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When it comes to burger time, do you gobble or moo? Many people trying to eat a healthier diet opt for a turkey burger believing it will provide them better nutritional value with the same basic taste as its beef counterpart. While some may fly to the coop, others are still partial to the original version and can't leave the sirloin behind. Before you place your next order, you may want to take Read more
It makes me so happy that burgers come in so many varieties now besides straight-up beef. It's not only healthier to enjoy a turkey burger over one made from a cow, but if you're married to your grill in the Summer, it's also less boring to mix it up. We all have our favorites, though, so tell me . . . What's Your Burger of Choice? Hamburger Turkey burger Salmon Read more
At a recent dinner party, I made a bold announcement to my guests. "I'm going to be all about burgers this Summer," I said. I also happen to be in the middle of decorating my apartment, so when a friend who was at the party came across this handmade hamburger on Etsy, she had to send it to me! Although it would be a fun gag gift, I think hamburger-inspired furniture is going a little too far. Read more
There's been a lot of talk in the media about E. coli contamination in ground meat lately, hamburgers specifically. First, The New York Times profiled Stephanie Smith, a young woman who was paralyzed after eating a contaminated hamburger. A week later, Larry King and CNN posed the question "Should Americans banish the burger"? The media is always reporting beef recall stories, which leave me a Read more
Do you cook wonderfully delicious dishes and then take photographs of them to show your friends and family? Well, why not go one step further and share them with us in the YumSugar Community? That's what reader MénagèreModerne recently did with this scrumptious sounding stroganoff recipe. Classic stroganoff is made with ground beef, but Ménagère used ground pork because that's what she had on Read more
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Back in 2005, Wendy's scored an avalanche of negative publicity for allegedly serving a flippin' finger in a bowl of chili. Anything Wendy's can do, Burger King can do better, so one BK restaurant allegedly shoved an eight pound human head between the buns of a double whopper. (Let's see Wendy's allegedly top that.) And the free publicity has already started rolling in . . . Read more
Is it art or awkwardness? How can something so mundane seem so unnatural? Folks, that's Andy Warhol for ya. Watch him daintily dip a Burger King hamburger into a dollop of ketchup, chew, chew, chew, finish in under three minutes, and then give the camera an unflinching look of. . .indigestion? Despair? Hope? I have no idea, but I know it's more compelling than Paris Hilton washing a car in Read more
If you're on the road or in a rush, sometimes you can't avoid finding yourself in a fast food restaurant. Hamburgers are a pretty popular menu item, and since every fast food joint prepares them differently, it's hard to make the healthiest choice. Want to see how these popular burgers compare? Then read more Read more
Listen up! The first ground beef recall of 2008 has arrived. The Rochester Meat Company of Rochester, Minn., has voluntarily recalled over 180,000 lbs. of ground beef due to a possible E. coli contamination. The recall comes after five illnesses in Wisconsin and one in California. The scariest part is that the product is actually not available on a retail level, but is sold for commercial Read more
