reader Bill G., who writes: "I'm a big fan of burgers, and you do a damn fine job covering them. This one scares even me."
Bill then gives us a link to a press release about burgers made with Krispy Kremes for buns (which sounds like the Luther Burger we mentioned in June):
“The Grizzlies and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts have teamed up to create ‘Baseball’s Best Burger.’ The burger, which was introduced at Gateway’s December 10th sale, consists of a thick and juicy burger topped with sharp cheddar cheese and two slices of bacon. The burger is then placed in between each side of a Krispy Kreme Original Glazed doughnut.”
All we can say is: Play ball!
Grizzlies Introduce New Food Item for ‘06
Posted by Honey P., June 8, 2005 at 5:50 PM
Now that Dave has fallen off, many of us have resorted to Leno during the stretch beween the scare-journalism of local news and the comedic stylings of Conan. Good thing The Chin is on the money these days. Filling the hump that comes in the middle of a week already graced by Will Ferrell and the stylish O.C. cutey Adam Brody, Mr. Leno overwhelms us with a double whopper: Tom "Fists" Cruise and Chandler Goff.
That's right, two hits of crazy in one night! For those of you who missed the Tom & Katie Bomb, dropped on our country just weeks ago, I'll update you: First he appeared on Oprah bursting into monkeylike hysterics over his newfound love/Scientology experiment Ms. Holmes. Then he showed up on Access Hollywood to start a beef with Brooke Shields over the fact that she used pharmaceuticals to cure herself of an urge to kill herself and her baby, claiming there's no science to science. Then, after forcing journalists to tour Scientology facilities with him , he started another fight with a 60 Minutes anchor who suggested that some people might think Scientology is "a bunch of lunatic fringe." Oh Tommy boy, we're counting on you to enliven this evening's telly watching.
As fascinated as we are by Mr. Cruise's psychosis, however, we know where our priorities lie. So even if Mr. Top Gun cools his jets tonight, we'll still have Mr. Goff's appearance. If you don't know about chef Chandler, listen up: This guy is crazed in his own right, taking his burger obsession to new highs. At Mulligan's in Decatur, Georgia, Mr. Goff serves up his controversial "Hamdog" as well as the "Luther Burger." The Hamdog, of mythical proportions but oh so very real, starts with a hot dog wrapped in a beef patty. This massive meatwad is then deep-fried. Not enough for you? It's then topped with chili, cheese, onion, a fried egg, and two fistfuls of fries. All of this is nestled in a giant hoagie bun. The "Luther," supposedly named after R&B singer Luther Vandross, is much more simple: two Krispy Kremes sandwiching a good ol' bacon cheeseburger.
Unlike Tommy, though, Mr. Goff's crazy is a crazy we find truly endearing. But to be honest, we hope Tommy tries to body slam him—or, preferably, Toby Keith, tonight's musical guest. We wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Cruise starts a third beef tonight. It seems to be what he does best these days.
