“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.” — Abbie Hoffman
Acquired taste
Bison on the range
Savage fare
In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture
— Michael Leunig
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.
— Clive James
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
— Charles Kuralt
I used to be monastic, almost. Now I’m like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I’m catching up on Americana.
— Joni Mitchell
I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
— Scarlett Johansson
A burger is a black dress; a kebab is a Met Gala gown.
— Samin Nosrat
If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you’re just grinding up hamburger at McDonald’s, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
— Bryan Fuller
It’s just an American tradition to make sure people don’t leave hungry. The worst thing is to have them say, ‘Great dinner, but now I have to go get a burger.’
— Tom Douglas
Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
— Tadashi Yanai
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg’s soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.
— Arne Glimcher
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The greatest burger I ever ate was at a place called the Oasis in Menlo Park, CA. Being a kid and thinking the whole world revolved around me ** there was popular song at the time, “Midnight at the Oasis” and, naturally, I thought the singer was singing about the burger joint. So going to the Oasis was a big deal for me. For starters it said, “No kids Allowed” but this was the 1970s and no one paid attention to signs. Second, you could carve your name in the table and no one cared. They had the Twilight Zone pinball machine, too: the greatest of all pinball machines. And the burgers were so greasy it was impossible for us to open our chip bags, so my parents always had to open them for us. I never had a burger that greasy again. And I probably never will. When I went back as an adult, I was sorry to see they had cleaned up their act: it was just a regular old burger. I still had to have my friend open the chip bag for me, though, as I never learned how.
** I still do.
As always great work team! Three chairs for Leduc & E. Sum!
The ’70 Oasis burger must have been awesome, but could not possibly out-grease the ’50’s White Castle burgers of my youth. The ostensible meat, a thin reddish square with holes in it, was grilled with onions and grease, then slid between the buns with pickle and smashed on the grill. They were terribly good, but so thin, a dripping sack of at three, often more, per person, was the usual.
Thanks for the chairs, George. Maybe the reason you think the world revolves around you is that You, you’re the one – We do it all for you. Have it your way. Or maybe it just does.
The burger I think
is an odd US icon
greasy meat and bread?
Thanks for you comment, LuAnn. Yes, odd as it seems, the average American consumes three burgers a week. In the US, 50 billion burgers are sold annually. That could explain why half the population consider the other half fatheads. 🙂