It seems like The Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien heeded Tom Hank's recommendation earlier this month to eat at In-N-Out Burger. In last night's episode he revealed that, aside from discovering that Los Angeles is full of great burgers, his favorite burger joint is In-N-Out Burger. Guest Cameron Diaz, also an In-N-Out lover, gave props to the Animal Style burger. Watch the video after the jump.
New York City's Burger of the Month Club appeared on The Today Show on Sunday. Anchor Jenna Wolfe joined the group of seven at Royale to learn more about the club and eat her first burger in five years. Watch the video after the jump.
After getting a visit last month from President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia, has had a bit of a pick-up in business. In an interview with TMZ.com, owner Michael Landrum says that they hired 25 more people to handle the increase in business. Watch the full interview at TMZ.com.
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Last night on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien actor Tom Hanks recommended that the new-to-Los-Angeles O'Brien eat at In-N-Out Burger. During the interview Hanks gives some advice on how to order from the "secret" menu and gushes about the In-N-Out Burger Mobile. Watch the video after the jump (burger dialogue starts around the 3:35 mark).
On Friday we noted that President Barack Obama made a burger run to Five Guys with NBC's Brian Williams. Last night NBC aired footage of the most recent Obama Burger Run as part of the special report Inside the Obama White House. Skip to about 3:08 in for the juicy stuff. [Video, after the jump.]
Bobby Flay makes a burger that almost outdoes Paula Deen. Consisting of a patty, cheese, bacon, fried egg, and shoestring fries (on the burger), it is described as a "Breakfast Burger." The burger looks great—I especially love his requirements of a soft bun and thoroughly melted cheese—but I don't know if I would be able to eat lunch or dinner after such a breakfast. Watch the video after the jump.
Oh, hell. "Dijongate," sparked by Obama and Biden's visit to Ray's Hell Burger, is probably pretty played out by now. I started a post about it yesterday and started bloviating, but my draft got too long and became unfocused. Partly because there are too many food issues it brings up for any one blog post.
And my post probably was hypocritical, too, given the small amount of crap we've given Obama ourselves about cooking burgers to medium-well—and given AHT's general complaints about fancy-pants burgers in general.
Anyway, the thing that has political bloggers in a huff is that MSNBC edited out the part of the video where Obama asks for "a spicy mustard, or a Dijon mustard or somethin'."
Newscasts routinely edit out inconsequential parts of interviews and gathered footage, right? So why would this be a big deal?
Cut to Sean Hannity:
Oh. I see. Dijon mustard is elitist, apparently. Dijongate is all about MSNBC trying to protect Obama from himself.
But let's say that MSNBC was doing some helpful editing—does the prez really need protecting? OK. Before I run the risk of bloviating again, I'm going to bring it back to this: What do you all think of Dijon mustard on burgers? Bonus question: Is Dijon mustard elitist?
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This spoof trailer of vampire love story Twilight replaces human love interest Bella Swan with a cheeseburger while keeping most (if not all) of the movie's original dialogue. Result: it still works. Kind of. But now it's funnier! Watch the video after the jump.
Every week Kevin Pang of the Chicago Tribune hosts The Cheeseburger Show, "a show about cheeseburgers with famous people and lots of close-up food shots." Formula for success? Yes. Despite knowing that I won't be in Chicago anytime soon, I'm glued to my cheeseburger-blessed monitor.
Today marks the premiere episode during which Pang takes us behind the scenes of Top Notch Beefburgers and Goldyburgers. He also interviews chef Homaro Cantu of Moto, Q101 DJ Electra, Hot Doug's Doug Sohn, and host of NPR's Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! Peter Sagal, about burgers. Go to cheeseburgershow.com to watch the episode.
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Update (4/15): Burger King is pulling the offensive ads: "The revised campaign will focus solely on the Texican Whopper sandwich and will not feature any characters or the use of the Mexican flag."
Burger King has sparked more controversy with their latest ad campaign for the Texican Whopper—a Whopper topped with taco-coated chilli con carne, jalapeños, and Cajun mayonnaise—being sold in Europe. Mexico is protesting the ads due to its stereotypical portrayal of Mexicans and offensive use of the Mexican flag, mostly in the printed ad. The commercial shows a tall America cowboy becoming roommates with a short Mexican wrestler wearing a cape resembling a Mexican flag. Mexico's ambassador to Spain has written a letter to Burger King's offices in Spain asking the ads to be removed. Watch the video after the jump.
Eh, Hoser? Canadian Mac Snack Wrap commercial. [via ßurgerßusiness]
SmartMoney TV profiles wholesale meat purveyor Pat LaFrieda, known for their custom burger blends, in their video tour of the LaFrieda plant.
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Not sure if your boyfriend is an asshole? Just watch Carl's Jr. commercials for a lesson in Douchebaggery 101! Sarah Haskins of Current TV shares this funny investigation of the roles of women and men in Carl's Jr. commercials. "Having three girlfriends is great—until one of them finds out about the other two," says one spot. "I wonder how she feels," Haskins says. "Wait a second, no one cares!" Watch the video after the jump.
How does Burger King sell Spongebob Squarepants Kids Meals to parents? They spoof Sir Mix-a-Lot's Baby Got Back with dancers dressed as Spongebob Squarepants sporting "cubicle butts." Because there's nothing more attractive than an boxy phone book-sized protrusion coming out of a woman's rear. And that's where two minutes and 23 seconds of my life went. Watch the video after the jump.
Top Chef judge Padma Lakshmi's Carl's Jr. / Hardee's commercial for their Bacon Western Thickburger is out with intense food porn-y results. Watch the video after the jump.
You know how greasy food in a paper bag sort of starts leaking onto the bag and turns it almost transparent? Now imagine a giant paper canvas, ten burgers from an unidentified fast food chain, and enough grease from them to re-create the Mona Lisa. [Video, after the jump.]
Josh Ozersky and I have a friendly rivalry. He refers to me as the "second best meat writer in NY" and as a "Cutlet's Cadet" while I have rechristened him Nosh Absurdsky and claim that I write about food and he about salacious restaurant gossip. But I must give credit where credit is due—the video of his interview and blind tasting on Always Hungry is absolutely superb. Josh expounds on the definition of a hamburger as well as conducts a blind test of some of the New York City's top rated burgers. His strict orthodoxy is music to my ears, but may ruffle the feathers of some of our readers. Watch the video at Always Hungry.
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So it happened a couple of weeks ago, but Food Network host Guy Fieri paid a visit to David Letterman and demonstrated how one eats a three-pound hamburger. The burger itself comes from a place called Hillbilly Hot Dogs, who have a couple of ridiculously big burgers on their menu. Fieri tackles one he calls "The Hunch" due to the way he has to hunch over while eating it.
The proper name of the burger is the Hillbilly Single Wide, which weighs in at five pounds, including condiments and bun. They also have a Double Wide, which is 10 pounds of broken dreams and regret. I spoke to the owners, Sonny and Sharie Knight, and they told me that the Double Wide will feed 35 people. Despite the party-sized portion, the meat that makes these multi-pound patties is all fresh and hand formed. They have to cook for 45 minutes and demand a pizza peel for flipping. Lest you think these are just for show on the menu, Sharie said they can sell as many as five Single Wides a day and always have buns on hand for the double.
If the Big City Slider infomercial isn't truthful enough for you, maybe you'd prefer the Big Shitty Slider infomercial, a dubbed version of the original Billy Mays infomercial by JaboOody Dubs. "That's right, it's time to pound your meat, and there you have it, little shit burgers for the whole family." I'm sold! Watch the video after the jump. WARNING: Language is NSFW.
Because the Internet has everything you never wanted, someone made a series of videos where a woman (I assume) crushes various kinds of fast food with stiletto boots. It doesn't make for the most compelling piece of film you'll ever see, but if you hate McDonald's hamburgers and relish the image of one being smashed into the ground with a pointy shoe, then this video's for you! Watch the video after the jump.
From National Geographic's upcoming TV series, On Board Air Force One, comes this clip of President Barack Obama (though president-elect at the time) ordering a burger before taking his first flight on the presidential plane. His order? Medium-well burger with cheddar cheese, Dijon mustard, lettuce, and tomato—with a side of fries. I wonder how that medium-well burger came out.
On Board Air Force One premiers this Sunday, January 25, at 8 p.m. ET. Check your local listings for channels. Watch the video after the jump.
Last weekend, Saturday Night Live spoofed Burgin King's Whopper Virgins documentary with this short, somewhat awkward sketch. Watch the video after the jump.
On tonight's episode of Man v. Food on the Travel Channel, host Adam Richman visits Eagle's Deli in Boston to take their burger challenge: the undefeated five-pound, 10-patty burger, with 20 slices of cheese, 20 pieces of bacon, five pounds of fries, and a giant pickle. Watch this preview after the jump and tune in tonight at 10 p.m. ET to see the results and burger coma.
This Heart Attack Grill link seems to be making the rounds, with both Robyn Lee and I getting bombarded with emails. So, to appease and please the beefy masses, here you go. We are officially blogging it. CBS visits the Chandler, Arizona, restaurant in this video.
The Heart Attack Grill, for those who haven't been, is a joint that has its waitresses dress up like hot nurses, its other staff like doctors. It doesn't have customers, it has "patients." You get a hospital-like wristband with your order, indicating what size burger you've opted for—Single Bypass (single patty) up to the towering Quadruple Bypass (quad). They have an all-you-can-eat fry bar instead of a salad bar. (And, oh, those spuds are fried in lard.)
So that's the skinny. The video appears after the jump.
This video from comedy group Invisible Engine featuring a guy stacking one hundred hamburgers on top of another guy makes absolutely no sense unless you've seen the stacking food on animals video, after which it makes just a little more sense. Kind of. Get ready for overenthusiastic game show hosts, excessive dinging, and a confused looking guy who really wants a hamburger, after the jump.
If you lived in a world where you and your friends had giant-food-for-heads and your life was set to musical narration, it might look something like Odd Noggin Land. Cheeseburger, Ketchup, and Fries are just like you and me—sitting on the lawn, mowing the lawn, dancing on the lawn. They just look a little...different. They also appear to like drinking coffee, even though I can't tell how they actually ingest it. Watch the first episode after the jump.
Burger King's seven-minute Whopper Virgins documentary featuring taste tests between Big Macs and Whoppers in remote places around the world is now online. If you're not caught up on the documentary's controversy, read our previous coverage. There isn't a clear winner in the battle between the Big Mac and the Whopper (it's not exactly a scientific taste test), although the focus is obviously on the Whopper. Watch the video after the jump.
Learn how to properly make a burger by watching...Popeye? Burger lover/writer/documentarian George Motz mostly praises the burger-making technique of J. Wellington Wimpy in this old episode of Popeye from the 1930s:
Notice how even in cartoons back then they got it right and scooped the beef, not hand pattied it. I like the way he brushes the burger with mustard on the griddle, but unfortunately it looks like he goes overboard with the spices (chopped onion, salt, and pepper).
Watch the clip at George's blog, Hamburger America.
In order to eat the Megadeath Burger at Off the Wall Diner in Wellington Point, Australia, you have to be over 18 and you can't have heart problems, anxiety, or asthma. Why? The burger contains chili jam, chili powder, jalapenos, and habanero sauce in quantities that go way beyond what any sane person would voluntarily eat. Thankfully, a lot of people aren't sane and participate in eating competitions for the chance to be labeled as a "Death Burger Immortal" and to amuse/horrify the rest of us who would pass out at the burger's hands.
"This is a food item that should not be actually on the market," says a dietitian in the video. If the prospect of vomiting and heart palpitations doesn't stop people, I don't think anything will. Watch the video after the jump
Award-winning, Boston-based chef Michael Schlow appeared on Nightline last week as part of their "Platelist" series with famous chefs. In this episode, he demonstrates how to make his popular Schlow Burger, a burger topped with cheddar cheese, horseradish sauce, and crispy onions. Watch the video online and read the full feature at ABC News. [via Eat Me Daily; tip 'o the hat to Dana R.]
Related: Schlow Now, Ground Cow: A Radius Burger Walk-Through
Honestly, I’ve seen the doughnut burger thing a lot, but this video is so well shot and edited that it brought a greasy tear to even these jaded eyes.
In this short, the doughnut burger is transformed from curious monstrosity to thing of beauty.
Thanks to writers and producers Christopher F. Smith and Jeremiah Birnbaum of San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking for making that and sharing it with the world.
People seem to either love or hate Burger King's Simon and Garfunkel-themed commercials for the recently released Mushroom and Swiss Steakhouse Burger. While most side with "hate," I'm on the "love it" side. My favorite one features a guy who got a tattoo of his head atop a turtle's body—a plus in my book for inexplicable reasons. You could say it's just 16 seconds of nonsensical stupidity, but I say it's 16 seconds of awesomeness that is somehow both explosive and subtle, set to a catchy mandolin-backed tune.
Whether or not this commercial would make anyone want to eat this burger is questionable, but I guess the point is just to make people aware of its existence. The consumer review blog Impulsive Buy gives it a 5 out of 10, and Fast Food Critic gives it a B- grade, but says his expectations weren't high to begin with. Doesn't sound like a winner to me. But I'm a big fan of the commercials, just as long as the Simon and Garfunkel-esque musicians don't emerge from behind a tree and try to feed me a burger. Watch the commercial after the jump.
Yesterday MTV launched mtvmusic.com, a treasure trove for anyone who's old enough to actually remember when MTV used to play music. On Serious Eats, we blogged up Weird Al Yankovic's "Eat It" video, but I trolled the site earlier this morning and found ZZ Top's "Burger Man" joint.
It's a shame that music videos aren't as prominent in the culture as they were in the '80s and '90s. At best, they were a source of surrealist short-form entertainment—as is "Burger Man," a sort of Plan 9 from Outer Space meets Russ Meyer touched down in Texas. The video, after the jump.
The first McDonald's TV commercial was a pretty low-budget affair. As the site TV Squad points out, Ronald has a paper cup on his nose as part of the costume, fercryinoutloud. It's also striking for how creepy Ronald looks and sounds.
Here's a neat video made by Josh "Mister Cutlets" Ozersky showing the Shake Shack cooking process. I like the little inset "burger cam" that appears as the patty is slapped on the griddle.
The video illuminates a process that is somewhat behind-the-scenes and reveals that the Shake Shack uses the "smash" technique. I've talked about the smashed-burger technique here, but if you missed that, it may surprise you to know that I'm in favor of this method.
Sweet baby Jesus, yes. That's what I thought when I first watched this video of a burger/meaty sandwich bomb being made at a street cart in Caracas, Venezuela, and I didn't even know exactly what was being put on it. After getting the translation from AHT reader Pilar M., I still kind of wanted it, even though I thought it might kill me.
Here are the contents of the burger, appropriately named "La Diabla," or The Devilish: ketchup, mayo, mustard, onions, cabbage, shoestring potatoes, more ketchup, mayo and mustard, avocado, tomato, burger patty, chorizo, chicken, eggs and bacon, and a mountain of shredded Roquefort cheese. I know what I'm getting on my first trip to Venezuela. The video contains one utterance of "f**k" but is otherwise inoffensive, unless you're freaked out by excessively unhealthy burgers. Watch the video after the jump.
Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema features Ray's Hell Burger in his burger recommendations for his 2008 Fall Dining Guide. He also recommends Palena, Central Michel Richard, BGR: The Burger Joint, Elevation Burger, and Good Stuff Eatery.
Washington Post follows owner Michael Landrum in this "behind the scenes" video of Ray's Hell Burger. Get a closer look at the burger-making process, after the jump.
Did you catch How I Met Your Mother last night? We did—and we loved it. In "The Best Burger in New York" episode, an unemployed Marshall sets out to find a burger he had in New York eight years ago with only two details he remembers about the restaurant: a red neon sign reading "BURGER" and a green door. He makes fun of a few burger joints in New York, namely Corner Bistro, Paul's Da Burger Joint, and The 21 Club. With the help of his friends (and Regis Philbin), they set out to find that dream burger, which in a monologue, he describes as "God." At one point, Neil Patrick Harris says his burger is so good, "I want to get this burger pregnant."
By the end of the episode they find the unnamed burger joint, which is somewhere near 106th Street and Manhattan Avenue. As it turns out, a bank—also Marshall's new job—has opened an ATM in the original's place. They end up paying a guy $100 to tell them the new location, which is never named. After taking that first bite of "The Burger," Marshall finds himself again. We love TV shows with inspirational messages—and of course mentions of "delicious burger babies."
Watch the full episode below.
On tonight's episode of How I Met Your Mother, Doogie Howser's character meets Regis Philbin at his gym, and they somehow get to talking about the best burger in New York City:
It was the best burger I ever had. I still have dreams about this burger. Beautiful, haunting dreams. I wake up at night screaming, 'Get out of my head, burger! Get out!"
"That's the one Mr. Philbin! Do you remember where it is?"
"No. I never wrote it down. But not a day goes by that I don't regret it. Why? Why? Do you know where it is? And if you tell me it's the Corner Bistro, I'm gonna smack you right in the face!"
Obviously, Regis doesn't read A Hamburger Today. We would have helped him find that burger.
The episode it titled "The Best Burger in New York" and airs on CBS tonight at 8:30 ET/PT. Doublecheck your local listings. [Tip o' the hat to: Raphael and Preston C.]
The Big City Slider Station, a device that cooks five slider patties at once, may have a grating infomercial full of Billy May's overenthusiastic shouting, but according to burger expert George Motz, it actually works. Enticed by the device's use of the "scoop and smash" method, he tested the slider station with mostly good results. (The non-stick surface wasn't quite as non-stick as advertised.)
You haven't fulled lived until you've watched the infomercial in all its hyperactive slider-loving glory. Watch the video after the jump.
This great show is "A tasty, colorful tour of the Los Angeles burger and drive-in scene that also traces its Americana roots from post World War II through the 1990s."
At 47 minutes, it's quite a bit longer than most videos we highlight on this site, so we're running it here this weekend, when you've got plenty of time to watch it. Grab a burger, sink in, hit play, and enjoy! Take a tour of Burgertown after the jump. [via Philip]
More L.A. burgerage for you. A Hamburger Today reader Mike Makis just dropped us an email: "Those that are not college football fans may have missed last night's segment on ESPN of the Apple Pan. Todd Blackledge covers a 'Taste of the Town' for every week's prime time college football game, and since last night's overtime showdown was at the Rose Bowl, he ended up at the Apple Pan."
Video, after the jump.
Be careful the next time you leave a head of lettuce near a hamburger. At least, a hungry head of lettuce. This video from Meatatrians Unite captures the rare sighting of a carnivorous vegetable during feeding time. That poor burger didn't stand a chance. Watch the video after the jump.
NBC 25 in Hagerstown, Maryland, has a great story about a guy who's really serious about his cheeseburgers. Justin Clarambeau of Washington County, Maryland, listened as his coworker hyped the cheeseburger at the Battleview Market in Sharpsburg, Maryland. It sounded pretty darn good to him, but there was one problem. Dude doesn't drive.
He calls the restaurant, asks them to deliver. They won't. But they struck up a deal. If he'd walk the 12 miles to the restaurant, they'd give him his cheeseburger meal free.
What the article doesn't mention is how long it took him. With average walking speed considered to be 2 to 3 mph, it must have taken him anywhere between four and six hours. After the jump, the video. But first, a question for you, serious eaters: Is there any food item you would walk 12 miles for? What is it?
In 1980s video game BurgerTime, you're chef who must make hamburgers before anthropomorphic, man-eating foodstuffs make a hamburger out of you. It's every hamburger-lover's nightmare. As for why hot dogs, fried eggs, and pickles were chosen as the enemies, I have no idea—maybe they were the foods that could be best recognized in boxy, pixelated video game-form. Watch some old Burger Time commercials after the jump.
OK. She's not really a burger waitress. She'll just be playing one on TV. The New York Daily News has photos of the starlet on location in Long Island City, Queens, shooting a scene for an episode of Ugly Betty. And there's a continuity issue. Check it:
Is it Flushing Burgers or Flushing Burger? The show told the Daily News that the fake restaurant is "Flushing Burgers." Flushing is, of course, the neighborhood in Queens where the fictional ugster lives.
This isn't the first time that burgers have played an incidental role in Ugly Betty. In the episode "Swag," Betty arranges a very important dinner for a very important designer—at White Tassel, a stand in for White Castle. Video, after the jump.
The Today show featured 12-year old Joey Yarwick and his gourmet burger, the Au Brie Burger a la Francais, which won the grand prize for Red Robin's The Next Gourmet Burger Kids' Recipe Contest. Cubes of Brie are sandwiched between two sirloin patties, then topped with a generous dollop of potatoes au gratin, all on a croissant. As Joey himself says: "It's a burger like no other and each bite is a trip to France." The kid outshines the burger, though: little Joey manages to disarm Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb with his, er, precocious mock-French accent (I'm not sure if "endearing" is quite the right word for it...). Maybe his cheekiness could help him land him a plum cooking reality show gig in the future. Watch the video after the jump.
You might have just caught Stephen Colbert mention the $175 burger in New York on Monday's Colbert Report. He is, of course, talking about the foie-gras-and-gold-leaf-topped Kobe burger from The Wall Street Burger Shoppe.
Some of you might recall that the blog Eater "deathwatched" Burger Shoppe on Friday.
Now, nation, I'm no fan of the Wall Street Burger Shoppe, but I'm going to have to give Eater a wag of the finger here in light of this news.
Because everyone knows that the Colbert Bump supersedes an Eater Deathwatch. Jimmy, roll the clip after the jump.
It's a headline that writes itself. On May 11 in New Orleans, a man dressed in drag climbed through the drive-thru window of a Burger King with a gun and held up the store. "The burglar had a revealing bustline and a barrette in his hair as he demanded money and drove off into the night." I love how they analyze this tape and conclude that the thief is indeed a cross-dresser and not just wearing a disguise, "because his necklace matched the dress, his nails appeared to be painted, and the wig was not a dime-store wig." Says the expert analyst: "He was bein' pretty." The tale of the tape, after the jump.
Hamburger lovers have long debated whether ketchup or mustard is the correct condiment to grace their beloved sandwich. Last night while watching television, I caught the latest A1 steak sauce commercial extolling the virtues of putting the brown sauce on burgers.
The commercial in question is quite humorous in a snarky sort of way. A man is complimented for putting A1 on his burger by a diner at an adjacent table. When the diner asks if he can "borrow it," he steals the hamburger as the A1 man reaches to pass him the steak sauce.
I tried to find the commercial on You Tube, and while I was unable to do so, I did uncover evidence that A1 has been trying to convert consumers for at least three decades. A1 makes a hamburger a steakburger, after the jump.
As ElCapitan points out in an AHT comment, Bobo's Drive-In, one of my favorite burger joints, went in for the star treatment Monday night on Guy Fieri's Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives or, as it's sometimes known, DDD.
I'd been on the fence about Fieri since I started watching his show. He sometimes seems to condescend a bit to the TV audience and the folks he's profiling. But after watching him in action at Bobo's, I've come around. He really manages to convey the specialness of this old-school Topeka, Kansas, drive-in burger joint. And when he picked up on my favorite quality of Bobo's burgers—the great crisp crust seared into it on the hot flat top griddle—my reservations slipped away. After the jump, peep the vid.
After viewing the clip that follows, I can see why Steve Martin's Pink Panther movie came and went faster than greased lightning. See if you can avoid getting Inspector Clouseau's speech pattern stuck in your head as he tries to master the proper pronunciation of "I want to buy a hamburger."
Coming to the IFC Center in Manhattan: The Burger and the King: The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley. April 29. IFC: "Director James Marsh brings us his 1996 film exploring America from Graceland to Las Vegas through the unique perspective of Elvis' eating habits." Features a Q&A with Marsh. More info: ifccenter.com
And if you don't live in New York, you can just watch the whole damn spectacle on YouTube: Parts 1 (above), 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. [via Grub Streets]
If you have a dirty mind, this one might be NSFW:
Related: Hamburger America visits Dyer's Burgers
Address: 205 Beale Street, Memphis TN 38103
Phone: 901-527-3937
Link: Dyer's Mouth Explosion [YouTube; via So Good]
Josh "Mr. Cutlets" Ozersky, editor of New York magazine's Grub Street and author of upcoming book The Hamburger: A History, says you can find the perfect burger at Veselka, in New York City's East Village:
Address: 144 Second Avenue, New York NY 10003
Phone: 212-228-9682
Website: veselka.com
Link: Mr. Cutlets's Perfect Hamburger [Chow]
"Get yourself ready for a trip through McDonaldland," is the opening line of the song in the no-doubt LSD-inspired McDonald's commercial that follows. Trip being the operative word here. As the blog AdFreak put it, "Why are all old McDonald's commercials so creepy?" I couldn't agree more.
OK. How's this for the "unicorn chaser" I've been promising?
Taking the idea at its most literal, I Googled the term "unicorn burger" to see what might pop up. After some digging, I found some fast-food commercial parody videos via Fark.
Link: Unicorn Burger 1 [YouTube]
I was going to hold off on this post, but I might as well get all the downer burger stuff out today:
This is like an anti-commercial for burgers. Something about the way Andy Warhol eats this burger takes all the joy out of the iconic American dish.
I'll look for a "unicorn chaser" to cheer you up, burgerers.
Link: Andy Warhol Eats a Burger [YouTube]
The recent cold spell here in New York City had me wondering what effect below-freezing temperatures would have on the infamously long line at the Shake Shack, which just this year began operating year-round. But if I was going to stand around and wait for a burger in bone-chilling weather—and then eat it outdoors in the park (the Shake Shack offers only outdoor seating)—I needed a strategy. I'll share it with you—along with some winter Shack observations—after the jump.
Usually, when the major chains try to get into the whole viral video thing, the results are lame, lame, lame. But, OMG, this Burger King video is pretty damn good.
In it, they outfit a Burger King with hidden cameras, punk customers by claiming the Whopper has been discontinued, and then record the resulting freakouts. The also prank the customers by placing Wendy's and McDonald's burgers in their sacks instead of Whoppers—recording the results, of course.
One of the best quotes, from an irate drive-thru customer: "I want your manager at the window when I get there!"
More at whopperfreakout.com.
To get you amped for tomorrow's burger event at Water Taxi Beach, I thought I'd dig into the Serious Eats archives and pull the following video to the front page here for insight into what makes a proper Butter Burger, one of the three regional American burgers being served tomorrow. Enjoy!
This clip is an excerpt from burger documentary Hamburger America by filmmaker and burgermeister George Motz. The complete video is available on DVD at Mr. Motz's website, HamburgerAmerica.com
Even though this has been up on Serious Eats for a few weeks now, I haven't shared it here on AHT yet. It's a short video we at Serious Eats commissioned from our friend George "Hamburger America" Motz, and it chronicles a trip to the butcher to get some burger meat. Instead of buying the prepackaged stuff from the grocery, consider going the the extra yard by visiting your own reputable local butcher. You'll be happy you did, especially with grilling season (Memorial Day is the official unofficial kick-off) upon us.
A briefing for Ed Levine as he conducts "business" in Minneapolis...
Note: This is why I'm not a videoblogger and why I'm not making movies in Hollywood.
With some of the bigger burgers (which I don't like), I feel like I need a snake's hinged jaw. Like this dude ...
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