Grossest Foods / Best Burgers

ScottM said:
From the grossest list I have had:
1. durian
2. lutefisk
3. century egg

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From the best burger list I have only had:

1. Triple XXX in IN.

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I've had Balut. Disgusting.

I've also had Bobcat Bite. Delicious. And its an awesome restaurant. You have to get there right when it opens at 12 and put your name on the whiteboard, or you'll never get a table during the lunch hour. Best green chile cheeseburger bar none.
 
leah's grandpa loved lutefisk. thank god her parents didn't pick up on that one.
 
OK... when I read the title of this thread I thought people were going to say stuff like fried liver, pig's feet, and spam... but I see that some of you are in a whole 'nother league. What the heck are durian and lutefisk??! :confused:
 
flygirl34q said:
What the heck are durian and lutefisk??! :confused:
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Durian is a fruit that is very common in SE Asia. When I go to Malaysia, Singapore or Hong Kong it is something that I seek out. It is illegal to bring durian onto public transport because of its smell. It is rather pungent, but the fruit inside is very tasty. Sort of a fresh, earthy custard.

Lutefisk is this gawd awful stuff the Swedes and Norwegians eat. It starts as a salted piece of cod that is left to dry. But as time goes on it falls on the ground, molds over, the dog pees on it and it generally gets pretty gross. But as the winter progresses food is hard to come by in the north. So Sven and Inga decide to eat that last piece of cod. So they soak it for several days in lye. That rehydrate it and kills all the critters on it that have made it home. Then they rinse the lye off of it and boil it for a day until it turns into a gelatinous mess. They top it with a flour and butter sauce and call it a good meal. I call it jello-fish with paste on top.
 
While I find the durian to be oppressively stinky, it is tasty. So I would not classify it as a "grossest food".

My gross food list (stuff I've had) includes:

1) Lutefisk
2) Blood sausage (Blutwurst)
3) Some kind of cheese - and I'll have to look back and see what kind - that looked like a piece of pool chalk - and tasted like it, too.
4) Pretty much any chocolate covered insect.

I am quite reminded of Andrew Zimmern's show on the Travel Channel.

Best burger:

Ray's Hellburger in Arlington, VA.
Chris Madrid's in San Antonio (that was a mile from my house & a favorite hangout)
 
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It is somewhat ironic that to some, the first thing in the thread title could be equivalent to the second.
 
Am I the only one who gets grossed out by triple-patty bacon cheese burgers?

And just from watching "Flying Wild Alaska" I've gotta think that stink flipper falls into the gag-me-no-can-do category.
 
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Bravo3 said:
Am I the only one who gets grossed out by triple-patty bacon cheese burgers?
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Grossed out? No. But anyone within a 3nm radius after me eating one will be.
 
Hodads, in Ocean Beach (San Diego) CA. Absolutely the greatest hamburger anywhere. Don't be in a rush, there is always a line.

John
 
We have too many good burger places around here...

My favorite is Kahuna Grill in Santa Barbara - french fries with Teriyaki sauce are excellent. Also Fatburger - again in SB - is very good.

Oh and of course Nacy's at KWLW is good - not because it has the best food, but because it is ON the airport AND it is open 24/7!
 
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I've been living in New Haven for six years, and I still haven't tried Louis' Lunch. I need to get on that.
 
Grossest: Either Balut or bull penis. Really, anything in SE Asia that's supposed to enhance virility is a non-starter for me.
Best burgers: I know it's a chain, but Ted's Montana Grill has the most excellent restaurant burgers I've ever had. The best part is that they obviously train their cooks very well; when you order a burger done a certain way, it comes out that way perfectly every time. In any city. They're top notch. (I get the green and hot burger with beef.)
 
Gee... No one has mentioned Haggis. The food Mel Gibson says comes out looking the same way it goes in.
 
Telemakhos said:
Grossest: Either Balut or bull penis. Really, anything in SE Asia that's supposed to enhance virility is a non-starter for me.
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It is amazing how many thing enhance virility in SE Asia. I asked a friend of mine who lives in HK if all the Chinese men were getting sex 24/7 or if they were all suffering from erectile dysfunction.
 
ScottM said:
It is amazing how many thing enhance virility in SE Asia. I asked a friend of mine who lives in HK if all the Chinese men were getting sex 24/7 or if they were all suffering from erectile dysfunction.
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I suspect that people eat all of the "virility enhancers" for the same reason that others play the lottery: hope. Sweet, naive, misguided hope.
 
flygirl34q said:
OK... when I read the title of this thread I thought people were going to say stuff like fried liver, pig's feet, and spam... but I see that some of you are in a whole 'nother league. What the heck are durian and lutefisk??! :confused:
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Durian is a big spikey fruit that smells like rotting gangrenous flesh. One day I had the misfortune of being stuck in traffic in Jakarta behind a truck full ot them...for 4 hrs....:nonod::vomit: They don't taste all bad, but the smell is awful.
 
I've eaten much gross food, much of it I have no idea what it was called. Hodad's is definitely a tasty burger, for chain burgers I like Steak n Shake.
 
ScottM said:
It is amazing how many thing enhance virility in SE Asia. I asked a friend of mine who lives in HK if all the Chinese men were getting sex 24/7 or if they were all suffering from erectile dysfunction.
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It's funny, one of the greatest benefits to the tiger population in Asia was Viagra. As soon as Viagra came out the demand for Tiger Penis dropped drastically.
 
Henning said:
for chain burgers I like Steak n Shake.
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In sight, it must be right!:yes:

I grew up on Steak and Shake, every time I go back home, there's mandatory stops at Waffle House, Steak and Shake, and Alessi's.
 
ScottM said:
From the grossest list I have had:
1. durian
2. lutefisk
3. century egg

http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/05/23/worlds-grossest-foods-flying-maggot-cheese-anyone/
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Deer penis didn't make the list, huh? :dunno:

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I'm ashamed to admit... I've never had a plaza burger. I guess I really need to go there. And while I have heard of them, I've also heard that they really play a second fiddle in Madison to Dotty Dumpling's Dowry.

Well, I guess I know what I'll be eating next time I head to Madtown. :D
 
Bravo3 said:
Am I the only one who gets grossed out by triple-patty bacon cheese burgers?
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Probably. ;)

I actually ate a Burger King quadruple stacker once, just because... That'd be a quadruple-patty bacon cheeseburger.

Another thing I ate once just so that I could say I did - This was at a restaurant in downtown Chicago a block or two north of Orchestra Hall - A half-pound burger topped with a half-pound fried cheese wheel. :eek:

Best burger I've ever had, though - A "swamp burger" from a place in New Orleans that Danielle will have to identify 'cuz I can't remember what it was called other than the "swamp" part. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
 
Best Burgers, not recommended for daily use:

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flyingcheesehead said:
I actually ate a Burger King quadruple stacker once, just because... That'd be a quadruple-patty bacon cheeseburger.
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I once ate four McD's Quarter Pounder w/ Cheese when they were on sale $2 for 2... just because someone with me said I "couldn't do it". I did "cheat" and left the fake onions off, just 'cause they're nasty. I typically don't do ketchup and very rarely mustard on those, though. Plain chesseburgers are just fine by me.

If I'm making them myself, expect garlic... lots of garlic, some other herbs perhaps on whatever whim of the day is, and plenty of fresh ground black peppercorns mixed into the meat. Since I'm lazy these days, perhaps that stuff will just be sprinkled on a pre-formed frozen "hocky puck" from Costco but it'll still be there. A little cheddar, maybe a quick slice of bacon... all good.

I can make large quantities of food disappear very quickly, virtually on command, but I don't do it regularly.

Best pizza ever was at Garcia's "Home of the Flying Tomato" in Champaign/Urbana, IL just off the UI campus. But that was in the mid-90's and apparently they're gone now, according to this...

http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?topic=114.0

Deepest "deep dish" I've ever seen, more like pie than what most people think of as pizza. Even came in one of those aluminum pie tin things. You'd order a "large" and get something that looked like a "small" anywhere else, until you tried to lift it.

They did something to the tomatoes... perhaps even used tomato paste straight from the can?... to make it really sweet, and the stuff truly was better after sitting overnight in the fridge so it could fully solidify into a three pound mass. Then you'd eat it cold or room-temperature. Pure awesomeness.

That photo the guy posted at the end of that where he made his own from memory, isn't even close... it was at least 2" thick, if not more.

Sounds like from that website that they had quite an empire going for a while with up to 18 stores, but the owners sold and down the drain she went... bummer. I always had dreams of going back there someday for another slice... but nothing lasts forever. :D
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Slackers. If they really wanted a heart attack burger, they'd lose the tomatoes and add more beef patties. :D Besides, where's the bacon? :dunno:
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Apparently they work anyway as their 575 lb spokesman recently died (but possibly from pneumonia and not a heart attack).
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/04/national/main20039266.shtml

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bella/2011/06/heart_attack_grill_not_closing.php

I ate had lunch there a few months ago when I attended a medical conference in Scottsdale. They had really pretty waitresses dressed up in hot nurse's outfits. Great burgers and shakes and the fries were OK.
 
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