Saturday, March 28, 2009
Bob's Big Boy....you'll never have a better hamburger
This is a treat especially for you LA people who know the Burbank Bob's...
THIS IS A HAMBURGER!!, to the rest of you across America. The sauce is SUBLIME.
Served with French fries and a very crispy salad with their special blue cheese dressing, your tongue will be in ecstasy! (While living in Europe, a friend sent me, for Christmas, one of the small Bob's statues you see in this video...it meant the world to me, especially over there!)
You might have a hamburger you think's this great (but you're wrong!!)...Tell me what's so good about it and where do you get it?
z
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I refuse to tell you about hamburgers until you first assure me that cows don’t feel pain as we change their shape to fit inside a hamburger bun. Remember, my friend, cows are people, too.
Note: this comment should at least entitle me to five brownie points from PETA.
We do not award PETA points at this blog.Please pursue this entitlement elsewhere.
Come to think of it, we also do not honor entitlements.
Thank you,
The Management
:-)
The best burger does not come from a restaurant. It comes from off my grill on the back porch. I'll be accepting my reward now. ;0)
Papa...we need INGREDIENTS..either IN the burger or ON the burger..your 'magic touch'!
My Dad made great big fat delicious burgers but we always asked for the "kind at school", those really thin, half oatmeal, half beef (?) burgers we loved.. he would not be thrilled!
I've made enough cheeseburgers, that if I charged for them, I'd be a rich woman today.
No secrets though. I've made them with or without bacon, onions, catsup, avocado.......Mr. Pris is my primary customer. He had to have eaten thousnds of the darn things over the years. He likes them with thousand Island dressing.
The main place I buy one every week after my bowling league is done and to take home to, yes, Mr. Pris, is my local bowling alley snack bar. They'll make a burger any way you want it. Mr. Pris love's 'em.
As for me, I seldom eat them anymore, I burned out on them when I made him three cheeseburgers everyday for lunch.
Pris
PS. A note for the food police: Mr. Pris has a 33" waist. At six ft. tall, he'll never be fat, or he would be by now.
Having spent 6 months in Germany last year, I couldn't wait to get to my grill for a home-made hamburger with all the trimmings. And then I moved on to the steak...
Fresh ground beef
Shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Kosher salt
Fresh ground pepper
Shredded Portabello mushrooms
Crumbled bacon
Parmesan cheese
A touch of cayenne
Mix all of that together and form 1/3 lb. patties. Cook on the grill. Eat it on a toasted Thomas English Muffin.
Pris! Quit bragging about your handsome husband's small waistline!! (smile)Sounds like you have really been 'aus ge hamburgered', as they say in Germany! Enough already!
Tom! It's difficult to find the beef there, I know..but they grill a lot in Deutschland! What were you doing there, if I may ask?
Pops! that sounds SO SO GOOD! My mouth's watering! You should make that for those Food Channel contests!!
It looks to me as if Pris is pushing the envelope with the new federal government. Not only has she admitted to feeding healthy hamburgers to her family without the aid of a federal burger-meter; she may in fact be selling these burgers as part of a healthy food black market scam. Her legal jeopardy only gets worse when we realize that she is driving a dark-colored car, and more than likely has not claimed the proceeds for black-market burgers on her income taxes. This could result in several serious repercussions: she could be classified as a domestic terrorist, win an appointment to a high position in the Obama Administration, or face several years in an institution for known criminals: Congress.
I remember Big Boy when it was affiliated with the now-defunct Shoney's chain restaurants. I don't know how many American flag toothpicks I had for my sandbox Army bases as a kid thanks to Big Boy.
Now, as for hamburger recipes, put a dash of Louisiana Hot Sauce on the patty and cook it into the meat.
Otherwise, despite your best efforts, you'll have to settle for a ground beef sandwich.
:)
Aww our Bob's Big Boy closed when I was just a kid and I haven't seen one since :(
Bob's started in Glendale, California.....did you all have them in your States, too? Was it National?
We can get White Castle in the frozen section but I can't imagine that's what they taste like fresh, because IT AIN'T GOOD thawed and cooked..and I know tons of people love them.
Mustang - that is priceless, soooo funny! Thanks for the laugh, I needed that.
I'll have you know I also cut my son's and grandson's hair, also no charge.
Does this mean I'm not a capitalist? Oh my!
Pris
I don't know about anyone else, but about once a month I get a crave for White Castles. For those that may not know them, they are small, greasy, loaded with onions and pickles. Probably about 400-500 calories each.
Now, if you will excuse me, the food police will be knocking on the door soon.
//Bob's started in Glendale, California.....did you all have them in your States, too? Was it National?//
Big Boy is a franchise started by Bob. But if you come to the midwest, you will see Frisch's and down south it was known as Shoney's Big Boy until such time as Big Boy and Shoney parted company.
They are good.
White Castles!
I don't eat them often anymore (there's a reason they are called Belly Bombers locally..) but at 3 in the morning and drunk I swear they taste like steak.
You can buy a suitcase full of 30 White Castle cheeseburgers, hot, for around 14 bucks.
There used to be a lucrative White Castle smuggler's run between St. Louis and the University of Missouri back in the day but I think they finally built a White Castle in Columbia.
Z,
As LA said it's called Frisch's in these parts. There a lot of them around and we frequent them often. Grilled cheese, vegetable soup, hamburgers, breakfast bar, hot fudge cake, need I go on?
Is Frisch's exactly the same Bob's Big Boy BURGER, though? With that dark red sauce and two burgers with a thin bun between??
//Is Frisch's exactly the same Bob's Big Boy BURGER, though? //
Best as I can tell. I don't eat at them much anymore, they fell into some financial problems a few years back and now, I think they are confined to the Cincinnati area.
Ever had a Whataburger, Z?
The bun is buttered just a little bit. It's also crispy on the edges. Shredded lettuce and cheese, mustard, of course. A fairly thin patty, grilled to perfection.
It's just a good old fashioned hamburger.
Now my mouth is watering.
I had a White Castle last night - it was the first I ever had and it will be the last. Too mushy.
sue, the REAL Whitecastles are mushy, too? The frozen ones we get here in the freezer department (not at Whitecastle outlets) are SO soft and mushy, too. I figured it was in the freezing/thawing process that just doesn't 'translate'....
BUt, I guess it's what you're used to because a lot of people LOVE Whitecastles and maybe they wouldn't like my beloved Bob's Big Boy!
PINKY!
THERE can BE no burger bun not buttered and slightly crispy on the ends....Oh, man, you nailed it!! xxx I THINK the Bob's have a slight crispy on the edges...I emailed a cousin who lives close to the Bob's in the video and we're going to meet there for lunch soon...I'll do my homework! (Best homework I could ever do!)
Z,
Whatever that sauce is it's the same here. The toasty edges of the bun are what gives it something unique. Excellent.
Red Robin has the best burgers in my opinion, as far as restaurants go, but my wife's are the best. She puts beaten eggs in with the meat plus some other thangs I don't remember now what they are. All I know is when they come off the grill & go in my mouth they are amazing!
Papa Frank's recipe ain't too slck either!
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