4.15.2007

the best burger in town


How many times have you asked yourself, where's the best burger in town? Is it DQ, Hardee's, BK, McDs? Is it a local joint, the Cactus Cafe or the Badlands Bar? Ikes, the Alpine Inn or the Wagon Wheel? They all get their beef from the same place. The cattle all die in the same way.
Driven into the yard. Funneled into the kill-room. Bang head, cut throat, disembowel. Trim and process. Chill it then send it down the conveyor. Pickers chose the destination of each chunk. Including offal which is turned into weiners at a later stage. What can't be made into a weiner or sold at a high price to the average American carnivore becomes hamburger. They run it through grinders powered by motors the size of a school bus. They mix in a thing they call "paddy mix". That ensures they can be frozen like frisbees for up to six months. It ensures they all look and feel uniform on a bun. Uniformally gray and tasteless.
Boxed up, they sit in warehouses in Omaha and Des Moines, waiting. They will be ready when they get to your town. They've been radiated to ensure you won't get sick, but that's only if they're handled properly by your service professionals. Their names are Beavis and Butthead. They can and should be trusted. They have your best interests in mind when it comes to burgers.
Our American beef producers bring the best beef in the world to the market. They buy and sell as honest producers, but they don't have any control over the corporate prostitution of their product. So while it may adversely affect them in the short or even long term, quit buying burgers from the corporate pimps like:
Dairy Queen
Burger King
McDonalds
Sonic
Whataburger
Hardee's
Carl's Jr
Dennys
Fridays
Hooters
et. al.

2 comments:

  1. And they always get the order wrong.

    "Special orders don't upset us because we don't care"

    LB

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  2. I probably could have done without the description of how the cute little cow down the street ends up on my plate for dinner.

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