[Pigging by Wilfrid: June 25, 2010]
Something for the weekend, dear readers? The first instalment in a summer series paying tribute to the fearless gastronomic swashbucklers who would re-invent, tweak, kick up and otherwise meddle with the simple burger. Welcome to Dumb Burger. Home of the Dumb Burger.
Tasty? Oh. Forget about it. After the break, the Twinkie Toploader. We are really cooking here.
The Oreo slider is not only a marvel of culinary engineering, but tastes better than you think it might. The Twinkie Toploader, on the other, lives all the way down to expectations. Seeing is believing.
If that's not enough to inspire you, cast your eyes over an aborted Dumb Burger development. This was going to be the pizza burger, until research confirmed that the idea was not original. Apparently, people make pizza burgers all the time. It had, however, emerged already from Dumb Burger R&D, and this is how it looked.
You surely don't need instructions, but make sure there's plenty of cheese on at least one of the pizzas. Part of the fun is moulding a patty large enough to fill the pie sandwich. I added fresh tomato too. But as I said, no claims to originality here.
Gastronomic science, like any science, is a cooperative endeavor. Have an idea for a Dumb Burger? Let me know: [email protected]. Maybe there will be a prize. Who knows?
