California restaurant chain to offer burger made of 100% ground bacon

[TheMightyFavog]

http://foodbeast.com/content/2012/07/05/slaters-5050-debuts-a-100-ground-bacon-burger/



Southern California burger chain Slater’s 50/50 has spent the past couple years making a name for itself through its flagship burger patty that blends 50% ground beef and 50% ground bacon into a local hero of a menu item.

In celebration of one the most patriotic months of the year, the 3-location chain is debuting The ‘merica burger — a patty made of 100% ground bacon topped with a slice of thick cut bacon, a sunny side up egg, a new “bacon island” dressing and a heavy slice of bacon cheddar cheese. Bacon on bacon on bacon — apparently the only way to top their 50/50 ground beef bacon blend patty is to go 100% bacon.

This limited-time burger of the month for July comes on the heels of many over-the-top monthly burger concoctions from the increasingly popular restaurant. Just last month the chain featured a Pulled Pork Burger, the month before that was a Chorizo Burger, and in months prior they’ve had items like an Orange Chicken Burger, a Lamb Burger and even a Chili Cheese Frito Burger back in January of 2011.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I know it wouldn't be a healthy meal, but I'd like to try one of those.

Surely, just one of them couldn't hurt you. At least not too bad.

[Arkana]

2. Sweet zombie Jesus.

I can't decide if that thing is amazing or an abomination in defiance of God's will.

[rox63]

5. It is both at once

I won't be trying one any time soon. But I have several friends who are serious bacon-heads, and they would probably love it.

[Aerows]

3. Okay

I even tried the sandwich from KFC that used chicken instead of a bun and had bacon and cheese inside - and *I* wouldn't even try that. An orange chicken burger and a lamburger, however, sound extremely tasty.

[greytdemocrat]

4. Dear God!!!

Will they ship one down to Sarasota????

[Fawke Em]

6. This "bacon makes everything taste better" shit has gone too far.

No... it doesn't make things taste better. In fact, it's a cop-out for folks knowing how to season correctly.

Heck, more than half the world can't eat pork bacon due to religious and dietary restrictions (Muslims, Jews, vegetarians, vegans and people like me who are allergic to pork).

Now, in-so-far as this rumor about bacon making everything taste better, that is just flat WRONG.

It's BUTTER that makes everything taste better. Hell, "butter" even almost sounds like "better."

[greytdemocrat]

8. Buttered Bacon???? n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. Deep-Fried Butter!

I can feel my arteries hardening just THINKING about it!

[DCKit]

16. Butter-fried bacon.

Call 911 for me... right now!

In all seriousness, I hope it's uncured bacon. That amount of nitrates and nitrites would (seriously) kill me on the spot.

[permatex]

10. "Better with Butter"

I like the sound of that.

[slackmaster]

13. A long, long time ago, it was widely believed that margarines were more healthful than butter

A myth that resulted from decades of aggressive advertising by makers of the fake stuff.

A dairy industry consortium came up with the phrase "It's better with butter!" in the 1970s to try to bolster flagging butter sales.

When people figured out that the margarine fad was based on faulty evidence, butter started selling again on its own merits.

My dad once told me that way long ago, I believe back in the 1940s just after World War II, the dairy industry managed to make it illegal to dye margarine yellow so that it resembled butter. You could buy margarine, but it was off-white and came with a small packet of yellow food coloring. You had to mix it up yourself to make it resemble butter.

CORRECTION: Check this out. I don't have time to read it right now and get my story straight:

http://www.butteryspreads.org/historyofmargarine.php

[TheMightyFavog]

15. And Wisconsin was one of the last states to repeal a colored margarine ban in the 50s

IIRC, it's still illegal to serve margarine to our prisoners here unless they have a medical condition that requires the use of margarine rather than butter.

[DCKit]

18. Margarine is shortening, of course it's not good for you.

That crap goes straight to your arteries and clogs them up.

[slackmaster]

21. Correct, but in the 1960s and '70s it was marketed as health food

In case you aren't old enough to remember. It was pushed HARD.

I never liked it. My mom always kept real butter on hand for uses like buttering toast, but she also bought and used margarine because it was inexpensive. Certain brands like Nucoa were especially good for frying food - because of their high saturated fat content. They were basically Crisco with food coloring.

I moved out of my parents' house in 1976 at age 17, and have never bought margarine, or shortening, in my entire life. Julia Child may have saved me.

[DCKit]

25. Yeah, I remember. We had tubs of the stuff in the house at times.

But Mom never really fell for it. I don't think there was ever any margarine in her house for the last thirty years of her life. However, she did use Crisco for cooking far more than I liked.

Now that I think about it, it was really marketed as a health food, and has been until very recently. I like butter.

[slackmaster]

35. Crisco gross-out story, read at your own risk

When I was an undergraduate living in a co-ed dormitory, one of my neighbors was a 350-pound woman from Iowa. Really nice young lady. Very intelligent, an excellent student and personable.












She had an MGB automobile that somehow she was able to fit in and drive. The suspension on the driver's side was noticeably more worn out than the passenger side. The car tilted visibly to port when it was parked on level ground, empty.













She grew up in a family with several sisters who, along with their mother, were also obese. One of her comfort possessions from home was a large lounge pillow that she had made herself. It was quite nice, large and very comfortable. Its stuffing consisted of hundreds of pairs of used panty hose. They were clean. The thing was amazingly heavy.











Her favorite snack food was popcorn. She made it fresh, and munched on it constantly. Back out now if you can't take it.












She never buttered her popcorn. She would salt it,









...and dip it....









...in...











...Crisco.

[permatex]

20. I remember that time long ago

I still remember the "it's better with butter" campaign.

[slackmaster]

22. One that came along a little later was "Pork, the other white meat."

I always liked that one.

[DCKit]

26. Yeppers, then it turns out that chicken has just as much (bad) fat as beef.

When it all comes down, we're on our own out here.

[slackmaster]

30. Also, pork has changed a lot over the last 50 years. Pigs used to be raised as fat as possible.

Now the meat is MUCH leaner than it used to be. Pigs have also been bred to be longer, so the popular rib portions are larger.

[DCKit]

31. We had pigs a few years back, and I'll never keep them again.

You can either keep them contained, or they'll fuck up your property. Same with goats and sheep.

My Buff Orpington chickens, on the other hand were a real treat to have around... until they found my tomato plants.

Geez, the tradeoffs.

[RC]

7. That thing probably has so much salt in it, that they won't even have to embalm you when you drop

dead of a heart attack.

[Odin2005]

9. DUzy!!!

[permatex]

11. True

but what a hell of a way to go.

[AngryAmish]

14. I am proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free...

obese, but free

[Javaman]

17. I'm torn...

I don't know whether to eat it or pray to it.

[dionysus]

19. i'd like to try that. it's my year's allotment of bacon, but what the hell...

[4th law of robotics]

23. I must not fear the 'merica burger

Fear is the appetite-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total indigestion.
I will face my 'merica burger.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the 'merica burger has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

24. Quote from Bacon Emperor of Dune?

[DCKit]

27. Good one!

Not to mention drawing all us geeks out too.

[Godhumor]

28. Couldn't they have put bacon bits on the bun ala sesame seeds?

Just for that little extra oomph, you know?

[BootinUp]

29. They should call it: The Suicide Burger

[meaculpa2011]

32. There is no food on Earth, including bacon...

that does not benefit from the addition of more bacon.

[HopeHoops]

33. E-FUCKING-GADS! Don't let MFM find out about this!!!!

[SidDithers]

34. Someone let the boys at Epic Meal Time know about this...nt

Sid

[Swede]

36. I'd eat it. Even though I'd regret eating the bun (all them carbs are bad for you).

The rest of it is perfectly healthy for you.

[JHB]

37. Doesn't sound kosher

</rimshot>

[GoCubsGo]

38. Ick.

Can I have it without the bun, the fake cheese, and whatever the hell is that orange goop?