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• [1] hjs from 11211 April 21, 2008 - 12:27PM

  did anyone see the documentary King Cornon chan 13 friday night? after seeing it the thought of eating corn feed beef makes me sick.

  the short of it is our corn based and corn feed beef diet is the cause of our national health crisis.

  
  
• [2] Monte Kurs from Chelsea April 21, 2008 - 01:04PM

  Wo woulda thunk a chain could do it but Houston's has the best burgers ever

  
  
• [3] hnr from brooklyn April 21, 2008 - 01:10PM

  What about Louis's Lunch in New Haven...

  http://www.louislunch.com/

  
  
• [4] Kevin April 21, 2008 - 01:10PM

  I always thought The Hamburger was invented in Hamburg, NY at the Erie County Fair?

  
  
• [5] John Celardo from Fanwood, NJ April 21, 2008 - 01:10PM

  In the early 70s I worked in the West Village at what’s now the Archive apartment building. My friends and I had lunch regularly at a place on Hudson Street around Jane or Charles called the Cookie Bar. It’s long gone, but they had the best burgers I’ve ever eaten. Nothing I’ve had since compares.

  
  
• [6] Sarah from Brooklyn April 21, 2008 - 01:13PM

  I prefer hot dogs in the hamburgers-vs- hot dogs competition, but the best hamburgers i've had have always been homemade, with cheese, ketchup, and onion on top.

  
  
• [7] Randal from Queens April 21, 2008 - 01:16PM

  Sorry I missed the comments about the bun. Did you discuss "disintegration"? Most white-bread buns at restaurants are a) too small and b) too flimsy. With even a modicum of condiments, they fall apart way before the hamburger is eaten. Worst offenders are those with the "pinwheel" construction. Who **designs** a bun to fall apart!!???

  Big hamburgers need big buns, with something more than air to them.

  
  
• [8] Paul from Manhattan April 21, 2008 - 01:19PM

  Can you ask him where he likes to get burgers in NYC?

  
  
• [9] TM from Brooklyn April 21, 2008 - 01:21PM

  WHERE can you get a good burger anymore? Not a McBurger. My fav burger places are succumbing to high rents, left and right recently. Where do you go for your burger fixes these days?

  
  
• [10] Randal from Queens April 21, 2008 - 01:31PM

  In Manhattan, Jackson Hole. Original I think is still in the East 60's, and there are/were at least one or two others on UES and UWS. Although I've cut back on that sort of thing and it's been a decade since I've been to one.

  Huge patties, almost suspiciously affordable, with all the popular cheese variations etc. To cook them properly, they put a metal cup over each on the griddle.

  
  
• [11] Publius from Washington Heights April 21, 2008 - 01:39PM

  My dad would go to White Castle at Fordham Road and W178th Street for five cent burgers in the late '30s when he was a student at Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. They so invigorated him that he went off to war in the Pacific, came home and fathered my brother and I. Thank you White Castle.