best hamburger in america

edgarblythe wrote:

My burger meat gots to be well done, but juicy.

So, how long have you been a heinous blasphemer?

Mustard is a mistake, unless you’re French and welcome a vinegary jolt with your food, while pickles, those subversive little sweet and sour instruments, fill me with dread.

(Note that cheese goes so well with burgers that the word is assembled differently, with no space in between.)

2. Luger Burger, Peter Luger Steak House
Brooklyn, NY

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13. Cheeseburger, White Manna
Hackensack, NJ

The burgers here are small, and when I asked what the record was for the most eaten at one sitting, the grill cook told me that some guy had managed thirty-two. I was awed, not because somebody ate thirty-two burgers of about two ounces each but that this superhero also ate thirty-two potato rolls, and they looked full-size to me. New Jersey is one manly state. It’s also a legendary diner state, boasting some of the best in America. White Manna is a 1930s artifact with a horseshoe-shaped counter that seats twelve. In the middle of the horseshoe stands the grill cook, behaving like a sushi chef, molding, cooking, handing out the burgers. Ask for cheese and onion and the too-big roll fills up amazingly well.

So far Bostonians have mostly greeted the prospect with snark. Some said that since hometown milkshakes are called frappes, the interloper might more properly be emblazoned with the words Frappe Shack.

[Shake Shack] could open at Boston Common's Pink Palace as early as next summer, City Council president Michael Ross tells Grub Street.

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